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In article <1992Apr11.195125.9468@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>>jon@sparcplug.et.iupui.EDU (Jon Burgoyne) writes:
>
>>> I'm looking for a small circuit that could provide a shock to my dog.  This i
>>> to build a collar similiar to the invisible fence product.  I believe they us
>>> a 22.5v bat.
>>> 
>*----
>Why does anybody want to help this guy torture his dog?
>--
>	Mike Berger

Oh, please.

Shock, in the sense Jon means, is NOT torture.  It's simple the slightly
undesirable sensation of current running through the skin.  Go put a nine
volt battery on your tongue.  You probably won't like it, but it's far
from torture.

If dogs were smart enough that you could tell them not to wander outside
their yards, fine -- maybe we wouldn't need shock collars.  But they can't,
and the only thing that a dog is going to understand when its master isn't
standing right over it is some remote physical stimulation -- high frequency
sound, shocks, or whatever.

If you want to talk about taking this idea a little too far, perhaps we should
discuss cattle prods.  I've been told that these things are quite painful to
the beast of which they're applied...

Finally, if you meant this humorously, you can disregard the above.  But
I didn't see a smiley...

						---Joel Kolstad
						kolstad@cae.wisc.edu