How To Train A Dog

Shih Tzu training means controlling some behavior that is tough to get at. Excess barking might be one activity that is terribly tough to stop. Here’s one way that can work for you and your pet.

Excess barking by any dog very seldom bothers a dog. It irritate owners and neighbors too, regularly almost to the breaking point. This is one of those problems that call for real planning.

Often the cause for the barking can be discovered with some observation and thought. It may be as simple as just loneliness or boredom. In either case, extra time spent with a dog may lead to extra quiet for you.

Remember that some dogs just bark a lot. All dogs bark, it’s simply when it is going on that it becomes a major nerve rattler.

One way to communicate to a pet the noise is undesired with a training collar. The citronella spray collar could be the best choice. Certainly preferable to an electrical collar which looks to be a very bad idea for a few reasons;

This is how a citronella collar works.

Citronella oil has got this insipid sweet odor that even works as a bug repellent. Not harmful, it certainly presents an offensive smell. I can try and imagine how stinky it has to be to dogs with smelling capability miles beyond ours.

The collar encompasses a sensor to detect barks, a reservoir for the oil and then a spray unit. All this fits in a miniscule box with an on / off switch.

Turn it on and here is what happens. As fast as the dog barks, the collar sprays this cloud of mist right below the dogs jaw. Not an electric shock results, nonetheless it does produce a shock that may border on stunning.

Our dog when presented with this device barked once, then a second time and then got quiet to consider the problem.

Those two barks were really all it took for Belle to get it. Not that she ever barks now. Why she even rarely wears the collar now. She quickly got the concept excess barking was a bad idea. So that the collar now is on reserve for an occasional reminder that barking should be done carefully.

Shih Tzu dog training often can profit from the use of some tools. It could be that a citronella collar may be a helpful tool in your box of tricks.

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