Make a ultrasonic Dog Barking machine??
I need someone to make a ultrasonic dog barking machine. I have a neighbor who allows their dog to back early in the AM and all during the day, so I want a powerful ultrasonic device that when i turn it on it will make their dog howl at 3AM and wake them up, similar to when the fire engine goes by, so that they will get a taste of what they do to me. This has been going on for a year and I can't get them to do anything to train the dog, they just don't care. I am willing to pay for a device that will work.
The dog training devices like you see advertised like "Barkoff" have to be in the same room and all I have read is the ultrasonic dog trainers available don't penetrate walls. I don't want to train the dog not to bark, I want to annoy the neighbors and give them what I have been getting. Evil, maybe, justified, YES!
email me direct myxpykalix@hotmail.com THANKS
The dog training devices like you see advertised like "Barkoff" have to be in the same room and all I have read is the ultrasonic dog trainers available don't penetrate walls. I don't want to train the dog not to bark, I want to annoy the neighbors and give them what I have been getting. Evil, maybe, justified, YES!
email me direct myxpykalix@hotmail.com THANKS
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I like the idea of a loud ultrasound device I can build but would it work through walls?
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Because our houses are close my driveway is close to their bedroom windows. After dealing with them for a year trying to get them to do something with no result, I went with a tape recorder and taped the dog barking. Then i went to my computer and made a digital file of it (like a mp3) and looped it so it would play over and over.
So the next day when their dog woke me again I told them, if it happens again i would make sure they knew the feeling. Well it happened the next day, always between 7-7:30AM so that nite I went out to my van slipped in the cd, turned up the volume playing the sound of THEIR dog barking and woke them up at 3AM.
He came outside and all i said was "Now you know how i feel"...the dog never woke me up anymore after that.
Obviously the moral of the story is that you need to make them experience the same discomfort that you feel for them to understand what you are going thru.
If their dogs are constantly barking then make it a point to stay up a few nites till 3 or 4AM and go out and bang some pots or do something that will get them to howling and barking and wake them up so it interrupts their rest. It will cease after that guaranteed. Hope that helps and let me know if it works.
The only caveat I read was about one fellow who discovered the neighbor had punched a hole in it with a broomstick to shut it up.
I've got one of those birdhouse-shaped noisemakers for the dogs around us (about $45 on Amazon, up to $90 elsewhere). Sometimes it works (and it's fun to listen to them gradually whine and shut down) but sometimes they ignore it (summer foliage blocks the sound). High frequencies don't penetrate or bend around corners.
The wife won't let me buy a b-b gun.
I've been researching to find a way to blast a severe ultrasonic noise, triggered by my birdhouse device (to sound only when the dogs bark). So far, it seems that the circuitry is easy and cheap (555 timer plus an op-amp) but the transducer (speaker) needed is out-of-the-ordinary. A 22 kHz blast should be within the range of many piezo (ribbon or foil) tweeters, but they're not weatherproof.
I recall years ago being with a young lady who was, literally, driven out of a warehouse. They had an ultrasonic alarm that she could hear, and it was very unpleasant (no one else could hear a thing). The transducers were barrel-shaped metal, flat on the business end that pointed into the room, bowl-shaped on the back end, about 3" in diameter. Apparently, the transducers ran 24/7, while the alarm circuit was only enabled at night. If I could find some of them, I'd be glad to give them a try.
I also read about those giant "dinner bell" triangles like they used to use on ranches. Story was that the harmonics would drive dogs away (when you play Middle C on a piano, you're also hearing tiny amounts of High C, C Above High C, etc.). The result was that dogs would learn that the sound of the back door opening meant the pain was a-coming, so they learned to shut up any time they heard the back door creak. Maybe playing a loud stereo (Joe Cocker music, obviously) just before I shoot 'em with the b-b gun would "train" them.
If I find a good solution, I'll be back.
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while i'm not too worried about you annoying the rest of your neighborhood (since i'm pretty sure i'm not your neighbor), i do feel like it's highly irresponsible and cruel to use a helpless animal to exact your revenge on these people. dogs bark at high frequency sounds (especially high volume ones) because it causes them to be alert (to possible danger) and in part because it actually hurts their ears (if the volume is too high, or the source is too close).
besides that, it's not the dog's fault that it's barking. it's doing what dogs do (especially if they're bored or neglected). why punish the dog for something that your neighbors are doing?
have you tried actually talking to the people?
While i agree with your sentiments, in that the one at fault here is not the dog, but the irresponsible owners who don't teach the dog to not bark, after this has been going on for over a year and i have tried talking to them repeatedly what i am trying to do is give them a "dose of their own medicine". I want them to see how it feels to be woken out of a dead sleep and how that impacts on how you feel for the rest of the day.
I could easily throw a wad of poison hamburger over the fence and solve my problem, I would never choose to do that and this seems to be the most humane way to deal with the issue. After all dogs are subjected to fire engines and such and it is an annoyance at best and does not harm the animal.
There are similar devices already out there that are triggered by barking, but by that time i'm awake. YES, it is a bit devious but under the circumstances overall not harmful. So while i appreciate your sentiments if you have a specific solution i'd love to hear it. Thank you....
while you feel that using your neighbor's dog as a pawn in your scheme for retribution isn't hurting the dog, it might be. depending on the dog's sensitivity to your uncontrolled/uncalibrated (there's a reason that the devices that are on the market don't work through walls, it's because they're calibrated for REALLY short ranges and low volumes) you could cause the dog serious harm (hearing damage, you could frighten the dog into a pool, if it's chained up it could strangle itself, or it could jump the fence and head into traffic).
"a dose of their own medicine" suggests that they've trained the dog for the sole purpose of keeping you awake, which i highly doubt is the case.
what would you do if your dog was barking? wouldn't you attempt to figure out why it's barking? look over the fence, is the dog bored because it has nothing to play with? then chuck some toys over the fence. is it barking at squirrels? get rid of the squirrels.
do you live in a neighborhood with a home owners association? if so complain to them. most HOAs don't take too kindly to nuisance behavior.
if the issue where the neighbor's kids running around in the yard making noise, i doubt you'd be looking for a solution to wake their kids up in the middle of the night.