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I have two Springer Spaniels, live in the East, and we frequent the woods behind our house every day. Ticks ARE a major problem. I have avoided the drop oriented anti-tick treatments because of the potential for liver and kidney problems. I heard about Bayer's new collar, and wanted to give it a try, in hopes it would be the easy, safe way to protect my dogs from the ticks. Packaging - the packaging is very nice, the collars come in really nice tins. The instructions are fairly useless, as they are printed in very small print, and never seem to really tell you HOW to use the collar. The collar, itself, is pretty neat, and is very adjustable. Effectiveness - after a week, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed. I've found several ticks on the dogs, two of them attached directly beneath the collar. It just doesn't seem like this collar is any good. Even the $10 Hartz flea and tick collars seem to work better than this. For $60+ for each collar, I really expected better. In fact, for that price I expected fantastic, and just am not seeing it. I could return the collars, but to be fair, I want to give them a 3 month trial, maybe it takes some time for the anti-tick stuff to build up in the dog's system or something. I'll come back and update my review at that time. Hopefully, it will be more favorable. At present, after a week's use, I can not recommend spending this kind of money for this level of performance. Hope this helps- UPDATE- After roughly a month of living with the collar, I love it. It took about a week to 10 days for the stuff from the collar to build up in the dog's system, but after that, absolutely no ticks, no nothing!. I can most definitely recommend these collars, will certainly continue using them and will certainly buy more when the time comes. update after 9 months - Hi- sorry not to have checked back on this review site until now. I've used the collars for roughly 9 months - end of life for them - and after the initial time for it take effect, they worked like champs. No ticks, no fleas. Now, for side effects and why I won't be using them again, even though I really like them....one of my springers - 5 years old - began having strange episdoes which the vet has identified as some sort of seizure. He doesn't flop or anything like that...he actually appears to go blind and loses his balance for roughly 45 minutes during each incident. The vet and I believe that one of the ingredients in the collar is causing these episodes. I've taken the collars off the dogs and the episdoes have ceased. Could of course be coincidence, but I'm not willing to take that chance, no matter how well the collars work. hope this helps!