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The Pet You Save Could Be Yours: The Spotlit LED Collar Light

Derek — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:40:44 +0000

Pets roaming around at night (often escaping from yards and the like) kills a few beloved family critters every year, and now someone has developed a pretty cool invention to help reduce this problem: The Spotlit LED Collar Light. Here’s more about it directly from the site:

Because no matter how well trained your dog is, increasing Fido’s night-time visibility while you’re on your walk is a reliable way to keep him seen and safe.These are also great for attaching to yourself or your children’s rucksack for visibility at night. Once on, this LED keyring glows bright white or red, or will cycle through the colors if you choose the multi-colored version. You can press the button a second time to set the dog safety light to flashing mode and increase your pet’s visibility even further. The stainless steel light clips on securely to dog collars, or backpacks so won’t come off no matter how energetic you or your pooch are, and is water resistant for going on walks in all weathers.

You have a choice of white or red LEDs for the kit, and they will sell for £7.95 each and require 2016 3V batteries to operate.

Flea Repellent and Guide: The Riddex Talking Dog Collar

Derek — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:13:11 +0000

We love double duty items, and this one qualifies: its a flea collar, and it talks to tell someone info about the animal should it get lost. It may be a tad bit silly, but hey, there’s lots of examples of something like this being potentially useful.

The collar uses ultrasonic “pulses” that repel any fleas from making themselves at home on your dog. No chemicals or mess, which usually doesn’t work well with traditional collars anyway.

The message you can record yourself and you can give any info needed to help someone return your pet to you, like the example pic here.

Batteries are included and it will run you $24.99 for pet piece of mind; a small price.

Defeat the Bark: The Bark Buster

Derek — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:10:34 +0000

Have a breed of dog that barks all the time, and you want to quiet them down without yelling or swatting them? How about The Bark Buster ought to do the job quite well. From the site:

When your dog barks, this sonic unit emits a harmless, high-pitched pulse inaudible to humans, but extremely irritating to dogs. He soon learns to stop this unwanted behavior. Portable and water-resistant, it has two sensitivity levels and is effective from up to 20 ft. away. Use it indoors or outdoors, on its stand or wall-mounted (hardware included). Uses one 9V battery (not included). High-impact plastic. 5″ long.

You can grab this useful little gadget for $14.99 from whateverworks.com (new stock expected soon).

Keep Fido In Your Sights: The RoamEO Pup Collar

Derek — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:26:35 +0000

We all like to let our beloved pets roam around, sometimes too much for their own good. Well, with this RoamEO Pup they’ll never wander too far for you to find them, as long as its 1-3 miles away. Good for if you have a backyard with a gate they can get out of, and help to keep them from getting too far away.

The collar is also weather resistant and has an LCD display built in. It uses rechargeable batteries and it runs from 18-30 hours.

As expected for this type of cool tech, it isn’t cheap. For a receiver, one dog collar, batteries and charger it will run you $279.95. Spare collars go for $159.95.

Barking Go Away: The Indoor Barking Dog Deterrent

Derek — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:23:12 +0000

In some US complexes (and countries), dogs aren’t allowed to live in apartments. There’s a reason for this: mainly, barking. A home with a dog that barks a lot can be a noisy, disrupted home.

Well, there’s a unique device that is supposed to ‘train’ a dog to stop pesky barking and give your neighbors peace and quiet: The Indoor Barking Dog Deterrent.

Here’s a bit from the site:

This patented device quickly and humanely restores peace and quiet to a home vexed by a dog’s excessive barking. No special collar is required; when a dog barks within 25? of the unit, it emits a harmless ultrasonic tone, inaudible to humans, that startles the animal into silence. The dog quickly associates its bark with the unpleasant sound, which conditions him to curb this undesirable behavior. The unit can also be activated manually to help you correct a dog’s other bad habits, such as lying on furniture or foraging through the trash. One 9-volt battery (not included) provides power for about two months, and an LED indicates battery life.

Meant primarily for indoor use only, this is a humane and cost-effective way to deal with a tricky problem. It’s available for $49.95 from Hammacher.

Out of shape pup? Get him a Canine Treadmill

Derek — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:29:39 +0000

Most dogs can adapt well to being indoors or outdoors. There are those dogs, though, that prefer the indoors and make a huge nuisance out of themselves carrying on through the house or apartment of the unlucky owner. It can drive someone mad enough…to buy their door a treadmill to work out those doggy energies while not tearing up the house.

If you think your dog can handle it, it takes only 45 minutes per day to round your puppy into grand shape. The rubber belt is solid and will be gentle on your dog’s paws. It also features rails, which keeps your dogs eyes on the prize, so to speak.

Like a regular human treadmill it has an emergency on/off switch. You can adjust the speed, distance and incline to make sure your dog gets plenty tired so he won’t reign terror on the rest of your home. The treadmills come in 3 sizes ranging in price from $549 to $899, so it isn’t cheap, but your dog and your furniture will thank you.

Unique Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap that fingerprints your pet

Derek — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:47:53 +0000

This is for the pet owner who doesn’t want every stray cat trying to get in through their pet door, and is one of the sharper ideas we’ve seen. It basically “locks” your pet door, and only your pet has the key to it. This is the basic concept of the Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap.

This pet door works by identifying a cat by its microchip implant, which is a recent trend of ID among pet owners. It allows a pet catcher with a specialized scanner to scan an implanted chip in a pet. This allows for proper identification of a pet that is better than a tag that could be removed.

Too bad they don’t make a Pet Porte Microchip Dog Flap (the design and size and implant are mainly for cats right now), but if this does well, then who knows.

If you would like to grab this unique bit of pet security, it will cost about £127.00 (a little over $200 USD), so it isn’t cheap, to be sure. You can get it from the company website.