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I have another trainer collar for my 65 lb. healer mix. It's a Sport dog collar made by the brand, Innotek. It is what I would classify as "RECHARGEABLE" because the collar itself is what you plug into the charger. You must put batteries in the remote, but I've had the product now for over a year and haven't bought new batteries yet. I just purchased this collar by Petsafe. I have to say, I'm a little Pi**ed off. The collar DOES NOT plug into the charger. It has a little "battery pack" that is housed in a plastic shell which fits into the collar. (Notice, they sell these battery packs on Amazon) Of course, you cannot just go out to the hardware store and buy batteries when the ones you have die, because you have to have the petsafe EXTRA SPECIAL battery thing-a-ma-jigger. Really, it's just another way to rip off consumers since the collar itself is what requires the most juice, I assume I will be needing new batteries quite often. Plus, my collar came with dead batteries. Charming.
HOWEVER! I am a resourceful and defiant woman so I used my handy dandy hobby snips and a pair of pliers and trimmed off the plastic around the top of the plastic battery housing. I removed the battery and then just to make sure it still worked, popped it back in. Then I went and bought a pack of two standard electronic batteries and put them in. VOILA! F**k off Petsafe! P.S. Don't forget to RECYCLE old batteries, they are extremely toxic!
BOTTOM LINE: Buy some hobby snips and pliers.
ANOTHER BOTTOM LINE: Other than an attempt to outwit a goddess of brilliance, Petsafe has made pretty cool little collar. It's the only one that has a 400yd. range and also provides the 'tone only' option. Wonderbar! Buy it! But BEWARE!!!! Dun dun dun dun...
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We normally use a squirt bottle to get our dogs attention for training and such when she's in dog la-la land (checking out other dogs, going after a butterfly, etc.) Well, as we're getting more distance, that didn't always work. So, we picked this up and use it on a low stimulation level, if we even use stimulation. Most of the times the correction beeper itself is enough to get her attention.
I know some people perceive electronic collars as cruel, but when she has no apprehension when it is time to put in on so it must not have much of a negative effect on her.
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Would have given it five stars, but I have not had it long enough to go that far. So far it had been great. For those of you who feel it is tough on the dog (as I was concerned) not to worry. The charge is not enough to even make the dog yelp - it is just an attention getter. It is more gentle then some of the choke collars I see people using. The dog learns quick and you don't have to shock them often - there is a warning tone that lets them know it is coming, and that is generally sufficient to get them to come back to you. Great tool - probably saved my dog from getting hit by a car or causing an accident. Worth every penny.
Dan C.
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I bought this collar for my 7 month old Belgian Malinois. For those of you that don't know, the Malinois are notoriously high strung dogs. My dog is very intelligent and does listen rather well; however I was having problems with him running out the front door when I was taking my other dogs out and barking uncontrollably. If I was going out the door to go to work, he was out in the yard in half a second. No matter what I did he would not "stay" inside when I told him to. It was beginning to drive me nuts. I talked to one of my neighbors who is training a police k-9. He told me about a collar that his trainer was using and suggested I try one. I went out the next day and purchased one. After charging the collar and the remote, I was amazed at how quickly my dog began to catch on to the idea of me being a the boss! I set the collar on 4 in the beginning and have since decreased the level of shock and am still getting amazing results! I now have an even better trained dog that I can be proud of! At only 7 months old he's behaving amazingly!
As far as the reviews that have complaints about the battery life: The manual says the collar needs to be recharged every 40-60 hours. When looking further into the manual, it says the batteries are good for 20 hours of working time. I found this amount of time to be perfectly suffecient for what I was using it for. Charging over night and using it during the day was ideal! Hands down this was the best thing I've purchased yet for any of my dogs!
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Wow. This product is easy to use and gets my dogs attention immediatly even on low settings. The range is great and the batteries last a long time between charges. I have used it for over a month now and it has made off leash training a breeze and my dog is now more responsive to my voice even when he isnt wearing the collar!
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