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As a 30+ yr professional dog trainer, I have been using remote collars since 1987. TriTronics has been my collar of choice, and the Sport Basic, that the Garmin Delta Sport replaces, was a sturdy entry-level unit that was effective and easy for my clients to use. Enter Garmin. This collar is too complicated, and the bark collar feature is next to useless. The inability to quickly and easily increase/decrease stim intensity and switch between multiple dogs makes this unit difficult to use intuitively. Battery life is laughable - both transmitter and receiver must be charged daily (I've used at least 10 different units) - the TT receivers will run for days without charging, and their transmitters ran on original (9 volt) batteries for YEARS in many cases. The lack of changeable contact points seriously cripples this collar as well. The final nail in the coffin is that the Sport Basic *was* made in the USA - the Garmin is made in Taiwan!! Since Garmin will eventually replace all of the TriTronics products, all of those jobs will be going overseas. What a shame.