Your Canine's
Sense of Smell

A much larger part of a dog’s brain is devoted to processing smells than yours. Some search dogs locate people buried under the snow of avalanches, search for evidence in crime, and find people in the water. Cloudy days, mornings, and evenings are the best times for dogs to search. And depending on the conditions, dogs can pick up a scent up to a half a mile away!

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Dog Barking Collars - Ultrasonic, Sonic Collars and Other Devices

Ultrasonic sound can be used to stop barking dogs at a distance of 25-60 feet. We can’t hear the tones, but dogs can, the collar supposedly emitting an unpleasant, high-pitched sound whenever the dog barks. In collar form, the blast of sound is theoretically triggered by the dog wearing the collar, but there have been cases of collars being set off by other dogs’ barking, or even by airplanes flying overhead.

There is also a box that automatically sends out an ultrasonic “stop” tone to any dog barking within range. (See “Bark Free” in this next section for a description of the best-known product of this type. There is also a manual (handheld and person-triggered) version used for training individual dogs not to bark.

The humane aspects of the ultrasonic collar are debatable. The problem is, we cannot hear in the ultrasonic range, so it’s difficult for a person to determine or even to imagine the loudness of a sound we can’t hear at all. However, these collars are based on the idea of using a loud noise to startle a dog into not barking.

The sonic collars operate on the same principle as the ultrasonics, but in a range that is audible to humans as well. If your dog “gets it” and is able to associate barking with a terrible noise, then the barking may stop in a few days (but it may resume once the collar is off). If your dog doesn’t figure out that the loud noise comes whenever he barks, you’ll have barking dog and a noisy collar both to contend with.

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