I have a friend with two labs that are in outdoor kennels during the day. The neighbors are complaining that they bark "all day". She is going to start behavior modification, but she wants to know is there any way to "muffle" the sound?
We've done some research and these are some suggestions we've come upon:
Double layer of indoor/outdoor carpeting around the kennels, with or without attaching to a plywood board.
Acoustic foam around the kennels.
Anyone have any other suggestions? Keeping in mind cheap and weather resistant.
the only way you are going to successfully soundproof outdoor kennels- is to enclose them entirely....
kind of defeats the purpose of having outdoor kennels.
Ditto on the bark collars. I have two, and while they are rarely on MY dogs, they do get used on the odd dog that seems to have forgotten that I don't LIKE to hear that crap at 5 am.. lol
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Ditto to the bark collars, and don't let her waste her money on cheap ones! My gsds don't bark -- they scream that horrilble in-drive, brain-damaging, prey scream. And "behavior modification" here is a laugh, because the scream is like breathing to one of them -- she sees anything flutter or scurry, and she sets herself and the other one off.
They don't need the collars all the time either, but our neighborhood is infested with squirrels, cats and rabbits that delight in courting death. The shock collar is infinately kinder and more reliable than anything else I could come up with.
Especially since the wild screaming always starts when I'm stuck on a business phone call, in the bathtub, or otherwise not in any position to go out and put a stop to the noise.
Ditto on the bark collar. My GSD also does the insane prey-drive growl/bark/scream at anything that he sees in our yard and the bark collar has been fantastic for keeping him from going off the deep end and driving me crazy. My dog caught on very quickly an doesn't need the collar on constantly anymore. I believe Ed talks about his dogs wearing bark collars when they are in their outdoor runs.
Just a word of caution on bark collars...I have a friend who had a first hand bad experience with them. He was putting them on his Malinois to stop them from barking during the day and to appease his neighbors. He came home and found one of his dogs had two fairly severe burn marks/irritations, for lack of a better description, from continuously barking even though being stimulated by the collar. The collar kept stimulatining until the batteries ran out. Apparently the dog, a high drive Malinois, became enfuriated by the stimulation and each stimualtion only made him more mad causing him to bark more. This dog had been wearing the collar for over a month with no problems.
I doubt that the marks had electrical stim as their source. No Ecollar in the US puts out enough current to cause such burns, even if used until the batteries die. More than likely the collars were either too tight or too loose and the marks came from friction. I've also heard of burns coming from leaking batteries.
Lou Castle has been kicked off this board. He is an OLD SCHOOL DOG TRAINER with little to offer.
I've already told her to get a bark collar. She's one of those types who thinks they're "cruel". She also cringes every time she sees my dog with a prong collar. She has those useless citronella collars.
We have an understanding - I don't harp on her to use the "mean" tools, and she doesn't call the ASPCA on me for "abuse".
We're just wondering about "muffling" suggestions.
Originally posted by Lou Castle: I doubt that the marks had electrical stim as their source. No Ecollar in the US puts out enough current to cause such burns, even if used until the batteries die. More than likely the collars were either too tight or too loose and the marks came from friction. I've also heard of burns coming from leaking batteries. I agree. I was trying to describe what the marks looked like but not imply they were done by the electricity. I just couldn't think of a better way to describe the way the marks looked.
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