What I like: there are five whistle tones to chose from. At least I think so. I can hear the first two, so I am just assuming that 3-5 are different from each other. #5 seems right for my dog while one of the other 4 may be best for other dogs. Why I am deleting it anyway: you have to play an ad for at least 4 seconds before you return to the previous screen to play the whistle sound. So you cannot use the whistle as immediate reinforcement for whatever your dog’s behavior is. This makes the app useless. There is another ad after you press stop—this one is not a problem at all, but I guess they need twice the ad revenue they could get from just the “after” ad. If so, it would be much better if they double stacked the ads after you stop the whistle sound.

Wow, I wasn’t expecting anything to happen, but this app has been fantastic! Frank starts ruthlessly barking after a few normal barks and that’s when I open the app and say “quiet”. The ad pop-ups do affect the timeliness needed to optimally use the app, however, and I would pay for the app to not have ads, so I hope that will eventually take place (I’d pay $3-$5, anything more would need to have more features, like a clicking sound for training or a timed set of training exercises for positive behavioral routines to promote the importance of establishing boundaries (for both dog and dog parent(s)).My Story: I have a 4-year-old American cocker spaniel named, Frank. Frank has appointed himself as our 24-7 (excepting naps) security guard and it’s even worse when dogs walk by our home - he’s uncontrollable then and all bets are off. However, if he’s barking at neighbors, strange noises, squirrels, the changing wind, etc., the whistle app will snap him out of it, so to speak and allow him the attention span to hear me say, “quiet”. Does it work all of the time? No, but Frank is not a robot and I don’t expect it to be 100% effective, but it’s an efficient step in the right direction and is helping to form new habits. Hopefully eventually he will snap out of it when I just say, “quiet”.

I walk and jog in my neighborhood which is somewhat in the country. Many of the neighbors leave their dogs out running loose which makes it difficult to do any exercising. I’d like to be able to count on the app to use the whistle to get the dog’s attention when it runs up barking at me, but I’m afraid that it sometime is going to just pop up an add (as it does quite often) but just at the wrong time when I really need it and I have to try to find out how to close it and turn it off and then to get the whistle going before the dog is on me.!

I have a Puggle (A half beagle and half pug dog named Puggles) Puggles LOVES to run. He got lose once and ran all over the yard leaving me, My mom and Dad screaming while we chased him. I grabbed my IPad and pressed the play button right before her ran in the road with a car coming! Thank you! But, you didn’t just save my dog you also saved my shoes, Before I went to try this app out I caught Puggles chewing up my shoes. I pressed play, He dropped the shoe and came running to me! Again, thank you!