Want The Truth About Training Your Dog? It's Shocking.

I sat down behind the couch, smiling happily

I sat down behind the couch, smiling happily. I had just eaten a fantastic lunch, and felt like shouting for joy. Feeling on top of the world, I let out a whoop of excitement. It was a beautiful day out, and I couldnt wait to get outside. I climbed farther behind the couch, trying to avoid the wires there. I shouted again, this time with impatience. Then, a sizzling, crackling tingling feeling started around my neck. I had no time to brace myself before the pain hit me. The agony shot through my whole body, and I howled in pain as it kept on going. The bursts were unexplained, came randomly. Once I had been sprinting through the yard, feeling the wind in my hair as I ran when I felt the same tingling, crackling, sizzling before a wave of pain swept through me. This thing had happened to me multiple times with no rhyme or reason. I whimpered as I lay inanimate behind the couch, curling my tail behind me, feeling my floppy dog ears drooping. Death would be better than the pain. Lets put this frankly. Shock collars are inhumane for multiple reasons. They cause intense physical pain to the dog without the dog knowing why. The damage is not only physical, but also emotional and psychological. On top of this, most owners abuse the shock collars, not knowing the proper way to use them. Training with a shock collar is unpredictable and depends upon many variables, and has devastating effects on the dog. There are also many positive alternatives to shock collar training, and any owner who really cared about their dog would choose one of these over torture.

First of all, shock collars cause physical pain. That alone should prevent a civilized society from using them. Obviously as a human race, we still have a long way to go. Some may argue that, especially with the more modern collars, there are different levels of current that an owner may use on their dog some much lower than others. Imagine that, a civilized way to torment our pets. It seems weve taken a step forward with domestic torturing. However, even if the voltage stays the same in properly made shock collars that does not mean that your dogs are safe from harm. Though, if you were using a shock collar in the first place, you might not care about their well-being anyway. The level of voltage is not always an appropriate measurement for the level of injury either. Psychological effects and damage are usually determined due to current level and the duration of the shock. Even with low voltage, if the current is traveling through the body of the dog for an extended period of time, it may be fatal. Shock collars can cause burns, cardiac fibrillation, tissue damage and muscle spasms. All of this damage comes with a few lucky training success stories, but usually without victory.

There are many, many variables to be taken into consideration if you are going to insist on hurting your animal with an electric shock. For one thing, you have to shock your dog at the exact same time of the event you dont want it to do. Also, you have to make sure that you and your dog are thinking the same thing while it is acting naughty, as well as simultaneous thoughts while you shock the dog. For example, if your dog is chasing after a car and you shock it, it will probably:

A.Associate the shock with the car, or

B.Associate the shock as punishment with some different behavior.

Thats the problem. The dog may be thinking about chasing the car at first, but when you push the button, it could have changed its thoughts to how to get away from you. That way you are punishing the dog for thinking about how to escape instead of it thinking about chasing the car. It will discourage the dog from thinking how to get away, and the next time, it will just go for the car. Unless you are a vampire and can read minds like stalker Edward Cullen, then you would have to be incredibly adept at reading your dogs body language, which is difficult for even professionals. This is only one variable to be taken into consideration when using a shock collar.

When sending an inhumane electric shock through your dogs body, you also have to think about the intensity. You know those wicked inventors, always making sure you can adjust the level of agony. The thing is, intensity depends on many things, such as the breed of your dog, the size, the hair, and also, the random factor. Some breeds of dog are more sensitive to the touch than others. The formulas are: Voltage = Current x Resistance, and Power = Current x Voltage. So, if the Resistance decreases, the Current increases. The Resistance is in your dog, and if the Resistance to the Current decreases, then the Power goes up. Now, the Resistance itself depends on even more variables, such as how much hair the dog has, how large your dog is and also if your dog is wet. There is also the random factor. Say you set the collar to a fairly high setting, knowing your dog can handle the pain. Then, say your dog jumps in a lake as you press the button. It would be like getting hit by lightning out in the ocean. Basically, you dont really ever know if the shock will be the same strength, even if its at the same setting.

All of the previous information above should convince you that shock collars are weapons, not to be used on a dog. How would you like being injected with pure electricity whenever you cried as a baby? Would that effect you psychologically when you got older? It sure does with dogs. There are three main effects that shock collars provide when you use them on dogs. First of all there is fright. Either of the object they associate the shock with which may or may not be what you associate the shock with or of you, the owner. This fright can cause the dog to come back to you, yes, because they are afraid of the pain and want to get away from what is causing it. Unfortunately with most dogs, they dont know that the agony is coming from you. Some dogs, however, figure this out somehow, and can run away. Other dogs merely become more aggressive, reacting to pain like many of us would. These effects do not always happen, but would you know if they were? Shock collars are terrible for dogs, especially if your dog has had previous emotional disturbances.

And, heres another thing. There are so many other options out there to train your dog. When training, one of the most important things is to start young. Yes, theyre puppies, theyre cute, the little squeaking bark they make is adorable, but unless you want that bark to annoy you every day for the rest of your life, you will start training young, and not with shock collars. Positive training has much more reliable results than painful training. This seems to be true with pretty much everything. One alternative to shock collars is the clicker. It makes a sharp clicking noise, and works in pretty much the same way as an electric collar does, only without the pain. If your dog does something you dont want, click the clicker and remove the dog from the area. If your dog does what you want it to do, such as sit, reward your dog with praise rather than a treat. This helps to build the bonds between you and your dog emotionally instead of with food. If still at a loss of what to do, consult an expert. They will find ways to instill obedience humanely.

So, shock collars can severely damage your dog, they are unpredictable, they effect your dogs behavior most times in the opposite way you wanted. They cause your dogs pain. If you are a loving dog owner, yet still purposefully torture your dog in ways that they usually dont understand, there is something very wrong with you. Shock collars are wrong. Some people say that, if used correctly, shock collars work. True. But how many civilians out there use shock collars correctly?! Even if you try to, there are so many variables to take into consideration that make successful results almost impossible. You are hurting your dog, and this needs to stop now. With so many alternatives out there, why resort to the cruel and inhumane way? Dogs are like children. Would you inflict this much agony and emotional discontent on a baby?

by: Sligh Fokks

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