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Dogs bark for a variety of reasons, be it the mailman dropping off a parcel or a neighbour's cat sitting on the fence. Vocalisation of the dogs was recorded in the problem context under baseline conditions, inactive collar conditions, and active collar conditions. This Spray Control™ Citronella Refill Can works with all PetSafe® Spray products including Bark Control and Remote Training. I feel safer carrying this, I haven’t had to use it but my behaviorist suggested this and educated me on the drawbacks of pepper spray (including the fact that it can aggravate dogs even more) and I won’t go out without this now. If you burn these candles around your pet, please ensure you are not in a confined space so your pet can get fresh air, as they can be a mild respiratory irritant.Some dogs will be more sensitive to citronella than others, so we should not use it around our canine companions.

This popular mosquito repellant is burned in candles or used in bug sprays as a way to keep these biting pests at bay. Citronella oils come from the grass; the geranium has a citronella-type smell but does not actually contain citronella oils. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The dog owners who tested these collars for our study felt the citronella spray was more effective and more humane than electric shock," said Soraya V.