Dog shock collars: How they work & why you may NOT want one

Dog shock collars: How they work & why you may NOT want one

High tech dog training collars are a controversial approach to stopping whatever your dog is doing that drives you nuts. Here’s the tech and an expert tell you if it’s a good idea.

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50 Comments

  1. MEETUP SCHEDULE on June 26, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    my french bull wants to bite and attack other dogs.

  2. Dylan Montgomery on June 26, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    “Is this my last YouTube video. Damn it”

  3. Robert Toth on June 26, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    High-end, Professional dog trainers use shock collars in conjunction with positive reinforcement. He’s talking to the damn humane society.. what do you expect?

  4. SteMir ReViews on June 26, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    Very useful!

  5. MultiBreezyb on June 26, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    I think it’s only cruel to the dog if you are using in the wrong way. I only use my shock collar on my dogs when we are at beach or walking downtown other than that I don’t use any type of collar on them. If you show them love and attention you don’t need a lease period and they will not run away from you or go up to strangers. But you have to work with your dog everyday and talk to them like they are humans because they are very smart and they can pick up on things.

  6. TRUSTMEIMAPOTATO on June 26, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    I think these shouldn’t be used for barking tbh. I’ve never had an issue with my husky since I just talk to him and find out what he wants now he rarely says anything which I miss but I wanna get one if these for when he runs off and thinks I’m tryna play tag when I’m trying to get his leash to avoid him running into traffic

  7. Da Baby on June 26, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    Watch Larry Krohns videos on e collars. He shows how they should be used

  8. K9 Outdoors on June 26, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    If you need a shock collar to train a dog then you shouldn’t have a dog

  9. Tamiko Bishop on June 26, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    They have vibrate collars.

  10. Dano Armstrong on June 26, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    I am considering using a shock collar for my dog, for only one specific behavior. He goes 100% – ignore the world, bonkers, barking and fence running with the neighbors dog. You have to catch him (if you can), and physically drag him away. He has hurt himself running up and down the fence, getting a cut on his nose. I hate the idea of using a collar, but I don’t want to see him get hurt.

  11. D F on June 26, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    your not using the meter right, DC averages it out, the shocker is much more like a spark plug or tazer circuit, that is hundreds and thousands of volts peak. To many people LIGHT UP and basically electrocute their pups. What I say …. ‘you hold that shocker at 100’ then tell what it feels like. Or hit your self with a 2X4 to see what that would feel like to your pup. No one says ….BE VERY CAUTIOUS SHOCKING YOUR DOG, not saying they couldn’t be useful at times. Had a trainer tell me how she had to RIP the coller off a clients dog because something went wrong and the dog was getting basically electrocuted.

  12. Victoria Salter on June 26, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    THESE ARE CRUEL!!!!!! With the exceptions of certain circumstances, like when they are 100% necessary (there is absolutely no alternative, as a very last resort) in order to save the life of the dog and/or others, they should be completely BANNED. It is not just me. Experienced dog people, such as Victoria Stilwell, are also very, very against these. They are horrible and cruel. Please don’t buy or promote these cruel and dangerous devices…

  13. safura ebrahim on June 26, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    Shock collars are great for training. If you use a shock collar, your dog will obey you swiftly. If you don’t, they will obey you when they feel like having a treat or playing with a toy. Try commanding your dog to sit and then stand 5 times after they had his meal. Your dog should be raised for the first six months on treat-training and thereafter you collar use the shock collar.

  14. Rob Wong on June 26, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    What a BS review. Why don’t you fluke test some professional quality e-collars not the cheap crap you showed in the video. Unfortunately all these inferior products sell. High quality e-collars deliver precise stimulation and not "SHOCK" . If we don’t stand up and correct the amount of deception from ill- informed but well intended animal lovers. We will lose this tool as well. I already see some dog parks and cities banning the use of "shock" collars. Of course animal cruelty is bad at any level. People that misuse tools are worse.

