Thread: Stopping a barking dog at 100 paces

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Went to the local cop shop to see if I could get a gun.
Mr Plod: What do you want the gun for?
Me : To shoot the neighbours dog.
Mr Plod: We'll be keeping an eye on you Mr Marsh.

So, how to stop the neighbours dog barking from two doors up? The thought was to make an anti barking dog collar on steroids. Big speaker. Big amp. When the dog barks blast it from afar with 34kHz.

Any suggestions on how to create such a device?

I feel your pain mate! I assume that you have tried the obvious... i.e talking to the owner?

Hey Mick, want to borrow my sig line from Judo?

The dog doesn't bark when the owner is home so he has no idea what I'm on about.

Sneak up at night and open the side gate.
Wait for noisy dog to leave.
Ring the ranger anonymously and claim dog is at the shops barking at children and parents are concerned.

You'll get 1 night of peace while it's at the pound


Plan B,
Drop one of those anti barking collars in the letter box.
A simple note(cut from newspaper print?) saying it's free for their use as a gift from the neighbours.

Ring your local council Mick. If you document the events, they will deal with it.

We had neighbours of ours do that with our dog,,,

We had to prove it wasn't ours, that it was a dog further down the road. We then had to do the documenting, but it worked.

Our Council,won't look at a barking dog complaint unless they get 3 neighbours to document the barking for a minimum of 4 weeks.... ****ing useless they are. I got my own back at next door as our new pugs bark at him when he is hanging the washing out.

He told me a few weeks ago about it. My response was 'paybacks a bitch ain't it...'

Pity really, he is the only neighbour in the street I don't get along with, and I'm not the only one. Everyone else on our end of the street all get along fine and regularly drink and have BBQ's together. he's been invited but never comes.

Anyway, back on topic - do you get on with the neighbour next to the barking dog? There are bark free devices on fleabay that can be punted on the fence pointing towards the offending animal. You could get them to hang one on their fence for you?

http://secure.oatleyelectronics.com/...qv1fcich4cnj70

Dunno how effective it is.

Silicon Chip Online - Barking Dog Blaster: Shut That Annoying Mutt Up!

I built a Woofer stopper MkII from Jaycar or Dicks smiths once. It was quiet involved and I needed to wind my own transformers for it. I had the button to activate it next to the bed and the speaker mounted on the hot water service pointing next door. Did it work? Hard to say, the idea that if the dog barked and I could annoy it by using this was somewhat comforting. A phone call to the neighbour at 2am to tell them to shut the dog up was probably the thing that worked the most. Good luck!