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• Lavender-camomile collar calms and assures your kitten
• Proven to modify behavior
• For cats and kittens with necks up to 15 inches
• Patent-pending technology
• Lasts up to 30 days
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 1.44 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.38 inches | | Product Height:
| 8.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 182 reviews |
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88 of 89 found the following review helpful:
 Reduces Cat AnxietyAug 01, 2009
By Tim Naff
"Tim"
Once cats enter the geriatric stage of life, they often meow for no apparent reason. The first symptom is usually some howling at about the time the lights go out in the house at night. As cats age further, they may start doing it for long sessions at seemingly random times. I tried the collar on our cat and it delivered enough calming effect to eliminate eighty or ninety percent of the random meowing. Our cat has certain insecurities, one of which is a near-empty food bowl. (We adopted her starving off the street when half-grown, and she's never gotten over that particular insecurity.) The collar will not stop her from meowing incessantly if her food supply gets low. My point is that I wouldn't expect the collar to make a cat a lot less anxious about what it thinks is a serious concern -- it doesn't make them stupid!
Don't overlook the fact that the collar (as advertised) only lasts about a month. I've noticed that some have a stronger odor than others. The odor, which the box describes as "lavender chamomile fragrance," can be pretty much unnoticeable, can be as described, or can be similar to insecticide.
My cat can be bad about not using her pan. In addition to the specially treated cat litter, we use spray pheromones to good effect in household areas where we want to discourage that. Spray pheromones are not supposed to be used near the cat pan, because that can discourage use of the pan. The idea with the spray is to use it where you don't want messing and scratching and not to use it around pans or scratching posts. I was concerned that having the pheromones literally on her at all times might take away the effect of the spray, but it did not. We've not had any new problems of not using the litter box. We've also had no problems with rashes.
Our cat doesn't think highly of our Sheltie. If there's been any help there, it's been marginal.
So here we have yet another technological weapon offered up to the pet-management field of battle. Is it worth bothering with? In summary, this is a product that might make a big difference for you and your cat. It won't tranquilize your cat; the effect isn't that powerful. It doesn't relieve the cat's serious concerns, and any significant help in making it get along with other animals is unlikely. (That isn't advertised either.) But if you've got a random howler or some other sort of reasonably mild, cat malaise, I recommend you give it a try.
82 of 85 found the following review helpful:
Stops excessive meowing - at a priceDec 04, 2009
By Natasha Rhodes
"Tasha"
To start with, I am very pleased with this collar, although it does have some drawbacks. I have a 1-year old rescued cat who, while he is the sweetest, most wonderful cat in the world by day, he turns into the Tasmanian Devil at night. We have a very small house and even with the bedroom door shut, we can still hear him meowing. He has been neutered, but he has extreme seperation anxiety and meows literally non stop all night long if we shut him out of the bedroom. There is no pause in the meowing... he can go up to five hours at a stretch without taking a break. I am a light sleeper and he keeps me awake all night long. But if we let him in, our bed becomes his playground and he cannot stand it when one of us starts to fall asleep and will prompyly dive-domb or bite us to wake us up.... leading to him swiftly being shut out..... cue more howling and meowing all night long. Its a vicious circle. We cannot let him out as cyotes and raccoons live in our neighborhood and have attacked neighborhood cats, so this collar was our last resort.
The pros - Well, good news, it works! But at a price. I would personally like to see the collar redesigned, then I would give it five stars. I'm not sure how the hormone works but from the first night we put this on him HE STOPPED MEOWING AT NIGHT. COMPLETELY. Myself and my partner slept our first full night in the 8 months since we rescued him. Heaven!
The cons - In the morning we found a very blissed-out, spacey cat with huge pupils who wouldn't make eye contact and acted stoned! I would like to know exactly what is in this collar, and how it works. As soon as we took the collar off him he 'sobered up' within about five minutes and started meowing and making eye contact again. Plus the entire front room smelled like lavender-scented bug-spray upon our awakening. The smell was very strong in such a small space.
- Collar design is a big minus. The collar is very stiff plastic, and (as a previous reviewer notes) is actually coated in a white flakey substance which cracked and was already coming off where the collar bent when we opened the packaging. So the pheramone stuff is coated ON the collar rather than being impregnated IN the collar (as the packaging claimed).
- Second big downside - it's NOT a breakaway collar. Its a hard plastic collar with ribs on one half to hold the buckle in place so if your cat caught himself on a branch etc he's not going to be able to break it or get out of it. I would definitely not leave this on the cat unsupervised all month, even though the packaging says it can be worn for up to 30 days. So what we're doing is only putting it on him at night, and keeping the collar in a ziplock bag during the day.
