Customer Reviews

PetSafe Yard-and-Park Remote Trainer, PDT00-10603

5 star:		(110)
4 star:		(23)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

My wife and I love to hike with our German Shepherd. However, her (the dog) behavior had become an issue. Whenever, she sees another dog or horse, she loses her mind, and we lose control of her. We did not want to resolve ourselves to hike with her on a leash.

Now that we have this device she "comes" on command, and not on the second or third time we call. She comes the first time, and to my hand. Now we can hike with her, and gain control when we see dogs, horses, and those who do not share our enthusiasm for dogs.

I like to add this devise is not cruel in any form. It has a dial of 8 settings. I tried it on myself. I could not feel "1" at all. "2" and "3" tingled. "4" felt uncomfortable (not painful), and that is where our dog is set.

The only issue is at home. We have an "invisible fence", which works on a very similar principle. The issue is that when I "beep" her or "zap" her at home, she becomes very confused. Hence, we only use it primarily for our hikes, which was our desired goal anyways.

The conclusion is that I highly recommend it for hiking or rather "off-leash" walks. You may have mixed results at home, if you have an "invisible fence". Although without the "invisible fence" issue, I believe it would be very effective for any sort of training.

Bottom line is that it works and I wish had I bought this tool earlier.

I've belonged to PETA, World Wildlife Fund, and I have volunteered at shelters, etc... My life has always had an animal in it and I love animals. That was until my husband brought home a pug puppy. For a year I was tortured by my guilt over my extreme dislike of this dog. She bit, she chewed (going to happen with puppies - I know - but it was INSANE), she scratched, she jumped, she made messes, she started to use my toddlers as chew toys and no matter what we did, who trained her, where we took her - she wasn't getting it. She has been crate trained from the beginning and she still wasn't getting the fact that she had to "go" outside. I don't mean an accident every once in a while, I mean - our living room was her backyard. I was a mess, I was irritable and frustrated with her 90% of the time because (mainly)of her biting. I've trained numerous dogs before and she wasn't getting it. Buying this collar was a last resort and the BEST THING I DID. She had the collar on 2 days and she got it. She got it all. Everything we tried to train her for a year sunk in on the first shock. (And we had the level at a 2!) The kids now play with her, I enjoy my time with her, she enjoys life because she is with us, my older (geriatric) dog is enjoying life because he's not her chew toy. It's AWESOME. The fact that it's rechargable is a plus and the only reason it didn't get a perfect, 5-star grade is because I wish the charge lasted longer. Saved our life, took away the guilt, my kids love her now(they were scared to death of her before), my husband is happy and it brought peace to our house.(And a house with 2 adults, 2 toddlers, 2 cats, 2 dogs and 3 birds needs as much calmness as possible:)) (Our cats are happier, too, because she's not chewing on them either!) HIGHLY recommend it and anyone who says it's inhumane hasn't seen it in action like I did. She does not wear it now except as a re-training every 2 weeks or so. I used to have to chase her all over the house to get her into her crate. My husband used this horrible, high pitch baby voice to get her in the crate (if you had heard that you would have fainted!). One week with the collar and training - and all I have to do is point to the crate and say, "Chloe - crate!" and she's in. It's crazy!

I wish I would have bought this years ago for a previous dog that I owned. I use this collar on a dog that weighs 12 pounds and the collar would easily adjust to fit to an even smaller dog. We use it for many reasons i.e. stopped her nipping at the kids, walking off leash w/o running away, not barking, etc. This product is a miracle. I absolutely love it!!!

