What Does a Static Stimulation Really Feel Like?

The table below helps to put into human perspective the relative sensation a dog experiences when receiving stimulation from various electronic training devices. Note that at .914 joules, the electric muscle stimulation and contractions* a human receives from an "abdominal energizer" fitness product is exponentially stronger-more than 1,724 times stronger- than the impulse a dog receives from a pet containment collar set at its highest level.
Dr. Klein notes that "in the case of dog training, it is not the muscle contraction that is desired, but 'the sensation of electric current' as a reminder."
Although not depicted on the chart (page 6), Radio Systems Corporation has established during its product testing that the output voltage a human would receive from a nylon carpet at 50 percent relative humidity is more than twice the output voltage that a dog would receive from any of its three types of electronic training devices set at low levels. At 20 percent relative humidity, the carpet would product a sensation more than nine times stronger than a low-level electronic stimulation. This variance is reduced somewhat when the electronic training device is used at higher levels as indicated in the graph, but remains less than the muscle stimulation devices mentioned above.

It should be noted that the electric stock fences communally used to contain farm animals and horses have energy outputs more than 6000 times higher than an electronic training device. And the impulse that animals receive from a stock fence passes through the all body whereas the impulse from an electronic training device passes across approximately 2 inches (60mm.) of the animal's skin.