Neighbor Calls 911 After Girl Shows Up on NJ Doorstep in Shock Collar

Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FacebookA New Jersey teen was forced to wear a canine shock collar as punishment when she was “bad,” according to an arrest warrant obtained by The Daily Beast.The 13-year-old girl, who lives in the South Jersey town of Stratford and is identified in the warrant only by her initials “I.D.,” was first made to wear the collar, some of which can deliver a jolt up to 4,500 volts or more, when she was 9, states a probable cause affidavit attached to the filing.Shock collars can cause burns and painful wounds to dogs’ necks, and are outlawed in several countries including Denmark, Norway, and parts of Australia as they are responsible for creating “psychological distress… including phobias and high levels of stress, and can result in unhealthy increases in heart rate and painful burns” to a dog’s skin, says the SPCA of British Columbia. Some vets have seen dogs left “quivering” on the ground after shocks were administered through their collars, and the devices were banned by the Welsh Association of Chief Police Officers in 2000.Read more at The Daily Beast.