If you’re researching about a good citronella dog collar, that’s a good thing.
That can only means you want to know about one particular way to stop dogs from barking in that annoying non-stop way.
To help you in your online window-shopping and eventual purchase, here are tips on choosing and working with citronella anti bark collar.

You need to compare features until you find a good model.
A good bark collar will release its stimulus when it senses (a) a loud noise (your dog’s bark) in conjunction with (2) vibrations from your dog’s throat. This serves to maintain a constant response from the collar itself.
So the collar activates only when your dog barks.

Dog neck size matters.
A toy dog’s neck is not the same as a medium sized dog’s which in turn may be too small for a St.Bernard. You need to make sure the nodes on the collar’s device touches your dog’s throat’s skin.
That contact is important for the spray to be triggered only when your dog barks.
If the nodes lose contact with the skin, as when the collar slides around, that is not good.
That means the collar could only trigger occasionally.
That’s what you don’t want to happen, as that would result in bad training.
One useful guide - when you fit the collar around your dog’s neck, if you can slide two to three fingers into it, that’s good enough.

Point it up, towards the dog’s nose. You want the spray to be released upwards, into the area about your dog’s nose and not towards the dog’s foot.
The citronella dog collar can only work if the spray reaches your dog’s nose, so it can be overpower the dog’s sensitive sense of smell.

Watch closely how your dog reacts to the spray.
Your dog might not want the feel of a new collar, or you could have it too tight. Could it be it’s too big and that’s why it’s sliding around?
These and other scenarios could happen - so watch how your dog gets used to the bark collar.
You should also spend some time playing with your dog, so it gets used to the collar and to your being okay with the dog having the collar.

No electric current to worry about.
Some dog owners contend that a low volt shock - the stimulus released by static correction bark collars, instead of a spray - can harm the dog in the long run.
For this reason, alternatives to the shock collar have risen - such as the citronella spray collar.
With a spray collar, there’s no electric current to worry about, just a harmless chemical that annoys your dog.

The batteries need to be checked routinely.
If the batteries are not working, the device on the collar will not trigger; it’s that simple.
If you purchased a model with a long battery life and which only needs to be plugged in (or recharged via a dock), then recharging shouldn’t be a problem.

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