  15. Makaila Wiggins on June 26, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    I would never use a shock collar on my dog

  16. CNET on June 26, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    Dog collars are being sold everywhere (by the thousands), so we definitely felt it important to cover them. But we actually agree with you – animal cruelty is BAD!! We encourage you to watch the whole video, as the last 5 minutes deep dives "SHOULD you use a dog collar" (and I think you’ll agree with the answer) as well as explores dog collar alternatives.

  17. Karen Xo on June 26, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    They should have shock anklets for human on house arrest! Lmao jp don’t come for me

  18. Ben Böcek on June 26, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    You need to wear I off this collar

  19. Vintage USA Tech on June 26, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    The only thing I need it for is to keep my girl out of the street…. other than that I agree %99 of the problems are much better dealt with learning how to community with your dog.

  20. Q. // Kween; on June 26, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    Do not use a special collar if your dog is barking.
    The dog tries to tell you something and you basically slap it in it’s face.
    How about actually training the dog? And don’t come with the: "we have tried everything!" No. No you haven’t. Also it’s inevitable if the dog is scared or lonely. By shocking the dog it’ll only make it more anxious and miserable.
    So only use if the dog is attacking someone really badly. Elsewise train the dog.

  21. promblemchildent on June 26, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    I wish he was my high school science teacher lol very good speaker

  22. Anas Belkhiria on June 26, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    They have much more sensers wouldn’t mean they would be tortured for the cent they sense or the little electricity they are exposed to. We can’t compare their bodies with ours but also we can’t assume they will have problems with things we have in our modern life. they are loving living in our places, if you are concerned about these things why you are raising a dog in your house in the first place, they are made to live in a vast forest running all day long. If we follow your same mind set , we are then torturing our.dogs by keeping them near us in the houses.

  23. Linksys The wifi on June 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    I would like this when my dogs fight. My Dog bites my puppy for no reason and doesnt stop until i break it up.

  24. jbn675478 on June 26, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    these collars do immediately train a dog, but their main use is for when taking your dog out off leash. Also, calling them shock collars is wrong, they don’t shock the dog. They deliver a minimal static charge and also have the ability to deliver only vibration. If you think these collars are bad, i’ve got news for you: you’re an idiot.

  25. India Heslop on June 26, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    Get vibration dog collars, they are better

  26. unicorn lover Mclaughlin on June 26, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    Never buy on because if u do they will have a bad life

  27. Hybrid Prince. on June 26, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    I would feel to attached to my dog to do this

  28. Dina Salinas on June 26, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    How do you get a dog to stop chewing everything? She just had her 1st bday in April.
    I buy so many chew toys and treats but she still chews up the doggy door and doggy beds. I can’t afford to keep replacing them. Also she uses the restroom in the house. My other 2 dogs know not to chew up things and potty in the house. I trained her the same way with treats and toys. I tried speaking loudly but she starts to get scared and pees on herself. I can’t
    afford a dog trainer. I’m not sure what to do.

  29. Rachel Randant on June 26, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    E collars can be useful training tool, but you need to do your research before buying one. If you don’t have the time or patience to properly train your dog, DO NOT buy one! Please do not use high settings on your e collar unless your dog is properly trained. Getting your dog to ignore outside stimulus to obey your command could save his/her life!

  30. Twixie Scuderi on June 26, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    Most people Recomend no higher than a 5. He couldn’t even feel that.
    Say this. Your dog sees something and runs towards a busy road and you’re trying to call or give a treat or something but they are hyper focused. An e collar can give them a little tap from meters away and snap them out of it.

  31. ghost_slayer 12 on June 26, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    These harmful collars should be banned because its the people tht don’t train them

  32. Keyarra Morgan on June 26, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    I have to put this collar on when I go out to walk the dog and sometimes when company comes . My apartment wants no barking. My dog barked one time and neighbors were yelling at me. Ugh. I thought geez he is a dog. Dogs bark sometimes.

