PetSafe Remote Spray Trainer Collar, Tone/Vibration/Spray, 300 Yd

When I lived in a house I never noticed that my two little dogs would bark when they heard any noise (cars going by, people walking by, etc). However, when I sold the house and moved to an apartment in the city, I realized just how much they barked (people in the hallway, people outside, a car in the window of a neighboring building, etc). Got a dog trainer to work with us on barking and other behavioral issues. Trainer recommended shaking a can filled with coins, water spray bottle, canned air spray, etc. Only problem was, the dog that barked the most got adept at running away when she barked, so none of those methods really worked. Tried this collar, and it has been a game changer! I only use it on the dog that has consistently been the biggest barking offender, and her behavior has changed completely. Instead of becoming completely unhinged when she hears a noise in the hall, she just lets out a low growl (more like a grumble as she’s trying to control herself, not like an aggressive growl) or whine. If she does bark, I only need to hold up the hand controller and she calms herself down and stops barking immediately. The best part is, I only had to use the beep or spray a handful of times before she figured it out. Battery life has been great, although admittedly I don’t have to use it very often. She wears the collar all the time, but since I rarely use it to beep or spray her, I probably charge it overnight once a week or once every two weeks. Definitely would buy again and highly recommend!

One of our dogs randomly starts howling in the back yard. Nothing is wrong but it sounds like somebody is killing her and freaks out the neighbors. Ordered this collar so we could beep/spray remotely. It worked great so we decided to get another one for our other dog. Battery life isn't bad. Have to charge the collars every other day, haven't charged the remotes in over a month. The cartridges don't have a whole lot of spray, so having to buy a lot of refills. I especially like the beep vs spray. After awhile, our dogs figured out that the beep was a warning and if they didn't stop they would get sprayed. For our second dog, we could probably just take it off - he's trained now to stop jumping on the glass doors from the outside. If you haven't sprayed in awhile, the nozzle gets clogged, so I normally do one spray in the morning before I put the collars on to make sure the nozzle is clear. Great customer service! The second collar would not pair to either of our remotes. I called PetSafe. After walking me through some basic troubleshooting, they sent me a new one with no hassle.

I've been using PetSafe citronella collars for years and I have to say that this collar/remote is no where near as nice or easy to use as the previous ones I've had. As a dog trainer I've gotten a lot of use out of them, mostly for gentle reminders when working on off-leash commands and doing setups to correct problems like poop eating, counter surfing or stealing from the garbage. Here is a list of the problems that I have with this new style collar and remote... 1. The buttons on the remote aren't real buttons! They're little outlines scribed in the rubber shell with the actual button underneath the rubber skin. I guess it's probably a lot cheaper for the manufacturer to make, but they're not user friendly at all! It's almost impossible to find the 'buttons' in the dark and you have to feel around the surface of the remote to find the outline of the 'button' so you can push it. You definitely won’t be able to find the buttons if you’re wearing gloves. They require a lot of pressure to push them. So between fumbling around to find the button, and having to push really hard, it's pretty much impossible to get a well timed 'spray' exactly when you need it. 2. The way the buttons are laid out on the remote is terrible! There are buttons on the left, top and right sides and you need to reposition the remote in your hand repeatedly to switch between buttons. You definitely can't switch between dog-1 and dog-2, and then find the spray button without having to look down at the remote in your hand to figure out where to place your fingers. 3. The collars and remote all need to be plugged in to recharge them pretty much every day (paperwork says 40 hours) ... I've got way to many chargers in my life, having to take off and recharge the citronella collars, then make sure the collars get back on the correct dogs... nope. 4. The charging cable doesn't even come with a wall plug... it's a USB end, so I need to plug it into my computer or go out and buy a separate charging block. And since I also bought the Add-A-Dog collar, it's actually 2 USB cords laying around getting tangled everywhere and taking up my computer ports. And the plug ends that plug into the collar and remote are made of plastic with little metal contact points... so I can envision that breaking rather quickly. 5. I can't say how good/bad the citronella cartridges are... I never even bothered to load one into the collar. I dislike the remote so much that I'm going to be returning both the Remote Spray Trainer and the Add-A-Dog collar both unused. *See update below* I do have to say that I liked the old style collars with the spray can to refill them. I HATE the smell of citronella so I tend to use mostly the unscented spray and every 2nd or 3rd refill I'd add some citronella, so it wasn't an overpowering citronella smell. Here we only have the choice of unscented or citronella, can't mix them both together at the same time to make it less potent smelling. PETSAFE - I really wanted to like this new collar, but I just can't. Dog owners already have way to much 'stuff' to hold in their hands when they're on walks - leashes, treats, poop bags, balls, etc... We desperately need easy one-handed operation with this remote! Please put all the buttons on ONE side so that when you're holding it you can find them all without looking, by just moving your thumb around one surface. Make them raised buttons so they're easy to find in the dark. And add a separate set of buttons for the 2nd dog, rather than having to shift the remote in your hand to find the side with the button to switch from dog-1 to dog-2 then shift it in your hand again to find the spray button. Waaayyyyy to complicated and not user friendly at all. I never even figured out how to toggle between spray, tone and vibrate. There's no way you'd be able to switch back and forth between the three. So basically you're buying a collar capable of doing three things, but once you get it set up for one, you'll probably never change to the other two because it's just too difficult... so it'd be better to just make it a single function spray collar and forget about building the added tone and vibrate functions in there too. Save money and just build a simple, easy to use remote that works for 2 dogs and I'd be soooo happy. One last thing I loved about my old remote was the 2 different levels of spray available. I love the idea of being able to send a smaller spray for minor things like poop eating, or a BIG spray for something like bolting across the park towards the road. UPDATE: the collars are not returnable!!!! It doesn’t say it anywhere in the Amazon advertisement, but the manufacturer does not allow you to return their product!!!!! Find a store that sells them and ask to see it I person before you buy it because once you order it from Amazon you’re stuck with it. Once I found out I couldn’t return it I put it on my dog and tried it. When you push the spray button the collars makes a loud squeak just before it sprays. I took it off to look at it closer and realized that it’s the mechanism depressing to let the spray out. Moving parts that will probably clog with dirt and hair. And last... it’s January in NY and you absolutely can’t find the buttons on the remote with gloves on! Can’t keep it in your pocket and find/press the buttons like I do with my “old style” collar.

