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09-11-2008, 07:59 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: North Texas
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| Comfort Zone® Plug-In??? I was looking at dog stuff on the internet and I came across this Comfort Zone® Plug-in on the Doctors Foster and Smith website. It's supposed to help your dog with separation anxiety, destructive behavior, potty accidents, and some other things by releasing a calming pheromone. It's only $34.99 for the plug-in and $21.99 for the refill. I think that is a pretty reasonable price, especially if it really worked. I was kind of thinking about trying it because when left alone, Lola shreds paper all over the house and Rebel(my mom's Yorkie) chews the coffee table. I would like to find something that will stop them! Has anyone heard of this or tried it? I would love to read some positive reviews before buying. Comfort Zone® Plug-in for Dogs
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09-11-2008, 08:21 PM | #2 |
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| I have tried them when puppies were little and wild. It says that it can take a cumulative time period for optimal results. So I'm not sure if my pups calmed with a couple weeks' time or if the product actually worked. But I'm a firm believer in the placebo effect. So for me, there was some improvement - just can't tell you for sure that's what it was.
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09-11-2008, 08:26 PM | #3 |
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| I tried it to when i first got Keoki I think it worked but am not sure either- it's worth a shot- I don't use it anymore but he had seperation anxiety when I first got him. |
09-11-2008, 08:35 PM | #4 | |
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Pheromones work. Here is the BUT.. it must run all the time, all the time no turning it off not running out and it should take affect in man can I remember .. 2 days???? Now that said some dogs it has little effect on. Pretty cool sitting there listening to this French Dr. explain just how it works and why. Oh so cute and that nice thick french voice. Be still my beating heart.... sadly he was married. JL | |
09-12-2008, 02:38 PM | #5 |
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| I started using it at 13 weeks and now my pup is 5 months old... I bought it so that it would help with seperation anxiety while I was at work for 8 hours each day. Like the others have said, I don't know for sure if it works (b/c I'm not there to monitor his behavior) but temperment wise, Wall-E seems to be fine staying alone in his pen while I'm at work. He doesn't seem to have any noticable behavioral issues.. no chewing or ripping things apart when left alone. I say- its worth a shot, you never know! |
09-12-2008, 02:42 PM | #6 |
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| Yorkiemother- do you know if the inventor of DAP mentioned when to ween a dog off the pheromone diffuser or how long a person should use it? Wall-E is 5 months and I just ran out of the stuff and didn't know if I should buy a refill or just not use it anymore since Wall-E is older... any suggestions out there? |
09-12-2008, 05:03 PM | #7 |
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| I tried that for Rudy when he was little. Sadly it didn't help him. But every dog is different. If I remember right the liquid in the plug in didn't last all that long and for having to use it all the time, it got expensive. To me anyway.
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09-13-2008, 07:00 AM | #8 |
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| I don't know about the plug in, but I bought the spray. I wanted it to spray around to help calm them for grooming and then in the car for travel. I didn't notice a difference at all and for us, it certainly wasn't worth the money, but I'm glad that it's helped others!
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09-13-2008, 09:46 AM | #9 | |
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I actually would think if Waall-e is doing fine he can go with out it. The suggestion was made that before you bring a puppy home you start it in the breeders house and yours two days befroe and run it until the puppy is well settled in. For sepration axiety it should run until you have worked a rehab program start to finish and see a change in the dog. JL | |
09-13-2008, 09:47 AM | #10 | |
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JL Last edited by YorkieMother; 09-13-2008 at 09:49 AM. | |
09-13-2008, 06:54 PM | #11 | |
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It has a medicinal smell. I hope the plug in works!
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09-14-2008, 05:08 AM | #12 | |
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I know when I burn lavender incense I have a quite dog. Experimenting with scents is kind of fun to see what your dog will respond to. Let me go drag up the conference notes and see what he wrote as he said he spoke different from what he gave us and I have just not read it yet. JL PATRICK PAGEAT, DVM, PhD, DBFVS, DECVBM-CA Dr. Pageat graduated from The National Veterinary School of Lyon in 1984 and received his PhD from the Faculty of Paris-VI in 1991. He holds a diploma in Veterinary Behavior from the French Veterinary Schools, and is a Diplomate of the European College of Behavioral Veterinary Medicine. He currently is Professor in charge Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Torino (Italy). Dr. Pageat founded Pherosynthese Research Centre, a private R & D laboratory specializing in chemical communication and is their Scientific Director. Dr. Pageat is the inventor of “D.A.P.” (dog appeasing pheromone) and Feliway (a synthetic cat pheromone). Both products may be the key to providing treatment for dogs and cats with stress-related conditions and behavioral problems. Pheromonatherapy – A New Adjunct In Managing Behavioral Therapy Chemical communication is common to every living creatures. Among the wide range of chemical signals, the pheromones play a specific role in delivering intraspecific information which does not involve any analysis through the cortical brain areas but on the contrary activate the limbic and hypothalamic areas. Thanks to the evolution of the techniques used in chemistry, the precision in the analysis of the odorous secretions has been improved and recent findings in the understanding of the structure of the pheromones, make it possible to synthetize artificial pheromones. Pheromonatherapy is a therapeutical technique which uses those artificial pheromones with the purpose of modifying the emotional reactions and the hormonal secretions of our animals. This evidence based therapy is now used in different species including pets, livestock and zoo animals. This lectures presents the most common applications of pheromonatherapy, the different rules that lead to select and prescribe it and its association with other therapies, especially behavior modification programs. | |
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