Electric Static Shock Collars, Control and Fences for deaf, blind or blind deaf dogs – Please Don’t!
Adverts for wireless “invisible” so-called wireless electric-static shock fences have increased recently. Results were terrible for most buyers we know. None that we evaluated were suitable even briefly for companion dogs.
There are NO technical means that can provide intrinsic protection of the dog wearing an e-collar from abuse by strangers, children, package dleivery folks, neighbors, other dogs, visitng wild animals, and so forth. Promises of Vendors to prosecute [or persecute?] children, adults, dogs and wild animals that abuse a dog wearing an e-collar deserve a "horse-laugh" as you try to imagine a million vendor uniformed private guards spead across the US to monitor each owner of their brand of e-fence for abuse of the incumbent dog (A reviewer with a sense of humor wondered if that brand of e-collar perhaps always came equipped with a commercial-off-the shelf wireles remote video 'spy' camera that reported to a corporate HQ all actions seen by the dog while it was wearing its e-collar? If traffic cameras are legal when used outdoors, perhaps some police jurisdictions might be delighted with dog-carried serveillance cameras?) !!
Small old dogs with heart problems might die immediately on getting their first high power shock. For blind and blind-deaf dogs shock e-collars are particularly to become lethal under a wide range of uses, and especially if the dog when outside is Not at all times under the direct observation of its people who can provide physical protection against abuse.
Never plan on daily long term use. Dog-proof real fences can’t be replaced by electric wireless shock fences without risking disaster to adults, children, other dogs and the wearer! Permanent neurological changes in the dog are probable. Breeds such as pit-bulls are very likely to go straight on through when instinctively desensitized to pain under the ‘mindless’ control of deep-instinct impulse lunge-bite (originally a valid instinct for bull and bear baiting but now a risk to children and other dogs).
(Cattle and stock electric fences with visible bare metal wires above-ground on posts are NOT what we mean here, although some brands of those are capable of cutting down small trees that touch the fence wire during winds. Rarely do people try such wire fences to contain their dogs.)
· Reasons for trying a shock fence include- lower costs compared to a dog-proof real fence, and
- obeying local zoning real estate codes that perhaps prohibit useful types of fences.
· Reasons against using a wireless invisible electric shock fence include the following:
- Lets the predators In and prevents a dog from escaping. Predators reportedly include feral children, teenagers, kind or vicious neighbors, ill-mannered delivery persons, owls, coyotes, foxes, cats and feral dogs.
- Tears bits out of the dog. A shock spark discharge moves matter from the dog to one of the prongs of the shock collar. Necrosis (dead tissue) and neurological (nerves and brain) damage happens. Products that escalate the voltage or current of the delivered shocks to dogs that don’t or can’t escape from the threat zone, or increase for so called stubborn or learning dogs from day to day reach torture levels of damage. Some brands can deliver voltages of 1,000 to perhaps 7,000 volts.
- Escape artists figure it out. Reports show that dogs of some breeds (especially hairy ones and fighting-breeds such as pit-bulls) figure out that a really fast run gets the dog through and away with just one (1) “neck-shock-bite” - - and they seem to figure that one “bite” is a fair price for a day of sun, fun romping and carnage about the neighborhood chasing children or adults, cats and skunks and turning over garbage cans. Hairy little “people” such as terriers seem to get e-systems figured out quickly.
- Can't go home again. Once the dog is out of the yard, he or she can't get back in without getting shocked again. Kids carried a puppy out of her yard and scared her to watch her cry trying to get home to her people.
- Behavior Damage. We worked to “repair” dogs who became “fear-aggressive” toward stranger humans, dogs, and other animals. When the strangers approached the electric boundary cable, the poor innocent young dog went up to get acquainted and play: ZAP! A neighbor repeatedly offered treats or sandwiches, enticed the dog to the cable: XAP! Delivery boy from Brand ZX service dashed through the yard, tossed the packages on the porch and ran out of the yard while taunting the worried dog following him to the cable: ZAP- XZP, dog-scream. Other teenagers and younger children dashed into the yard to get the puppy to chase them into the fence: ZAP-scream. Children and teenagers steal the dog’s toys and laugh when she gets a shock and leaps in pain. Eventually some dogs get the idea that an approaching stranger intends to hurt her with the shock-bites and tries to bite or drive them away.
An occasional observed kind of behavior damage is “shut-down”-- mobile-coma, robot-dog withdrawal of the victim dog’s mind from the real world. The dog ceased play-bows, vocalizing of growls, whines or barks. Eyes became blank and glazed like a taxidermist’s mantle-piece trophy.
Dog-Therapy: Lots of human “therapy” time with one-on-one work seems to be adequate for saving some dogs. Reported neurological research on stress damaged animals indicated that maybe two months, sometimes 18 months can be needed to recover a dog injured badly by a shock-fence – also confirmed by our experience. There are no guarantees of recovery success.
