i got one. her voice box is so wide that it doesn't make contact with the 'pickup', thus it rarely registers that she barked. very annoying. i have a shock collar with a remote on her now. she just sulks when i put that on her.

the part that annoys me is that she KNOWS she is misbehaving. she'll go on a barking tear and then run to her crate, because she knows she is in trouble.

(i realized that i just contradicted myself: she has gotten it through her thick head, she simply chooses to misbehave.)

that explains a LOT. :)

They make the ultrasonic bark stop things that work well. We had one in CA for the neighbors dog. First time it barked after we set it up it ran several hundred yards down the road yelping. Of course we used the focusing cone on it. It learned quick that more than a couple barks and it was going to hurt.

i like where you are going with this.

I was thinking s big stick and case of beer. Sit in the back yard drinking the beer. Every time she goes nuts you give her a smack with the stick...

When we moved to WI we gave it to my cousin because she and her husband had problems with a bunch of hunting dogs in a kennel half a block from their house. The owner lived miles away. Haven't heard if it worked or not there. I am not aware of other things setting it off.

i think my neighbors might turn me in. LOL!

i just did a little research on the US units. seems that they work really well. i'll be getting one very soon.

my wife got a new job, so she works in the day. trudie cannot be outside nuisance barking the entire time we are at work. i am home sick... that is how the problem became so apparent.

she is still sulking, BTW. i haven't even shocked her today.

If the neighbors get rowdy, it has a selection for human audible warnings as well. DON'T test it indoors. Just sayin'.

Our male dog decides on Tuesday night to revert to a puppy behavior. He started whining and he sounded like a puppy on his first night in a new house. We put up with it for a while and finally at 3:00AM I put him "in jail." We have a crate and I put him in the crate in the bathroom in the garage. If he made anymore noise I could not hear it. Last night we gave him about 15 minutes to settle down and a few verbal scoldings. After 15 minutes he went to jail. It will be interesting to find out if he learned a lesson yet.

He is two years old and I guess that is a teenager in human years. I guess I have a 14 year old on my hands.

i decided to modify the collar a bit. i think the new prongs just might solve the problem.

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Meh. Get one that goes up to 11. :cool:

i was waiting for the '11' comment.... LOL!

I'm a master of predictability. :)

still not a peep from the *****. i even left the front door open (glass storm door closed) so that she would be tempted by the kids walking home from school. i loved the fact that she watched create those prongs, attach them to the collar, and then attach the collar to her. the 'sad eyes' had no effect.

Maybe it will be enough. I'd leave the collar on her for a few days and see how she acts.

hahaha! she just barked. first bark was a full on bark, second bark was cut very short. :)

for some reason the collar has a warning for the first bark. i want it to shock her. every. time.

A dozen or so years ago when I was having bad issues with the people who rented the house next door (the one I bought to get rid of the people inside of it) I went out and bought a universal remote, taught the kids how to program it and gave them the idea to walk down through the woods on the lot between us and have fun with the neighbors tv. Yeah it was great fun to listen to the father throw a fit every time his TV did something "all by itself"

Haven't decide yet how long we will be there, most of that depends on the kitty care I can get arranged. There are a few folks in Phoenix I plan to contact so I am sure we will be there a couple of days.

When Camber was a puppy and it thundered she would bark at it. I let her out in the back yard. It would thunder and she would run in the direction it came from and bark at it Then when it thundered again off she would go running towards where it came from barking at it. Pretty much confirmed for me she was a full on alpha dog.

Now when it thunders, she just comes in and lays down beside me.

My other Golden, Penny, whom was a really really smart dog, when it thundered she would disappear. Always found her laying in the bath tub. When I found her, she would look up at me and grin. I think she learned it from the weather man on TV. Still miss that dog,

Steve is good at shovelling the white stuff that falls from the sky.

Not sure I would like the drive over to Ricks driveway to do the clearing though in the s***.

Rickie doesn't bother shoveling his driveway, I just pull the second stick on Peggy and go.