Save your pets
from irrational
FEAR of noises

Use the new and innovative solutions designed to help your pets of various types be less likely to be affected by illogical fear of noises, which can be a serious burden for both of you.

Noise Phobia: A possibly serious problem

Noise phobia is illogical fear of sounds that we humans know are harmless, but our pets and horses don't necessarily know that. Up to 60% of pets can have anything from saddening anxiety, to frantic fear when they hear unknown noises. This can be from being sad, to very serious, with injury or damage for pets or owner, pets fleeing and getting lost, or even death.

The method to deal with this problem is called noise phobia therapy. In the classical method, potentially scary sounds are played, usually from one CD or set of MP3 sounds. The volume is from very low in the beginning, to full volume in the end, in the therapy process that can take several weeks. The goal is that the pets become used to the sounds and is not scared when they are actually heard.

WeStopFear has carefully analyzed the classical process, and believes it has drawbacks that are vital to address.

Innovations of WeStopFear

WeStopFear™ has developed a new technical therapy process, designed with the goal that the majority of users will hopefully see it as easier, simpler, safer, more natural and more bearable. The system is called Simple Secure Steps™.

WeStopFear is the most comprehensive solutions ever offered. It is a member's website with Internet-streaming audio players. It is thus similar to music streaming websites. You can use your mobile device or computer, connected wirelessly or with cable to loudspeakers with good volume and audio quality. MP3 download is also an upgrade option.

The volume level of the therapy sounds is pre-set to the correct volume, in five steps. This makes the process simpler and safer. Access to the steps is managed, meaning less hassle and organization is needed.

WeStopFear is systematically designed for improvement

The most extensive noise phobia therapy solution in history and the first extensive set of multi-faceted innovations in this field since around 2010 that we know of.

Pets focused interface

The user experience, graphics, extensive instructions, and list of signs of fear and phobia are focused on various types of pets. You will feel “at home” with pets-specific advice and graphics.

Safer for your pets

Mistakes are “designed out” of the process and made close-to-impossible. Natural Intervals make it more likely that your pets and yourself will endure the process well. With future maintenance of success.

Simpler and easier for you

The innovations of Volume Anchor, Ascending Loudness, Timed Access and Natural Intervals make these Simple Secure Steps easier, simpler and safer for you to implement.

Are your pets in danger of this problem?

Hopefully not but it is possible. We cannot tell which (type) will encounter this or when. Although fireworks, thunder and traffic are common, then any sound can cause problems.

The most logical thing for you is to conduct this type of therapy to prevent it. This makes it a less likely problem.

Is some of your pets already fearful?

If so, then necessary to conduct this therapy to heal the situation.

Innovations of WeStopFear

All noise phobia therapy products work if done correctly. However, WeStopFear includes innovations not seen before: Volume Anchor™, Ascending Loudness™, Timed Access™ and Natural Intervals™ make up the Simple Secure Steps™ therapy process design. It has multiple instructions and reminder system, and it is more comprehensive than any solution that has been available before.

Pricing for all

Monthly prices for online training are often $20-30, and a single in-person session can cost $350. The prices for WeStopFear programs, especially annual subscriptions, is way below these numbers. The goal is to offer WeStopFear at a very manageable cost.

What WeStopFear provides:

Members area with Internet-streaming audio players with therapy sounds, pre-set to the right volume, in five steps with managed access to the right step at every stage.
Comprehensive instructions and training videos.
Dedicated solution to each type of pet or horse.
Self-serve system with option of Premium upgrade with support tickets and more.
Customized email series with reminders, encouragement, information and offers.

What you provide:

The audio playback device(s) with loudspeakers that can deliver the sounds with a realistical audio quality and loudness.
Choosing the locations, finding the right volume setting, and managing the process.
Monitoring the state of your pets during the therapy to manage it correctly, referring to the comprehensive list of the signs of fear and phobia in pets (fear signs list for 16 types of pets included).

Simple equipment

You can use your smartphone, tablet or computer to stream the sounds over the Internet. With this you need a good quality loudspeaker(s) with realistic volume, either wireless or connected with speaker cables.

