PLEASE: DO NOT BUY THIS COLLAR!!!!!WOULD GIVE THIS A ZERO if allowed. Today this product malfunctioned and repeatedly shocked my dog, which provoked a dog fight with my other dog. As I write this, I have just finished cleaning & dressing puncture wounds & will have to make a trip to the vet for a thorough examination. It will be who knows how long before the dogs will reach their previous comfort level with one another, if ever. It's just a good thing I have never left the dogs alone and unattended when wearing these collars. First thing after breaking up the dog fight, separating into closed-door rooms and assessing the damages and cleaning & dressing wounds, THESE COLLARS WENT INTO THE TRASH.
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PREVIOUS REVIEW: This might have worked well if the directions had been correct. The directions say to start at lowest level, which I did. After researching the use of these types of collars, I found that starting at the lowest level and working up only serves to gradually increase the dog's tolerance to the corrections as the levels are raised. I can't really comment on its effectiveness (if used correctly and not according to the directions that came with it) because as a result of going by the directions the dog's tolerance level increased so even the highest setting became ineffective. I might wait until some months have passed and try again, only correctly this time, and then update these comments. The collar's pros are that it is very lightweight and easy to adjust the size. Took a couple minutes to locate the itsy-bitsy lever inside the battery compartment that adjusts the correction level; that could have been marked better, either in the instructions or on the unit itself.
I recently had a very expensive training collar set die on me and, not wanting to spend another $200 to replace it, I bought this as a stop-gap, seeing as barking is usually coupled with my dogs' bad behavior. If anything, I could fake them into thinking I was always watching their bad deeds. And it works like a charm! They could swear I'm omnipresent wherever they wander.
First, these collars come with cheap non-alkaline batteries, so buy decent batteries when you place the order. Once you install alkaline batteries, these collars will last a good long time (at least two weeks).
The directions are not very helpful for these things, but the adjustment screw varies the shock level, not the bark detection level. Apparently bark detection is hard coded in this collar. Luckily, it is nearly perfect in detecting true barks, and the rare times it has a false trigger, it just sends a warning beep, not a shock, on the first detection, so your dog isn't punished for wearing a collar while being a good dog.
On the note of warnings, this collar has a great warning system, which goes from a quick warning beep on the first bark, to a long warning on the second bark, to a shock and beep on the third. Granted, a determined barker will figure out two barks are always "allowed" before a shock, but for my dog he found counting was just not worth the effort and became a nice, quiet dog any time the collar is on. Note, this collar will not detect growling, so they can still be dogs and alert you, just without a house rumbling bark like my lab has.
**IMPORTANT!! The collars themselves are NOT WATERPROOF, which is where the real trouble comes in. If your dog gets wet while wearing this collar, you have a very real chance it will short it out. This alone wouldn't be awful, but these don't just short out and die, they short out and go into a constant shock cycle, shocking your dog over and over until you either figure out what is wrong and remove it or the battery dies!! Note, it can take up to two hours for the batteries to die while in the shock loop! Imagine being electrocuted for two hours straight!
**ALSO IMPORTANT!! If your dog ever goes swimming with this collar on, the same shock loop WILL happen, and the collar will never recover, even after being dried out. I made this mistake, drying out my last collar, only to have to going into t random shock loop a couple of hours into my dog wearing it. He started to hide next to me with his "I'm sorry!" look, and I didn't know why.. ends up he was in a shock loop, yet the collar wasn't beeping to warn me it was happening! VERY, VERY BAD!
Now, if your dog will not get wet while wearing this collar, it is a great, reliable collar which has a wonderful battery life, is very cheap, adjustable for different stubbornness dogs and allows you to train your dogs without always having a remote in-hand.
Pros
Awesome battery life (with alkalines)
Very inexpensive
Nice, strong collar strap with quick-disconnect clip
Has blinking indicator light showing current status of collar
Variable shock level
Very few false bark detections
Cons
Perpetually shocks dog if it gets wet!
Not waterproof, or even water resistant
No option to immediately shock instead of warn first two times
No silent mode
Now, as for recommending it.. that depends. If your dog will be around water, then absolutely not! If there is a risk of this collar getting wet, then absolutely not! If, however, you plan to use it inside, or at the dog park, or while walking in areas where your dog can't swim, then this collar is fabulous for a very low price. I highly recommend it for anyone with a "yipper" type dog, as your neighbors will thank you for it. Nobody wants to listen to a neighbor's dog bark incessantly. Be a good neighbor and buy this, or a waterproof version of a bark collar.
Berk collars such as this are a win-win for everyone, including your dog, as it won't get animal control called on it.
Happy shopping
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Good for the price. Works perfectly fine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Our first order never worked, so we swapped it out with a replacement. That one would not hold a charge.It completely died after one bark. Not sure what the issue is, I have had this collar before a few years back and it was great but now that I replaced it with the exact same thing, the quality really went down. 2 defective collars?!These are just plain junk! It's unfortunate because they used to be great collars, whoever is manufacturing them now killed a once awesome productWant Newest BK208 NO ANTI BARK DOG TRAINING SHOCK COLLAR FOR MEDIUM AND BIG DOGS Discount?
We ended up getting three of these for our three dogs. One of them never worked, another one worked for a weekend, the last one is still working. Would not waste money for these again.
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