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Revenge on Barking Dogs

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#1 ·
I am not advocating cruelty to animals,this is merely a hypothetical scenario.
All actions taken in real life are your responsibility.
You can use a wok for your parabola and the dog whistle can be found in many pet stores and catalogs(I think johnson-smith is where I got mine) The aquarium pump can of course be found at fish stores and yard sales. A piece of latex tubing completes the device , to run from the pump to the mouthpiece of the whistle. the formula for placement of the whistle to be at the focal point of the dish is..1/4 of the diameter of the dish IE; if you have a 12 inch dish , the focal point is 3 inches above the bottom , dead center.
Use coat hanger wire or whatever is handy to mount the whistle in position.
This will give you an amplified directional sound beam directed at your target for a considerable distance(the bigger the dish the farther it goes and the louder at the target area. Just tune the whistle until you get the desired effect from the beasts and leave it there. Stick the handle of the wok in the ground if outside,or aim it through a window.You can drape a cloth of some sort(maybe some camo netting) that will conceal the device over it and let it run.
You probably won't hear the sound but the beasts will.

What a fantastic invention moriarity! I found myself here through a google search for parabolic antennas. I'm building one for a wifi connection. But I too have a barking dog problem. I'm going to have to build one of these. There is a more accurate formula for the focus of a parablola. It's still very simple and the higher the frequency, the more sensitive are the focus requirements.
You take the diameter of the dish and square it. 12 squared is 144 for instance.
You take the depth of the dish and multiply it by 16. a 3 inch depth is 48 for instance.
You divide the second number into the first. 144 divided by 48 gives a focus point 3 inches above the bottom of the dish. This is probably close to the average wok, as you point out. .
But if you have a dish that is 12 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep you have 12 squared divided by 4X16 which equals 2.25 inches for the focus. And if your dish is a very shallow 12 by 2 inches deep, the focus will end up being 4.5 inches from the bottom. This can make a huge difference. Thanks again for the idea.

Found this out there on the net. Don't know if it works but i'm building one.
 
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#2 ·
Dude,
It isn't the dogs fault. Why torment an already unhappy animal. Call the animal control officer, local police etc EVERY TIME the dog is an annoyance. EVentually the morons will get the message. Keep in mind, that your loud engine might just be as offensive to them, and payback is .....
John
 
#3 ·
I called animal control, that lasted about a week and it's back to the same old dog crap. Animal control told me that i would need myself and someone else complaining before they would come out again.
Screw em, it's time to take matters in my own hands and fix this problem. One way or another these dogs are gonna stop barking.
 
#5 ·
If my dogs are barking, someone they don't recognize is outside. If this is at night, and I'm home, I shut them up by walking outside and yelling "What the f*** is going on out here?" They usually snap to reality and leave. Usually druggie neighbor kid's loser friends.
 
#6 ·
Cameano said:
If my dogs are barking, someone they don't recognize is outside. If this is at night, and I'm home, I shut them up by walking outside and yelling "What the f*** is going on out here?" They usually snap to reality and leave. Usually druggie neighbor kid's loser friends.
I love this one----> I shut them up by walking outside and yelling "What the f*** is going on out here?" Sounds like me, LOL
Iam lucky I live on 20+ acres and the only dos that will bark is my 4 Jack Russels and they never bark as it is.
 
#7 ·
I run my fan because of tinnitus (constant, unstopping ringing in my ears). The sound has the added benefit of blocking out the neighborhood dogs.

Around here, someone can get a dog started four blocks away, and the dogs that are near him start barking, then the next group starts, and it just sort of flows over in a wave with every dog in the neighborhood barking.

My neighbor came up with a great fix for his boxer. He throws him a frozen hot dog. This keeps the dog busy chewing on the hot dog for a while, and the barking stops instantly.

To stop my dog barking I need only open the door and look at him. He stops instantly unless there is something really wrong.
 
