Ultrasonic Barking Deterrents for Neighbour’s Dogs

[DevilsKitchen]

I’ve decided to train my neighbour’s dogs seeing as they clearly can’t be bothered.

We are trying to move but it’s not going well so the chances are we will have a newborn in his house and I won’t have them woken up by the incessant yapping.

I want to buy one of those ultra sonic bark deterrents - preferably the kind you put in your garden but a handheld button from the comfort of my bed will work fine. I want to get one that actually works though.

Has anyone done this? What one did you get?

Use white noise if it's night time or put some music on and enjoy your family time if it is day time. You can't abuse dogs because they bark. Your baby crying could be setting them off....pick it up, cuddle it.

Absolutely astonished at some of the responses you’re getting, OP.
Constant barking is rage-inducing and nerve-shredding and not being able to stop it or get away from it would render me a gibbering wreck.
I do hope you manage to sell your house really soon and find a solution to stop the barking. Congrats on your baby too. Wishing you a smooth and safe delivery. 💐

I’m not sure it’s as easy to train as you imagine either. I guess you are thinking dog barks, hit button, aversive noise dog learns that barking causes the noise and avoids it. However it’s just as likely that the dog will associate the things it’s barking at with the aversive noise and bark more to make it go away. It’s much harder to train a dog to stop a behaviour than to start a new behaviour. I don’t think this will work.

He was a total idiot that was had nothing better to do than spy through knots in the fences you no nothing of awful neighbors. My dog only barked when something was in the garden learn dog behaviour he made our lives a misery my children wouldn’t even play in our garden because of him. The council noise control closed the case and confirmed that he was the problem. Due to his complaints about other households he was told that if he was to waste police time. Oh and I’d owned several dogs in the years before he started complaining.
I Removed an electronic device that was causing distress to not only my dog but my little girl’s could hear it too. His wife was there when I removed it and she allowed me to do so. He was a nasty old man gave many years of aggression towards several people.

Not in any ethical dog training. How are you planning to actually train the dog? Just turning the device on will likely have the opposite effect to the one you seek as @Shrinkhole says.

Instead of jumping on OP, can anyone suggest any dog training alternatives?

You shouldn't be taking the lazy and antisocial attitude that it's fine for dogs to bark all the time because (you think) it's natural.

There are plenty of things you can do to ensure your dog barks very little, and those things will make your dog calmer, happier and less stressed - but will require you to put in time and effort.

Dogs' Trust has tips on training and distracting your dog and adapting their environment to break the habit of barking and improve their quality of life so they don't need to be constantly stressed or bored.

I bought one of these for my gobby chihuahua!! Totally backfired on me because she hated the thing!! Made her even worse!!! If I pressed it now (I’m in bed), she would be going loopy downstairs!! They don’t always work it seems!

I was about to say the same as another poster this would cause massive distress to a newborn with extremely sensitive hearing. You are barking up the wrong street with this one. Sorrry OP I couldn’t resist.

The baby isn't born yet by the sound of it - she's concerned that if they can't sell soon they're going to have a newborn next door to the constantly barking dogs, so she's presumably pregnant.

Sleep deprivation caused by random barking and constant noise through the day if already on maternity leave or working from home wouldn't make for a restful pregnancy - it's far worse for neighbours as the noise is irregular and invasive but there's nothing anyone except the dog owner can do about it.

That kind of powerlessness is really enraging, which makes the OP 's desire to find a way to actively do something about the problem (given the owner is too lazy and negligent) understandable.

However the only actually useful thing would be to start a noise complaint, and that'll show up on any prospective buyer's search...

It is a shame an antisocial neighbour can cause this level of upset because they're too lazy or incompetent or uncaring to train the pets they freely chose to get, for their own pleasure.

Really? And Pressumably you’ll be keeping your newborn very quiet. And when they’re a toddler they’ll be quiet as a church mouse in the garden?

