Don't you just love it when a plan comes together. 

My neighbours have been giving me grief since shortly after they moved in.  However, they started causing a bother with parking outside my gate and winding the dogs up but then they installed a dog bark alarm.  Interestingly they do not bark much except at this couple.  When they installed it the dogs started to bark, the neighbours started to complain about the noise the bark stopper was making and the younger kids actually cried when they walked passed because it hurt their ears.

This went on for more than six months will all of us telling them they had it on the wrong setting and it was having a bad effect because it was audible all the time and upsetting not just the dogs but the neighbours, I read the instructions on the Internet and you are supposed to stop using it if not effective after a week, but they refused to alter the setting.  They went away over bonfire night and left the thing on full belt and as you can imagine it screamed all night we where exhausted and the dogs very upset.

Now the husband of the team has been away for a few weeks and the lady (they are Germans and although they speak English they do not read instructions very well) turned off the machine.  Bliss, peace reigns no barking, well the odd woof when visitors arrive.  It is simply wonderful.  I can only hope that when the husband returns she can convince him the neighbourhood was  a lot quieter without it.

It only goes to show that used wrongly a bark deterent machine can have the opposite effect to the one desired.

Hi we have one in our garden due to irresponsible neighbours who put their horrible little yapping things out at all hours and just let them bark for hours, really annoying. now im a dog lover, i worked with dogs and bred and showed my own and i was always respectful of the noise issue as i had big dogs and never just let them bark but we have had to resort to this device from USA just to get some peace but we can't hear it and it does work . not something i wanted to do but if you have a dog and it barks unchecked for ages you can expect to p**** off your neighbours, i personally would call the council out on my problem if i knew which house they lived at, so lucky you in training your neighbours, can you come round and train mine ??

Not quite sure where you are coming from on that one.  It was my dogs that were being harassed not the neighbors.  They only barked, and then for a very short while because I brought them in, when the neighbours parked in the turning space right outside my drive.  The dogs are well back from the main gate and behind another gate. 

This particular neighbour watches my every move and its very scary.  A short while ago I had burglars or dog thieves don't know which, and my neighbours installed the dog bark thing because the little dogs had been let out into the garden (not by us) while I was at work and where running about.  I am grateful they scared the thieves off but my neighbours went wild and tore into me when I got home while I was faced with a break in. 

They are not great barkers normally but the new alarm turned up so it screamed all the time really upset them so they had to be put in another garden which is the one we keep for visitors like my baby granddaughter, not now | hasten to add.  Bonfire night is always terrible and their alarm going off with every rocket just totally traumatised all of them.

Now while I don't disagree with the dog bark alarm in principle I do disagree with the way it was being used.  If you could give me the name of your USA one that you can't hear I will gladly buy them one as a present.

sorry i confused you, my point was that you can get silent ones ( to humans) and that they can be used responsibly, unfortunatly the weather has erased the company details on mine and i can't remember where it came from.