Final results of testing for Shoo!Tag.
May 2, 2010 Over 76 hours: Oliver’s testing is completed
Kent is done testing Oliver with the Shoo!Tag. It’s time to go back to the Frontline Plus. Oliver’s last dose was late in March, history for Oliver proves it’s potency wanes as it goes into the third and fourth week. I agree that the ShooTag testing should stop now for this sweet guy. We won’t put Oliver’s health at risk any longer. We took 20 ticks off of him this evening, some on video for your viewing. Note, the camera ran out of battery as Kent was saying:
“The problem as I see it is that the Shoo!Tag is not keeping the ticks off and without something like Frontline then they are going to stay attached and grow, get all big and nasty, and be on long enough to create disease. I mean you talk about something that’s supposed to keep ticks off and doesn’t…” (camera battery died here) Kent concluded by saying “…you’re putting your dog’s health at risk. It’s not worth Oliver’s life to continue to use this Tag.”
Frankie acted as the test control, she did not wear a Shoo!Tag. She was running with Oliver, same areas, same grass, same ticks, same amount of time outside, same time last spot on. It was interesting that we pulled fewer ticks off of her than we did from Oliver over these past several days. Granted, he’s a bigger dog. Today we pulled 5 from her, 20 from him.
After 76 hours: Test results for Oliver, a Black Lab Great Dane cross: Shoo!Tag did not work.
Fact: Oliver wore the Shoo!Tag for over 76 hours
Fact: We followed all directions as per the maker
Fact: Oliver is a healthy, happy dog
Fact: Ticks crawled onto and attached to Oliver
My final word for those who are thinking about using Shoo!Tag on your dog. You could be putting your dog’s health at risk. Ticks carry disease. According to medical information, ticks can transfer the disease if they are attached for more than 3 hours. If someone believed that the Shoo!Tag was working, they may not check their dog for ticks. It would be a mistake.
Shoo!Tag does not claim to kill ticks and in this test and trial, it did not. The maker claims that the Tag creates a barrier that ticks cannot or will not pass through. Oliver begs to differ.
SitStay.com will not carry the Shoo!Tag. We carry only products that pass our test and trials. We will not sell things to you that do not work for our dogs. We want you and your dogs to be safe, happy and healthy.
Please note that we stopped the test and trial at 76 hours. We checked Oliver several times a day from the start of the test and trial on April 29, removing ticks with each check. If there had only been a few ticks, we may have continued for a few more days. There were just too many ticks to feel that continued testing was safe. We love Oliver.
I challenge the makers of Shoo!Tag to show us their proof that this Tag works. I’ve asked for it several times from them and each time they refused to provide any proof. Instead they told me to try the Tags for myself. I did try it on Oliver and it did not work. I am still wearing the Tag made for a human which so far has failed to protect me from ticks. I’ll be sharing that continued testing with you over the next few days.
This video was made at 72 hours of Oliver wearing the Shoo!Tag continuously, it is almost 5 minutes long. More ticks were taken off of him at the 76th hour. If ticks creep you out, you may not want to watch.
There are a lot of stores selling the Shoo!Tag and as far I can find out, not one of them tested or tried it on themselves or their own animals before selling the Tag to their customers. Buyer Beware. You might want to take another look at who is running the store, are they trusting your and your dog’s safety to things that they haven’t tested?
April 29 start day video
May 1: Testing video
May 2: Update testing
More info on the shoo!Tag: Click on these links to see
The tetherdcow.com took a look at the strip on the back.
SitStay’s testing on the human shoo!Tag with video.
You have my total permission to share these results, reviews and video with everyone you love. Buyer Beware.
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That’s proof enough for me. As far as I’m concerned you can stop the test on yourself. Obviously this product does not work. Poor Oliver, that’s a lot of ticks…hope they didn’t create any problems for him. He looks like a cool dog. My Smudge was a great dane lab mix too..she was a good friend. Please give Oliver a hug for me. Judy
Judy, I’ll give him a great big hug for you. Thank you! – Darcie
Well, I haven’t commented before now because I didn’t want the ShooTag people accusing me of biasing your results. I’m glad you’ve bailed out before Oliver’s health (or your own) has been put in danger.
Darcie, I think you’ve been extremely fair with your assessment of ShooTag, and you’ve done exactly what the makers asked – tested it, according to their instructions, to see for yourself how effective it was. With overwhelmingly negative results.
Now we’ll get all kinds of excuses from them why it didn’t work for you, or, more likely, accusations that you’re in the pay of the Frontline people or some other stupid nonsense.
ShooTag, quite simply, doesn’t work. There is absolutely no reason that it should because it has no scientific basis whatsoever. The makers of ShooTag have pulled a whole heap of mumbo jumbo out of the air and spun it into a product that is putting your pets’ health in danger.
