We love talking about saving animals’ lives, and, yes, people are listening! But what’s REALLY fantastic is what this HedzUPpets Watercollar has done for pets who are physically challenged ~~ pets who have lost limbs, who are old, have arthritis, are blind or have other challenges. The probability of saving these little ones from drowning can be dramatically improved with the use of the HedzUPpets Watercollar.

The most exciting water trial we had was the one in which we had two dogs ~~ Trevor, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, who has only three legs ~~ his right front leg was damaged and removed at birth ~~ and Zoe, a West Highland Terrier, who is not handicapped. Zoe is 6 years old and had never been swimming before, but, because dogs naturally know how to swim, she swam beautifully ~~ that is, until she began to fatigue. We kept her swimming through her panic, until she was totally dependent on the collar to keep her head up. That took only about four minutes! The collar worked beautifully and held her head up completely!

Now, Trevor was another story! I figured that if this collar would save that little guy, we could consider it TESTED!!! His owner told me that Trevor had never been able to swim AT ALL. She said that, paddling with his one front leg, all he did was “spin around like a torpedo and shoot to the bottom of the pool.” We put the Watercollar on him, put him in the pool, and watched, anxiously, as he began to swim. His head never went under water!!! We were all so excited!! But the astounding thing was this: After he swam around the pool for about 15 minutes, and we were sure he wasn’t going to go under, I asked if we could put him in, again, without the collar and let me see what would happen. His owner was very willing, and put him in. We could not believe our eyes when he actually started SWIMMING!! His owner was never so shocked! He had never had more than a moment on top of the water to LEARN how to swim, and his paddling around our pool taught him that he could do it! That proves that, not only will the collar hold up an animal that is handicapped in some way, or one that is completely exhausted, but it also is, just as we expected, a great training tool!
(Posted on 27/09/09)

Our Jack Russell Terrier, Katie, is still alive today only because my husband and I were there when she fell into our new pool ~~ several times. Each time, we tried to teach her where the steps were, but she was too frightened to listen to us, and continued to try to swim to safety. She was swimming back to the spot where she had fallen in, and to what she thought was safety, but, of course, she was unable to climb out. With the water almost up to her ears, and her nose pointing upward, and becoming more terrified and exhausted by the moment, she was powerless to listen to us or to turn her head in our direction as we tried to coax her to the pool steps and safety. Then there was the time she fell in, alone in the backyard. I just HAPPENED to catch a glimpse of her from our living room window as she splashed into the water, and I decided right then that I HAD to do something to keep her from drowning. I fashioned a very crude collar to keep her afloat, and it gave her the confidence she needed to swim without panic and to listen to us while we taught her how find the steps and get out of the pool on her own. She became a different pet around the water. She knew exactly where the steps are and she would simply swim over to them and get out of the pool. The HedzUPpets® Watercollar© is not only designed to be used as a safety collar, but also as a truly a great teaching tool. Katie got old and blind, and she had to be put to sleep in January, 2009, but the collar saved her little life many times.

-- Lynne Peters, Founder
(Posted on 27/09/09)