Have you ever used a bark collar on your dog?

The first two answerers have no idea what they're talking about and probably couldn't tell you how quality No Bark collars even work.

No Bark collars are VERY humane in that they start with a very MILD correction (that even a human could barely feel). If the dog continues to bark the intensity goes up. This is the same thing you'd do with a leash correction. Start light and go up until you found the level of correction that suits your dog's temperament aka the least amount of force possible to get the dog to comply. Let's say a collar has 5 power settings. If the dog took the hint at level 1 he'd have felt nothing close to what I'd call "pain". But if the dog takes the collar up to level 5 corrections, the dog BROUGHT IT ON ITSELF! That is why No Bark collars are the complete opposite of cruel and are extremely fair tools because the dog controls the outcome, he controls whether or not he gets corrected aka "shocked" the correct term for everybody who actually knows 2 cents worth about dog training is "stimulation".

Don't be cheap, buy either a Dogtra, Tri-Tronics, or Innotek collar, otherwise the dog might learn how to cheat the collar as one answerer states. You can't trick those three brands. But most importantly? Don't listen to the children/people who have no idea how to properly train a dog/people who are telling "facts" they know nothing about because as I've said, 99% of the people on this site wouldn't even be able to give you a vague idea of how No Bark collars work other than to say "Omg theyz iz cruel and electricute wittle puppiez!"....

Ellen: Nobody said No Bark collars train a dog to be quiet. They simply train dogs to be quiet while the collar is on which is why you put it on the dog at night if it barks at night or during the day if it annoys neighbors while you're at work...

If by "bark collar," you mean the one that shocks them when they bark, yes, we have used one. Actually, my dad bought it and used it on my sister's dog, after many failed attempts at making it be quiet.

Anyway, it seemed to work very effectively for a while. It shocked her a little, I guess depending on the immensity of the bark. Eventually, however, the dog learned she could use a high-pitched yelp kind of bark and not get shocked as often (though when she did get shocked, it was worse). I must say, though, that after a week or so, it kept her quiet (unless some stranger wandered into our backyard). Every time we put that collar on her, she shut right up.

(We had only put the collar on at night, and we don't use one anymore, since the strap broke. We've found that putting them inside the garage works rather well in keeping the dogs mostly quiet.)

I don't think it's cruel unless it's used constantly and has a very high voltage or continually shocks a dog after one bark.

Yes, I use one.

I will only use Dogtra. I've had problems with Innotec in the past.

Yes, they work. Very well.

It's quite simple. My dog knows: collar on = shut your mouth

That's all there is to it.

I would never use something that sprayed my dog in the face, I think that is extremely cruel.

Yep,had a pathological barker. A REAL bark-collar works wonders & saves dogs lives!

Buy one,use it! Before you get evicted,fined & the dog gets dumped & killed.

If she is only doing it when you are not there, you probably need to do some alone-training with her:

http://www.clickersolutions.com/articles/2002/sa.h...

The barking is a reaction to something -- something that attempts to punish the bark itself, after-the-fact, is not going to solve the problem.

no, I think it's cruel and unusual punishment for a dog to do what does come naturally

My cousins used it on their dog. I think its cruel.

no i didn't ...and i don't think i ever will...