I also need to point out once more that the makers of ShooTag are now putting human lives in danger with their claims that it will fend off mosquitoes and ticks from humans. It will not. On the ShooTag website there is a testimonial from someone (if it’s genuine – these people are not past using false identities as we have seen) who claims to have been to Haiti and used a personal ShooTag to ward off malaria-carrying mosquitoes. This is highly dangerous! ShooTag WILL NOT protect you from malaria, or from contracting any disease carried by mosquitoes or ticks.
Thank you for your comprehensive experiment Darcie, and congratulations on keeping an open mind.
I am continuing the human Tag testing on myself. I said I’d walk through ticks and mosquitoes after having this Tag hanging around my neck since April 29 and I’ll honor that promise. I just wanted to give it a few more days “to reach full potency”. And the weather hasn’t been warm enough the last few days for mosquitoes. So a few more days and a few more videos will be enough for me. I don’t know why it would work on me and not on Oliver but I said I’d do it, I’ll keep my promise. – Darcie
Oliver is such a good boy!!! Thanks for doing this test. I had considered trying the ShooTag but will not buy it now. Had some problems with fleas last year even using the frontline on my dogs and cats, but I am still using it and hope this year will be better. We do have ticks here, but we are lucky enough not to have to deal with them so much in our yard.
Last summer I tried the shoo tags on my dog and both cats. The tags did NOT work worth a hoot. The tags are so large, they annoyed the cats who removed their collars after 4 days with the tags. The fleas were so bad last year, frontline was not working; advantage helped some. (SNIP product name until Darcie researches it) spray was the only thing that made a dent in the flea population. I was afraid to try advantix because of the cats and my dog’s two sisters had reaction to the product. BS
Dear BS, did you get your money back for the Shoo!Tags? Most people don’t try for their money back on things that don’t work, the maker’s rely on that part of our nature, and the maker’s make a fortune on your loss. – Darcie
POOR OLIVER!!! Hope he got lots of hugs, kisses and treats after getting all the ticks off!
I am definatly sticking with Advantix.
Hugs and licks from me and my SD Deon!
Nice testing, Darcie. Thanks for doing it. I think you may be the only one who’s gone public with their testing and results (aside from the people who claim it works with no real basis, of course). I hope you contact ShooTag for a refund, since their product clearly doesn’t work at all. Moreover, I hope you actually GET your money back
Atlas
Dear Atlas, I don’t buy products for testing. Makers who believe in their products send us free samples to test. The Shoo!Tag makers refused to send samples of the tags to me. A distributor of theirs sent the free samples. So, that’s the guy who might want to get his money back.
Thanks. – Darcie
Darcie, I suggest that you send a note to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov. They have a consumer section of their site where you can file a complaint. The FTC regulates advertising, including the claims that people make in their advertising. They have the authority to demand from Shoo!Tag the “scientific substantiation,” and if that’s not up to snuff from a scientific standard, they can force Shoo!Tag to stop making their outrageous claims. The Better Business Bureau also has people who investigate claims like this.
I work in a pet store and I admit I have not tried the tags. My dogs don’t have fleas or ticks at the moment so I don’t use anything. I hate using chemicals, but I don’t believe for a second the Shoo!tag works.
When the rep did the training with us she talked about our ‘electromagnetic field’. She was like ‘you can feel the field if you move your hand closer to your body. Can you feel that heat? It’s the field.’
It was all I could do not to laugh. That’s just your body heat! After that I was convinced not to buy it.
Having said that, one of the girls I work with tried the human mozzie one for 10 days and from the 4th day she said she didn’t get bitten. I’m still skeptical.
I am sorry for raining on this parade, but I feel compelled. I have tried the human mos tag and it worked so well I sent one to 8 friends and none have had a mos bite in 4 months. So Atlas, I can only assume you don’t know what you are doing to not make the thing work for yourself. My dog has had his on for 3 months and no fleas or ticks. But then he has never had fleas or ticks. He was using frontline and maybe he never needed to? I am wondering if I have been wasting my money all these years. I do know that I am not afraid of my 2 yr old girl petting him anymore. But what compelled me to write this was the post from “Jackie”. Really? You place in quotes the term electromagnetic field? Why? All living organisms produce some level of electric field. I guess you’re one of those flat earthers? I thought all of those hold outs were long from this earth. So what I have surmised is that the product would not work for the un-dead. I thought Dick Chaney was the only un-dead one on the planet. I now have to rethink that, and now I am looking people in the eyes at the grocery store. I am scared, lol. William
Dear Everybody, waste your money if you want to. I’ve done the live research, you see the video. Mosquitoes are not deterred by this fake. I’d guess this comment is from someone at ShooTag. It happens a lot. – Darcie