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The PetSafe Remote Spray Trainer lets you control your dog’s behavior from up to 300 yards away with just the push of a button. Attach the special collar around your dog’s neck. Whenever your dog is misbehaving or disobeying obedience commands, press the button on your handheld remote. The collar will spray a harmless lemon-scented mist in your dog’s snout, which trains the dog not to behave in that manner. After a few timely corrections with the spray at 1 of 4 available levels, your dog will become familiar with how it is supposed to act. Both the remote and the collar are waterproof and good for indoor and outdoor use. Rechargeable batteries for the remote and collar are included, as well as a lemon spray refill. Tone-only training options, instead of the spray, are also available. Fits all dogs with neck sizes of 28 inches or fewer.
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Our latest trainer helps you manage your dog. When you need to cue him that his behavior is bad, press a button. A quick blast of harmless lemon-scented spray startles him, and reminds him that he should listen to you.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This product is the best way to train off-lead recall, period. And off-lead recall is a matter of life and death for dogs, as so many are killed by cars.
What I don't recommend this product for is teaching a behavior. It's much more effective to use all reward for that, or reward and minor correction. But *once your dog knows the "Come" command, then -- if you let your dog off lead at all -- you need to train off-lead recall WITH DISTRACTIONS. Just because Sparky will come when there are no temptations around doesn't mean he'll do it when there are dogs, squirrels....or cars around.
The product is easy to turn on and off, and to use. However, the instructions aren't perfect. For one thing, I wouldn't bother with the positive tone -- better to use your voice to praise. But there's a negative tone and a spray button. When your dog needs correction, you press FIRST the negative tone button, THEN the spray button. When you push the spray, an unpleasant but harmless lemon spray squirts your dog in the face. He won't like it. That's good: you want a punishment that's harmless but unpleasant, and it's best if it doesn't come from you but from The World.
Then use BOTH treats and the collar to train recall. When your dogs comes when called -- called once! -- he gets a treat. When he doesn't, he gets sprayed. If your dog is clever, you'll only have to spray a few times, and then you can correct using just the negative tone.
This is by far the easiest and most effective way of training the single most important command (at least if you ever have your dog off leash). It can also be used to eliminate other behaviors. I just DON'T recommend that you teach your dog with it. Use this only after your dog knows what he should and shouldn't do, and use it just to train one behavior -- or, even better, to discourage one behavior. (One at a time, that is.)
Used correctly this is a great product and well worth the money.
What I don't recommend this product for is teaching a behavior. It's much more effective to use all reward for that, or reward and minor correction. But *once your dog knows the "Come" command, then -- if you let your dog off lead at all -- you need to train off-lead recall WITH DISTRACTIONS. Just because Sparky will come when there are no temptations around doesn't mean he'll do it when there are dogs, squirrels....or cars around.
The product is easy to turn on and off, and to use. However, the instructions aren't perfect. For one thing, I wouldn't bother with the positive tone -- better to use your voice to praise. But there's a negative tone and a spray button. When your dog needs correction, you press FIRST the negative tone button, THEN the spray button. When you push the spray, an unpleasant but harmless lemon spray squirts your dog in the face. He won't like it. That's good: you want a punishment that's harmless but unpleasant, and it's best if it doesn't come from you but from The World.
Then use BOTH treats and the collar to train recall. When your dogs comes when called -- called once! -- he gets a treat. When he doesn't, he gets sprayed. If your dog is clever, you'll only have to spray a few times, and then you can correct using just the negative tone.
This is by far the easiest and most effective way of training the single most important command (at least if you ever have your dog off leash). It can also be used to eliminate other behaviors. I just DON'T recommend that you teach your dog with it. Use this only after your dog knows what he should and shouldn't do, and use it just to train one behavior -- or, even better, to discourage one behavior. (One at a time, that is.)
Used correctly this is a great product and well worth the money.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I've been using the Spray Commander for a few years MultiVet Spray Commander Remote Training System. Not because I loved it, but because there were no alternatives with a remote.
But the spray commander
- is clunky / oversized
- never lasted more than 6 months (clogging, short-circuiting, etc)
- required an endless supply of batteries
So this product is a welcome upgrade. I've been using it for 3 months, will update if things change.
