I know I am going to take some flack for this, but please hear me out and hear my reasons before judging me.
I bought remote control training collars for the dogs.
Let me be clear, I am totally, 100% against the electric collars, whether they be for training purposes or for the invisible fence. These collars are beeping/vibrating collars. 
Full disclosure: Sampson was trained on an electronic collar and I was totally against it; it was something Chet wanted, but after many arguments I gave in to Chet’s wishes and allowed it. I myself only ever used the electronic collar once and when Chet deemed Sampson was trained, I sold it.
Chet has been pushing for a collar for Delilah and I outright refused. He argued, Sampson was trained with it and look how he turned out. I argued back, we had Sampson since he was eight weeks old! We have no history of Delilah and no idea what an electric collar would do to her! I told him, if you put the electric collar on and let me zap you, I’ll put it on my dog, until then…no way! Needless to say, he wouldn’t do it, even though he insisted it didn’t hurt.
So what happened you ask. I have been looking for a collar that beeped, and ONLY beeped. A way to get Delilah’s attention if she was a distance away. I have to admit, if she sees a squirrel she will chase it and pay absolutely no attention to us.
We are going to New Hampshire to visit my sister for Memorial Day weekend and my sister lives on 11 acres. She is surrounded by woods that are filled with bears, coy dogs,dogotes, fishers, moose, deer, and hunters..to name a few. I am worried that Delilah will find too many items of interest and not pay any attention to us.
I was searching on Ryan’s Pets Supplies for a collar that beeped and I came across this vibrating collar, the description states it is a good training collar for a deaf dog. I thought maybe a vibrating collar wouldn’t be so bad. So I ordered two and they came today. I told Chet, I am taking the collar and putting it on myself, if it hurts in the tiniest little bit, they are going back. He agreed.
So I put the collar on and pushed the button.
It feels exactly the way your cell phone feels when you put it on vibrate. There are no prongs sticking into the neck, nothing that would hurt the dog; it is a little plastic box that vibrates. If I think the collar is detrimental to Delilah or her well-being, I won’t be using it.
Go ahead, let me have it.
That’s a great idea! The vibration or beep will be enough to shift her attention a bit… which is the big issue with recall commands… you have to get their attention first! Though you’ll have to train her to realise that ‘bzzzzzzz’ means “Come back to owner!” , which I can’t really think of how to do at the moment.
My neighbour used an electric collar to train his hunting dogs, but it didn’t seem to harm them at all. It seemed more like the equivalent to a finger-poke than anything.
sorry, no guilt-inducing tirade about your awful doggy parenting from me – you’re doing a great job, and finding really innovative ways to train two dogs with really different personalities.
Thanks Lexy!!
Let me know if it works. I’m at my wit’s end with Jersey’s barking and it’s only going to get worse with summer and the windows open. I was actually starting to think about a shock collar, even though it goes against my grain, too!
I will Nancy, I know they have no bark collars but they spray stuff in the dog’s face which I think is terrible. I’m hoping this collar works. I will keep you posted.
A woman I know whose dog barks at everyone going past her house found that if she praised (as in, “Good girl, thanks for letting me knwo there’s someone there!”), her dog stopped barking. So now, she barks once or twice, the woman thanks her, and she goes back about her business.
Also, the spray ones only work if your dog can stop barking … a neighbour said that the spray (citronella, i think) was empty within about half an hour, because her dog just wouldn’t stop barking, and didn’t care about the spray at all.
I have heard the same thing, when the garbage truck comes Delilah really lets loose, I walk over to her and pet her and tell her it’s ok, good girl, thank you and walk away. She only barks for a minute. 🙂
Wow, what great ideas re: barking. Molly isn’t too bad, but occasionally gets it in her head that there’s an Intruder, and just won’t give up until I take her in hand to the door, open the door, go outside for her to see herself that there is No Intruder. Then she shuts up! 🙂
Jodi there is nothing wrong with putting the collars you bought on your dogs! great idea.
Thanks Kathy!