#8 · (Edited)
gspan1830 said:
I am not advocating cruelty to animals,this is merely a hypothetical scenario.
All actions taken in real life are your responsibility.
You can use a wok for your parabola and the dog whistle can be found in many pet stores and catalogs(I think johnson-smith is where I got mine) The aquarium pump can of course be found at fish stores and yard sales. A piece of latex tubing completes the device , to run from the pump to the mouthpiece of the whistle. the formula for placement of the whistle to be at the focal point of the dish is..1/4 of the diameter of the dish IE; if you have a 12 inch dish , the focal point is 3 inches above the bottom , dead center.
Use coat hanger wire or whatever is handy to mount the whistle in position.
This will give you an amplified directional sound beam directed at your target for a considerable distance(the bigger the dish the farther it goes and the louder at the target area. Just tune the whistle until you get the desired effect from the beasts and leave it there. Stick the handle of the wok in the ground if outside,or aim it through a window.You can drape a cloth of some sort(maybe some camo netting) that will conceal the device over it and let it run.
You probably won't hear the sound but the beasts will.

What a fantastic invention moriarity! I found myself here through a google search for parabolic antennas. I'm building one for a wifi connection. But I too have a barking dog problem. I'm going to have to build one of these. There is a more accurate formula for the focus of a parablola. It's still very simple and the higher the frequency, the more sensitive are the focus requirements.
You take the diameter of the dish and square it. 12 squared is 144 for instance.
You take the depth of the dish and multiply it by 16. a 3 inch depth is 48 for instance.
You divide the second number into the first. 144 divided by 48 gives a focus point 3 inches above the bottom of the dish. This is probably close to the average wok, as you point out. .
But if you have a dish that is 12 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep you have 12 squared divided by 4X16 which equals 2.25 inches for the focus. And if your dish is a very shallow 12 by 2 inches deep, the focus will end up being 4.5 inches from the bottom. This can make a huge difference. Thanks again for the idea.

Found this out there on the net. Don't know if it works but i'm building one.
I have the Solution for the Neighbors that dont care if they let their dogs bark!!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iservemp3/detail?.dir=61e4&.dnm=b54d.jpg&.src=ph
Now for the real deal the small one is for the dogs, and if that dont get their attention move on to the middle one Guaranteed to work , and when the neighbors can hear jack just fire off the BIG one I GUARANTEE the entire neighborhood will wake up to one of those babys!!!!!atleast up to 5 miles away!!!!!!!!!
 
#10 ·
You know, as someone who keeps a dozen dogs outdoors, I find this thread really obnoxious. My dogs bark LOUDLY twice a day for 10-20 minutes during feeding time. That's about it. I guess I shouldn't feed my dogs now, so that you don't hear the barking.

when your children are outside playing in the yard, yelling and screaming as children do, I don't call the police. So don't call them when I'm feeding my dogs. When you're mowing the lawn with your loud-arse busted up lawnmower saturday at 7 am, I don't call the police. So don't call them when I'm loading my dogs into the truck. When you're working outside with power tools, or hammering away at something at 3 in the morning, I don't call the police. I don't call the police when you stumbled home at 2 AM louder than a televangelist with a bullhorn and woke up my dogs. And most of all, when YOUR dogs bark, or are off your property, I don't call the police. Catch my drift?

There are laws for excessive barking during the day, and there are laws for ANY barking during the night. That does not mean my dogs can't bark when I feed them at 8 AM and 8 PM. The world does NOT revolve around what you consider to be a good time for dogs to bark, which is probably not at any time. I feed my dogs at reasonable hours, I keep them quiet at night, and I load them into the truck the night before if I'm leaving at 6AM or earlier. Maybe that's why animal control is on MY side. Next thing you know neighbors will be complaining about the coyotes baying at night, or the sun rising in the east every morning.

off the pedestal :mad:
 
#12 ·
lev said:
Next thing you know neighbors will be complaining about the coyotes baying at night, or the sun rising in the east every morning.
The coyotes don't bother me, but some mornings that sun needs to rise in the west or just come up a little later. It shines right between the cracks in my blinds and it's just a wee bit bothersome.