1. Look ma, no batteries: it's so convenient to just charge the thing every once in a while.
2. It hasn't broken. Lovely.
3. It has a lifetime warranty (not sure what that means but the language plainly indicates if it breaks, they'll replace it)
4. It's more slender than the Spray Commander. Looks less clunky on my dog.
But the spray commander
- is clunky / oversized
- never lasted more than 6 months (clogging, short-circuiting, etc)
- required an endless supply of batteries
So this product is a welcome upgrade. I've been using it for 3 months, will update if things change.
1. Look ma, no batteries: it's so convenient to just charge the thing every once in a while.
2. It hasn't broken. Lovely.
3. It has a lifetime warranty (not sure what that means but the language plainly indicates if it breaks, they'll replace it)
4. It's more slender than the Spray Commander. Looks less clunky on my dog.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I agree with another reviewer that this collar probably isn't the best for TEACHING a behavior, but for fine-tuning response to off-lead commands that the dog already understands or for correcting behaviors that happen when the dog is diffcult to reach (like darting out the front door, etc.), there is nothing better than this PetSafe remote spray trainer. And believe me, I know! I'd tried everything I could think of to teach my dog a good, solid recall and he was good as long as there was nothing else more interesting going on, but God forbid if he saw a cat running across the yard, or another dog approaching us at the park. And I can't count the times I ended up having to crash through the bushes after him because of a squirrel who unwisely chose to depart from his tree and cross our path as we walked along.
I mean, seriously, I'd tried a lot of things to improve his recall around the distractions; calling his name and running the opposite direction while waving my arms around and making crazy noises so he'd find me more interesting, using a whistle and teaching him to associate it w/ good things like treats, keeping him on a 30 foot training lead so I could step on it if he made a break for it (incidentally, this was the worst of the ideas. Almost broke an ankle when the lead wound around my leg and he took off!) and even an electric shock collar, which did serve to get his attention off of whatever he was running after, but even on the lowest setting he'd yelp and look around and seemed so distressed that it was still hard to get his attention back on me, not to mention how bad it made me feel to see that "What the heck was THAT??" look on his face.
He was kind of like that nursery rhyme about the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forhead, you know? When I could get his attention, his recall was fantastic, but when he was too distracted, he was horrid! So it occured to me that since his nose seemed to be the driving force behind his distractability, maybe I needed something to interrupt it and I came across the PetSafe spray trainer. It was enough to distract him, but wasn't so much of a distraction that it freaked him out and made him shut down.
I didn't see any point in using both the "negative" and "positive" buttons, so I just used an enthusiastic voice for positive and the button for negative. We spent a couple of days working on it during our high-distraction situations on our walks w/ him on a super-long Flexi leash. I'd wait until he was distracted and call him. If he came, he gots lots of praise and a high-value treat. If he didn't immediately turn towards me, I'd use the tone followed by a spray. It only took a couple of times of the tone/spray combo before he figured out that if he turned and started coming towards me, the tone and the following spray didn't happen. After a couple of days of on-leash practice, we tried it off-leash. He was fabulous the whole time w/ the exception of one time, when one of the other dogs started chasing a jogger and my dog went to join in. I gave him a stern "AAh AAAHH" and sprayed and he turned and came running back. Now all I have to do is give him a verbal correction and he'll leave whatever I want him to leave w/ no problems. We'll phase it out eventually, after his coming when called the first time becomes an ingrained behavior for him.
All in all, this PetSafe trainer has been an absolute God-send for me and for my dog, as well. I can go to the off-leash dog park to walk w/ friends and their dogs and not have to worry about what'll happen if a dog we don't know comes running around the corner or worry that he'll run off playing w/ another dog in our usual group of boneheads and get distracted and take off after something. If I see someone jogging or an unfamiliar dog/human combo up ahead, all I have to do is call his name and he'll turn right around and come back to me to see what I want. He used to be a devil to get out of the water, now if he ignores me calling him, it only takes hearing the collar beep for him to come back. We've even ordered a second one, in case we ever need to send this one off for repair (Lifetime Guarantee, too!) Best money I ever spent!
