OT: Barking Dog Problem

Have your neighbor contact Cesar Millan, "The Dog Whisperer". The problem is likely that the dog's owner isn't providing the dog with the proper boundaries and limitations that it needs.

Dave M

What would happen if you pick up the dogs bark, delay it 1/4 second, or 1/2 second, or 1 second and play it back to the dog. Might confuse it enough that it would stop. Just a thought. Or record it and play it back, when the neighbor is home to hear what his dog does all day.

I read the other day that many critical public audio systems have ultrasound played through the speakers. This is picked up and is evidence the audio system is working. If the Ultrasound is not picked up the system needs immediate repair. The article was in relation to hearing damage to people or workers in the ultrasound 8 hours a day. I thought a phone app could be made to tell you when you were in an area where ultrasound was being played.

Mikek

Yes. Call animal control and when they show up turn on the ultrasound. It may take a few calls, but works well in the end. Art

Can you fit a silencer on a weapon ??

A weapon *is* a silencer. ;-)

I guess that would depend on the method of application !!

Well, if not 'fooly' implemented, it becomes a torture device.

(or is that "phoully"?)

You may be testing your own tolerance. I actually tried that, a couple of 555's to sweep the frequency because I didn't know what would work. I had a driver transistor coupled to a tweeter.

It made the barking much worse... But the neighbor did get rid of the dog; but he may have been planning on that anyway and I wasn't going to tell him about my sweeper experiment.

Interesting thing was I had some squirrels that were raising a family in my attic (chewed through an eave vent) and after the dog was gone I put the sonic sweeper in the attic and the squirrels found other lodgings.

OOOH !! I get it now, brilliant.

Ear plugs.

Being AZ, 45 ACP and some story about feeling life in danger..

--sp

Ground hamburger, cyanide capsule, plausible deniablity.

After putting up with two neighbors over the past few years who had an "I don't give a f*ck" attitude about their chronically yapping mutts and were utterly resistant to any reasonable discussion on the issue, and the chronic disinterest of authorities about the matter, my patience for it is at an all-time low.

Barking dogs and pathological neighbors who are lovesick over their little puppies and don't know how to properly discipline them are a huge problem. People like that already have two strikes against them - A) they know it's a problem and don't care, and B) they own dogs in the first place (owning animals that don't serve a purpose other than providing 'unconditional love' is infantile, IMO.)

Reptiles, on the other hand, make fantastic pets.

Here is a novel idea. Go to the neighbor and tell him the dog barking is bothering you and ask what he can do about it.

I mean, you can try. The Sixers might become a good team, also.

In most cases they already know their dog is being an annoying pain in the ass and they don't care. What difference do you think your patient story of woe is going to make? Usually, none.

Like, they already know what they are.

There are certain types of people that don't really respond well to polite logical arguments, and I think engineering types may forget that from time to time. As I've gotten older, I've gotten a bit better at sussing out preemptively who I'll be wasting my breath on.

Some people only respond to an authority figure bringing the hammer down on them. And with that type of person, if it's not possible to avoid them entirely, it's best to go that route early and often.

Well you won't know what kind of people they are until you try. If you file a formal complaint most likely the officer will ask if you contacted the person. I personally would not take legal action against a neighbor without first discussing the issue. I'm not above the ultrasound though.:-)

Get a cat.

Our neighbors dog would freak out, and run back and forth barking at our cat who just sat there on the our side of the fence. The neighbors eventually got rid of the dog ;)

Cheers

I do not think his wife would like that meal very much.

Had a hard time finding a link for the capsules too.

Polonium was an easy find, on the other hand.

You missed an I in deniability.