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?

Your child will hear it.
You cannot ‘train’ a dog with this.
Less so from next door.

The dogs (and your child) will be distressed by the sound and likely bark more as their stress levels continue to rise.

A quick swish of a hose through the fence can work wonders. Ime.
*After getting nowhere with the council then verbally abused by the owner... Police called her off.

I would feel assured once your newborn arrives with loud lungs you will get your revenge..

Yes this! It will irritate your newborn and you won’t know because you won’t be able to hear it. Pitch perception declines with age so middle aged people install them thinking they’re “silent” when they aren’t.

If the dog is barking excessively because of anxiety, an ultrasonic device is likely to increase their anxiety and therefore barking, and will be counter productive.

Your baby hopefully won't be as sensitive to the barking as you fear. The womb is a noisy place. They will be impacted far more by your mood. I hope you can move soon to a quieter neighbourhood x

Yeah I can hear them too, they're fuckin awful one of our neighbours had one and it set off even if I was on the other side of the road. I used to worry about babies in prams walking past with parents who couldn't hear them. I'd seriously worry how it would affect my unborn baby too. Should be bloody banned!

I get how stressful barking dogs are, when it's constant, and I have two myself, but one neighbours dogs ere at it almost constantly, another neighbour got one of the devices you're talking about - and it made the problem worse because it set dogs off that were usually fine, one of mine whined and paced, the other is deaf as a post so it had no effect on her, and it didn't shut the problem dogs up, with the decent dog owners having no clue why their previously well trained dogs were suddenly barking, whining, howling and pacing, they had no idea at first it was because of this device hurting their ears. I wasn't the only one who visited a vet, until another neighbour cottoned on to what was happening and it stopped.
So it may in fact make the problem worse instead of better, it won't train them, it will distress them, and distressed dogs bark.
It's absolutely shit but your only recourse really is the council, or maybe a welfare charity? The dogs causing the problem here were removed because the reason they barked all the time is they weren't being treated very well.

Sympathy OP. I see both sides. It's not fair to cause the dogs distress, but it's also unfair that the neighbours (via the dogs) are causing you distress. We used to live next to two dogs. One had a bladder issue that meant it needed to wee in the night multiple times and it barked its head off to wake its owner up to let it out. It was a huge dog, really loud bark. Honestly I was quite ill by the time we eventually moved.

The people who bought our house knew the neighbours and they also had two dogs. I hope they were all very happy together.

So you'd like to use a cruel device against an animal and then lie about any issues with the neighbours on the house sale forms? Nice.

I read a book once called 'Italian Neighbours'. The author witnesses a neighbour dispute. The aggrieved party throws a steak onto the balcony where the other neighbour keeps a hunting dog who howls and barks constantly. After one further day of the worst howling ever, the dog is no more and silence reigns.

Lessons to learn here: 1) whether or not the UK can be described as 'a nation of dog lovers' more accurately than Italy, those dog lovers might be well advised to speak only for themselves, and 2) desperate people do desperate things.

Good luck OP. I sympathise with your plight. The recommendation for a white noise machine is a good one. For your own sanity as much as the baby's sleep. Get a decent one that generates the noise itself, rather than playing a recording.

This kind of deterent was call the mosquito, as someone earlier said it would be very distressing for a baby and the older you get the less you can hear the high pitch frequency.
Babies are adaptable though and if the yapping is frequent baby will likely not take much notice. My first two had a dad who insisted that he listened to heavy metal music ,loud babies were used to it. My DGD was settled with everything quite but once asleep no waking her. DGS now sleeps through the DGD singing loudly on a microphone!

Posted earlier then lost it. I bought one some years ago from ebay. It was awesome. We had very barky aggressive dogs living up our track (not in UK) and it was scarey having to walk my dogs past them. I used the deterrent and what a result..no more barky aggression. No other dogs were hurt or upset in the process, mine included and said barky git continued his reign of terror, just not with us. My neighbour further up the track had some success with tree hanging ones when her neighbour's dogs went on their marathon night time sing a longs.

@DevilsKitchen - People on here are so OTT! The poor woman is pregnant and is being kept awake by an annoying yapping dog, I really sympathise as you need all the rest you can get
I say this as a massive dog lover, maybe call the RSPCA if you can’t call the council? are the dogs walked enough or kept inside for long periods? might be worth a shot?

The character of the man (and the unsurprising fact that if he was as nasty as you claim he had a wife prone to fawn in response to your aggressive behaviour) isn't relevant to the fact that you told the OP that dogs just bark because it's natural and they're "defending" their homes!

You obviously don't bother training your dogs not to bark at everything and don't put in the work to reduce triggers, reduce stress and provide enrichment to ensure they're not barking out of boredom.

This!!!
Typical that the usual suspects don’t care about human distress.

Maybe a little bit of give and take is required here…you are about to have a baby so you are likely to be the major source of noise for the next few years. Just because one cannot complain to the council about a crying baby doesn’t mean that it doesn’t significantly impact on your neighbours’ quality of life if you live close enough to them. Live and let live.

Reported. Utterly ridiculous.

Your baby isnt more important than. Dogs are important too. Equal. Don’t be a nasty horrible human. Dogs bark. Some more than others. Cruelty is never okay.

Reported what?
Why?

I accept that barky dogs are a nuisance. My neighbour has a young dachshund that barks every time it goes out and apart from hollering its name down the garden, she does nothing to teach it to stop. A neighbour the other side had one of the noise deterrent things a few years back, I believe for the foxes, but my kids could hear it and it was a pain. I'd think carefully about neighbouring children/babies, especially if any are autistic, as it will drive them mad and potentially cause meltdowns.

Oh bollocks. Sleep deprivation is terrible and it'll be worse for the OP once the baby is here.

Of course her baby is more important, esp to her but also, you know, in law.

I get it i do.... but its a terrible idea.
focus your energy on selling.

Buy a dream egg white noise for the baby and some ear plugs for yourself.
I also found naps way better in the pram or pushchair out and about up to 9-10 months.

My pil is law have those for cats.

I am 40 and find it painful.

Babies will def know about it as will you most likely...

Some people are so completely obsessed with their dogs these days that they don’t give a toss if their barking is driving the neighbours up the walls. And the usual comparison to children has cropped up as if two wrongs make a right. Other people’s excessive noise can be absolutely unbearable, whatever the source. It is up to dog owners/parents to teach their pets/children in the appropriate way. I was tempted to buy one of those devices for when I visited the in-laws because the noise of their dogs endlessly barking causes actual physical pain in my ears and brings me to the brink of tears. My autistic son has a similar reaction and he absolutely adores them. I don’t think simply accepting that ‘dogs bark’ is ever the answer. I didn’t buy the device btw. It was just one of those fantasies you have. I imagined walking in and pressing the device and the dogs shutting the fuck up while everyone wondered why. When FIL takes the dogs for a walk, they bark at EVERYTHING. And one sets the other off. When I’m out walking every morning there are dozens of people walking their dogs and I rarely hear a bark. So obviously the vast majority of people do put the work in. But that minority who don’t are an absolute blight on this earth.