Ditto that - and make sure they understand that your neighbors actions are affecting your dogs quality of life - your dog has an irrational fear of HIS OWN property.

 Quote:

I don't think it can penetrate solid brick wall and do the damage. Correct?

The more things you put between you and the source of the sound, the quieter it is for the dog - but dogs have sensitive hearing so he'll still hear it - but if it's quiet enough, he can probably ignore it. I think it's the volume of the sound that hurts the dog and not so much the frequency, so yes, if there is enough stuff between you and the sound then it'll be alot quieter, but 130dB is difficult to completely block out - unfortunately because its ultra sonic, it's not like you can put stuff in front of the wall and hear if the noise has gone down or not, you might be able to find a dB meter online somewhere that is capable of telling you the volume of ultra sonic frequencies.

Funny you read my mind. I was just going to ask if there is any device that could read ultra sonic waves. I am going to look for it. Thanks.

Move south Rashmi, get more house and yard for the buck and people are more tolerant and polite, 'cept maybe Will R and Chris D <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I know I shouldn't be inviting another Yankee down here but at least you like dogs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 Quote:

You don't take any initiative to find out anything on your own, you just want people to lead you to information.

Will, you don't know how mistaken you are. I take plenty of initiative to find out things on my own, and I do look things up if I'm not sure about them, or I ask a question of someone that has more knowledge than me if I have trouble finding that information. In this particular thread, I was under the impression that the neighbor had gotten something like THIS . It, and even the other one on that site, says that it is not designed to work through walls or doors. This was the only device of this type that I was familiar with, and even after further searching, I was unable to locate a device that was designed to work through a wall. Further searching revealed that "ultrasonic" simply means that it's at a frequency that's higher than what we can hear, according to the web sites that sell these devices - nothing I found said anything about ultrasonic being akin to a fire truck siren or anything like that. I never said there wasn't such a device, but I was unaware of one and unable to find one on the internet. That's why I posted - asking for more information on these devices that obviously weren't what I was familiar with and unable to find any information on.

 Quote:

Your flooding of so many of the posts here with your comments is one of the main reasons that I just post here less now.

My flooding of posts? I honestly don't know what you're talking about. I haven't flooded any posts on here. Here lately it seems like posts from anyone other than those of you with years and years of experience are unwelcome. And ever since I told you I wouldn't be able to get Elvis, your whole attitude has changed towards me. Mean? No, I don't think you're necessarily being mean, but I do see it as rude to feel the need to nit pick every little thing I say either on the board directly or via PMs. I'm sorry I don't know as much as you or have the years' experience that you have, but that's no reason to downplay every thing I say or ask. I don't know what I've done to deserve being treated the way you've been treating me lately.

Lastly, why is it that I'm always the one you seem to go after, even though others also post things that are inane (meaning lacking substance), off-topic, and sometimes even off-color? Oh, nevermind. Seniority rules, maybe?

Perhaps this should have been sent as a PM, but since you posted your response to my post on the main thread, why not post my response back to it on here as well? Anything beyond this will be done via PM's though, so please don't reprimand me for answering you on the main thread.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 Quote:

Funny you read my mind. I was just going to ask if there is any device that could read ultra sonic waves. I am going to look for it. Thanks.

He read my mind too. Well, he was way ahead of my mind, because I had to find out what 130 db was equal to.........

It turns out there are a lot of meters on the internet for measuring ultrasonic decibels. Here's one, which was referred to as "..... still available is good old low cost dB-Meter Analog."

http://www.pulsecho.com/catalogs/dbmeter_br.htm

I was looking for impedance meters, too, but that got complicated and technical (for me, anyway).

Mike provided the terminology needed to Google this stuff. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I'll PM you with the links I found.

I've had suspicions for a number of years now that someone is bombarding me with radio waves. My copper kettle hat, with the aluminum antenna has kept me from suffering any serious problems though. The silver color of the duct tape covering all the windows keeps me safe when I'm inside and I don't have my hat on <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

If your dog barks a lot then yes, it is a nuisance. The neighbors have a right to have no nuisance noise and whatnot. However, they have that thing on 24/7, and if it causes discomfort/damage to your dog then it could be construed as abusive and it could be damaging your dog's hearing! I agree that taking it to animal control would be the next step. Before that, you may want to request your neighbor ceases just so you can tell animal control that you requested your neighbor stop harming your dog and that he refused to stop. Just don't resort to "getting back" at the neighbor or revenge; that makes things much worse.

I've done some poking, and they actually sell anti-bark devices targeted at people whose neighbors own constant-barking dogs. The product descriptions even proclaim "you can train their dog even while you're away!" Not too cool. Keep us posted, I'm very interested in hearing the outcome.

Kristen,
Nope , no reprimand, I'm posting as a fellow poster here, not a Mod, although you insist on bringing that into the discussion. And since you do , it'd be nice of you to bother to actually posts the facts, not just your version.

I did request for you to change your posting habits a bit yesterday via PM, which you obviously just ignored. And I deleted one posters comment and corrected two other in addition to yours , but in your world you see it only as:
"Lastly, why is it that I'm always the one you seem to go after, even though others also post things that are inane (meaning lacking substance), off-topic, and sometimes even off-color? Oh, nevermind. Seniority rules, maybe?"

I wrote what I said based on my observations of your posts. I think that a comparison of the number of posts that you made vs. what you contribute to a discussion is all that I need to say.

And please believe me when I say this with utter and total 100% sincerity - I thank my lucky stars that you did not buy a puppy from me. You would literally be the puppy owner from H*ll for most breeders.

I hope I'm not stepping on toes here, but can this please be taken to PM so this very informative and useful thread doesn't get locked? Handling dog-unfriendly neighbors is of great interest to anyone who lives in suburbia with dogs. Mods, feel free to delete this.