Originally Posted by
Mike Heidrick
I have read about Noise Stop. The inventor is a pet lover, and while owning pets, he does not use them for anything other than designing noise stop. He first approached the makers of all those funny pet hats but was turned down saying no way would people pay extra for the noise stop safety device. Safety does not sell in pet hats. Now he is trying to use the govt to force all pets to wear them. Some think it makes pets toooo comfortable with sound and they will purposely put themselves into harms way and into unsafe levels of sound because they wear them (run in front of cars, semis, etc). Most pets believe they should choose for themselves if they wear them and not have someone else force them to wear them. There is the industrial pair for larger pets that has active noise cancelling that costs 4X the price of regular hearing protection, the professional pair that are just like every other pair out there and only costs 2X the price of competing pairs of hearing protection, and a light weight pair for pets on the run or those that want to easily go downstair with them. A lot of people think pets should just use whats beween their ears and let them get up and leave when its too loud. Why force the pet to wear a device that they must first be in a situation for loud noises to begin with?? The european solution is to put the pet far enough away from the sound that there is absolutely no way the sound will bother them. :)