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If you’re worried about Fido and Sport lazing on your fancy furniture while you’re busy at the office, Sofa Guard can help. Essentially, the all-new pet alarm is a 4 1/2 foot mat with sensors that you lay out on your prized possessions. As soon as your 4-footer sets a paw on the contraption, a 105 decibel alarm makes sure they hop off with equal vigor. Of course, if it works anything like the heavily-touted Bark Collar (which used to only go off when our office dog would scratch itself), it could end up confusing your dog more than training it. Link via OhGizmo.
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Is this new? My family used something similar over 10 years ago but it gave a mild electric shock instead of sounding an alarm.
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 1-2-2007 at 11:22 am
yup. seemed pretty new to me from the site, but I could be wrong. I’d never heard about the shock thing for animals… sounds like something that could be pretty uncomfortable if you forget to warn your guests about it…
posted by Mangesh on 1-2-2007 at 12:37 pm
“sounds like something that could be pretty uncomfortable if you forget to warn your guests about it…”
I was supposed to warn them?! Crap!!!!
hahaha
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 1-2-2007 at 1:24 pm