Through BlogPaws, I’ve gotten to know the PetSafe® Brand, and I now have had the chance to try out their Train ‘n Praise™ treat dispenser! Today I’m going to show you how it works, and at the end of my post you will have the opportunity to win one of your own! PetSafe was kind enough to send me a second unit to give to one of my readers, an $80 value!
My GBGV Life thinks PetSafe is a great company. We enjoy many of their products already especially their treats and dental chews, and Bailie has attended their daycare the past two years at BlogPaws! The parent company, Radio Systems, owns many of the most recognizable pet brands in the world. This includes not only PetSafe® but also Invisible Fence® Brand, SportDOG® Brand, and other bestselling brands like Premier® Pet Products, Drinkwell® Pet Fountains, and Innotek® training products. You’ll also find the pet-loving hearts at Radio Systems and its brands giving back to the community by sponsoring dog parks, rescue missions, adoption facilities, and dozens of other philanthropic ventures.
I unpacked my Train n’ Praise and got right to the instruction manual. It is pretty simple to assemble. Place the batteries in the remote and the base unit. Check the size of your treat or kibble (1), remove the hopper and adjust the feeder to the correct treat size (2), place the hopper back on the unit and fill with treat (3).
As you can see, I’m not really sure about this whole thing. I’m used to getting treats directly from the humans!
To get started, let your pup get acquainted with the unit. Even though treats were dispensed, Katie felt the need to lick the cover. She is hard of hearing these days and probably did not hear the dispensing noise.
The remote dispenser works from a distance of up to 25 feet, and when it is pushed, the unit makes a chime and the button on the front lights up. I had an issue with it on our wood floor as the dispensing vibration caused the unit to move scaring me! We have decided to leave it on the carpet for now or we may attach it to the wall (it is made for wall mount as well).
Before moving on to training, dog needs to learn the human controls the remote and the remote makes treats fly out of the Train ‘n Praise unit. Katie and Bailie studied this concept together and picked it up really quickly.
In the event you have a cat like my cat bro Bert, this unit may work for him too. Bert comes running whenever he hears the tone which goes along with the treats dispensing. He was fascinated with the Train ‘n Praise!
What can you train with this device? Train dogs not to charge to the door when the bell rings, not to jump on people, basic commands, just about any behavior. To demonstrate, I had Bailie get familiar with the unit, and then had Mom ask Bailie to do her rollover command. See how it works, the button lighting up, and the sounds it makes in the above video.
Trust me when I say this Train ‘n Praise will become one of your dog’s best friends. Bailie wants to hang out with it all the time just in case it dispenses some treats!
My sisters and I give the PetSafe Train ‘n Praise twelve paws up, plus four more from the cat! It is super easy to operate and dogs pick up on it in no time (heavens, even the cat gets it)! We find it especially helpful with the “people at the door” issue as one person can’t be in two places at once, but with the remote, a person can be!
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Disclosure: My GBGV Life received the PetSafe product in this post to review and did not receive monetary compensation. My GBGV Life receives no additional benefits for barking about PetSafe products or the company. The opinions in this review are the honest opinion of My GBGV Life. PetSafe is not responsible for the contents of this article.
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We reviewed one of those too! It is so fun! Love the review…we were skeptical in the beginning too…but it really DOES deliver the treats!
It does deliver and the pets love it!
That looks really cool! Teddy and Ash would love to have one of those!
It is a lot of fun and it works for training too!
Thanks for the review Emma – sounds like a cool device. I”m afraid Jack would just sit in front of it all day…waiting…
What do you think cat bro Bert does??? Mom puts it away so no one breaks into it.
Torrey would never move if we had something like that. Looks like it would be fun to have around though.
It is like any new thing, the novelty wears off, so after a few days Torrey would move from it 😉
Now that looks like FUN! Unfortunately for me, the mom sees many possibilities as I charge the door when the doorbell rings and I love greeting people. Emma, your description and presentation were just – dare I say? – pawsome! XOXO Sparkle the PBGV
Sounds like you could use this dispenser. Bailie is all over it! Super easy to use and what dog doesn’t need a treat dispenser?
I am afraid Reilly would be next to that 24×7 with his nose glued to it. With his thyroid issue and always being hungry – he just wouldn’t leave it alone 🙂
The novelty wears off and he would learn pretty quickly it only gives food when it makes noise, so I think he would move away and just keep his ears open 🙂
I like the idea of using it to practice polite door skills, since one person really can’t be in two places at once! Clever!
Mom loves that part being just one human with three of us dogs racing for the door!
PetSafe and I have our differences (I’m not a fan of electric fences) but they do have some wonderful products after buying Premier. And this actually looks pretty cool. I could see it being a big helper for a dog suffering from separation anxiety.
Good luck to the content entrants. It could be a fun tool/toy for someone.
