Greetings from a Freakazoid

[Kysthadiah]

Hello! I'm Kysthadiah (kiss - thad'-e ah) I live in Northern California with my three humans. Themommy, Thedaddy and Eesha.

Themommy says I'm a little insane - I don't know what's she talking about - I'm just really happy!

I protect my home from birds and them evil squirrls - evil I say! They sit in the tree and tease me or run across the roof - evil I say!

Themommy now puts on this strange collor that zaps me when I bark. I bark a lot. A lot. It really hasn't stopped me from barking, oh, yeah I feel its little zaps that get stronger, but I don't really care, I like to bark.

Anyone else got one of these strange collars? I don't really know what its supposed to do. Silly thing.

[tandemgal]

Hi Kysthadiah!

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[Michael Romanos]

I am not at all keen on electric shocks for dogs that bark. Corgis should display their voices and they have a wide range of communication sounds - in excess of a dozen - that mean different things relating to the circumstances. I like the sound of my boy and I encourage him to talk when it is appropriate ("good barking, Taylor" I sometimes say). I like him being the door greeter, before anyone arrives at the door, he lets us know. His growls are a source of amusement to us and his playtime yelps are hilarious. His excitable yelling is wonderfull when pieced together with his other actions at the time. When I mess up in agility or he thinks I have, he lets me know it. That just makes me grin and force an apology when he's right. As Corgis do, he will sometimes respond to other dogs calling out. But I do feel for people with Corgis who excessively bark but there are other ways to handle this rather that go to the excess of charged up colars and worse still, debarking. A good animal behaviourist will be able to advise on the ways to get excessively noisy dogs to minimise their speaking habits.