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

Hate to disappoint you, but dogs get used to these. They literally only stop the barking for the precise second that the dog hears the noise, as soon as the noise stops - they bark again.
I know from experience, we have a barker - she barks at three things (fireworks, thunder and when she hears someone at the door), each occasion, she can bark for flaming England. The only way we can deal with whomever is at the door, is by putting her in the back garden before answering the front door. She shuts up as soon as we let her back in, unfortunately, we can't stop her when she hears thunder or fireworks.
We've tried the anti-bark things (and every technique going) nothing works.

Many owners in this situation do feel for the neighbours - but what are we supposed to do - have a fourteen year old family put put-down because, she does her job and barks when strangers come to the door, or we can't change the weather or stop morons setting off fireworks?

fourteen year old family PET

I hope that I won't crack during a dawn chorus of furious and continued yapping, and start launching grapes and chunks of galaxy at the next door's fiend.

There is a dog at the back of us several doors down that never shuts up. It drives me mad if i'm in the garden but it's far away not to hear from inside. It must drive the Neighbours closer mad.

I'd have a word, they can be trained.

Hate to disappoint but my dog stole a box of dark chocolates when I was out and ate the lot and was fine.

catzy - beleive me, not all dogs can be trained. We have tried everything going for fourteen years. The vet says she's just made that way.

Bournville for the Dog, Cyanide for the fuckwit owners..

So I reckon 2 bars for the horrible patterdale that lives next to me.

PIL have living proof that dogs don't die from eating chocolate or grapes (but the he is the size of a pot bellied pig in fact I'm convinced that's exactly what he is!)

Let us know if it's worked btw Finger's crossed for you (not a fan of dogs especially little yappy scrags of fur that you know you just want to drop kick over the fence and run round the garden with your top pulled over your head in mock-goal scoring fashion !)

lol

does it work?

Please don;t poison the dog. It isn;t it's fault it was dragged up!

I'm a dog owner but I my next door neighbours dog never stopped barking and throwing itself at the fence whenever we went out in our garden. My dh used to get the hose and spray it through a hole in the fence when it barked-worked really well but it was put down recently and though I hated the barking feel sad for the owners.

What excatly would chocolate do to a dog? My dog once jumped at the kitchen top and pulled a bag down and ate 2 massive bars of cooking chocolate. That was a few years ago, adn apart from her being so hyper dh had to take her out at midnight to run around she seems ok. DC's I'm sure give her bits of chocolate too, even thoughI've said not to.

Our lab ate god knows how much chocolate in her time, and lived to 14, but she was lucky. Our vets say they regularly get dogs who are really ill through chocolate poisoning, and fruit cake is lethal too - raisins/grapes are poisonous to them in cumulative effect, but fruitcake is obviously a lot of raisins! Weirdly, onions can cause fatal anaemia in them as well, though it's apparently rarer.

If the anti-bark thing fails, I'd try the water pistol trick. The key is that the dog doesn't see you do it - it learns to associate water shots with the barking, and the "reward" of a good bark is undermined by the nasty of the water.

I predict the supermarkets will be empty of grapes and dark chocolate by close of business today....

My FIL ate a whole bag of good boy dog choc drops & survived, so fortunately it doesn't work the other way round.

I feel sorry for anyone that has to live next to a dog that constantly barks. We moved into a house only to find that the neighbours dog barked constantly inside or out followed by the owners shouting at it. We bumped into the people that we bought the house from about a month after we'd moved in and they asked us if the dogs were annoying us yet with a smirk but karma was restored when they got burgled not long after that comment - and no it wasn't by us, and having been burgled before I do know how horrible it is but I was nearly having a mental breakdown at the noise the dogs (and neighbours!) made.

Our current neighbours have dogs and the difference is amazing, they are so well trained they only bark at people at the door of if they are having fun playing in the garden!

It's not the dog's fault. Is he ever taken for walks? Blame the owners!

feed him grapes/raisins

These devices don't work. and my neighbours one is audible, even though I am not sure it should be, but to add insult to injury every time their dogs bark and bark, we have a high pitched squeal to listen to as well...

i am wondering if you might be being slightly unreasonable. replace barking dog with crying baby and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it. you can't train a baby to not cry and you can't always train a dog to not bark. as joash said they can't change the weather or stop people having fireworks and they are the triggers for her dog's barking so it's not like they can keep the dog away from the things that trigger the barking. maybe you could buy them an anti-barking dog collar and post it through their letterbox. they might get the hint then.

that's true but we used to live next to a lady who had about 10 kids so there was always at least one crying baby around!

prob too late to reply not only dog lover here but i am a qualified behaviourist
this is my job
few things first
talk to owner about noise level this is actually an offence and they can be proscecuted (enviromental noise pollution)or have dog removed
they are responsible for any costs to train dog out of this behaviour not you

training is possible with no negative means required.

also i am ex vet nurse and i have spent many a night esp over christmas and easter doing everything possible to keep dogs alive after eating a small amount of chocolate

many dont survive and if do have organ failure

the thorton dog either didnt eat all or was sick somewhere

if u interested in advice get back to me