- Adjustment problems: Due to the hard plastic substance of this collar getting it adjusted once it was on is almost impossible as the collar does not bend to let you feed the extra bit through the loop. So I just pre-adjusted it and slipped it on over my cat's head - even though he hated me doing that as it left his face and head coated in the flakey white pheramone substance... it looked like he'd been out in the snow!
So those are the pros and cons of the pheramone collar. Good luck!
46 of 46 found the following review helpful:
 works very well for short termSep 04, 2009
By Julie
Our male cat became VERY aggressive when he got an UTI. He scared the daylights out of our female cat - attaking her. His behavior easily resolved with treatment but she was impossible to calm and couldn't seem to get over it. She wouldn't come out of "crouch", always frantic looking, hissing and big time growling. After vet visits and other tried remedy's we invested in this collar and feline pheromone spray. Both cats got a calming collar. Within 30minutes we could see a difference and by the end of the day she was able to let him near her again! (We also used the spray.)
The collars were to long for our cats but we didn't cut the end off - not wanting to waste the powder. They were expensive, $15 each at petco. For our situation they were well worth it. We could totally claim the phermones did he trick, as our vet suggested. The collars were left on for about 1 1/2 months. If we run into future stressful situations we would definately buy again.
28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
The Hisser and The PisserAug 20, 2010
By MaureentheTemp
"MaureentheTemp"
We adopted two cats from our local shelter, unrelated spayed females about three years old, who turned into The Hisser and The Pisser. Although we did everything "correctly", took several weeks to introduce them, multiple litter boxes cleaned twice a day, Feliway dispensers (THREE) AND Feliway spray, several cat trees, etc etc etc, they were both little terrors. The Hisser hissed and growled AT EVERYTHING -- my husband, me, bugs, furniture, the television, the other cat. All she wanted was to stay in the little cat carrier she had been brought home in and peek out, it was actually really sad. And she just HATED The Pisser. The Pisser -- well, guess. She was very friendly and affectionate, but pee'd E V E R Y W H E R E -- the bed, the couch, the ottomans, the curtains (I still don't know how she got it up that high), chairs, grocery bags -- it would be quicker to list where she DIDN'T pee. The vet gave us anti-anxiety drugs that we used for awhile, but it didn't really help. After four months of this I actually talked to the shelter about giving one or both of them back, but hesitated because that would have labeled them "unadoptable." In desperation, I tried this collar.
It took about a week, but the change with The Pisser was astonishing. I won't say it was a complete miracle, she still pees in the bathroom occasionally. But she went from peeing everywhere to peeing about 95% of the time in the litterboxes. That I can live with. The Hisser, once The Pisser stopped peeing everywhere, became much calmer and more friendly. Personality wise, she just isn't a "cuddly" kitty, but she is loads of playful fun and now only hisses and growls when we clip her nails. I am not sure in her case it was the collar although I put one on both cats, her behavior got better the second week -- it seemed more a reaction to The Pisser not urinating over everything.
Yes, the faux lavender scent is hideous and the collar is plastic and stiff. I am also not convinced it will work for every cat, as I said I don't think The Hisser was really much affected by it, I think she reacted to the change in the other cat's behavior. And why this would work when Feliway didn't I don't know, since I assume the phermones they both use are the same. But based on my experience I absolutely think this is worth a try, for the right cat it will be really helpful, it made a world of difference for The Pisser. I would strongly recommend trying this collar before going on to anti-anxiety meds or thinking about re-homing/giving away the cat.
26 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Didn't work on my catOct 19, 2009
By Bij
"Bijou"
This product might work on some cats but it had no effect on mine at all. My cat is an 8 year old male and has had problems with separation anxiety since he was a kitten. Despite numerous vet visits (and tests) most of his inappropriate peeing is behavioral. We've tried just about everything except keeping him in a crate all day. But that seems far too harsh and cruel for us.
There were several things about this collar that I didn't like. For one thing it's a hard and comes covered with a white crusty substance that flakes off when you attach the collar. Apparently this is the chemical component meant to sooth the cat. It's difficult to tighten the collar (which incidentally is NOT a break away collar). We left the collar loosely attached but my cat kept slipping it off at night.I also felt the description was misleading. I thought this collar was impregnated with pheromes similar to those used by Feliway. But it isn't, it contains other natural plant based scents and I'm not convinced these have any merit as behavioral modifiers in cats. I was pretty disappointed in this product and wouldn't recommend it.
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