Dog Training Collar - Dog Remote Training Collar 300 Meter Range Static Shock Collar w/Humane Vibration & Beep Option

Ok, so this review is going to be long, but I promise it is worth the read.So I did a ton of research before purchasing this. We'd gotten a 5 month old lab/shepherd mix, and we were doing great training him, but no matter what we tried, we couldn't get him to stop trying to run off and jump on every person that walked by, or drag us behind the leash, and we knew we needed to get those habbits fixed asap. I knew a friend that trains dogs and she recommended trying a training collar. I wasn't sure how I felt about getting a shock collar, but she explained that as long as you keep the setting low, it's the equivalent of a static shock and wouldn't hurt the dog.Okay, so before I explain with a funny/not-so-funny story of WHY, make sure you read the directions THUROUGHLY, and make sure you fully charge this thing before using it the first time, or you might make the same mistake as me.(Disclosure: Some people might not find the following funny. If you're one of those people, I'm sorry-not-sorry)So we get this thing, open the box, read the directions, and nothing says CHARGE THIS BEFORE USING IT! (See what I did there? I put this in caps for you. That means you better do that before using this thing or you're gonna have a hard time).Okay, so we read the directions, we're testing the settings, and we wanted to make sure that if we did the shock that we weren't going to hurt our dog, just startled him a little bit. So like good loving dog owners, we tested it on ourselves first, and decided that setting #3 should be sufficient as it's literally just a static shock.So we put it on the puppy. He's sitting there, playing with his stuffed squirrly, not a care in the world, and we go to test it.We test the sound, the vibration, and both work fine. With the beep sound his ears just perked up but not much more of a reaction.With the vibration, he scratched himself for a moment, then continued on with his toy.So we set the shock to 1, and try it, and the dog doesn't react. So we bump it to 2, still no reaction, 3, still no reaction.Not wanting to try any higher, we take it off, test it, get it to work and a couple of times and put it back on the dog to test.So puppy is playing with his toy again, and my boyfriend is like "shocking!" and presses the button, and no response again.So I lean over, check the collar, hit the little power button again and tell the boyfriend to try it again.Well.. somewhere in fiddling with this thing trying to figure out why it worked when we were messing with it and apparently the shocking wasn't working with him, and changing the settings, we hit the negative button a few times backyards, and it goes from 1 to 0, then to 99, and down. So it basically cycles through both ways.This is NOT a good design, and I am sure you can image what happened next.Boyfriend hit's the shock button for a micro second, and that poor puppy.. he leaps maybe 5 feet into the air, sailed over to us, and ducked between our legs like "holy cow what the heck just happened, omg!"I'm a terrible person. I had never in my life seen a dog do that, so I started laughing hysterically.Keep in mind, we didn't know the numbers went past 0, we just though we finally got it turned on and we surprised the poor distracted pooch.So I go and comfort the pup, take off the collar, and go to charge it, because I know it's a good idea to fully charge things before actually using them.The boyfriend then surprises me with a shock, and I swear my life flashed before my eyes and I momentarily relived some moments of my childhood. The ones where I was scared and ran looking for my mommy.So he's laughing, and I am like "what the hell was that!?" And I go to check out the receiver, and notice the numbers around 98 or something.Well, long story short, from fiddling with it and testing it, the collar was not staying on when we tested it on the dog because it wasn't charged very much out-of-the-box, which is why we had trouble getting a response when we then tested it on the dog.So don't be like me. Charge this thing BEFORE you use it, and pay attention to the numbers on this thing!!Anyway, it's been a couple of months since we got this thing, and we never using it at a setting higher than 3, and it works perfectly. In fact, we can just do the beep sound and the pup knows better, and things are great.Overall: This thing works great, just keep it charged and pay attention to the settings!

We have a cat who likes to loudly announce that he has used the litter box at 3am every morning, enough to wake us up almost every night. At our wits end, we looked for a way to remotely "correct" his behavior. There really aren't many of these devices out there specifically for a cat, but this one seemed to be recommended.First, does it work? Yes, he has learned to stop when he gets a buzz (we only use the vibrate function, more on that below). So if that's your bottom line, this will work for you. But it's not all perfect, which I'll outline a little bit.The price seemed a bit high to me. You can get these for cheaper for a dog. This one seems to make you pay a premium because it the manufacturer acknowledges that it can be used for a cat, which most collar manufacturers won't do.The size is also a little big. If you think you're going to put this on a small animal, it's going to be very large. I would never put this on a small dog, there's just so much to it. It helps that our cat is a chunk, he's probably 20 or more pounds, so he can carry it around. But it does look big even on him.Battery life seems really good. There was another collar I was interested in but a lot of reviews gave the battery bad marks, so I turned to this and I've been happy with it. It generally goes several days between charges. But perhaps that's because we only use the vibrate function.The static shock is simply awful. I tried it on myself to understand what I would be subjecting my pet to and it felt terrible, even on a very very very low level. I wouldn't feel right using the shock function of this thing, it sucks.The prongs that stick out to make contact with the pet's skin to give them the static shock gave our cat some nasty gouges in his neck (even though we don't use the shock, the prongs are permanently mounted in the housing). I ended up taking it apart and drilling out the posts so there isn't anything protruding to cause skin irritation (I was not able to figure out a way to pull them out, but the drill took care of it quickly, post and all). I also clipped and sealed the leads inside so it can't short out. Unfortunately this also caused the leads going to the charger port to come undone, I had to resolder them. So if you decide to do the same, be careful not to jostle those leads too much or else you'll have more work to do. See attached picture for the finished product.I feel like this is a lot of work for something that was overpriced to begin with, that has some size problems, but in the end, we have a working deterrent. It's a shame the manufacturer doesn't come out with a cat specific model, I know we aren't the only people with a cat who needs some behavior help.

TLDR: Too big for a cat, weak vibration, did not work for my cat's issueI bought this for a cat who bullies his housemates. He is a medium-sized cat, but this collar is ENORMOUS on his neck. Just so big. He did get used to wearing it, so it works. But just be aware that this thing is large, even if it is small in comparison to other shock collars. Don't expect it to seem reasonable on a cat or small dog.My plan was to use the vibration mode only, and resort to the shock mode on a low setting if necessary. That plan was pretty much immediately shot as soon as I received the item and tried the vibrate mode. It is super weak, less vibration than a cell phone. If the cat even noticed it, he certainly did not indicate it. I tried it myself, and it was hardly noticeable. So much for the vibration mode.So I tried the shock settings. Cats are very small, so I wanted to be sure I did not turn it up very high. I tried it on my neck and arm first. Setting 1, can't even notice it. Setting 2, maybe a slight tingle. Setting 3, ouch! It's like a huge jump from setting 2 to 3. 3 out of 100! Needless to say, be careful with those shock settings.Shock mode also did not deter my cat, even as high as setting 5 (the highest I dared to go based on my tests). he did feel it, he just didn't stop because of it. In fact, it seemed to just make him more amped up to chase my other cats because maybe he felt like they were the ones hurting him.So, from my experience, this is not effective for cats. I feel like a cat would benefit more from a stronger vibration that was more starting, and at least for my cat's issue (chasing other cats) the shock setting did nothing or the opposite effect I was looking for. Perhaps if the behavior I was looking to curb were not aggression-related I would have had a different experience.