Disclaimer: I received this product for free or highly discounted in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are mine.
It’s no secret that PJ has a serious barking issue. Really she only barks when she hears something outside. But she will hear it in my bedroom and bark through the entire house till she gets out the dog door. In that process she usually wakes up P from her nap and scratches all the wood floors along the way.
We use a bark collar but it has an auto off after a few hours and PJ has realized this. She will growl and get louder to see if she sets off the beep warnings. If they go off, she stops growling. If there are no beeps she will start her barking and take off. I hate to leave the bark collar on her when we are not home or at night. B and I simply forget to take it off her. She always wears a collar so we don’t notice she has anything extra on. I thought with a dog whistle I could wear it like a necklace all the time and try to train her that if she starts to bark I will blow the whistle and tell her “No Bark.”
In theory, this sounds like it would totally work. However, when I go to use the dog whistle I always think of the scene in Teen Wolf where the kid is blowing a dog whistle in the hardware store and only “Scott” (Michael J. Fox) can hear it. I tried the whistle and it actually makes noise. It is not nearly as loud as it is in the movie but sounds like a quieter version. Of course, after I tested it I asked B if he could hear the noise, too. He said he could which was a relief to me.
The Pet+ Dog Whistle did not come with any instructions on how to use it. I am not sure if it works the harder I blow the more it hurts her ears. If I barely blow is it just a small annoyance? I don’t know. I have tried it out a few times and make a tiny toot. She does perk her ears up, but more in a “What was that noise?”, not an “Ouch, what was that noise?” I guess I am going to have to watch a few YouTube videos on how to use a dog whistle to really understand it.
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