I mean, seriously, I'd tried a lot of things to improve his recall around the distractions; calling his name and running the opposite direction while waving my arms around and making crazy noises so he'd find me more interesting, using a whistle and teaching him to associate it w/ good things like treats, keeping him on a 30 foot training lead so I could step on it if he made a break for it (incidentally, this was the worst of the ideas. Almost broke an ankle when the lead wound around my leg and he took off!) and even an electric shock collar, which did serve to get his attention off of whatever he was running after, but even on the lowest setting he'd yelp and look around and seemed so distressed that it was still hard to get his attention back on me, not to mention how bad it made me feel to see that "What the heck was THAT??" look on his face.
He was kind of like that nursery rhyme about the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forhead, you know? When I could get his attention, his recall was fantastic, but when he was too distracted, he was horrid! So it occured to me that since his nose seemed to be the driving force behind his distractability, maybe I needed something to interrupt it and I came across the PetSafe spray trainer. It was enough to distract him, but wasn't so much of a distraction that it freaked him out and made him shut down.
I didn't see any point in using both the "negative" and "positive" buttons, so I just used an enthusiastic voice for positive and the button for negative. We spent a couple of days working on it during our high-distraction situations on our walks w/ him on a super-long Flexi leash. I'd wait until he was distracted and call him. If he came, he gots lots of praise and a high-value treat. If he didn't immediately turn towards me, I'd use the tone followed by a spray. It only took a couple of times of the tone/spray combo before he figured out that if he turned and started coming towards me, the tone and the following spray didn't happen. After a couple of days of on-leash practice, we tried it off-leash. He was fabulous the whole time w/ the exception of one time, when one of the other dogs started chasing a jogger and my dog went to join in. I gave him a stern "AAh AAAHH" and sprayed and he turned and came running back. Now all I have to do is give him a verbal correction and he'll leave whatever I want him to leave w/ no problems. We'll phase it out eventually, after his coming when called the first time becomes an ingrained behavior for him.
All in all, this PetSafe trainer has been an absolute God-send for me and for my dog, as well. I can go to the off-leash dog park to walk w/ friends and their dogs and not have to worry about what'll happen if a dog we don't know comes running around the corner or worry that he'll run off playing w/ another dog in our usual group of boneheads and get distracted and take off after something. If I see someone jogging or an unfamiliar dog/human combo up ahead, all I have to do is call his name and he'll turn right around and come back to me to see what I want. He used to be a devil to get out of the water, now if he ignores me calling him, it only takes hearing the collar beep for him to come back. We've even ordered a second one, in case we ever need to send this one off for repair (Lifetime Guarantee, too!) Best money I ever spent!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Love this device!
We purchased this device one year ago and love the way it works with our 65lb. retriever mix. We adopted him from relatives who couldn't keep him because of behavior problems. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lady Texan
Defective Refilling Process
With one exception, this lemon sprayer works as advertised. However, the refilling process does not work on my unit as the lemon spray goes everywhere except into the collar unit. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jerry at Tahoe
Spray stopped working after one use.
After using the collar for the first time successfully, the sprayer would no longer work on subsequent uses. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jennifer Baiocco
Do NOT buy Petsafe products! Complete Junk!
I will NEVER again buy ANY product carrying the Petsafe name! I went through FOUR different training collars, ALL of which were defective or developed defects in a short period of... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Triggerfish024
Changed my Frenchie!
This product has changed my one year old french bulldog! Before she would run around the yard barking like crazy just to bark! And would never come in when told to. Now.... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Eloise
Worked for one day, then stopped spraying -- never even put it on our...
Got this from Amazon about 1 1/2 months ago. One thing I was pleased to find when it arrived was that the remote is a lot smaller than I had expected. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jase
Should have purchased years ago
This collar has been a miracle worker. It is rechargeable and battery life has not been an issue at all. It is easy to fill, easy to use, and very affective. Read more
Published 15 months ago by REmS
Great Manufacturer
The unit arrived new in package but did not work properly. I contacted the seller requesting replacement or refund and authorization to return. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Joyce
Great Product!
We've been using this with our 15 pound dog for about a week now. We adopted her from the Humane Society, which told us that she loved cats. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Skybrim
Doesn't work
I was able to get enough spray in the container on the collar to get it to spray once. One-half the can is gone and I still can't get the spray to dispense into the collar. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Joan A. Trombin
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