Understanding Pet Training

choosing an electronic training product that's effective and humane

you come home from a hard day’s work only to find your couch ripped to shreds, the sugar bowl and butter dish knocked off the kitchen counter, your prized japanese fighting fish lying dry on the living room rug next to the empty fish bowl, toilette paper strewn from one end of the house to the other, a dog and a cat lying on the kitchen floor looking as innocent as possible. time, perhaps, to tackle the arduous job of pet training? there are loads of products out there that can help. sonic pet training: while many radio controlled shock training devices are receiving much attention these days, we decided to focus this section on electronic products that use sound to perform some basic, extremely important, training tasks. the behavior of mammals, it turns out, is quite easily conditioned by the use of sound. witness for example, the profound effect on the behavior of human mammals since the introduction of the first singing pepsi commercial. a bit of a stretch, you say? not really. you may be a little surprised to learn that it was pavlov that inspired the use of songs in commercials. the fact is, we can use sound to train our pets in much the same way that advertisers use it to train you and i to buy products. the trick is to associate a sonic stimulus with a particular behavior. now, repeat the sound, and the animal (you and i included) repeats the behavior. with that new revelation in mind, we examined some of the leading pet training products that claim to use this pavlovian sound-behavior principle. we were delighted to find that, for the most part, it works! we tested at the pro trainer plus which is somewhat simple, hand held sound generator that teaches your pet behaviors such as come, sit, heel or stop-chewing-the-furniture by associating the desired behavior with a particular tone. the sound barrier keeps your pet off the couch, bed or kitchen table or out of an entire room by sound a tone whenever you adventurous pet enters the off limits area. the sonic yard barrier does the same thing outside for your pool or petunia bed. perhaps, the most useful product we found is a simple mat that keeps pets off the furniture. the sofa scram emits a sonic blast at the touch of a paw, keeping cats and dogs off beds, counter tops, window sills and of course, the sofa.

below are the bark sonic training products we recommend to you as being effective, humane and worth your hard earned money.