Dog Pet Supply

5 Responses

1. 1 Carole A. Karaglanis
   2009 Dec 16

   This collar worked wonders on my alpha male Maltese puppy. He barked constantly and would deliberately look at me like he was the boss and I wasn’t going to tell him what to do. Within a week he doesn’t bark and I don’t even have to put it on him all the time. It has made a total difference in his personality. Now he accepts that I am the leader of the pack! He has become blessedly submissive to my wishes. I highly recommend this product.
   Rating: 5 / 5

2. 2 A. Peter Algover
   2009 Dec 16

   It does seem to be effective, but there are lots of “false alarms”, false activations. My dog may be just laying on the bed and it’ll go off, for no apparent reason, frightening and confusing him and making the training less effective. If he shakes, it’ll go off. If I take him in the car and have a window open, it’ll go off. And all this is on the less-sensitive setting! The battery also only works for about a month, which likely is all you’ll need anyway. The battery is also NOT something you can just pick up at any drugstore, It’s their proprietary product.

   Probably about what you can expect for the price.
   Rating: 2 / 5

3. 3 C.C. Writer
   2009 Dec 16

   We had an absolutely terrible experience with this product! We have three dogs, only one of them is a problem barker. She hates odd sounds (howls when someone plays a musical instrument, etc.) so we thought this would be a natural deterrent for her. First, I inserted the battery and tested the device; it emitted a high-pitched squeal (sort of like electronic feedback) and immediately, all three dogs started barking frantically. Not a good omen. But I figured I would try it out anyway. I put it on her, stuck close, and of course she didn’t bark… About 45 minutes later, one of the other two dogs hurt her foot and yipped. It set off the squeal in the collar (even though she wasn’t the dog that made the sound) — and pandemonium broke out. All three dogs went berserk; they literally attacked each other, and I had a three-way dogfight on my hands, right in our dining room. I lifted the smaller dogs off the big one — none are really small, they are 40 pounds and the big one is 70! — and managed to drag them into the bathroom, where I was able to get the collar off the poor girl who had the misfortune to be wearing it. This was NOT the end of our problems, though. Our big dog (she is a black Lab) is a little phobic and afraid of other dogs to begin with. She essentially panicked, and then stayed in panic mode, pacing and shaking all over, and generally looking like a poster-child for schizophrenia! By mid-afternoon on the day after the incident, we were concerned that she might actually have been physically hurt, so we took her to the vet, who did x-rays. Nothing physical — it was what we’d thought, a mental problem brought on by the fight and that stinkin’ collar! We’ve had $160 worth of vet bills, she is now taking Reconcile (a canine version of Prozac), and we are patiently retraining her to trust the other dogs in the family. She is doing better; however any shrill “squeak” (such as tennis shoes on the kitchen floor) will cause her to cry out and start to shiver. In summary, if you love you dog(s), do NOT, under any circumstances, buy this product! It has been an absolute nightmare, I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone…
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. 4 S. C. Dominguez
   2009 Dec 16

   This thing SUCKS. It functions properly, but if you have a dog that is even remotely intelligent, he will figure out that if he barks in 3+ bark bursts he can bark through the shreiks emitted by this device. It’s hard to say which is more annoying at 6AM on a Saturday morning: a barking dog or this shreiking annoyance going off. It may distract your dog at first, but it is noisy and eventually the dog will figure out how to deal with it. Save your money and get a shock collar. Sure it may sound inhumane, but it works and your dog will only get shocked two or three times before they figure out they can’t defeat it so it’s really not inhumane. I’ve absorbed the shock before myself to test it out, and it really isn’t very painful.

   Oh, and to add insult to injury with this sonic collar: the device no longer uses standard off-the-shelf coin batteries. You have to buy the special plastic encased batteries at an exorbitant price made by this company. Ri-effing-diculous.

   Had enough yet? No? It’s made in China. AVOID.
   Rating: 1 / 5

5. 5 Peter I. Aeschliman
   2009 Dec 17

   Seems like my feedback isn’t really going to add anything here because it’s the same as everyone else’s.

   This collar beeps when my dogs do everything except bark. When they shake, play, bump into something, scratch themselves, etc. I have only heard it beep once when they were actually barking, and it was after they had already barked 3 or 4 times.

   I know after having them for only a few hours that they are useless. It has to be perfectly consistent and only beep when the dogs bark in order for it to reinforce the training. Good thing I kept all of the packaging in order because they are going back!!
   Rating: 1 / 5