Apartment living can be made more enjoyable when shared with a happy, well-adjusted dog. The key is meeting all their physical exercise, mental enrichment, training, crate training and house rules and limits with leashes or humane bark collars so as to reduce nuisance behaviors like jumping up furniture, chewing furniture or following you from room to room or house soiling.
If you plan to use a dog training collar in your apartment, remember that punishment alone won’t do the trick in suppressing unwanted behavior. Punished behaviors only serve to make them avoid pain more easily; to effectively encourage desired behavior instead, reward desirable behaviour with treats or verbal praise.
Bring your dog by the apartment prior to move-in day so they become familiar with its sights, smells and atmosphere and associate it with good things. If possible, create a cozy place where they can rest or bring along a blanket they like so they feel at ease immediately.
If your apartment is suffering from excessive barking, consider investing in a remote training collar with vibration functionality if your pet is barking excessively. This device often hangs on a wall and uses ultrasonic sound waves to emit high-pitched, invisible noise that cannot be heard by humans – offering a perfect solution if living in an apartment without access to shared yards is an issue.