PetMedics 5-in-1 Calming Behavioral Stuffed Dog Toy: Heartbeat, Soothing Sounds, Heating Pads, Lavender Scent – Anxiety Relief, Crate Training – Ideal for Moderate & Soft Chewing Dogs & Puppies

I Loved It, My Dog Showed No Interest
I have 3 dachshunds and all of them have extreme separation anxiety. It breaks my heart so I’ll try anything to comfort them. I thought this was cute. It’s a blue dog stuffed toy. There’s a velcro section that opens and there’s a plastic heart. You can turn it on and have play either lullabies or a heartbeat noise. It also comes with some heat activated pads you can put inside to give your dog the feeling of warmth. I’ve heard good things about this working and mimicking our heartbeats and body heat. I guess my dogs are broken because they have zero interest in it and bark non stop when I put the lullabies on. I wouldn’t not recommend it though, it’s cute and practical, my dogs are just stubborn.

So cute, my kid swiped it.
I initially got this for a dog who is… well… he feels a lot of feelings for a little dog. We’ve called him a “pandemic dog” because as a puppy, he didn’t get out of the house as often as we would have liked, and he’s a little… attached.This seemed worth trying out. He’s usually receptive to most dog toys, and even though this didn’t have a squeaker (thank goodness), it seemed similar to one of his Kong toys.Well… he didn’t really care about it. The lavender sachet seems to make it smell like lavender to my human nose, so I imagine it’s pretty powerful to dogs. But, it wasn’t something he was interested in. The plastic heart does make heartbeat noises as expected — and I thought it was nice that PetMedics includes the batteries for it. It also has a weird music mode. He didn’t care about either one.The heat packets appear to be two one-time-use packs, not something you could warm up in hot water or a microwave, so that was kind of a bummer — but being summer, I didn’t think he wanted to curl up against something warm anyway.Basically, he looked at it, grabbed one of his squeaky toys, and decided that was more interesting. My kid, on the other hand, thought that this was very soft (it is) and very cute (meh), and ended up swiping it.

It seems to soothe my dog a little during thunderstorms
We had a thunderstorm the same day this was delivered.My dog Toby always trembles and hides when there is thunder (or fireworks). He usually either just clings to me like a velcro dog, or hides under a desk. The vet prescribed Trazodone for him, but sometimes we have such sudden unexpected thunderstorms that there’s not enough time to get the medication into him. We’ve tried several things, thunder-style shirts, a music player, cbd products, and those all help a little. We set up a little blanket for him under the desk where he likes to hide, and the day this heartbeat plushie arrived we set the plushie up and put it there on the blanket for him (along with his favorite music player). He laid next to it, and stayed with it even when we left the room. That was really unusual because he normally will follow me wherever I go when he’s feeling scared. So I think it was somewhat soothing to him.We’ve had this a few days now, and tonight as I write this we’re having another bad thunderstorm. He’s back under the desk on his blanket, cuddled up to the plushie with the heartbeat on and his little music player going. I’m glad we got it. It’s not a magic cure, but it does seem to be helping.Another thing I noticed, is that he has not damaged it. He tends to be a little rough with squeaky toy plushies and has damaged some. I was But he seems to understand that this plushie is not for play, because he only lays next to it and has not put his mouth on it at all. I found that interesting.