If you want to play without being connected, from an MP3 playing device or even burn your CDs, then you can upgrade to MP3 and MP4 files download additionally.

Don’t procrastinate

This problem can come any day and is unannounced. The likelihood increases with higher age (among dogs and probably other types as well). Thus, it is not so that if your pets have reached a certain age then they are safe.

Start today!

If you don't do anything, your pets continue to be at the same risk as before. There is nothing protecting them from this problem.

If you don’t like this, you can cancel any time without any questions asked. So don’t postpone starting to take care of this issue for your beloved pets.

Three programs: More, Advanced and Full Care

Three programs are available in WeStopFear. All programs have solutions for all types of pets and horses.

For groups of pets that include those who roam outside around the city neighborhood, the Advanced program is recommended.

But for pets that spend most of their time inside the home, the More program is probably enough for them.

Try the 5 steps audio players

There are 5 steps in the Simple Secure Steps therapy process. The sounds in the steps are the same. It is only that the volume is pre-set correctly in each step (Ascending Volume™): From very, very low in Step 1, to full natural volume in Step 5. You get access to Step 1 in the beginning, and then gradually to Step 2, Step 3, Step 4 and Step 5, and finally the ongoing Maintain Success stage (Timed Access™).

In the therapy member's pages, you have access to a streaming player that plays the pre-programmed playlists in random order with just one button click, each sound once and then stops. You also have access to players to play individual sounds like below, and you can also choose a number of sounds to create your own custom playlist, which will then be played in random order.

Below are streaming audio player with short samples of therapy sounds.

Try the different volume levels below

Click the three players below to hear 3 second samples of sounds in the five steps, one right after the other. There are two sets to allow you to hear the difference better. Don't do this with your animal present. The volume in the higher steps could give it a shock, just like the actual sounds when they are heard suddenly.

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Try the Volume Anchor and a sound player

Below is the player with the piano tune, the "Volume Anchor", and samples of Step 3 sounds.

In the beginning, you find the correct volume setting for the loudspeakers of your audio playback device by playing the piano tune (Volume Anchor™). The volume setting should be so that the piano music is at a good and clear listening level, not very low like soft dinner music at a restaurant, not extremely loud like a rock concert or discotheque.

You will keep this same volume on a particular audio device that you use in a particular location, every time in all the steps. If there are markings or numbers that show the volume setting, then you need to find the right volume setting on the audio device only once. But if there is no scale, number or markings, then you need to play the piano tune each time to set the volume correctly.

Below the players, click the button below that to see and try the piano tune and several samples of sounds of all the five steps.

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Programs recommended: Is an outdoor pet included, or only indoor?

Advanced Program

If your group of various types of pets includes outdoor pets, such as dogs or outdoor cats, then the Advanced program is recommended.

The Advanced Program is mainly for outdoor pets: Dogs, outdoor cats and households with various types of pets that include outdoor pets, i.e. dogs or outdoor cats, and those who want to give their indoor pets a little more comprehensive therapy.

See the sounds list and features of the Advanced Program.

More Program

If your group of various types of pets only includes indoor pets, then the More program would be sufficient.

The More Program is mainly for indoor pets: Indoor cats, pet birds, small mammals and exotic pets, and households with various types of indoor pets.

Explore and sign up for the More Program here

Or see here comparison of all programs.

Select your option and start helping your pets:

Advanced Program
Annual

$4.58/mo

$55 charged once a year (4 months free, save 33,6%)
Basic self-service
(Excl. local VAT)

Advanced Program
Monthly

$6.90/mo

Charged monthly
equals $82.80 pr year
Basic self-service
(Excl. local VAT)

Advanced Program
Premium

$33.90/mo

Everything in Basic self-service, plus support tickets for one-on-one answers and advice, MP3/MP4 downloads
(Excl. local VAT)

We Want Fewer Stories Like These

Anxious, or worse?