Is there an Astronomical Control Agency that I could call about that?
 
#14 ·
lev said:
You know, as someone who keeps a dozen dogs outdoors, I find this thread really obnoxious. My dogs bark LOUDLY twice a day for 10-20 minutes during feeding time.
Yeah, but your dogs are insane ;)

Almost every house around me has a dog. The neighbors 2 bark at me when I pull in the driveway at night because they think I'm their owner (he gets ome about 30 min after I do). I bark back and they look at me like "WTF Man...?"

Another neighbor has some sort of Husky type (sorry Lev, no idea what it is) and it howls all the time, esp when sirens go off somewhere in town, so I howl with him. I figure 1 of 2 things will happen: Either the neighbors will get sick of hearing me howl and they'll take him in, or they'll think I'm a bit 'off' and leave me the hell alone

Either way, I win ;)
 
#16 ·
1badss396 said:
I have the Solution for the Neighbors that dont care if they let their dogs bark!!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iservemp3/detail?.dir=61e4&.dnm=b54d.jpg&.src=ph
Now for the real deal the small one is for the dogs, and if that dont get their attention move on to the middle one Guaranteed to work , and when the neighbors can hear jack just fire off the BIG one I GUARANTEE the entire neighborhood will wake up to one of those babys!!!!!atleast up to 5 miles away!!!!!!!!!
Yep! Those look REAL good! :thumbsup: I particularly like the waterproof fuses. I wonder if the cases will last long enough under water to make the fuses worth using?

Sorry, this was about waking the neighbors, not fishing. I went off on a tangent there. :waving:
 
#17 ·
Byfield said:
Yeah, but your dogs are insane ;)

Almost every house around me has a dog. The neighbors 2 bark at me when I pull in the driveway at night because they think I'm their owner (he gets ome about 30 min after I do). I bark back and they look at me like "WTF Man...?"

Another neighbor has some sort of Husky type (sorry Lev, no idea what it is) and it howls all the time, esp when sirens go off somewhere in town, so I howl with him. I figure 1 of 2 things will happen: Either the neighbors will get sick of hearing me howl and they'll take him in, or they'll think I'm a bit 'off' and leave me the hell alone

Either way, I win ;)
too dam funny does your wife like the howling also? LOL
 
#18 ·
cjlandry said:
Yep! Those look REAL good! :thumbsup: I particularly like the waterproof fuses. I wonder if the cases will last long enough under water to make the fuses worth using?

Sorry, this was about waking the neighbors, not fishing. I went off on a tangent there. :waving:
Yes they do infact makes it easy to go fishing with them also!!! HEHEHE
 
#19 ·
It amazes me how many dog owners are immune to the sound of their constantly barking dogs. Sometimes when I'm outside i wish for just a few moments when i couldn't hear a freaking dog barking anywhere. If I yell "SHUT UP" at the top of my lungs sometimes I can get, at the most, five minutes of silence. I've never had anyone's kids, loud cars or any other noise that comes close to the nusiance of the non-stop barking.

I think a "dog season" is in order.:D
 
#20 ·
my dogs are my children. if you aim some sort of dog weapon or torture device at them, don't be surprised if you find some sort of weapon aimed back. for what it is worth, mine will only bark if there is someone in my yard that doesn't belong there. that is kinda the point of having dogs in the first place. Watch dog... get it. if it ever seems that they are barking for no reason, after a good investigation of the situation, i take them inside to shut em up. doesn't happen too often. usually set off by all the dogs in the neighborhood barking at something. but just to justify my point, if you found some kind of anti-kid weapon pointed at your kids playing in the yard, i am quite sure that you would do something about it.
 
