I have tried multiple coats to protect my black, thick coated dogs from solar related heat. This works the best of them all. I particularly like that it works well even without adding water and that it creates evaporative cooling (like a swamp cooler) for even more intense cooling if you dunk it in water or douse it in the go. I will agree that the mesh can get snags if the dogs are playing hard with other dogs. But the coat still works well even with a few pulled loops. And the functionality is what is important to me. Anytime the dogs wear the coats we get oodles of compliments and questions. Have recommended hundreds of times and will continue to do so.