This is when I decided to go out on my own as Canine Safety Systems. In the first few years, I sold the “professional” version of what you can buy in the store. It was terrible. Some of the worst years of my life. That equipment would go full power on its signal field when it took a power surge, and shock your dog in the house. If you had too many dimmer switches on in your house say goodbye to your zone in your front yard. If your dog walked by any other magnet in the house, the collar would reprogram to something else without you knowing. At that point, I quit. If I couldn’t have equipment that safely, effectively, and humanely could contain my customer’s dogs, then this wasn’t the job for me. I then received a phone call from John Purtell, he wanted me to join a company called Pet Stop that was based in Cincinnati. They were taking the company national and setting up a dealer network. He told me I was a top dealer when he and I were with Invisible Fence, and he wanted me on board with Pet Stop. I told him that if the product did half of the things that I was dealing with now, he could forget it. He promised me it wouldn’t, that all of it was to be Made in the USA from imported components. It has been 20 years since that phone call, and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. I have had a hand in saving tens of thousands of dog’s lives. Giving them space to frolic and play safely, and actually letting them be dogs.