We don’t like the electric fences either, but people seem to love them, so if they have to have one, it may as well be from a good company I guess. We love their chews and this dispenser is pawsome!
The robots are taking our jobs! I bet we could have some serious fun with this thing. Provided Penny didn’t try to break into the treat-vault. I have a feeling my two would also start hanging around it, just in case.
Ours is locked away when not in use because the cat may actually be the most likely to break into it! It is a lot of fun, though!
This is BRILLIANT!! I WANT ONE FOR THE CHICKENS!!! Seriously.
Why not? It works with cat bro Bert, as long as the treats or kibble fit, it will work.
It should work for chickens with the right treats. Flea. I’d like to HAVE chickens again!! Wow, this looks like something the eight paws at our house could get into fast.
Let’s just say, it is pretty popular at our house right now!
Those look pretty cool. Mom should get us each one of those.
We were a bit worried with three dogs and only one dispenser, but it actually worked out as we have our pecking order and we know who Mom is working with. The cat was the only one who didn’t seem to get the rules.
We love this item and can think of 87 things we would do
Lily & Edward
It is great and can be used for tons of fun learning experiences.
That’s so cool! I’m sure Kilo would be pawing it all day LOL
The novelty wears off with some time, and if you train right, we learn Mom has the “key” to make it work, so sitting with it doesn’t help.
Since my girls are older and it appears our newest rescue has some diminished hearing, I wonder if Katie could hear when the treats were going to be released? Is there any type of volume adjustment?
This thing looks fantastic…though my Bay-Li is pretty smart and I think she’d figure out the remote is the key to the treats (she usually figures out how to put the windows down in any car she’s in).
Bailie was a very good girl in the video!
The dogs need to know you control the remote to dispense the treats, so that is a good thing. The button lights up when treats are dispensed, so if they see it, they could learn that. Katie didn’t always hear the tone or the dispensing noise and the only adjustment is on or off with the tone. I think if we needed to train Katie with it, just the association of the remote with dispensing would send her to the unit. She is pretty slow and sitting, down, all that stuff is hard for her, so she just gets treats if she happens to be in the area these days.
What I meant was…my Bay-Li would FIND & TAKE the remote & be her own treat master!! Lol.
Have you tried any laser therapy for Katie? It truly helps Car-Li’s severe arthritis in her left front paw. I’m a fan of Rimadyl and Cosequin as well. Getting old sucks…especially with such a good, sweet dog. I still miss our first girl Ashe-Li! And SOMETIMES our cat Char-Let too! 😉
Gotta lock up the remote! We have learned every dog reacts differently to medicines/supplements. Rimadyl did nothing at all for Katie, and we have tried 5-6 other similar things which didn’t help much either. We don’t want to use things that could damage any organs unless there is no other option. She has been on Rejenease since January and it has been a miracle. The chiropractor is also really starting to make a difference with her. She is doing pretty well right now, but she is just older and nothing is easy like it used to be but we have made progress which is awesome!
I hadn’t heard of Rejenease….so thank you! Bay-Li takes Rimadyl and gets blood work to check her organs. Car-Li had to stop Rimadyl when she got pneumonia/bronchitis winter 2013 and needed other steroids. Her vets have cleared her to re-start if she needs because the steroids in her inhaler aren’t as strong as the ones she needed to heal, but I’m also concerned about long-term effects, because that illness was very hard on all of us, and she’s on other meds.
I’m most likely going to buy Rejenease (after vet approves it) do you put it on Katie’s food (as I assume you have shared water)? And do you give it to Katie’s sisters?
It’s pretty obvious your mamz cherishes every minute with all of you, as I’m the sickest (human) in our household I couldn’t imagine a day without my girls, even Hay-Li who has only been here two months! They’re always up for hanging out in bed with me when I’m really not feeling well and the other humans can’t be with me all day, you wish those moments could last forever.
We put the Rejenease on Katie’s kibble. It tastes good, and she is one who often won’t eat something because it might be medicine. Bailie and I don’t currently take Rejenease, but we have eaten it when Katie has left her bowl and we sneak in and clean it out. I know, naughty, but it happens sometimes. As long as a supplement like Rejenease works for Katie we don’t want to put her on meds that could harm her. She did take Metacam for a year or so, but Mom wasn’t thrilled about it and with Rejenease she has done so much better than she ever did on Metacam. I think the only place to buy it is on Amazon and it has always been the sale price since we started with it in January. http://www.amazon.com/Glucosamine-Dogs-Supplement-Mobility-Chondroitin/dp/B00OJ5TKG2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436266879&sr=8-1&keywords=rejenease
That is really a neat dispenser. We love all of our PetSafe products.
Anything that gives out snacks is a good thing in my book! Petsafe is awesome!
