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?

It's the pregnant woman being disturbed and harried by the frequent extended periods of barking, and she will be further disturbed by it when she has a newborn too.

Dogs barking is different from constant types of noise (like traffic) because it's unpredictable and starts and stops - you're on edge, when it's someone else's dog, because you have no way of predicting or stopping it, it's completely unnecessary and it doesn't have an end point, it will go on until the dog dies if the owner won't train it and take proper care of it's needs (and that kind of owner "loves" dogs only in the sentimental sense, it's not real love of the kind that drives someone to do all they can for the pet's well-being, so they'll undoubtedly replace the current dog with a new one which they'll also neglect and fail to train).

OP I get your frustration, but leaving aside the points raised about morality and practicality, I think you should consider how these work. They're not magic remote devices. They only work if the barking dog makes a connection between his barking and something unpleasant happening.

However if they are set off by a different dog barking, then the first dog will just hear a random noise and won't connect it with his own barking. This makes it difficult if not impossible for him to make the connection you need. So it's much less likely to work at all if you have a pair of dogs involved.

Additionally in any particular incident the non-barking dog is going to be startled by the noise caming apparently out of nowhere, so he is more likely to bark as a response. It may increase the barking instead of stopping it.

Cases where these have worked are usually with single dogs where the timing of the noise is very precisely tied to the action you are trying to stop. I really don't think it will work in the circumstances you have described. If they were effective then there would be far fewer posts about the nuisance caused by barking dogs.

lol you know absolutely nothing about me or my dogs which incidentally do agility untrained dog bored dogs I don’t think so. As for the wife I was always chatting to her and she was a lovely lady but you could tell she was frightened of the horrible husband. I was never aggressive in and shape or form that’s purely an assumption that yourself has decided for yourself.
Current dog never barks at anything same breed as the others people are astounded by how calm he is when out greets dogs in a very controlled manner . Yes they’ve all been trained from the day they came to me perfect recall. No stone goes untouched where my pets are concerned.

OP - as you'll see, on MN, barking dogs are something that everyone should just put up with....

In the real world - I do know people who have tried these. Some found it helped - others found it made no difference. No one found it cause a riot of yelping dogs.
Most of them had kids, some very young - there was no impact they could see whatsoever on their kids/babies.

A friend works for the Kennel Club and has often said lazy owners like to treat constant barking as inevitable and 'normal' as its more convenient than trying to address it.
Constant barking is stressful for dogs and isn't 'normal' behaviour. Boredom, stress, anxiety, fear, not being trained properly - all can trigger barking (and yes happy playing can also trigger barking).

Dogs left outside to bark all day/night are not being looked after properly by their owners. And their owners know it.

I've got 2 dogs and don't like them barking. When they are outside and start barking they are in straight away. They only start barking if they hear other dogs barking or kids winding them up.

Irrelevant what your dogs are like! Doesn’t help the OP.

🙄I was replying to another poster, just didn't quote there post.

Dog "lovers".

They don't love their pets when they simply have them as fashion accessories.

OP I can see why you want one of those machines but the fact they could also hurt youngsters in the area including your own baby is an important consideration. I think someone at the other end of my road had one and my son said he could hear it.

As well as the fact that it may cause more of the behaviour you are trying to stop.

My neighbours have one to scare off birds and it hurts my kids' ears. Their own kids were crying about the bad noise one day that the parents couldn't hear, and I explained what it was.

It really will distress your baby.

There is actually quite a large body of evidence supporting the fact that these alarms can actually increase barking by distressing dogs.

They can cause long-term damage to the local wildlife and other pets including cats. But it'll also effect your baby.

Chances are, you end up causing pain to other innocent animals or indeed making the sitaution worse.

You need to do the right thing and tell the council - they definitely help if it’s at an antisocial level

surely you can’t range it to their garden anyway

selling your house isn’t a get out to be crue to animas - adjust the price

Yes they affect kids ears too - adults can’t hear it

Can someone explain to me how the poster can make it affect someone else’s property? Don’t they just l cover your own garden/outside space

OP watch out you are not the one getting reported

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I've just bought a DAZZER II from America for my own dog. It cost be nearly £50 including postage. Absolutely useless. My dog barks at a falling leaf so I was pretty desperate. I started with the £10 ones and they were just as useless. Not sure I'll ever find one that actually works. 🙁

Don’t do this OP. Can you look at other ways at making your baby’s room
soundproof?
I wouldn’t do anything to hurt animals or people as karma is a bitch and would mind of luck she’d be making an example of me!

A barking dog waking you up can be very stressful!
good luck OP you have my full sympathy.

Nailed it.

Yes because everyone who is trying to sell a house is 100% honest about their reasons for wanting to move 🙄

You can train dogs to bark less and have avoided this unpleasant situation.

Two wrongs don’t make a right - this is a cop out

Unpleasant.

All these people getting on at you OP. Cruelty blah blah blah, your planning on using a ultrasonic noise not throwing rat poison laced ham over the fence or planning on kidnapping them to have surgery to cut their vocal cords good grief

If also live next to a neighbour (2 actually) so I'm boxed in with stupid small yappy dogs one side worse than the other and the dogs piss me off too. Neither of my neighbours walk the dogs so as soon as they get on their gardens it's YAP YAP YAP and it happens multiple times a day and always when I'm getting my toddler (who doesn't sleep well) to bed.

If these ultrasonic devices didn't absolutely wreck my ears I'd buy one and hide it so they wouldn't know it was my garden the noise was coming from.

People with dogs will never accept that their dogs are causing distress to their neighbours and all will say 'dogs bark' but guess what you CAN train a dog to NOT bark.

Distress. Give me peace. And you can't train a dog to stop barking