Question:
How much does it cost to debark a poodle?
?
2019-11-01 04:18:44 UTC
It barks too much. How much would it cost to debark him in the US?
Fifteen answers:
bela
2019-11-02 06:08:19 UTC
To “debark” a dog, they literally cut their vocal cords. The result may be quieter, but they still bark and it sounds even worse, in my opinion. Dogs bark. It’s part of their nature. If you don’t like barking, either don’t get a dog or research breeds that don’t bark a lot. When you cut a dog’s vocal cords, they still bark just as much but it is extremely painful. 
David
2019-11-01 21:01:04 UTC
Poodles don't have bark.  Trees have bark.
?
2019-11-01 17:05:45 UTC
All dogs bark, either seek professional help with training your dog or re-home it. Those procedures do not make a dog silent, it will be a raspy and perhaps loud raspy bark, and your dog will continue to try to bark. Barking at times is helpful with guarding your house, I never scold my dog for barking.
bluebonnetgranny
2019-11-01 16:31:11 UTC
In my mind that is abuse to debark a dog. It is a lot cheaper just to 'stop the excessive barking' through training. Do not abuse your dog. Train it. or find it another home.
Aged Kiwi
2019-11-01 15:22:58 UTC
• "How much does it cost to debark a poodle?"



That is unanswerable.



FIRST you have to FIND a vet who is willing to perform the operation. Only then can you ask him/her to quote you a fee. And that fee will depend on whether your "poodle" (please learn that breed-names require a capital initial for each word) is actually a Standard Poodle, or a Miniature Poodle, or a Toy Poodle, and how OLD your pet is. Plus how much it will cost you get to & from the vet, if you are a wage-slave, how much it will cost you to stay home until you are SURE your pet has dukky recivered.



I've only once had to ask a vet to debark a dog -that was in about 1981. She was an imported German Shepherd Dog bìtch. My wife & I were both working - she for Hansard in Parliament in the next city, I was teaching about 5 miles away from home.



The dogs were always silent when I turned into my short street so, to find out what they were like with OTHER people's vehicles, I asked the Dog Control Officer to bring me home from school during the lunch hour. Lieschen was heard as soon as we turned into my street. There was no normal way to train her to NOT bark, except by being home - but school holidays were too far away. So I explained the problem to my vet and asked him to perform the operation. He understood, and agreed to do the surgery.



It didn't upset her in any way, and within a few days she was once again barking - but NOW it sounded as soft as a quiet cough you might do. So the neighbour who'd complained was happy.



If Lieschen felt any distress she certainly never showed it, but she DID appreciate the extra attention she got while we were supervising to make sure there was no bleeding, no indications of discomfort.



As prices in the USA are almost always higher than in my country on the far side of the Pacific Ocean from you, and it was about35 years ago, there is no point in me looking up my old records. But https://lesp90.wixsite.com/lorelei-gsd-kennels/lieschens-line will show you her pedigree & two photos of her plus one of her pet sons (the upside-down owner was my milkman).



By the way: Each of the 59,700± vets in the USA is free to charge what HE/SHE considers his/her time is worth, plus the time of assistants such as an anaesthetist and  a nurse-aka-helper, plus the cost of materials used, plus the time needed to clean the table and sterilise the tools.



I doubt that any of the advocates of training the dog have actually done it thrmselves (only ONE"of the other 14 answerers so far indicates that MAYBE that person might have been able), and KNOW how long it takes. (Sensible people CHOOSE a pup with no trace of aggression, no trace of fear, no trace of jealousy of other pups.)



But if any have, I challenge them to update their answer to state HOW LONG it took them, and with which breeds of dog.



To achieve it, you must first train the dog TO BARK on command - a relatively simple task, IF you have a person competent & willing to play the role of the "first stimulater". Then you must find more "stimulators". THEN comes the more difficult task:- training the dog to STOP barking.



Whether YOU have that much time depends on how angry the neighbours are at this stage. And prbably you are less skilled as a dog trainer than the MAYBE one answerer who might have actually succeeded, so YOU will take longer. We cannot predict how long the neighb ours will tolerate your dogs noise before they complain to the ACO/DCO.



Les the aged Kiwi - first pup in 1950, GSD breeder & trainer since 1968
Nathan
2019-11-01 14:28:24 UTC
That is illegal.
Hailstormer
2019-11-01 13:04:09 UTC
Yeah, good luck with that. Even in states where it's legal, most vets will refuse such a cruel treatment.
charlie
2019-11-01 07:15:53 UTC
Hopefully a lot more than you can afford. Debarked dogs aren't silent either.Instead the noises they make are f.u.c.k.e.d up. Barking can be controlled with training and an increase in daily exercise and mental stimulation. Being lazy is a terrible excuse to use such a barbaric surgery.
USAFisnumber1
2019-11-01 05:30:42 UTC
About $1000. That is assuming you can find a vet that will do it. The current view among most vets is that it is dangerous to do and the animal has no way to scare way or warn off other animals. Where I live there are no vets that will do it but there is one in a city about 60 miles away that will do it.
?
2019-11-01 04:58:05 UTC
Buy a couple of ice picks and jam them into your ears until the barking doesn't bother you any more.  That would be more humane than something as barbaric as debarking.
E. H. Amos
2019-11-01 11:43:02 UTC
I seriously DOUBT you can find a vet that will do it.  It is considered INHUMANE and 100% unnecessary surgery.  Learn to train the dog NOT to bark, or re-home the dog.
PR
2019-11-01 11:20:41 UTC
If you can't train the dog properly, or use a bark collar (and I wouldn't recommend that, either), give the dog to an animal rescue league or find a new home. Learn to train your dog. It is cruel to "debark" a dog as much as it would be cruel to "devocalize" you. An animal rescue league will find a good home for the dog who will care for it properly. 
?
2019-11-01 08:42:38 UTC
More than simply training the dog not to bark.

Debarking is cruel, selfish and just shows that you're too damn lazy to train your dog. If debarking is your solution re-home the dog and get a fish, you shouldn't be owning pets.
?
2019-11-01 08:30:32 UTC
I have no idea as not only am I not in the US, this surgery is cruel - and pointless as a dog who has been debarked (assuming there's a vet who WILL do this surgery), will still make some noise. This 'surgery' is akin to declawing a cat. Both NEED to these aids.
anonymous
2019-11-01 04:19:59 UTC
Why don't you just de-ear yourself instead? Then you would not have to listen to your poodle OR Donald Dump.


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