  33. Lemurai on June 26, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    The citronella collars are better, it sprays that stinky stuff in their nose via device on the collar. Much more effective and less harmful to the animal.

  34. Beck S. on June 26, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    People want ease of training and will resort to barbaric methods. If you are too lazy to train your pet then a pet is not for you. If you wouldn’t use it on your kids then why put it on a dog. Dogs are more precious than people in prison.

  35. charles Lane27 on June 26, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    No trust me you’ll want one

  36. Hawaiian Lamb on June 26, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    Please tell me if you think I’m wrong so we can talk but dogs should not have shock collar!

  37. Shark Ninja on June 26, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    2:36 that reaction though

  38. Lucy Albers on June 26, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    I despise shock collers

  39. SuperHyperConsoleBoy on June 26, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    the barking thing is so dumb. dogs bark and thats just what they do i don’t agree with shocking a dog for barking i think thats stupid and against they’re nature.
    but your telling me these collars are bad because wrong mean evil torturer device?
    well how about after trying everything and the dog still doesn’t listen? my problem isnt with barking its that she runs off then after a while of calling her she then she comes back,
    i’m expected to believe that a quick press of a button to show a dog that its doing something wrong is bad? I’d love to see these hippies in a mugging situation, like hey man lets just not. i look at this video to see if theirs health concerns but all I see is hurt feeling , sorry but if your going to convince people don’t preach wrong think to them, just state facts that help your belief.
    well now the collar companies just got another customer thanks CNET.

  40. InfusedSediment on June 26, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    Electronic training devices such as electronic fences and anti-barking collars rely on painful punishment and negative reinforcement, causing dogs to live in fear of being electrocuted for normal behaviors like crossing invisible lines, barking, and jumping onto surfaces within their own homes. Positive training methods, in which dogs are rewarded for what they do right, are kinder and more effective.

  41. Egg Head on June 26, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    malinoses bark to express their feelings

  42. Deirdre Behan on June 26, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    these collars are crap! dogs should NOT be hurt for being dogs

  43. idalis castro on June 26, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    I’m not a dog training expert but i went through a month and a half of professional e-collar training. A lot of the things that are said are pretty ill informed and therefore feel more like shock value. Not all dogs take to positive reinforcement training. My 7 year old 80 pound rescue is one of those. He loves his e-collar and is even excited to put it on. We have gotten to a point where I don’t use it much unless we are walking off leash. Even then the correction is ONLY applied if he doesn’t follow the command. I.e. he has a free chance to correct his behavior before a correction is applied. If the correction is needed the level starts at 1 or 2. If after saying the command 3 times the level increases to 3 or 4. This repeats until the dog corrects the behavior. I’ve used this technology for about 5 months now and I never have to surpass 12 (2 levels above where I feel the correction and is it is not uncomfortable). It’s also great for dogs who tend to become fixated on things. The same rescue was attacked by another dog and has since had difficulty trusting other dogs as a result. He would become fixated on ANY dog causing him to lose focus, stop listening, and give chase. We are still working on this but with practice and training with a vibration on the collar he is able to remember to focus on the task (me or walking) and not the other dog.

