This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but I’m betting there are a couple people on here that may have some thoughts.
My neighbor across the road bought a lab last year, kids wanted one, he wanted to take it hunting, etc. We all know how this ends – kids are no longer interested, he doesn’t have time to train it to hunt, so it prowls around the yard all day and night and barks. It’s particularly bad when they are gone, or in the middle of the night. This is a 120 pound dog that has full access to the front and back yards, and loves to sit in the driveway and just bark right at our house. Unfortunately, our bedroom windows are also on the front of the house. I’ve had several conversations with them about their dog going nuts barking at 3:00 AM – which he did again today until something like 5:30. They’ve also been known to leave for the weekend and just leave him outside. That was a real treat – barking from sunset to sunup.
We live on larger 2-3 acre lots, and most of their living areas are near the back of the house or in the basement so it’s possible they can’t hear him. Or they don’t care. I suspect the second. We live in the country and there is supposedly a barking dog ordinance, but we don’t know if it’s enforced and we are reluctant to go there. Various reasons, most around neighborhood politics. Odds are good the sheriff’s office would just laugh anyway. Of course on days like this, when I got woken up at 3, I’m less inclined to care about the neighborhood.
I get that this dog’s lonely / starved for attention / doing his job protecting the homestead – but discussions with the neighbor have gone nowhere. So before choosing the nuclear option of calling the sheriff, I’ve been looking at the ultrasonic dog bark deterrents. Which gets to why I’m asking the question in this forum.
There are lots of the bark deterrent boxes out there, most with some combination of microphone and horn I assume. How does one separate the good ones from the bad? I need something with some range – 100 to 200 feet would be ideal. Is this just a function of reading reviews for the 100’s out there, or is there some sort of hardware I should look for? Alternatively – could someone build one of these? Google searches have been of little help, but admittedly I have been doing most of those in the wee hours of the morning while listening to the barking.
Maybe this is just a shot in the dark, but a sleep deprived guy has to have something to think about in the middle of the afternoon to keep the juices going.
My neighbor across the road bought a lab last year, kids wanted one, he wanted to take it hunting, etc. We all know how this ends – kids are no longer interested, he doesn’t have time to train it to hunt, so it prowls around the yard all day and night and barks. It’s particularly bad when they are gone, or in the middle of the night. This is a 120 pound dog that has full access to the front and back yards, and loves to sit in the driveway and just bark right at our house. Unfortunately, our bedroom windows are also on the front of the house. I’ve had several conversations with them about their dog going nuts barking at 3:00 AM – which he did again today until something like 5:30. They’ve also been known to leave for the weekend and just leave him outside. That was a real treat – barking from sunset to sunup.
We live on larger 2-3 acre lots, and most of their living areas are near the back of the house or in the basement so it’s possible they can’t hear him. Or they don’t care. I suspect the second. We live in the country and there is supposedly a barking dog ordinance, but we don’t know if it’s enforced and we are reluctant to go there. Various reasons, most around neighborhood politics. Odds are good the sheriff’s office would just laugh anyway. Of course on days like this, when I got woken up at 3, I’m less inclined to care about the neighborhood.
I get that this dog’s lonely / starved for attention / doing his job protecting the homestead – but discussions with the neighbor have gone nowhere. So before choosing the nuclear option of calling the sheriff, I’ve been looking at the ultrasonic dog bark deterrents. Which gets to why I’m asking the question in this forum.
There are lots of the bark deterrent boxes out there, most with some combination of microphone and horn I assume. How does one separate the good ones from the bad? I need something with some range – 100 to 200 feet would be ideal. Is this just a function of reading reviews for the 100’s out there, or is there some sort of hardware I should look for? Alternatively – could someone build one of these? Google searches have been of little help, but admittedly I have been doing most of those in the wee hours of the morning while listening to the barking.
Maybe this is just a shot in the dark, but a sleep deprived guy has to have something to think about in the middle of the afternoon to keep the juices going.
