Does anyone know if there is a way to investigate whether or not a neighbor may have one? Is there any kind of test or any way to tell?

I have a barky dog. I have been working on her barking for a year. Her barking is in the house and we are not close enough for it to disturb a neighbor. However, there are many dogs on my street and some have idiot owners who let their dogs roam and some have barky dogs that they put out in their yards all day to bark.

My pooch is doing one thousand percent better, maybe even five thousand percent better. Still barky, but no as obnoxious. I have considered a bark collar, however, I want to make sure I do everything I should as her keeper to do my part and also, there are instances when I want her to bark (someone at the door, late at night, etc.)

Well, with all that said (I never can make a story short) her barking has started up again. She runs to the door and barks, no one there. She does this over and over. Sometimes she jumps up in a chair (that's near a window) and barks and lately she wants to sleep in that chair. It's a straight back chair, no a big cushy one.

I also have some neighbors that I would suspect would not be neighborly about what they did to a dog.

 Quote: betty waldron

The scary part is how many people buy this device with the best of intentions?

I saw one of these things listed in a catalogue yesterday as "the humane solution to nuisance barking" and in the description: "uses gentle sound aversion to curb your dog's barking....even works on the neighbors dog!"

I think people just don't know, for the most part, and the folks that sell them sure aren't going to be forthcoming about it.

Nora,
I approached my neighbor because I thought there was something new roaming around that was getting my dog all tweaked out, and maybe he knew what it was. I thought that together we could find a way to 'deal' with whatever it turned out to be. It was a total fluke that the bark-controller even came up; it never would have occurred to me that such a thing even existed at the time. Fortunately we figured it out and solved the problem easily.

I guess whether or not you approach neighbors depends on how comfortable you are with them. I don't think there's any other way to know for sure.

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 Quote: betty waldron

The scary part is how many people buy this device with the best of intentions?

I saw one of these things listed in a catalogue yesterday as "the humane solution to nuisance barking" and in the description: "uses gentle sound aversion to curb your dog's barking....even works on the neighbors dog!"

Gentle sound aversion my a..
Sounds like a torture device to me...

Kristel,

Any neighbor that I have that I would suspect, I would not approach them to ask.

Maybe it's just the dog. But, she also has taken to not wanting to go outside. At first, I thought it was because it was raining (she hates going out in the rain), but now it is a lot of the time. She stands in the doorway and sniffs around but won't start thru the door. This has been going on for about 3 weeks. At the same time, tho, is my neighbors dog (bad pet owners) has started staying at my house. He sleeps on the porch or under the boat or just about anywhere. She will play with him sometimes, but I thought she was not wanting to go outside because of him.