Our pup (Cairn terrier) is just about impossible to train, and she's got major leash aggression and sounds like Donald Duck on steroids. She doesn't like treats, and she won't eat *anything* outside while we are walking, not even steak, bacon, hotdogs, or donuts. We hired an expensive personal trainer for her, and after a few sessions, he was like, "I dunno." After a few years of embarrassment, we decided to try a collar, and I'm happy to say it works most of the time. Timing is everything, though. There's a point of no return for her when nothing gets her attention, and we just have to pick her up, or sit on her, or just ride it out. We have to spray at the moment she starts to get suspicious of another dog and before she starts going bananas. I think the citronella works better than the fragrance-free, but we still had success with the fragrance-free. We will probably use the fragrance-free after the next three citronella cartridges are used up. With respect to pricing - I never had the old collar with the refill spray, so the price differential doesn't matter to me. We were just kinda desperate for something to work, so I'm not too upset by the cost of the cartridges. I do wish we could recycle the cartridges, though. Seems a waste to toss them. Lastly, I wish the fabric was a bit more rugged. Every time my dog shakes, the collar slides, and I have to reposition it. Not a huge deal, but still.

I felt like this was a miracle fix! The product worked so well, I was in doggie bark-free heaven. However, I have been unable to recharge the collar. I plug into the charger and the green light comes on ........but WILL NOT CHARGE. Please.... can someone offer suggestions for collar recharge⁉️ UPDATE‼️. GOOD NEWS, I was able to charge the collar. Not sure what I was doing wrong but it is fine now.. I am back in ‘bark-free heaven‼️🐾‼️

It's easy to use. As long as you don't forget where you stashed the remote, you can easily train your dog out of barking for fun. We have a 1 1/2 y-o Great Pyrenees (notorious nuisance barkers) who was just starting to bark a LOT. After a couple weeks of using the trainer (99% vibration/beeping, with having to spray probably 5 times so far) she is now obviously self-aware, and if she chooses to still bark, she knows that it should be pretty important. She still barks occasionally, like a dog should, but she has stopped the nuisance barking. I'm considering using the trainer for other issues as well. She likes to "charge" dogs as they come into the dog park, and sometimes she gets nippy over the dog park water bowl, so I'm considering using the trainer to make her aware about those behaviors as well.

This is a great way to gently, but firmly train your dog. At the time I had a 2 year old rambunctious Australian Shepherd who was barking incessantly at the many birds flying over the back yard. With this training collar and remote control, I trained him to completely stop barking in 2 days. My neighbor was very grateful.

Used this to train my dog not to response to other dogs going into the tunnel at agility. It drives him nuts when he hears it because he wants to be in the ring running thru the tunnel. The owners manual is very lacking on training instructions and I found a few errors - you can not turn the hand held remote off - it is always on unless the battery runs out. It does not give you instructions on how to train with the device. It only tells you what the buttons are for on the remote and how to load the spray cartridge. I have a sheltie and I am not willing to cut the hair so I was surprised he does react to the spray. However he is now used to the spray after only using it for a short period of time (1 hour, 1 time a week with approx 5 sprays, for 3 weeks). I have found it easier to train using the reverse lure with treats. The cartridge runs out of sprays pretty fast. To turn the transmitter on the collar off and on you have to press hard for 5 seconds or more. The batteries run out fast. One training session and the following week the battery was dead so I needed to recharge after every use. I am not sure how anyone is suppose to actively use this with 2 dogs - my remote would occasionally got to dog 2 (which I don't have) I'd have to change it back to dog 1. If a correction needs to be done within 3 seconds I just don't see how someone is going to get the remote changed to the correct dog in time. I would assume one only trains one dog at a time but maybe leaves the collars on their dogs.? There is only one setting for the tone and vibrate. My sheltie does not react what so ever to either of these functions. I can't hear the tone when he is wearing it and I held it on vibrate and I only felt a tickle. The description of this item was inaccurate. Had I known you could not change the level of tone and vibrate I would have gone with another collar.