Brand new never opened changed my mind after I bought it
L**W
Even at its lowest setting, it will shock you... err. your pet.
Very easy to setup and easy to understand. My pet was trained almost immediately upon his first jolt. This is probably because of the shock setting; even at its lowest setting will give your dog enough of a jolt to make him yelp and hide with his tail between his legs. I should include that maybe this will only do that to dogs under 50lbs, maybe. Each dog is different, maybe your dog is into that kind of thing and will want a higher jolt. Either way, it worked well enough for my dog that he no longer needs the collar around the backyard.Before you think I'm some jerk for putting my dog through that without testing or training him first... I DID test it and train him with just the beeps, but he didn't really care until I actually turned it on to shock him. I also tested all 5 shock settings on myself prior to putting it on him. I too no longer want to leave my backyard.
M**E
Limitations, frustrations, do not recommend.
It's not often I write a bad review, but I regret purchasing this. I bought it to replace a previous fence that was tore up with some landscape work. We installed in a rectangle pattern in the back yard, coverage about 0.4 acre. Had a previous underground fence that was similar in price and features for 5 years, a different underground system at previous home, so we are not new to underground fences. Short version, buy a different system. In the $75-150 price point there are many that will be a lot less frustrating and work more consistently. Also, notice most of the 'good' reviews about this product are right after launch, many are not from verified purchases. That smells of astro-turfed reviews. Company lists product, company hires someone to astro-turf and purchase 'good' reviews. This is very common, its cheap and easy. The pattern is usually similar, I wish I would have caught it before purchase. First 50 or 100 reviews are all positive, all within 1-3 months of the product being listed. If you look at the most recent 50 reviews, they are overwhelmingly bad and detail the same negatives I describe below. Half the good recent reviews are along the lines of 'just purchased, looks great can't wait to install', which should not be a review. Next step for shady companies on Amazon is once the real reviews drag down the overall rating, they will pull this product only to relist it and start the cycle fresh with a bunch of purchased 'good' reviews. Lastly, the full price is a joke and this product has been on sale since its been listed. Do not fall for that silly marketing gimmick. This is a $75-125 system regardless of what they list 'full price' as.NEGATIVES--Battery life is terrible. About 1 week per 9v battery if you leave it on all the time. 9v batteries run $2-3 each, that's $100-150 a year. Use rechargeable, the charge lasts 4 days. Rechargeable alkalines life is about 50 charges, so expect to go through 2-3 of those a year.--The receiver unit makes the SAME beep when you turn it on as the warning sound when the dog approaches the perimeter. So if you want to turn it on and off each time to save battery, the beep turning it on will scare your dog as they think its the boundary warning. Imagine the scenario of your dog sitting waiting for you to put the collar on and they hear the warning beep that is sometimes followed by a 'correction'..ie shock. Not good. Our young dog wants to go out until I turn the unit on, then it beeps, then he turns and runs away. This is a horrible design flaw, magnified by the terrible battery life (can't just leave it on all the time).--There is no low battery warning, no way to check battery except to push the button to change the 'correction/shock' setting. So to check the battery (which dies fast) you have to change your desired correction setting, then go through all of the remaining settings to get back to the one you wanted in the first place just to let your dog out. This problem is again magnified by the terrible battery life. I found this out the hard way the first week when the new 9v battery died so early I hadn't even thought about battery life yet. A receiver with a dead battery offers no correction or warning to the dog, he can go where he wants, I finally caught him 3 houses down.--The receiver is very big. More than twice the size of our previous one. Suitable for large and larger medium dogs only.--Performance is very inconsistent. Of the settings, anything higher than 2 on the main unit and the receiver goes off randomly 20-30 ft away from the boundary. This means I have to keep the setting as low as it goes but still completes the loop. This means a very small warning zone before the dog gets to where the actual wire is, maybe 2 ft. Anyone with a dog knows if they are distracted this is not enough time to convince them to stop. Had the settings worked as they should, I would have the warning start about 5 ft from the wire. However, turning it up this high causes the receiver collar to randomly beep throughout the yard. This is a consistent problem described in many reviews and yet another design flaw.--The wire did not come on a spool, very easy to tangle (very hard to untangle) when installing. A small tangle will take hours to untangle, and bad tangle is pointless.. you will be buying a new wire. I actually put the wire on my old spool from our previous underground fence to install it.POSITIVES--It works ok once you learn all the caveats and limitations, and don't mind spending $$ on batteries. Just so long as my dog isn't distracted or chasing something, this has kept him in the yard. Unfortunately, what dog doesn't get distracted by a blowing leaf.I will be replacing this with another system, hoping the wire I took 5 hours installing will work with a different system. Unfortunately, my $100 on this product was wasted.I do not recommend. Strongly do not. There are a number of other devices in the price range. Although similar price to our previous unit, it is poorly designed and seemingly never tested before put on the market. A product like this is very frustrating, because by the time you find out it doesn't work you have invested many many hours installing and testing. Having experienced 2 other underground systems for many years, this is by far the worst of the 3.UPDATE: I did, in fact, replace this system. The only good news is I was able to use the wire from this system with the new receiver and collar.
T**Z
Do NOT use batteries that are included - My dog died :(
After receiving the product, I spent the evening (Thursday) pulling the wire around my property (we just moved to 20 acre property). I ran about 1500 feet of wire in a big loop around the house (bought additional 1000 feet of wire as product comes with 500 feet of wire). Our puppies (yellow labs) were about 4 months old... Doc and Wyatt. I installed the *included* batteries in the collars and put them on the pups. Saturday morning rolled around when one of our neighbors came to our door to tell us one of the dogs (Wyatt) was down at their property and 'may' have eaten some anti-freeze. They told us they put the rattle snakes they catch in anti-freeze to separate the skin from the snake. I couldn't help but think that they intentionally killed our dog... until Wyatt threw up a full snake shortly thereafter. Apparently, that is a thing... My wife drove Wyatt to the vet hospital to see if there was anything they could do (picture of Wyatt my wife took while taking him to the vet). He was already lethargic and couldn't be saved. They had to put him down.I wondered how he got passed the electric fence. I got his collar and walked toward the wire to find that it didn't go off. Docs collar wouldn't go off either. 36 hours on the batteries and they already weren't working.I have since replaced the batteries with Energizer batteries and Doc (the other pup) has had his collar on for over a week without needing the battery replaced (I've been checking his collar daily to see if his batteries were dead).Now, I struggled with how to review this product... On one hand, it is working as expected (for the last week) for Doc, now that it has fresh batteries in the collar. On the other hand, the batteries that were included gave me a false sense of security which ended up in a dead puppy and a $300 vet bill. I do continue to use and trust the product, now that it has new batteries in the collar, but still pretty pissed that they chose to include crappy sub-par batteries with their product. This is why I gave it 2 stars rather than 1... the product seems good. Just please don't rely on the batteries that come with it.Friendly Pet Products -- If you read this -- Please either stop including batteries and just have customers buy batteries themselves, OR stop including cheap batteries. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Whether its your product or the batteries that you included, my dog is dead. Yes, they ran off the property ... and yes, my neighbor had anti-freeze out.. but I bought your product to protect my dogs from this, and it failed.
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