This isn’t your dog to train. Also aren’t you bothered that training the dog could worsen your relationship with your neighbours if they find out? But I get you’re desperate.

Of course you have a mission in your hands when it comes to potential buyers coming round to view. If any are like me they will come round twice to view the house and a few more times to scope out the immediate area. Due diligence and all that.

Maybe if she had just asked for advice rather than insisting on her right to install devices that would cause distress to every dog in the neighbourhood she would have fared better. We’re a nation of dog lovers, intentionally causing them distress is never going to go down well.

Lazy me no dogs were trained and the house owner his wife allowed me to remove them. Read my other post. Oh I wasn’t the only one on that street who was harassed by the nasty little man. Both noise control and the police were aware of this person and his behaviour and actions were taken against him. So before you go assuming that I’m some kind of horrible human being think again.

Feel for you!!!! We also have dick head inconsiderate neighbours next door whose dogs yap and bark allllllllll day and night. Environmental came out and installed a decibel reader, apparently its NOT a nuisance. They dont give two shits. I tried time and time again to deal with it amicably and say I have a 3 year old (we are in terraced new builds and walls are like paper so you can hear everything), also work full time and they dont care. Just lazy slobs who dont work, who dont give a toss that their dogs disturb the whole row so I get it.

You gotta do what you gotta do!

Not that the OP can do. The owner should be training their own dogs. OP's only recourse is a noise complaint.

So,. slightly different but a similar device - years ago a couple at my church lived in a flat above some shops. They had a baby and it would not stop screaming, genuinely worrying - they took him to GP and eventually a&e but he'd always be much calmer when he got there. Got to the point my friend couldn't be at home with the baby, she had postnatal depression due to all the crying.

One day, one of the people from our church youth group came to babysit for our friend and said she could hear an awful noise. Turned out, one of the shops had a problem with teenagers hanging out outside and had installed one of those devices that emits a high pitched noise (I think they are banned now) and it was causing the baby distress.

On another note, some of the ones you can get to deter cats work, not sure if the same ones work for dogs?

Same. DD could hear one nearby - I couldn't hear it but we knew the moment a neighbour got one as she was in constant distress and pain. We weren't the only ones either, other neighbours started complaining that their kids were covering their ears and crying due to the noise. In the end someone got their kid to pinpoint the source and went round reading the riot act - thankfully the person got rid of it. No idea how they are legal to be sold.

Seeing as you only seem to care about causing distress to something you personally love, you might want to consider the tremendous pain and distress you're going to put your newborn through ( or I assume baby in the womb) if you get one of these.

Is there something to cause distress and fear in the neighbours?

Do they work on young people using their phones on speaker on the bus?

if you find one that works please update the thread . We have nuisance barking from dogs too . Each next door neigjbour has three and a neighbour behind has a huge hound ! Can’t move unfortunately, I’ve resorted to earplugs most of the day. Given up using my garden . It’s just not worth it.

It’s interesting to see how people are concerned for the welfare of the dogs on this thread but not for you a pregnant woman obviously struggling with a distressing situation . I hope your home sells soon . I could write a book on dog owners and their entitlement ….

My kids hear them clearly. Council made our neighbour remove his because it was uncomfortable for the local kids.

Op we had this through covid - 3 yapping dogs next door constantly - drive me insane! Luckily we did manage to sell the house but I can completely get where you’re coming from! We tried a humane one and it didn’t work!

Whats the dog barking at? I used to train my dogs not to bark at my neighbours by taking them round my neighbours and introducing them. I'd then take the dog into my garden and have them talk to us both over the fence. My neighbours used to see me as eccentric but appreciated not having my dog yap at them every time they were trying to use their garden.

Your baby won't be kept awake by a barking dog - babies sleep through anything and everything.

Our neighbour used an ultrasonic device to scare off cats from his garden. I couldn't hear it but my DC could, and complained about it hurting their ears. Your baby is more likely to be upset by the device than by a dog barking.