Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I waffled on spending this kind of money on "a dog toy," but I am glad I did. It is not a toy at all, but it is a trainer-fascinator-motivator-entertainer-teaching-tool for my dog. My dog is very food motivated and has progressed through the initial lessons quite quickly. I thought he was smart, but it is fun to watch him think and learn and now I think he is smarter than I thought. He is now up to lesson six where he has to start figuring out more than one light or pattern to get the kibble to appear. This is more challenging for his thought processes but he will figure this out soon. Buster Black is a food gobbler, so having his food portioned out more slowly is good for him and for his digestive tract. I cannot "free-feed" this dog like I could with my previous dogs using an "always there" big bowl of kibble. He would just eat non-stop. The CleverPet provides his daily ration, but he is still a bit confused a his meal times as to why I am not feeding him. He doesn't get it so far that he has already been fed. He is actually being fed more with the CleverPet than his normal rations because at least initially I wanted him to be able to continue to train and not interrupt his learning cycle when the food ran out. He has liked that a lot, but since I noticed he was getting a bit heavier, I have started to cut back on how much goes into the pod daily. I get a big kick out of watching Buster fixate on the tray. On day one he was afraid when it made noise but once he found out the noise meant food, that fear was gone in about an hour. Then, because he had a tendency to lay his feet on the touch pads while he laid down in front of the CleverPet, (slippery floors and laziness, I think) I had to change his approach a bit. Now his CleverPet is elevated on a large box so it is about chest height and he is learning to press the touch pads with his chin and nose instead of his feet. This is working better for him. We have all bought products that did not perform as they said it would or the materials were flimsy. You will not find that to be the case with this product. My dog is one that chews up so-called indestructible toys and has not been able to harm the CleverPet in any way. Also, it is quite heavy, so he is certainly not going to be able to pick it up and take it somewhere. The plastics used are really tough and even though Buster tried the digging-to-China approach to see if that would make it feed him, there are no scratch marks on it and it looks as good as it did when it arrived. When you get your own CleverPet, I think you will be wowed by the packaging. It comes in form-fitting protection and each part of the unpacking process comes with brilliantly numbered and identified tabs to guide you through the setup process. You will be up and running in no time at all with no confusion. I have never seen any product packaged like this. Great job, CleverPet folks! One last comment. I tend to always read the negative comments on a product first. One customer gave the CleverPet three stars because they said it was a good product but they had trouble connecting it to their WiFi because it was indicating that the login or password was wrong. I did not have this issue, but I know from experience that when any device has this issue, it is not a faulty device; just a connection issue. The fix for that problem is to bring up the list of broadcasting SSID's (router names) and tell it to forget the one that is yours. Then tell your phone or laptop to create a new network connection and type in the SSID and password for your WiFi router. That will solve the problem. It will not disrupt the connection to any other device using your WiFi, it will just fix the connection to the CleverPet or whatever device is having a problem.