PetSafe Pawz Away Outdoor Wireless Pet Barrier, Electric Training System for Cats and Dogs with Receiver Collar

I purchased this item after seeing competitors products in action (Invisible fence). My medium sized (75lb) dog is familiar to a bark collar so I figured he would be sensitive to this product as well. I used the collar with just a rock and also with the rock wired up with the additional blue wire because I needed a whole garden area protected from the dog. As the instructions say, it does not work well near metal objects (like my a/c unit)as it interferes with the signal so you have to move it away from items like that. At the highest setting, I get about a 6ft distance from the rock. The competitors was the same if not less. Then I hooked up the wire to the rock and encompassed an flower bed area with about 100ft of wire. Again the unit worked exactly as specified. They instruct you to set the unit at one of the higher settings when the wire is attached for the unit to work correctly. I did that and when my dog comes within about 3-4ft of the wire he receives the impulse from the unit and turns away to go somewhere else to relieve himself. As the manual states, this unit will not contain your dog. It is not strong enough for that. It does, however do the job its supposed to do- gently but assertively persuade your dog to relieve himself in another area of your yard. Best of all, this unit was ridiculously cheaper than its competitor and the batteries you need (D batteries and small hearing aid type batteries)are easily found at your local CVS, Lowes, Etc. The competitor makes their batteries specific to the unit so you are forced to by them from them (at a high price of course). All in all, this product does exactly what I wanted it to do- keep my dog from eating and urinating on my shrubs and flowers! Hooray!!!

This is an overly price item with very minor effect. I actually have two of this item which I place on my deck for a 10lbs poodle that I have to stop him from coming to defecate on or around my deck. first of all, the company charges way too much money for an over-sized item that does not do what they say it will do. The battery in the collar have to be changed quite often, and even when there is a fresh pair of battery (since you have to put 2 of those cell battery which are so expensive to begin with and in the long rung will cost you quite a fortune) the sound of the so call alarm is still very faint. Now after the sound, there is a shock supposedly to deterred the dog from its path, which is also very faint. Remember I mention to have 2 of this junk, which I place 4 feet away from each other at full bars that they can be set under and that small poodle is able to #1 stand very close to them about 1foot off without being affected by anything and 2nd if he walks fast enough when following my son, he is able to bypassed them and end up right on top of my deck. And to make matters worst, when changing the batteries in the collar, the tiny prongs that is supposed to hold the cover in place is so thin, flimsy and short that it is always breaking off to the point the company had to replace it twice for me. Waste of precious money and time because this stuff does not work and I hope that the company does read those reviews in order to either fix or reinvent this product by going back to the drawing board.

I don't know how well it would have worked if my dog hadn't already been trained that a high beep means you're about to get shocked and you should back away, just back away.But for my extremely stubborn Great Dane, this rock has been a godsend. We already had the YardMax system to surround about 3 acres of "yard," and it works perfectly on the setting where it continues to shock her no matter what distance the dog goes beyond the boundary (up to 15 seconds). She has learned that when she hears the beep, she's come too close to the boundary, and she just turns around. However, she couldn't keep herself out of the chicken run, because the compost pile is inside. I keep the chicken door open in good weather so they can free range outside their run, and my Great Dane could make herself really tiny and squeeze through the hole (about 18" x 24")! That was one determined dog, especially when I put something delicious on the compost pile!Enter the "rock." I set it for a range of about a 6' radius, and placed the rock right by the door to the chicken run. The next time she came towards the door, nose in the air, hoping to go in and snarf some goodies, she heard the beep beep beep of the collar (same collar works with both systems, so it's the same beep!), and she stopped dead in her tracks and turned around. Now she gives the chicken door a wide berth and just jealously watches the chickens dig through the compost pile.Don't worry, she gets lots of treats of her own!I've had this rock for over a month, and haven't had a battery issue so far. Still on the original batteries I installed (and I bought more in bulk from Amazon).Now I'm going to buy another one and attach wire to it to keep the dog out of the new pond my husband just dug by our front door. I want the field to go around the pond but not keep her away from the door, so I'll loop in the pond and put the setting at the lowest so there won't be very much area around the pond that she'll be kept out of.Couldn't be happier with this rock, for my purposes with my dog.

Mi patio tiene un espacio donde cada vez que dejaba salir a mi perrito el se metia y se salía hacia el monte. Después de instalar el perrito trató unas 4 veces de salir y se retraía. Y ya nunca se volvió a acercar al área.

It has been constant battle to keep my pyrenees and munsterlander off the pond that they think is their personal spa… now they high tail away from it! So peaceful. I may use more to keep off my pool cover in winter which my pyrenees thinks is her trampoline! Wish these rocks had larger area. Wish you could get overlayed fake rock with it to decrease costs- got to cover it to ensure protected from winter. We will see duration over winter. Wire extension not practical if cant dig bc concrete patio area. Had to get two devices to cover 20ft circumference pond

Algunas cosas suelen ser confusas y no espesifica si enviaran el Nuevo de todays sus accesorios de lonque que vende

We were looking to keep our dogs out of our new garden and this looked like the right product to achieve this.Wrong.By '16 ft in diameter' they really mean 3 ft at best (with new batteries). We tried the wire option, in which case the '12 ft distance from wire' really meant 1 ft at best with the wire ABOVE ground. I assumed my product was defective and returned it for a replacement, trying to give Petsafe the benefit of the doubt. The second system worked no better.If you're looking to keep your dogs out of a garden that's 2-3 ft wide, this product will likely work for you. If you're trying to train them to stay away from anything any better than that I highly recommend you save yourself the $100 and put it towards a real invisible fence.

Reviews are right, barrier without wire is a pretty small area. Did the job for us though.