I have tried every collar there is for my 2 1/2 year old Rottweiler. She has three head collars, 2 harnesses, pinch collars, choker chains and regular nylon collars. NOTHING works on her. She has been through 4 months of obedience training and my husband and I have spent hours working with her and walking her daily. We love to go hiking but, she had a bad habit of lunging at people and bikes. Once she got worked up from seeing another hiker or biker, we could not seem to calm her back down. She just became crazy in the head and hard to control. It became so bad that we had to stop hiking because she scared other people and with her size, 112 pounds, it was really taking a toll on our shoulders trying to keep her under control. She was never aggressive, not growling or biting, just lunging and hard to keep hold of. Several times, she pulled me off my feet. This collar has been a miracle for us. She is a perfect little angel now. She gets over and sits on command when a jogger or car goes by and if I sense she is going to jump, I give her the warning beep. It only took about a week of using the "shock" before she got it and now we almost never have to use the stimulation. The beep is all she needs now. I must admit, the price kept me from buying it sooner but, I wish I would have got it a long time ago. This is the solution for problem behavior. I highly recommend this product and it has been the only thing that has worked for her. It is so nice to have a well behaved dog. All the training she went through made a difference too. She had the knowledge, she just refused to obey until we had this collar. It is worth the price.

I had purchased a PetSafe PDBDT-305 for my Golden Retriever mix. After about 8 months of use, it was nothing but a battery eater! We researched the internet for a better unit. We purchased this one and couldn't be happier with it! The tone is loud enough that we can hear it, so we don't have to guess if it actually beeped. We have it set on "1" and it seems to be enough to get her attention. Others have mentioned how large it is, but it really isn't too bad. The collar has more than enough length to fit any size neck. We will have to trim off quite a lot. The remote is great! It is more ergonomic, the dial doesn't move so easy that you accidently set it on another number, like our previous Pet Safe Trainer. The buttons are easier to press and conveniently located. The neck strap is nice, too! It is nice to have a rechargeable unit! It will save us money in the long run. So far it has worked completely as stated. The range in much better than our previous unit, too! After searching for pricing, Amazon had the best price. We received it faster than expected. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone! Petsafe PDT00-10603 400 Yard and Park Remote Trainer

POSITIVE:

We absolutely love our beautiful Beagle but she does have a mind of her own. We were struggling to train her to stop some of her bad habits from digging in our yard to chewing everything but she was not responding and we were getting very frustrated with her digging up our flower beds and trees and potted plants and chewing our expensive blinds in our kitchen and our kitchen table and chairs amongst many other things. After much research, we came across this product. For the price, it seemed to be the best of it's kind on the market and we would have to agree. It is expensive (for us) but we feel it is well worth it especially since there are not many trainers on the market for this price that have rechargeable batteries.

Upon receiving it in the mail and charging it, we promptly followed the instructions, using the positive reinforcement tone for a couple days and rewarding our dog every time she obeyed. Next we spent a couple of hours one afternoon using the negative tone and a handful of shocks to train her to come and sit - things we were struggling to train her to do before - and she obeyed! We couldn't believe how quickly she responded. For us, that was all it took. All we do now is just use the negative tone and she responds immediately as she does in a positive way to the positive tone. This product has worked magically for us and helped in a big way to take away the frustration we were experiencing with our dog not responding to our previous efforts to train her.

NEGATIVE:

We have found only one thing wrong with this product and it's not really an issue but the manual says that the batteries need to be recharged every 40 - 50 hours (something like that) in terms of use but we have found that we need to charge it every day, even if we don't use it a whole lot. We just charge it overnight. Like I said before, it's not a problem for us but we are charging it sooner than we expected to. However, at least the batteries are rechargeable and we don't have to special order them from the manufacturer like many of the other trainers on the market that cost less than this trainer.

We have 6 month Shar Pei puppy. They are known for being a very stubborn breed. She would just ignore everything up to the 8 setting but when when reset to 10 she started coming when called....after 2 days she was a perfect little girl. I think the setting and resetting could be easier and the positive tone seemed to confuse her. After we omitted the positve tone and kicked it up to 10 it was easy.

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!

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.

I have been using this for about a year. Like the other reviewer, my dog is also on a radio fence at home. I was concerned that this collar would be confusing. I think at first it was, but after 2 days of training, my Rocco would come on command. For the most part, now I only need to send him a tone-only correction if he doesn't come and he responds to that. I very rarely need to send the zap correction.

Petsafe makes great products and they stand by them. It is important to read all the training guidelines to make sure that you use it correctly.