Really looks like a cool project
Sorry, looks like a cool PRODUCT
It is a cool product which makes it a project 😉 We really are having fun with it.
This looks really cool Emma! I wonder if Shiner would try to chew it up though. She is crazy like that, so I wouldn’t put it past her. Cool that Bert likes it! Maybe I could teach Callie tricks haha!
Right now, Mom keeps it locked up when it is not in use because we aren’t sure if one of us may try to break into it or not. Since humans control the remote, it only needs to be out when you are using it anyway.
This looks SO PAWSOME!! Anything that gives out treats is a good’en for my dogs.
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You and Ethel would go nuts doing tricks for treats with this machine!
Sixteen paws up! That’s a lot.
We wanted twenty, but Sophie refused, as usual, to participate.
We’ve been working on keeping them calmer when anyone comes into our driveway, and this might be a big help. I’ve thought about getting one before.
I can just see both Cricket and Luke camped out by that all the time, just like Bailie!
Once the dogs learn the human controls the remote and they only get something when they do something, they stop camping out. Mom also puts ours away when we are not training with it.
We might hav to have one of those, but Sister Gracie says she wants the remote!
Cat bro Bert loves it! He does come running when he hears the tone if he happens to be sleeping somewhere and didn’t know we were using it.
Those remote treat dispensers are so cool and I know a few trainers who have had amazing results with them. If I won I would use it to work on counter conditioning their noise phobia.
It is a lot of fun to work with and Mom is amazed at how fast we learn and get the concept of it.
I could see this coming in handy for training a lot of different things! Which treats are you using with it? Mr. N won’t eat kibble and a lot of these dispensers seem to be finicky about the shape/size of treats.
We have used Zuke’s minis and the Merrick Power Bites. Judging from the sizing guide, the Zuke’s minis size is almost the largest that would work. We have only tried round ones, but I think any shape as long as it isn’t too large would work fine.
We just love our PetSafe Train’n Praise too!! Aren’t they just wonderful?
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Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Lots of fun and it makes learning really easy too.
This is such an interesting concept. Honestly, it wouldn’t work for Atka. He is far too lazy to move to and from the device. I could see Mauja enjoying it though 🙂
I am the least interested in it, but Bailie and Katie love working with it. It is easier to use with one dog anyway.
That is an interesting gadget. I could see that being very useful. I am sure brown dawgs would kill it trying to get the treats out. haha
Bailie and Bert were trying to figure out how to break into it, so right now it is only out when we are using it.
Our mom and dad would love to try this to get us to settle down quicker when someone comes into our home or even our parents come home from being out.
Millie & Walter
So far that is Mom’s favorite use for it. Other training items are fun, but the door thing is challenging and hard with one human and three dogs. Now usually two dogs go for the dispenser when they hear it which is progress. I prefer to see who is at the door.
Wow, I am loving this product!!! I know my huskies would love it too. I am definitely going to check this out, and good luck to all the entries!
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It makes training a lot of fun and something different. It also helps as the human can get away a bit and work on things.
Interesting gadget! You really look suspicious on the first photos, but I guess it worked out okay, lol 🙂
I was quite unsure, but we have become good friends, the dispenser and I.
Oh gosh, Beamer would be all over that, just like Bert! He does have an automatic feeder that drops his food twice a day so he sits and waits by that vs. harass me!
I think Bert would still harass Mom while waiting at the feeder! He loves the treat dispenser!
Can you get your paws on the remote? I’m sure Bert will be trying.
Mom always has it in her hand, so not going to happen 🙁
You need to watch where she puts it when it’s not in use. She may forget and leave it somewhere you can get it!
Looks pretty pawesome!
It is a fun training tool, and it works.
That’s pretty slick, I’m thinking Jax would attack it like he did the ball thrower we tried last month. Silly doodle
He might, but it might also help teach him some patience.
Would love to try it, what a wonderful idea plus it would be good to test her patience
She would love it and learn you control the remote and if she does as asked it will magically dispense treats 🙂
I bet Laika would go nuts with that – in a good way of course. I don’t think there’s anything that gets her quite riled up as playing with toys/puzzles that involve treats.
The initial training involves treats, but now we don’t have any treats on the track, we only work with the scent track and when we find the final article we get rewarded. We work the same way in nose work. Treats are used to learn, but the love of following a scent trail is what keeps us going and of course, we love a real good pay day at the end! In tracking tests there are no rewards allowed on the track, so we only get something when we get back to the vehicle.
Henry, Reese AND Rooster would love to have one of these in the house!
Good luck to you. I know we all love it!
I would really love to try one of these for Ruby’s TV barking.
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I bet it would work. It is such a simple but great tool for training.
that would so not work in my house, gambler would destroy it
My cat bro Bert would be most likely to destroy it here. We keep it locked up when not in use.