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Effectiveness and Comparison of Citronella and Scentless Spray Bark Collars for the Control of Barking in a Veterinary Hospital Setting

From the Mesa Veterinary Hospital (Moffat), 858 North Country Club, Mesa, Arizona 85201; the Doncaster Animal Clinic (Landsberg), 99 Henderson Avenue, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada L3T 2K9; and the Centre Vétérinaire DMV (Beaudet), 5959, route Transcanadienne ouest, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada H4T 1A1.

This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a citronella bark collar and a new, scentless spray bark collar in a veterinary hospital or a similar kennel-type environment. Forty-one dogs were included in the study. The efficacy of each collar was evaluated independently in comparison to control as well as in a crossover design. Thirty of the dogs were evaluated with the citronella collar, with 76.7% showing a reduction in barking. Twenty-nine dogs were evaluated with the scentless collar, with 58.6% showing a reduction in barking. The improvement over the control collars was statistically significant with both the citronella and scentless collars.