Adverts for wireless “invisible” so-called wireless electric-static shock fences have increased recently. Results were terrible for most buyers we know. None that we evaluated were suitable even briefly for companion dogs.
There are NO technical means that can provide intrinsic protection of the dog wearing an e-collar from abuse by strangers, children, package dleivery folks, neighbors, other dogs, visitng wild animals, and so forth. Promises of Vendors to prosecute [or persecute?] children, adults, dogs and wild animals that abuse a dog wearing an e-collar deserve a "horse-laugh" as you try to imagine a million vendor uniformed private guards spead across the US to monitor each owner of their brand of e-fence for abuse of the incumbent dog (A reviewer with a sense of humor wondered if that brand of e-collar perhaps always came equipped with a commercial-off-the shelf wireles remote video 'spy' camera that reported to a corporate HQ all actions seen by the dog while it was wearing its e-collar? If traffic cameras are legal when used outdoors, perhaps some police jurisdictions might be delighted with dog-carried serveillance cameras?) !!
Small old dogs with heart problems might die immediately on getting their first high power shock. For blind and blind-deaf dogs shock e-collars are particularly to become lethal under a wide range of uses, and especially if the dog when outside is Not at all times under the direct observation of its people who can provide physical protection against abuse.
Never plan on daily long term use. Dog-proof real fences can’t be replaced by electric wireless shock fences without risking disaster to adults, children, other dogs and the wearer! Permanent neurological changes in the dog are probable. Breeds such as pit-bulls are very likely to go straight on through when instinctively desensitized to pain under the ‘mindless’ control of deep-instinct impulse lunge-bite (originally a valid instinct for bull and bear baiting but now a risk to children and other dogs).
(Cattle and stock electric fences with visible bare metal wires above-ground on posts are NOT what we mean here, although some brands of those are capable of cutting down small trees that touch the fence wire during winds. Rarely do people try such wire fences to contain their dogs.)
· Reasons for trying a shock fence include- lower costs compared to a dog-proof real fence, and
- obeying local zoning real estate codes that perhaps prohibit useful types of fences.
· Reasons against using a wireless invisible electric shock fence include the following:
- Lets the predators In and prevents a dog from escaping. Predators reportedly include feral children, teenagers, kind or vicious neighbors, ill-mannered delivery persons, owls, coyotes, foxes, cats and feral dogs.
- Tears bits out of the dog. A shock spark discharge moves matter from the dog to one of the prongs of the shock collar. Necrosis (dead tissue) and neurological (nerves and brain) damage happens. Products that escalate the voltage or current of the delivered shocks to dogs that don’t or can’t escape from the threat zone, or increase for so called stubborn or learning dogs from day to day reach torture levels of damage. Some brands can deliver voltages of 1,000 to perhaps 7,000 volts.
- Escape artists figure it out. Reports show that dogs of some breeds (especially hairy ones and fighting-breeds such as pit-bulls) figure out that a really fast run gets the dog through and away with just one (1) “neck-shock-bite” - - and they seem to figure that one “bite” is a fair price for a day of sun, fun romping and carnage about the neighborhood chasing children or adults, cats and skunks and turning over garbage cans. Hairy little “people” such as terriers seem to get e-systems figured out quickly.
- Can't go home again. Once the dog is out of the yard, he or she can't get back in without getting shocked again. Kids carried a puppy out of her yard and scared her to watch her cry trying to get home to her people.
- Behavior Damage. We worked to “repair” dogs who became “fear-aggressive” toward stranger humans, dogs, and other animals. When the strangers approached the electric boundary cable, the poor innocent young dog went up to get acquainted and play: ZAP! A neighbor repeatedly offered treats or sandwiches, enticed the dog to the cable: XAP! Delivery boy from Brand ZX service dashed through the yard, tossed the packages on the porch and ran out of the yard while taunting the worried dog following him to the cable: ZAP- XZP, dog-scream. Other teenagers and younger children dashed into the yard to get the puppy to chase them into the fence: ZAP-scream. Children and teenagers steal the dog’s toys and laugh when she gets a shock and leaps in pain. Eventually some dogs get the idea that an approaching stranger intends to hurt her with the shock-bites and tries to bite or drive them away.
An occasional observed kind of behavior damage is “shut-down”-- mobile-coma, robot-dog withdrawal of the victim dog’s mind from the real world. The dog ceased play-bows, vocalizing of growls, whines or barks. Eyes became blank and glazed like a taxidermist’s mantle-piece trophy.
Dog-Therapy: Lots of human “therapy” time with one-on-one work seems to be adequate for saving some dogs. Reported neurological research on stress damaged animals indicated that maybe two months, sometimes 18 months can be needed to recover a dog injured badly by a shock-fence – also confirmed by our experience. There are no guarantees of recovery success.