Imagine a normal day with your pets. You should not have a care in the world, but one or even more of your pets is anxious and hides, because of a sound it heard, a sound you know is entirely harmless. It is common among up to 60% of pets to be uneasy of fearful because of some sounds it does not understand. This is not very serious, but the day is not as relaxed as it should be. But for some pets it can be more serious. A small percentage can from time to time have very serious problems of this kind. You never know which one will face this. This can even be catastrophic:

What is this??

Imagine you own a sweet and loving dog. It has been a part of the family for years. Then one day fireworks are set off near your home. Your dog reacts with such fear that it jumps up and through the glass door that leads to the patio. In shock, you are left with broken glass and drops of blood on the patio, and your dog has disappeared into the dark night. For days, you have no information about your dog. Then days later after an agonizing wait, you are contacted by police. Your dog had run over a motor highway and was hit by a truck and fatally injured there. Your dog was microchipped, so that is the reason you did get information about it.

How horrible!

Imagine you own a sweet, loving cat that greets you every time you come home. Then one day fireworks explode close to your apartment and your cat escapes out. Your cat disappears into the night. You search the neighborhood for days, but you cannot find your cat. Weeks later your cat is found hiding under a car in a garage miles away. It is so scared that the garage owners cannot be coaxed out or picked up. Rescue workers finally manage to trap your cat and bring it to you. But your cat is changed. It has become unpredictable and much more difficult to handle. You are lucky as your cat was microchipped. But another cat with a similar story was not, so its owners were never found, and it was so traumatized by the experience that it could not be re-homed.

This must be dangerous??

Imagine you own a parrot. It is your pride and joy, and you have been bonding well. Then one evening fireworks are set off with big cracks and bangs. You are away from your home. The day after you find your Macaw trembling with fear. It is hanging upside down in the window curtains, trembling and shocked. You reach out and take it on your hand as you have done often before, but it freaks out and bites you in your face and ear. You need to go to the hospital to get your wounds treated.

And what is this??

Imagine you own two rabbits. They are your pride and joy. Then one day some sudden, uncomfortable noises that they aren’t used to make them scared. One of your rabbit freezes in its spot, and then limps down. It has died right there on the spot, and rabbits sometimes do when becoming overwhelmingly scared. The other rabbit survives but is now lonely.

Prevent or heal

These imaginary trauma stories are based on actual events. They happen every year, and sadly often.

Accidents and negative consequences of fear of sounds can not be completely eliminated, but their likelihood can be reduced, and the problems may be less serious for those who are affected. Maybe that could include one or more of your pets?

Noise phobia therapy is the methodology designed to prevent or heal these problems.

Have you heard about this problem? There are plenty of stories of these problems. On your favorite search engine, try searching for keyword phrases like:

"pets noise phobia" (or cat, bird, rabbit, horse, i.e. your types)
"pet scared of sounds"
"pets fear of fireworks and thunderstorms"

Short comparison of WeStopFear and conventional processes

Compare below the process steps you go through when doing the Simple Secure Steps process design of WeStopFear, and the conventional noise phobia therapy method.

Simple Secure Steps process design systematically developed for simpler and safer process, with supportive framework, safeguards, future reminders and encouragement. Carefully thought-out innovations developed with process analysis: Ascending Loudness™, Volume Anchor™, Timed Access™ and Natural Intervals™, designed with the hope that a large part of users will find the process design to be simpler, easier, safer, more natural and more bearable.

Conventional:

Not really a developed system process design. Usually one or two audio CDs, or one set of MP3 files with instructions in a brochure. Not much changed since first introduced.

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Video therapy

WeStopFear also includes an innovative Video Therapy. The Simple Secure Steps noise phobia therapy is about noises. But visual stimuli can also be scary, especially fireworks and thunder and lightning.

Recent developments with very large flat-screen TVs with high-definition image, even up to Ultra HD, and HD wall projectors, and good sound has brought up the idea if it would be possible to present visual stimuli to pets and horses via these technologies.

The experimental video therapy allows you to expose your animal to these visual stimuli with the sounds. The idea is that your animal gets used to the visual fanfare, and will possibly be less likely to become scared of the real thing.

The download upgrade includes the video MP4 files, for playback on a device not connected to the Internet.

Video Therapy is under development and will be introduced later.