  44. InfusedSediment on June 26, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    This is such an important topic because both shock collar trainers and so-called “balanced trainers often use Recall/Come in demonstrations to the public or online, as a way to impress their audience and as means to tout the supposed superiority of their training method with “off-leash” training. Buyer beware!
    Let’s be clear from the start – No, it would not be preferable under any circumstances in my opinion. Using Positive Punishment to teach Recall is antithetical to an Approach behavior by your dog — as well as a serious public safety issue. Bite “redirection” onto the pet parent is not uncommon in the face of shock and aversive training.
    There isn’t any scientific evidence that I’ve been able to uncover that shows that using a shock collar for emergency recall in domestic dogs is effective AND/OR without significant risk of fall-out. Using shock often has known injurious side-effects, almost certainly, psychologically, and in some cases causing physical injury.
    Nor, can any type of shock “training” in good conscience be termed “dog-friendly”. Don’t believe what a trainer tells you because they say they’re an “expert”. Anyone can throw up a beautiful website and crown themselves, “master trainer” in an entirely unregulated profession. I say…don’t hurt your dog…ever.
    So why do pet parents and trainers believe that shock will work? Given – theoretically by definition positive punishment and aversive control decreases the frequency of behavior — however, there are two considerations that come to mind that require that we think outside of the box – the Skinner quadrant box, that is.
    1. With emergency recall we are working in an applied setting, not a Skinner box. In the environment there are a variety of interacting extraneous and confounding variables in addition to the electric shock.
    2. Additionally, we need to look at the impact of shock collar training on the pet parent/dog relationship.
    Of utmost importance is preserving and hopefully enhancing the relationship between the pet parent and the dog, or the trainer and the dog during training.
    Most companion animal lovers have a dog because they want to have a happy relationship with their dog. Positive punishment and negative reinforcement (aversive generated avoidance) generally hurts, either physically or psychologically, and therein has the grave potential to destroy relationship because it erodes trust. Trust, once damaged, is extremely difficult, and often impossible to re-establish – distrust is grounded in fear.
    We can’t go back and forth between rewards and aversive treatment. If a pet parent is nice MOST of the time, but on occasion is mean to their dog, the dog may become chronically stressed, fearful and perpetually on-guard, not being sure when or why the next punishment may come. This understanding debunks the myth of the benefits of so-called “balanced trainer” who may use both rewards and punishment. Can you imagine living with and being completely dependent in every way upon someone you can’t trust?
    Let’s return to reason 1. Associative Learning. We all learn in this way. Dogs also learn through association and may associate: the pet parent, other dogs, the dog park, objects, or just about anything in the environment with the electric shock/pain.
    If shock is used in a city environment, for example, fear may generalize (unintended but unavoidable) to all people, strangers, motorized vehicles, or all moving vehicles, such as bicycles – or any single or group of things in the city environment where the dog was shocked — or the dog may even become fearful of the pavement itself. I have just worked with a client whose dog had a severe fear of cars and where being near a paved street appeared to be the trigger that would set off a reactive episode.
    I believe in management and reward training… and not putting a dog into a situation where an Emergency Recall is needed. Would you put a child in jeopardy of making a childlike decision about running into the street? No, we would not: we hold the child’s hand, and we should hold our dog’s leash when there is possible danger afoot.
    Good management, teaching a reliable recall, and teaching a great remote wait/stay are the best insurance to keep your dog physically safe and psychologically sound. Using pain or fear is always “off the table” and counter-productive. Dogs love to run – so with proper technique, recall is easy to teach.

  45. InfusedSediment on June 26, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    A humane dog trainer or certified behaviorist will be able to provide more tips on desensitizing your dog to frightening sounds. If your dog’s situation is severe, the behaviorist may suggest that you consider consulting your veterinarian about anti-anxiety medications that can help calm your dog.

  46. Han Edwardo on June 26, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    If you use it right there’s nothing wrong with it.

  47. Service Aussie on June 26, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    🤦‍♀️ u literally don’t even know the difference between a shock collar, e collar, and bark collar 🤦‍♀️. Try using a high quality E COLLAR before u go spreading misinformation about e collars, I can’t even feel the mini educator till around 20 and my dogs working level is 3 lol. A high quality e collar such as a mini educator is extremely comparable to a tens unit, educator urself. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

  48. magicae 37 on June 26, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Oh the Bitchon Frese NEEDS one big time. Seems they never shut up.

  49. Cody Pinkerton on June 26, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    Dudes a liberal, you can see it in his face. Shock all dogs, they will live!

  50. Lowtan18 on June 26, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    He spends the whole video trying to make the collars sound scary instead of delivering the info objectively.

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