To have ordered an anti barking device to use against next door's dog?

[mumblechum]

Can't wait to see if it works. Apparently it senses when the little bastardmoppet starts its annoying yapping and sends some sort of ultra sonic signal to make it shut up

Is that similar to those things outside shops to deter youngsters?
Does it bark all the time?

Whats an anti-barking device?
A shotgun?

It barks whenever it's let out of the house. It doesn't shut up till they let it back in. Next door is a pub (featured on The Restaurant - my claim to fame) which at the moment is run by a young couple.

It's particularly annoying that he starts off every time we go into the garden.

Occasionally the owners will come out and shout at it but it makes absolutely no difference.

I did say to dh last night that I was thinking of throwing some poisoned meat over the hedge, to which he replied, "But if he ate it he'd be poisoned and you'd feel terrible".

right.

Oh, I love these threads. It gets really exciting when the dog owners show up. Mumblechum, I don't want to rain on your parade, but we got one of these, and it didn't work.

I did however, try a square of dark chocolate to shut the thing up, and I haven't heard from ours since! Too scared to think what has happened.

dog owner here :-)

I don't see a problem with it - it might train it to STFU

barking dogs piss me off - we used to have one over the road that barked all night, when I yelled at it to shut-up, it did!! amazing.

Of course, the owners came outside and started yelling at me, but never mind!

Dark chocolate, eh? I wonder if by some fluke you hit it on that bit of its head which would kill it instantly ......

I didn't say how big the square was.

Mwahh ha ha ha

another dog owner here - good luck but ime these anti-bark things dont work. please dont throw chocolate at it as chocolate can be fatal for dogs.

i hate barking dogs as much as the next person esp yappy little dogs btw

another dog owner here - good luck but ime these anti-bark things dont work. please dont throw chocolate at it as chocolate can be fatal for dogs.

i hate barking dogs as much as the next person esp yappy little dogs btw

Let us know if it works, Mumblechum.
Have heard that they don't.

another dog owner here - sorry

Does the dog live in the pub??? it sounds like it needs to be trained and if this thing works then thats great I would pass te invoice on to the owner of said dog

Mine barks now to as there are work men behind our house that tease them they stopped to day, as both went flying through the hole that the work men made in the hedge and the men bought them back rather sheepishly saying sorry !!!!

but you cant kill it

I was only joking about killing it!

I would guess it would only work as a training device, which would probably involve lots of patience and lots of perfectly timed ultra sonic signals to get the mutt to absorb the message that bark = horrid noise coming.

Have you spoken to the owners about it?
Maybe they don't know how fed up you are.

Water pistol!!! Or whenever it barks rattle a tin can with something in it- the noise distracts it from the behaviour, and if you keep doing it, it eventually associates the behaviour with unsettling noise/ wet experience and stops barking! That's the theory anyway......Just try not to soak the owner

I used to live near a dog, a horrid little yappy thing that the owners would shove out in the garden at 7am on a sunday morning. It really got my goat.

We thought maybe the owners were putting it in the garden as they went to work or something so didnt know it was barking, but one morning I shouted out the window that if they didn't 'shut that bloody dog up I'll feed it to my snake' (common as muck, I know) Within minutes the dog had been taken indoors so they obviously could hear it

We moved not long after, I don't think it's unreasonable to have something like that, you can supposedly get them to stop cats coming in your garden and it doesn't harm them so not an issue IMO, But I would suggest talking to the owners, maybe a bit nicer than my comment though

sorry but lol at death by chocolate for dogs

Its true!! You can kill a daschund with a 200g bar of Bourneville!! They can't cope with the theobromine in it- knackers their liver.

I'm a dog lover but get very angry with the dog that lives behind us that throws itself at the fence and barks loudly. It is locked in all day and we have never seen it walked. He gets let out a couple of times a day, for a few minutes, during which times he attacks our fence. Our dog just stands and looks at the fence.
I have considered dark chocolate...

seriously? so what would one square do to them?

One square might be enough to harm a very very small dog.

my sisters dog steals chocolate. it ate an entire box of thorntons continentals one christmas and the barking fecker is still alive.

Chocolate is genuinely poisonous to dogs, though. And get this so are grapes. Isn't that weird.

that's what I thought tmmb. My mother's bastard dog went on the rampage through a load of easter eggs (put round the house for an easter egg hunt carefully and meticulously planned by myself) a couple of years ago, the bloody thing is still alive and well (a pity).

I thoroughly dislike dogs and my neighbour has a nasy little yapping yorkshite terrier so I sympathise hugely with the OP.