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PetSafe PBC-102 No-Bark Collar |  | Brand: Petsafe
Category: Pet Products
List Price: $59.99
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Seller: Grady's Online
Rating:  167 reviews
Sales Rank: 460
Media: Misc.
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: Collar adjusts from 6" - 28"
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6 x 2.8 x 8
MPN: BC-102
Model: PBC-102
UPC: 729849006058
EAN: 0729849100329
ASIN: B0002C7FHC
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Bark-control collar sends harmless static shock to the dog whenever it barks | | • | Adjustable nylon collar senses vibration in dog's throat during barking | | • | Lightweight receiver perfect for toy or small breeds | | • | Includes water-resistant receiver, operating manual and replaceable 6-volt battery | | • | Receiver measures 1.75 x 1 x 1.25 inches; limited lifetime warranty |
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Product Description
Bark Control Collar, Light Weight, Effective For Dogs 8 LBS Or More, Stimulus Is Automatically Delivered With The Dogs Bark.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 167
 To Whoof, or not to whoof, that is the question April 25, 2006
Jeep Girl
146 out of 147 found this review helpful
This is a must have if you live within the city limits, have fussy or close neighbors in proximity to your yard, or have a strict home owners association that prohibits excessive dog barking. I am a lab breeder and own 3 of these units. I am very pleased with the performance and function of this product because it stops "nuisance barking" by administering a minimal buzz that gradually gets stronger the longer the dog barks the lowest setting delivers your common "prankster hand buzzer" volt. And if your too squeamish about buzzing your dog, there is a "lemon spray" version of this exact brand that also works well too. Instead of delivering a buzz, it puffs a lemon deterant near the snout. For more stubborn dogs, the buzzer seems to work better. In no way is this harmful to your dog, but rather more humane discipline than verbal or physical correction by you, the owner. I believe all dogs are pleasers and want you to be happy with them. If your dog doesn't have a bark collar, most people tend to over correct or not be completely steady in the level of correction being a swat on the hind end, hopefully nothing more abusive, or other methods. The end result is your dog barks when your not around. That's why these collars work so well, it adjusts and corrects only as needed, and with as little force as needed, and will never over correct, or over punish, like we humans sometimes do when we're angry or sleep deprived due to a BARKING DOG!!!! By using this bark collar, the dog, in a sence, is making a choice whether or not it wants to continue barking incesantly, which is a much better training technique. This collar will still allow them to bark, don't get me wrong, but the ongoing nuisance barking will cease. These collars work great and allow more opportunities for us to reward the dogs for good behavior instead of correcting them for barking constantly. You'll love your dog more and he'll love you more too by being a good owner and keeping everyone happy. I would definitely buy more of this brand if my other units get damaged somehow.
It definitely works, but... July 3, 2006
Steve (Allentown, PA)
102 out of 103 found this review helpful
I gave this product 5 stars because it definitely works as advertised. Be forewarned, however, that your dog's reaction may vary greatly from others. We purchased two. On the one dog, it worked great - after a few weeks of training, she stops barking as soon as we take out the collar and stays silent. For this dog, the device is worth it's weight in gold! The other dog, however, had very bad experiences - when she is shocked, she cries (she has a weird bark/cry/growl), but the device thinks she is barking and continues to zap, and she becomes a wreck. Thus, we can't use it on her, but on the other dog it works great.
A few other notes: it works by detecting vibrations in the dog's neck, not by sound (ie, another dog barking won't set it off), so the collar needs to be tight. If a dog has thick hair, it may not work as well. It will also take several weeks to train your dog properly with the device - the instructions indicate that you can't keep it on for more than 12 hours at a time or the dog may develop a rash. Thus, you will have to work the collar into your routine, putting it on and removing it based on your dog's bark patterns. Finally, the shock is definitely not painful (you can test it by rubbing it against your jeans, it's just a static shock), but your dog's reaction to this may be different from others. With this in mind, I do highly recommend this product! Good luck!
