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At four I’d probably just do the intro and see how it sits with you. The one thing I’d check before booking is whether they actually let you put your hands on a dog during it, because a two hour session that’s all slides is a different animal than one with even twenty minutes of practice. If it’s all lecture, I’d save the Saturday for the full day instead.
I took a full day one a couple years back mostly because I wanted to stop panicking every time my older beagle got a cut on his paw. The class itself was fine but what actually stuck with me was the hands on part where we practiced wrapping a bandage and muzzling with a friend’s patient dog. Reading about it is totally different from doing it with a wiggly animal in front of you. That said, I have not needed the certificate for anything. Nobody has ever asked to see it. So if the goal is just feeling less useless in the moment, the longer class gave me that. If you mostly want a general idea of what to do, I get why people stop at the intro. How old is your dog, by the way?
I’ll push back a little on the whole bare skin thing. I’ve tried mine both ways and I honestly don’t think the difference is worth fussing over, the pulse feels a bit stronger without fabric in the way but it’s not like it unlocks some hidden level or anything. The heat is basically the same for me either way once it’s been on a few minutes. What actually matters more in my experience is whether you’ve got the strap sitting right, because if it’s even a little off center the whole thing feels weaker no matter what you’re wearing underneath. I usually just keep a thin shirt on because I can’t be bothered adjusting it constantly, and after a couple months of near daily use that’s been fine. So I’d say try it once, see how it sits for you, but I wouldn’t expect some big revelation.
Mine’s been out on a balcony that’s got a roof but is wide open along the front, and I’ll say it does pull its weight. What surprised me was the timing. I stuck it near the wall behind my chair mostly out of the way, and the first couple evenings I figured it was a dud because I wasn’t seeing much in the tray. Then I actually checked it properly after about four nights and there was a good little pile of gnats and a few mosquitoes stuck to the grid. Turns out the stuff was collecting, I just wasn’t looking close enough. Since then I’ve gotten into the habit of emptying it every few days and it keeps filling up, so it’s definitely doing something out there even with the open side. What I like is that I can just carry it in when I’m done and charge it with the same cable as my phone, no fuss. What I don’t love is that I still get the odd bite if I’m sitting right at the railing, so it’s not some magic shield around the whole space. It’s more of a background thing that thins them out. If I were you I’d try one first and see how your evenings go before buying a second, because it might be plenty once it’s running consistently.
Mine’s just an old Samsung soundbar, nothing special, and it’s staying on its current port either way. I haven’t ordered the BitBip yet so I can’t say how my TV will handle it, that’s the whole reason I asked first. Your LG working fine doesn’t really tell me much about my 4-series.
It’s a Samsung from around 2019, one of the cheaper 4-series models. That’s exactly the part I’m unsure about too, whether mine will keep sending audio to the soundbar or make me go into the settings every time I switch ports.
That’s useful to hear since I haven’t bought mine yet. My TV is a Samsung too, a few years old, so I’m mostly trying to figure out if the audio routing will behave the same way for me. The part about poking around in the sound settings is what I was worried about, since that menu on mine is a pain to get through. I can’t say yet whether mine will do the same thing until I actually plug one in.
My soundbar is just an older Samsung one, nothing fancy, and it’s already hooked to the TV through the other HDMI port. That part I’m not touching. What I’m trying to figure out is whether the BitBip 89 going into the free port would mess with how the audio reaches the soundbar, or if the TV just keeps routing it the way it does now. I haven’t ordered the thing yet, so I can’t say from experience. My TV is a few years old and the sound menu isn’t the easiest to navigate, which is part of why I wanted to check before buying. I get that the TV is supposed to pass the audio along, but I’m still not fully sure mine will do that with a game stick plugged in. That’s really the bit I’m stuck on.
Mine sat on top of a bookcase for a couple weeks and the air never really made it down to me. It just kind of floated out at shelf level and my desk stayed warm. I ended up moving it lower, which defeated the whole point of getting it off my desk.
Ten minutes is way too short to judge anything. I need at least a week of using it at the same time each night before I trust my own reaction. The first few sessions I’m always too aware of the device to feel anything real.
The original bag inside a container always seemed like extra effort to me. I just pour the kibble straight into a plastic bin with a lid that snaps shut, and it’s been fine for years. My cat’s picky and she’d definitely turn her nose up if it went stale.
I actually tried doubling mine up once because I get the same both-shoulder thing from desk work. It technically fits but the straps overlap weirdly and one side kept slipping off my arm, so it wasn’t really usable. I just do one shoulder, then switch for the second 12-minute round.
Phone calls are hit or miss for me. Sometimes it’s fine but other times the person on the other end sounds a bit muffled, so I end up pulling it out anyway. Depends on the day I guess.
I’ve used mine in a taxi in Mexico and the driver just talked normally while I held my phone, no app on his end at all. He didn’t even know what the earbuds were doing. The only thing is you’re basically passing your phone back and forth if the chat gets long, which felt a bit awkward.
Mine did work on a flight with no signal, but only for the languages I had downloaded ahead of time and only for short back and forth stuff. Anything longer or more complicated and it got shaky, so I would not count on it as your only option.
I’ve had mine for a few weeks and mostly use it on wood too, but I did try it on a metal dog tag and a glass jar. The metal one took forever and looked scratchy, but the glass actually came out cleaner than I expected, so that was a nice surprise. I didn’t change how I hold it, just went slower on the glass.
I don’t think the steel head is the real issue here, honestly I’d be more worried about the rust flakes on old grates than scratches. Mine are pretty worn and the GrillWizz didn’t make them any worse than they already were. The scratches were there long before I got it.
Mine does the same thing but it clears up after maybe ten seconds or so. I always figured it was just the sensor adjusting back after the IR shuts off. Doesn’t seem to hurt the photos any, so I just let it do its thing.
Light cleanup around a carport is exactly the kind of thing it handles. Mine mostly gets used for blowing off the back step and around the grill, and it’s quick for that. It won’t replace a rake or anything, but for keeping a small area tidy it does the job.
Mine has been running in the living room while we watch TV at night and it still picks off the occasional moth, so I don’t think it needs pitch black. The catch tray was empty the first few days though, which had me second guessing it too. It picked up once the weather got warmer here.
Mine ended up on the helmet strap with the little clip thing, not the sticky pads at all. Took me two rides to trust it but it hasn’t moved since, and I like that I can just unclip the camera when I stop somewhere. The pads never sat right on my helmet shape anyway.
Mine did blow up the first week because every leaf and squirrel set it off, but I messed with the sensitivity in the app and it calmed way down. Now I get maybe 15 or 20 clips on a busy morning instead of a hundred. You can also just mute notifications and check the feed when you feel like it, which is what I ended up doing honestly.
Mine’s been on my keys for about eight months now, and I still use it most days. The pinging is handy when I’m rushing out the door, but the app itself hasn’t really drained my phone much that I’ve noticed.
I use a blower in a similar way but I took a different approach to the whole shelf situation. What I ended up doing was pulling everything off the shelf first and taking it outside to blow it off there, then wiping down the shelf itself with a damp cloth. The blower is great for the bulky stuff like the shelf boards and the corners of the garage floor, but for actual dust sitting on a flat surface it just launches it into the air and then it settles back down a few minutes later. Maybe that’s just me being picky about it though. If the shelves are mostly empty and you just want to knock the loose stuff off, go for it. If they’re packed with little things, you’ll probably spend more time chasing dust around than actually getting rid of it.