OT Dealing with a nuisance dog

Over in misc.rural, there's a saying about the "3 S's". Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup. "Nope, haven't seen your dog."

Dave "Used to have 30 acres and a backhoe, but sold the backhoe" Hinz

You just need an amplifier for the one you've got. Try one of those hand-held electronic megaphones.

How about a "something" that makes it bark around 2 AM?

Won't work, the megaphone doesn't have the bandwidth.

However, big speakers with rap music or spotlights aimed at the house might annoy the owner to comply.

Nothing an anti freeze saturated bisquit won't cure.

While dogs can hear up to 45K, there's no need to go that high. Really all you need to do is get above the range of human hearing. Say 24K or so.

Got any specs on handheld megaphone bandwidth?

Frequency response of a hand-held megaphone is unlikely to go above the 20KHz or above that the noise generator puts out.

I considered something like that, but I don't want to offend the good neighbors while dealing with the bad.

I do have my pellet gun sighted in at exactly the right distance, but have held off so far.

Rex

I once solved a problem like yours by placing a radio near where my neighbors could hear it. The dog barked, and I switched on the extension cord that connected to the radio. I was lucky and my neighbors decided to control their dog. If you are willing to invest money it could be easy to fabricate a device that automatically energizes a high frequency - high intensity speaker that is activated by the sound of a dog's voice. You and I couldnt hear it, but the dog will experience discomfort shortly after it barks.

Jerry

Poison is a coward's approach. And fix your quoting string.

Why not make friends with the dog? Get yourself a couple of boxes of milk bones and co-opt the little bugger. When I was a kid I used to walk by a towing yard that had a mean old junk yard dog. I would swing by the do-nut shop and grab a handful of the previous days offerings out of the dumpster. after several days of this the dog would sit and watch me coming wagging his tail.

Now you're talking! I'll follow this thread.

I would google and investigate a higher powered squealer that is beyond the range of human hearing. Look under "ultrasonic deer repeller" or "ultrasonic repeller." I found hundreds. Some are motion activated, and you wouldn't even have to be there. This would keep the dog AWAY from even the fence on your side.

Only the dog would hear it. Fix it to the fence inconspicuously on YOUR side, and aim it through the fence. Set the thing at the level of the dog.

I would imagine that if you secured the right frequency and high output, you could make that little bugger curl up in pain.

A few times oughta do it. Check with Radio Shack, or a local electronics geek and see if they would have any ideas. They always love little projects like this.

Keep us posted.

Steve

snip, snip.

I wrote and suggested buying a deer repeller. Upon further reading in Google, I discovered a thread about four articles down where people were commenting that the deer repellers didn't work that well. They suggested one from Austrailia.

You would be into that about $100. I would suggest that you investigate the Radio Shack idea. I have seen those megaphone speakers at yard sales about the size of a coffee can. The ones used for car alarms, etc. They go for about a buck. A simple electronic squealer you could get at Radio Shack hooked up to that would put out quite a blast, hopefully silent to humans. You would be into it a lot le$$. But even if you COULD hear it, you can always parrot the neighbor and say, "What noise? I didn't hear anything."

This is about altering the dog's behavior. If he knows he barks at someone walking up and gets blasted, he will stop barking at approaching people.

And if not, at least you will be getting even about him assaulting YOUR ears.

Steve

You know, an ultrasonic device at the focal point of a parabolic microphone (replace the mic with the speaker) would give a _very_ directional signal. Aim it at Barky, hit it, and see how it goes.

feed the little bugger some manwich a couple of times right before the owners let him in the house for the evening,

then after he likes your snacks feed him some manwich with exlax ,

if he is out all night , get yourself a remote controlled any thing and start running it around at all the ungodliest hours

people don't keep pets that are a pain in the ass

sorry that's not true according to my wife