#21 ·
How about slipping a smokin' hot tamale in a hot dog and tossing it at them to chew on?

It worked on the dobermans that were next door to my parent's old house. Kept 'em quiet for quite a while... Those dang things would bark at the wind and WOULD NOT STOP!!

I feel your pain brother...
 
#22 ·
troposcuba said:
my dogs are my children.

if you found some kind of anti-kid weapon pointed at your kids playing in the yard, i am quite sure that you would do something about it.
I feel the same way about my dogs. The other comment is not justified though. You can tell a child to leave and expect it to happen. With a dog they tend to come back more so if you have a your own dogs in the yard. If you pop his butt with a BB gun they tend not to come back.
 
#23 ·
fair enough. i was mainly talking about my dogs which i maintain control of and keep in my own yard or on a leash. if a dog is wandering into your yard and causing problems (ie threatening your kids or family or even your dogs) then i think you are justified taking stronger action to stop that from recurring. I have a friend that had a pit bull that kept coming back to his yard and trying to get at his young daughters. he took the 12 gage loaded with bird shot and tried to just give the dog a light peppering in the but. the dog dropped like a stone. turns out it took a pellet to the spine. so he walked over and put it down. well the 2 little girls that had just moved in across the street soon were knocking on his door. he said the conversation went something like this: "Hi, we just moved in across the street. We have a cat, and he is nice. So would you not murder him like that dog?" and he thought no one saw it. so what i guess i am trying to say is use reasonable force. but then again it only takes one time for a dog to hurt a kid real bad.
 
#24 ·
69malibu3speed said:
If I yell "SHUT UP" at the top of my lungs sometimes I can get, at the most, five minutes of silence.

I think a "dog season" is in order.:D
And if I said this to the loud children playing next door do you think their parents would take offense?

"Dog Season"? I sincerely hope you recognize the difference: Shoot the owner, not the dog. The dog is just being a dog, the owner is the arse.

lev said:
when your children are outside playing in the yard, yelling and screaming as children do, I don't call the police. So don't call them when I'm feeding my dogs. When you're mowing the lawn with your loud-arse busted up lawnmower saturday at 7 am, I don't call the police. So don't call them when I'm loading my dogs into the truck. When you're working outside with power tools, or hammering away at something at 3 in the morning, I don't call the police. I don't call the police when you stumbled home at 2 AM louder than a televangelist with a bullhorn and woke up my dogs. And most of all, when YOUR dogs bark, or are off your property, I don't call the police. Catch my drift?
Right on lev. I've got plenty of inconveniences by me:
How about the Baptist church next door which holds outdoor prayer services on steamy August evenings? (The preacher sounds just like the reverend out of "Coming to America")
The tree cutting service that only seems to work on Saturday mornings?
That damn pesky man-hole cover that goes "Cla-Clunk" evertime someone drives their car over it?

This is one of the reasons I need to move away from people onto at least 10 acres: They can't complain about me, and then I can't complain about them. I think when I actually build my first house, it will have a moat.
 
#26 ·
This topic really hits home with me. My closest neighbor has had dogs since moving in (many years ago) and they really are not pets. Before I began complaining to him, the first dog wasn't restrained and would crap on MY driveway. I began scooping it up with a shovel and tossing the ordnance onto his parking pad and cars. That dog is almost always chained now.
The other dog they have is in a pen at the back of their lot and NEVER gets let out or played with by him or his kids. This dog would bark at all hours of the night even if it was only the wind blowing. I began calling them every time I was awakened by the barking. That didn't work. I finally called animal control and told them to charge them with a nuisance dog. We went to court and the judge told them to control the dog's barking and for me to call them every time it wakes me. I do still call them but it still isn't fun being awakened in the middle of the night.
I have no problem with daytime barking but I do have a serious issue with losing sleep. Now, the neighbors behind me have two dogs that have started barking at night. This crap never ends.
People need to have a little compassion for others and SHUT their own dogs up.
 
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