Incredibly effective! September 16, 2007
Jeff Pittman (Durham, NC USA)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
My recently adopted, very excitable dog has had the collar on a total of
maybe 3 hours over two days. Already, *without* the collar on, he has
absolutely stopped barking at (a) the vacuum cleaner, (b) the neighbor's
perpetually yapping (instigator) dog right on the other side of the
fence, and (c) squirrels (real or imagined) in the trees behind the
house. The transformation is absolutely beyond belief. Get over any "I
don't want to hurt my baby" thing you may have going on - I did too -
and buy this product if you have a barking problem. I'm floored by how
effective this thing is and wish I'd known about it years ago. I realize
that training isn't complete at this point but I've seen instantaneous
and really dramatic improvement. Good luck and I hope you have even half
the success I'm having with this product. Note to those who got a defective one - try again!
Added 2 days after my initial review - it gets better! Tried this on my other young dog, adopted a month or so earlier, who is pretty good about barking except while I'm preparing her food. Then, she barks like crazy and runs back and forth. It's cute and no problem at my house, but it's not cool when we're visiting my mom's apartment in a retirement community. I stuck the collar on her before starting food prep tonight and got two (count 'em!) barks during the entire prep process. Normally I wouldn't be able to count the frantic, nonstop barks during food prep. This change was astonishing.
I have become more aware of the need to be on top of things since I have two relatively young and energetic dogs. They may go from a "barking's not good now" situation (barking at the fence at passerby) to a "barking's OK now" situation (chasing each other around the house) pretty quickly. You need to be ready to take off (or put on) the shock collar at such transitions during training. But I'm finding that even occasional concentration on this is yielding bigtime resuts faster than I would have ever believed.
Truly put me at ease. March 13, 2007
BurleysGirl (CA United States)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
When my husband suggested that we get a bark control collar for our Pitt/Australian Shepherd mix, I nearly cried because I knew he was right. She was disturbing the whole neighborhood with her barking, and we knew that our tolerant neighbors would only be tolerant for so long.
I searched for hours doing research, trying to find the right collar, and I decided on this one for one main reason: it gives increasingly more intense corrections every time the dog barks, and it has an automatic shut off in case the dog freaks out.
When it arrived, the first thing I did was try it on myself. I wasn't going to put something potentially harmful on my dog until I knew what it felt like. The first correction feels like a small pinch, not even equivilent to a shot at the doctors office. Truly just enough to get your attention. The second correction is probably equivilent to a shot. The third got a little squeak out of me, and the fourth was clearly painful, but not enough to make me uncomfortable since the first three were so slight.
After that, I put it on my dog and waited for someone to knock on the door. When they did, she barked once and got a really confused expression on her face. She barked again and tried to sniff the collar. She didn't bark again. When we put her outside, she tested the collar, as I expected. On the third bark she gave a short cry and stopped barking. Ever since that test, she has only gotten to a third bark twice, and that was when a strange dog came near her fence.
Overall, I am VERY satisfied with this collar. After only 5 days of wearing it, she is generally bark free without it. We only put it on her now when we are gone for the day, as this means she is outside for a longer period of time than she is used to.
I highly reccomend this collar to anyone who is considering this type of devise. I think that it is an excelent and humane teaching tool. There is another review below from a pet owner who claims it was very painful when she tried it on herself. The only reason for this I can think of is that she tried it on herself before the collar had a chance to reset itself back to the minimum correction, as her dog was in distress when she took it off.
all it was claimed to be August 16, 2007
puppet guy
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
PetSafe PBC-102 No-Bark Collar We had our one-year-old yorkie for 2 weeks before he began nuisance barking and by 2 months, thought it might be impossible to retrain him. Apparently, it was a habit he developed prior to our adoption. We tried several other training methods and felt like this was the only option left to help him fit in with our quiet family. By the time we received the collar, our 4-year-old retriever had picked up on the bad barking habit (after being relatively quiet for the 2 years we'd had her). We figured if this training method worked, we might have to get her a no-bark collar too. We read the instructions and followed them to the letter. It took the yorkie a couple of days to completely understand the correction system, but he accepted it. Remarkably, as soon as he could keep the barking in check, the retriever calmed down, too. We no longer have to run into the yard to stop them from scaring the neighbors, wake in the night to incessant yelps, or come home to explosive barking. Our friendly, loving dogs are playful and quiet again. We continue to reward self-control with positive reinforcement and hope that the results won't be short-lived (as some other reviewers have described). Ideally, this training tool will help develop a life-long change in how he interacts with the world, but so far he definitely will bark when the collar is not attached. He has been wearing it when in the yard, at night, and when we are away from home for short periods over the past 4 weeks.
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