Our dog was barking like insane, whining, jumping on our visitors, stealing food from the table...you name it. Our neighbor was upset that he couldn't have a healthy night sleep and we, as ashamed and embarrassed as we were, tried even to avoid him.
How To Deal With Bad Dog Behavior?
We did some research and found out that we might have inadvertently reinforced bad dog behavior. This is what happened. Bella would bark and at the beginning we would ignore it. But she was very persistent and sooner or later we would give in and pay full attention to her and play with her or pet her.
What we didn't realize at that time is that by doing so we did reinforce this type of behavior and our dog learned that if she barks long enough she would get her way. Does this sound like a stupid dog? Not at all. She is very smart and she learned very quickly how to be in charge or how they call it she was a pack leader.
Do not get me wrong, she loves us extremely, but it doesn't stop her from embarrassing us every time we have visitors. The idea of returning Bella to dog shelter did cross our mind but deep down in our mind we knew that all she wants is to be a good citizen and we needed to find a way to help her out.
We researched the topic and found out that dog shock collars were really good and we bought one but after a while we couldn't bear the idea that this collar is hurting her so we than learned about dog citronella collars. That was exactly what we were looking for. Safe, humane, and very effective way to stop unwanted dog behavior. And to top it off it was twice as effective as a dog shock collar according to the study conducted at Animal Behavior Clinic at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, where it was found that dog citronella collar was 88% effective at stopping or reducing excessive dog barking, while dog shock collar was 44% effective at stopping or reducing dog barking.
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