The Couch Guard – more than useless

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While browsing around today, I found this presentation of a gadget called The Couch Guard. It’s presented as a life-saving innovation, like in those teleshopping channels, even though it is, as I’ve said, more than useless, it’s down-right annoying. The whole idea behind the invention is something similar to a mat which goes on top of the couch. When your pet steps on that mat, some sensors detect it and a 105 decibel alarm goes off. Okay, the concept might work, this I have to say. But what happens when you forget that the rug is there and you sit on it? Or what happens when, in the middle of the night, your cat decides to change her sleeping arrangements and sets off the alarm, waking you up? What’s more, pets don’t need sofisticated gadgets to be trained, because they’re not that dumb to begin with (and I’m talking as a person who’s owned almost everything from fish, hamsters and parakees to cats and dogs). They just follow different rules than us. So, if I were you, I’d take the 30 or so Euros (the cost of the Couch Guard) and, instead of buying a ‘state of the art piece of equippment’ buy some treats for my pet and train him myself, even if it takes time, because, after all, isn’t that what pets are for?

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