
The wait is nearly over. The Pawsy Treat Dispenser that will interface with the TrainAway Pro App is almost here.
We’re taking pre-orders from backers on IndieGoGo starting this week with delivery beginning in 2020.
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What can it do?
The TrainAway Pro App and the Pawsy Treat Dispenser combine to make an automated dog training system. Simply schedule the Training Sessions on your phone or tablet; adjust the learning thresholds and sounds to fit your dogs current needs, press start and walk away. The App will run in the background of your smart device prompting multiple training sessions throughout the day. The best part is, it works anywhere! When you get back from the office you’ll come home to a better trained dog who’s happy from all the mental stimulation he received while you were away.
Specifically The TrainAway System can help with:
Nuisance Behaviors: like barking, jumping and begging.
Eliminating Noise Phobias: Thunder, Fireworks, Vacuums or any other scary sound can be counter conditioned into a positive experience
Strengthen Commands: Use the TrainAway Pro app and your Pawsy treat dispenser to perfect commands like ‘Stay’, ‘Go to your place’ or ‘Recall’. Our progressive treat release functionality makes shaping and strengthening commands easy for you and fun for your pup!
More functionality is added constantly: Because the TrainAway Pro App is the brain behind the system, you’ll get new functionality without ever having to buy another treat dispenser!

- Fully Automated Training – Just set the schedule with the TrainAway Pro App and your dog will enjoy multiple training sessions throughout the day!
- Smart Home Compatible – works with smart speakers like Google Home and Alexa.
- Dynamic Treat Release Patterns – Help shape go to your place and Stay commands with Dynamic Treat Release Patterns. Treats release in a semi random pattern coming quickly at first then slower over time.
Choose a pre-loaded pattern or set the # of treats and the duration.
Example: 5 Treats in 5 minutes
Treat Release Pattern is random between the times below so your dog isn’t able to learn the treat release times.
#1 – 5 – 15 seconds
#2 – 30 – 45 seconds
#3 – 1:00 – 1:30 Minutes
#4 – 2:00 – 2:45 Minutes
#5 – 3:30 – 5:00 Minutes - Quick Treat Re-Order and Low level prompting – Never run out of treats again!
- 100’s of Sounds – Counter condition negative behaviors associated with Doorbells, Fireworks, Trucks, Thunderstorms, Vacuums & More. Help expose your dog to new sounds; Kids & Babies etc – great for Therapy dogs!
- Customize-able Learning Thresholds – Fit your dogs needs for optimized training.
How does it work?
To understand the TrainAway system think back to Psych 101 and Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov famously conditioned his dogs to drool at the sound of a bell. Pavlov created an association between the bell and the food, he was then able to remove the food but keep the conditioned response of drooling. The TrainAway system works the same way. Right now your doorbell is associated with someone being at the door. Your dog doesn’t know who’s at the door which often leads to anxiety which can come out as barking, jumping or rushing behaviors. TrainAway can change the association from someone being at the door to a treat dispensing on your dogs bed or crate. It does this through repetition. Right now when the doorbell rings 99% of the time it means someone is at the door. With TrainAway you can change that so that 90% of the time the doorbell rings it means a treat is on your dogs bed and no one is at the door.

Can’t I just do that manually?
You sure can, the difficulty is finding the time. Dogs learn best in short intervals. Training a dog for an hour straight each night is less effective than 10-15 one minute training intervals throughout the day. Furthermore, dogs are pretty good at differentiating between associations. If the bell ringing with no one at the door and a treat is always preceded by you walking to the door and opening it; then dog will see this as a different action than the bell ringing on its own.
But what if my doorbell sounds different than your recordings?
The TrainAway Pro App comes with 100’s of pre-loaded sounds including numerous doorbells but we clearly can’t have every chime, ring or bell out there. That’s why we have the feature to add your own sounds. We’re also working towards integrating with smart doorbells so we can use your exact sound if you have a Ring, Nest or other Smart Doorbell.
Finally, when using positive reinforcement your dog is going to be looking for similarities rather than differences when it comes to sounds. We all know if we crinkle a bag of chips our dogs come to investigate. They also come to investigate if you crinkle a shopping bag. They can tell the difference between the sound of a grocery bag and chip bag, but the reward of a chip is so enticing that they’ll come to investigate if they hear any thing that sounds remotely similar.
If my dog is training all the time won’t I go through a lot of treats?
You sure will, at least at first during the strengthening phase but you’re dog will quickly master these new skills and progress to a maintenance mode where the training sessions are less frequent. You can also fill the treat hopper with less expensive and healthier combinations of treats and kibble, cheerios or goldfish. The key to this system is not using the highest level of rewards but rather consistency, training frequency & length.
So this all sounds great but it’s a lot of money, how do I know you can deliver?
Besides being a dog trainer I’m also an accountant and financial analyst. Which means I’ve done my homework. We’ve priced everything out and know exactly what we need to get from where we are now to delivery. We’ve done pre-design and know what it will cost to bring the Pawsy to scale. The standard TrainAway App, which only uses desensitization, is already live with a 4.4 star rating on the app store. And we’ve got our developers standing by to create the TrainAway Pro app.
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Risks and challenges
The safe thing about this pre-order is that we’re not inventing anything new. The core functionality of the App and the Treat dispenser already exist in other industries, we’re just bringing it to dogs. The Pre-design estimates we received were consistent among numerous vendors and developers. We’re confident that when we hit our funding goal we will deliver. We also believe in the under promise, over deliver philosophy. When we say we’re shipping by the end of 2020 we expect to beat that goal.