After 11 years, that product may no longer be available.
See:
Good Life Dog Silencer Pro - it works. I have not used it, but the same company makes a directional emitter designed for hand-held application.
Or get a Dog Silencer and use the ‘clicker’ to activate.
I have 5 of these.
The GoodLife (maker is important) ‘bird house’ - also effective, but no clicker, and shorter range (I have 4 of these)
Do dogs bark if they can’t see you come out? So, if you’ve got a fence between you and the neighbors ?
Dogs have quite acute senses – much more so than humans. Unless it’s a solid brick fence 7 feet high, dogs are likely to know that you are there.
Mostly, if you can afford to wait eleven years, the mutt will up and die of old age.
Otherwise I got nothin’, except to observe that if the neighbour is barking then he’s probably not worth talking to about his dog.
True, but maybe a dog will experience a good fence like a symbolic boundary to his territory. And he might consider people on the other side of the fence, who do not seem to try and scale the fence, as a not-bakr-worthy cause.
What I wondered, are there any dog-obedience training courses in your neighbourhood? Like so? Does the dog owner know that those courses exist?
Have you seen the wikihow on this subject? It has some useful links.
Dogs tend to have a very strong sense of personal space. A territorial dog is unlikely to “permit” strangers to come within a certain distance of the dog’s perceived space, regardless of the location of any physical barriers that may be present in the dog’s space.
Old thread, I know, but it’s worth noting that aversives are a double edged-sword with dogs. Their use can discourage undesirable behavior, just like any punishment. However, the dog can learn to associate the aversive with the person involved and develop highly negative associations. This can result in potentially dangerous situations if the dog comes in direct contact with the person involved; the dog may bite or undertake other aggressive action.
As has been stated, the ideal situation is to speak with the owner and befriend the dog (or at least train the dog to tolerate certain strangers).
Out here in the country, your dog is your advance warning, guard, protector & we love to hear him bark as that tells us what is going on near.
He seldom barks at silly things like a wind blown leaf as some dogs do.
Solution is to move to the country.
YMMV
From 2004
From 2015
Ah, but it is available for $26.95.
Zombie dogs don’t bark, they just want your braaaaaaiiiiinnnnsss!!!
Whatever you do don’t video record yourself shooting the neighbors dog.
Wait, what? We move to the country to get AWAY from dogs.
That would be just my luck. I move to the country to get some peace and quiet and one of my ‘neighbors’ (because I’d still want to live close enough to ‘town’ for emergencies, gas stations, etc) would have a dog that they don’t take care of. And it’ll be the country, so there are no noise ordinances to call them out on. And I’ll be the new neighbor, so I’ll be the bitch if I complain.
Seriously, though. I bought a house in September 2016. Scouted out the area a couple times a day for a few weeks (it was on my way to work) and there were no dogs in sight, rain or shine.
I bought the house, and all was quiet and perfect. Fast forward 2 months, and my neighbors got a little yappy thing. I heard it bark every now and then, but only when their kids were outside playing with it (perfectly acceptable).
After a few weeks, the family got bored of the dog (imagine) and just threw it outside permanently. Now the thing stays outside all day and sleeps outside.
It used to sit just barking at the back door all day and night. It responded for a few minutes at a time to my shushing, but would always start back up again.
I spoke to the neighbors 6 times and left 3 notes taped to their door. 2 of the times I spoke to them, I did so around 4am and pissed them off (pretty intentionally, actually). I only woke them because their dog woke me. I later left the notes to be apologetic, but still firm in the request that they curb their dog’s barking.
“We’re all neighbors, and would like to get along; please be respectful of noise ordinances, etc”.
Still nothing. These shut the dog up for the moment, but nothing more.
I bought a few squealy noise birdhouse bark suppressors, but this dog was so high pitched that it never set them off.
I called the local Police Department and was told that we have a constable that patrols the neighborhood regularly.
The next time the dog started up again, I called and asked for him. He gave me his e-mail address and asked for a quick video recording just for ‘proof’, and then went to go talk to the neighbors. This helped for a few days, but it started up again. I ended up calling him a couple more times and there was peace and quiet for a few days in between. I got a good relationship with the constable going via e-mail. I was very respectful, thanked him for his time, admitted that I knew he had more pressing matters to attend to than barking dogs, etc. He told me to call/e-mail anytime with any issue.
Then started the storms. A bunch of thunderstorms over a course of a few days, during which the dog went absolutely ape-shit. Tornado warnings and watches and they still left the dog outside. It would howl with every thunderclap, and they ignored it. I spoke to the constable again, and did the whole, “I’m scared for the dog’s well-being” sob story and he spoke to them again. During the lightning storm with the dog howling in the backyard. Not sure specifically what he said to them, but it must been threatening (like Animal Control will take your dog; this is animal abuse) or something, because it’s been about a month and a few lightning storms later and I’ve literally only heard the dog bark 4 time since.
Moral of the story; get the local patrolling Constable on your side. Get a good relationship with the officer, not the neighbor. Odds are, if you have to talk to the neighbor ONCE about a barking dog, that neighbor will always be problematic. They won’t be the considerate type. So get a good relationship with someone in power so that there is real action that can be taken.