PATPET Dog Training Collar – Rechargeable Dog Training Collar with Remote for Medium Large Dogs 1000Ft Remote Range 3 Training Modes IPX7 Waterproof Black by PATPET

This is my second collar, purchased only after the first one’s rechargeable battery in the collar would no longer charge. This helped train my very high-drive working-line german shepherd. :] I’ve not tried the more expensive collars, but this one does everything I need it to do. If they had battery replacements, it would be even better, but as it is, this one lasted over two years and has been in the mud and rain and still kept working perfectly. By the way, their customer service has been stellar!

It worked great at first at first. Joked around that it was like we had a new dog. I watched just a couple quick videos and then when I put it on her, it seems like she figured it out within 15 to 20 minutes I would move out of sight from her and then practice recall and she came regardless of what she was interested in in the moment. Helped with the barking too immensely. Only bummer is after about three weeks. I went to use the tone function and it stopped working completely even though I had full charge on the remote and the collar was lighting up as well. Tried charging no luck.

So, I resisted getting one of these a long time because I’m very humane with my pets, and was just ignorant about the whole topic and didn’t think it was necessary to try to stop a dogs natural behavior to bark. I’ve had a lot of pets over my lifetime, and never needed this type of item.
That was — until I adopted an Aussie-mix spitfire of a dog with barky all day, non-stop destructive, hyper energy! (If we don’t exercise her for hours daily, she tears everything up.)

This collar has so many benefits and features, it is well worth it! We never even have to use the shock feature, and it’s already helped us train our aussie herding dog to curb digging behavior, stop chasing our inside cats, and to stop barking at the neighborhood kids non stop, and barking constantly at people on walks. I’ve also used it to stop her from eating my plants and landscape items outside so she can learn which sticks are okay, and that my forsythia shrub is ‘not okay’ to chew.
Pro tip>Get yourself a lanyard to hook this to make it wearable. Now, all I have to do is show my dog I have the lanyard around my neck and she behaves! (Again, I haven’t even had to use the shock feature). She just knows what it means and that I can follow her behavior more closely.
We had an auto bark collar first before this that I tried, and my dog didn’t care at all. With that other one, even on level 5/highest level she kept barking even though it buzzed and vibrated.
For some reason, she is was better with this PatPet collar, because of the controller I think and she knows I can press the button more unpredictably.
If you see your dog digging, you can warn them with the beep and vibrate. If they lunge or bark on walks, you can use it to keep them better behaved and train better behavior.
It was great redirecting our aussie with our indoor cats too. When she went to chase them or lunge towards them, we’d beep and then vibrate if she continued. Now, she pretty much ignores them for the most part.
This collar has been well worth the price, I highly recommend it! Within about 6 months of more consistent use, we often go weeks without using it, but when bad behavior stats up – we simply use it again and our dog is back to her good behavior.
We do make sure to take it off when inside resting and at night for comfort, and we don’t use it at all when she is doing well behavior wise. The charge lasts a long time.

We also tested it on our older dog when he gets extra barky, and he hated just the vibrate feature. Now all I have to do is just show him the collar, and he stops the outside constant barking. He’s a sweet old guy who doesn’t need it though! Overall, solid, great purchase!

Works great for my dogs. They don’t even have a working collar (they chewed it), yet if they see the remote, they stop what they’re doing. Purchasing another one so that I have an actual collar to correct my dogs aggression towards other dogs in the house