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There are a number of pet products designed to make dogs stay, when you give the command, or the dog goes to places it shouldn’t go! The most common is based round a simple clicker-type device, whereby you train your pet to instantly stop and wait whenever you press a pre-determined number of clicks on the clicker.

However it is not always possible to be close enough to your animal to enable it to hear the clicks and in situations such as these, one of the ideal pet products generally available is a small, high pitched whistle, normally unheard by the human ear, but easily heard by your pet dog. Once again, you train your dog to stop and stay with how many times you blow the whistle, and there is an assortment of Teach Yourself books available, where you can easily learn these methods.

One of the biggest challenges for dog owners, particularly large dogs, living in big open areas, is to make the dog stay within a predefined area, even though there might be a hedge or fence round the perimeter. Several pet accessories help to handle this problem. One product activates a water sprinkler when the animal approaches a “no go” area, thus persuading the animal to stay away from the area, or get drenched.

Large dogs may try to jump over a fence but there is a pet product available which allows you to place a collar around the dog, so that when he approaches the fence, a signal is sent by radio to the collar, which in turn sends a “corrective” signal to your dog, encouraging it to stay in the pre-determined area.

In order to keep your dog off furniture, there is a simple dog accessories which is basically a mat, placed on the piece of furniture so that if your pet tries to climb on the chair, a small electric pulse, similar to static electricity, is generated, thus persuading the animal to stay away.

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