Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Buying Pet Training Collars

It is really nice to have pets at your home. They play with you, they laugh with you, they cry with you and do lot more other things which make you happy and angry too. If a pet is not trained properly, a lot of things can go wrong. What if your pet has a nasty habit of soiling your expensive sofas and carpets, what if your pet scratches the bed posts or tears your clothes or chews your shoes? These things are not only annoying but also cost you a lot. A pet training collar is the solution to all these problems.

Now pet training collars are not only meant for basic pet training. They can also be used to give sports and advanced training to your pets. These collars are designed in such a way that they help the pet owners to control unruly and erratic pets under control. Strictly speaking, pet training collars are meant only for cats and dogs, as they are the only domesticated animals which have considerable intelligence to get trained.

The best training collar enables its owner to teach his pet to obey him. This is particularly useful if your pet has not become potty trained even after several weeks of training. Though the last option would be send your pet to pet training classes, pet training collars can ease that out for you. The operation of these pet training collars is very simple. It is a remote controlled device, which is worn as a collar by your pet. Whenever your pet does something wrong or is about to do something wrong, you can activate it, which inflicts some sort of pain in the form or choke, pinch or electric shock. But remember that only certain things like potty training should be done with force or pain. The rest of the training can be given without them.

There are basically three types of pet training collars. The first is the choke collar, which chokes the pet’s neck by shrinking in size. This is particularly useful if you are taking your pet for a walk outside and do not want it to pull on you. Next is a pinch and electric shock collar, which pinch and gives an electric shock when activated by a remote control. Both of these pet training collars can be used for giving basic training to advanced and sport training to your pets. But just to remind again, only potty training needs to be given with force and pain, everything else can be done with love.

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