Please feel free to copy the article and use it as a means of spreading the word for a more enlightened approach to pet animal ownership. Most plans or gadgets enable owners, literally, to declare war on their hapless pets. Little or no concern is afforded to what the dogs happen to think about them. In short, the dog is considered a real dummy, then treated like a dummy. But this concept is not correct.
Dogs are smart.
They can, and usually do, think rings around their owners. And they can do it because most owners have never learned how to think like a dog. We all wonder now and then what our dog is thinking. But, an inability to originate thoughts in a spoken language does not make dogs unintelligent. Even people don't actively think in a spoken language unless they actively 'speak' it.