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?

There’s far too many people. Stop bringing more into the world when some are starving and don’t have homes.

It absolutely is not a waste of my money helping dogs. Dogs get treated appallingly in some other countries. Romania is one such country. Im glad that I have helped some poor souls out of a horrible kill shelter.

I'm actually a cat person. I have never had a dog. But I try my best for animals. I give money to animal sanctuaries too (in the UK).

It wasn't, it was a reply to op

There aren’t too many dogs though, they are very much part of life in the UK. You say that you’re moving but where you move to is likely to have the same amount of dogs in the UK unless you’re moving into the city centre.

it doesn’t just appear to be the neighbours barking dog you dislike it’s just the existence of dogs.

its likely your baby will be more distressed by the noise of whatever contraption you buy than the dog!

So where are you planning to move to?

YABU
because you want to abuse the dogs
you don’t want to report it to council / dog warden because you want to sell you house and land your buyers in the shit
very selfish
do it properly - report it or put up with it !!!!

Yes because I’m sure if you had a neighbour issue and wanted to move you would also take action to trap yourself in your house and make it harder to sell.

Absurd. Don't know where you get the notion that most of them are dangerous. You do know that people dump family pets in kill shelters and some pups are born there

What does "real estate" have to do with helping dogs

You and I are clearly very different people -
I would never look into methods of distressing annoying dogs -
that is animal cruelty and you run the risk of having police called on you -
and the reporting it, I would either report or put up with it -
your prospective buyers / house viewers will pick up fairly quickly on your neighbour problem anyway if it’s as bad as you say - no ??

Destroying all dogs in society won't stop humans being inconsiderate arseholes.
We've had a motorbike revving like it's race day and the same household blaring their car horn and shouting to the occupants of the house they live in to bring them stuff, and now their kids are belting a football against a neighbours fence that's attached to my house and making a repetitive thud every 30 seconds or so. They don't have a dog, but they're still being noisy, inconsiderate arseholes, and this happens most weekends, school holidays and bank holidays.
You could ban motorbikes and cars and footballs as well as dogs, but unfortunately people like that will still be inconsiderate arseholes.
It's not the dogs, motorbikes, cars or footballs that are the issue, it's the humans.

Also nonsense. You have an obligation to tell prospective buyers about anti social problems. If they ask you.

Reporting to the council is the sensible thing to do instead of buying sensors that will harm wildlife

If I found out that anyone was using sensors to upset my pets you bet I would take it further

You only have an obligation if you have reported it. It’s really the problem - if you didn’t have to declare such things, people would actually feel able to use the proper channels and deal with things properly. As it is, they are discouraged from doing so.

You couldn’t prove it though, it could be for the local foxes!

Please don’t - dog cruelty aside I can hear these and I would be seeking it out in the middle of the night it’s so painful to listen to. And I’m 51 so definitely not just youngsters who can hear in this range.

It's not though. It's to upset dogs

But declaring it is the right thing to do because buyers need to know everything before they make a huge financial commitment. Implying that not declaring disputes and going through the proper channels, the council or whoever always helping you, thus solving the problem is fantastical nonsense, but I can see why it suits your argument. It’s you who’s the problem.

And your baby may well be able to hear it too and won’t be able to communicate their distress to you so neither reason not to. I would start ringing their door bell and asking politely that they take their dog inside every time the barking goes on for more than a few minutes. Just rinse and repeat until they get more bored of you than listening to the dogs.

You don't seriously think an ultrasonic device is only heard by foxes?

I can’t stand barking dogs either. Only lazy selfish dog owners let their dogs bark and bark.
ultrasonic dog deterrents don’t have to be on continual. You can get ones that detect the dogs and only activate the noise while the dogs are barking. They don’t work over a long distance and should be as near to the dogs as possible and have a clear view of the dogs with no fences or walls in between. I know some people can hear them but it doesn’t need to continual. Continual high pitched noise might set off someone who can hear it but so can continual dog noise.

OP, it might be worth researching the type you are thinking of buying. AI would help. It might be worth spending a little more than the cost of a cheap one.

Of course not I’m just saying it has plausible deniability

The noise from these units doesn’t travel far at all and doesn’t pass through walls or windows so as long as the OP is not too close this wouldn’t be an issue at all

These sorts of threads are always good for a laugh.

An OP has a problem with barking dogs - which hundreds of thousands if not millions of other people also suffer from - and is told that human beings can be annoying too. Yes, they can be BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE THREAD IS ABOUT.

Perfectly understandably the OP doesn’t want a declarable dispute. And there isn’t one. But posters go on about selfishness because OP would like to be able to sell her house lawfully and with least hassle. But she’s told to get into a dispute, with no certain outcome, because dogs shouldn’t be inconvenienced. 🙄

I just don’t understand why council officers can’t come round, hear barking and arrange to have the dog taken away. If it’s not possible under the law, the law should be changed.

Nobody should have to put up with dog noise nuisance.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 exactly this - having a dog is not a right, nobody NEEDS one.

Take the dog where? How much barking before they are removed? Where’s the funding coming from? You’re right, these threads are good for a laugh.

Sell her house lawfully???
by harassing the locals with noise snd withholding info to buyers about apparently very antisocial neighbours ????
right !!!