The howler is the best of the B-Toys, the most authentic, as you feel as if you are actually strangling a small dog. Be careful – not too small a dog – there is a mini version which is not nearly as gnarly. Get the bigger dog.
The charm is that you have four strings to strum, they make a noise picked up by a hidden microphone which triggers an acoustic, electric or canine guitar strum sample. The strums move over a set of pleasing chords, which can be specific tunes if you push the STRUM button at the bottom of the strings. Buttons along the neck give you individual notes or howls, and there’s a whammy bone down the bottom for pompous flourishes.
Beware the little pink dog button – it will call up the same woman as on Meowsic with her doggerel and maracas. She will howl along with your strums. If you do accidentally launch her performance, go up to the top and punch the dog on the nose. That stops that.
Like all the B toys if you stop playing with it it will start snoring. To be just like a real dog it would need to fart as well, a good thing that Maison Battat are saving that up for an even bigger model.
The clincher is that you can put this in front of any person aged 0-100 and they will start the howling performance. Try that on your modular rig.