Disrupt barking without a collar

I am so excited! Have you ever had a dog so yappy and aggressive that it woke you up all hours of the night barking and growling at other members of the household who were just getting up to use the restroom or getting a drink? I have! I have been contemplating rehoming my dog because she never let's me sleep at night. I decided I'd give this a try. It's only day one and it's working SO well. My house is at peace! I'm not EVEN joking! I used the training button to stop the growling and after two growls and two button pushes, my dog has not growled since! My sons were never allowed to enter my home without her going ballistic and if they had friends over, she wouldn't stop barking until they left, even if they stayed the night! My son had a friend over today, she did two barks. That's it. Later My girlfriend came home and Luna did a bark and a half. Usually she goes psycho when she sees my girlfriend. I am in LOVE with this device. I've never seen my dog so quiet and calm. I even take it outside with me when I walk her since she literally starts acting like a psycho the moment her foot crosses the threshold from inside the house to outside the house. Thank you so much for restoring peace in my home. I might actually start to love her all again. The struggle has been real. I'm a mom of 4, a student, and working. I need my sleep! I'm looking forward to sleeping through the night tonight. This quit working after a couple of weeks. I sent it back and got a replacement, it did the same thing. Worked for a couple weeks and then quit working. It would go off over little noises, but not actually produce a sound. The sound can be heard by younger kids by the way. I couldn't hear it, but my kids would get annoyed by it.

Like most dog training devices, you can’t just turn this on and expect it to do all the work. That being said, it has worked amazingly for us! Our 10m old puppy was getting in a bad habit of barking in her crate while my husband and I were working so I decided to give it a go. I placed it next to her crate and we happen to have a camera facing her crate so I can look back and see when it has given correction. The good: When it emits the sound the light flashes red so I kept an eye on it to see how it did when she barked and watched her response. It works perfectly, even sometimes when she is clear across the house in another room or outside. She responds by visibly flinching and immediately quiets down. I’d say within a day her bad barking habit was gone. The bad: it occasionally picks up aberrant noises as barking. Since I already knew her response when it goes off I noticed a few times her flinching when we were cleaning or I was playing piano loudly on low keys. Sure enough it had gone off inappropriately. So now if we’re doing something really loud or if I’m playing the piano I unplug the battery (it would be really nice if it had an off switch, but it doesn’t) to avoid her being inappropriately corrected. I imagine if I didn’t take the time to do this, and she was unfairly corrected, she would either stop responding or be a very unhappy pup! To sum up, I’m really pleased with this product. But you do have to put some work in. I hope nobody is torturing their dogs with it expecting it to be foolproof.

Product seems to be made nice. Did not work for my three French bulldogs at all!

When I first started using this item, it worked fairly well. Our dog - a barky Lhasa Apso - would bark like crazy if he saw anyone - even one of the family outside. With this unit, he would bark just a couple of times and then pretty much stop. I'd say his barking was reduced by 90% - that is, it was down to about 10% of its original level - danged good in my book! And none of the humans in the house ever heard anything. This worked for about 2 weeks, but he gradually started barking more and more, and now he's back to maybe 80% of the barking level he was at before we used it. I guess he kind-of got used to the sound; it no longer annoys him, or whatever. At least, not enough to get him to stop barking. I like the idea of this product - no collar to deal with. But it's just not working for us ... maybe it would be more effective if it had an intensity control or something - so we could turn up the volume.

When i first favorited this item, it had more than 4 stars. But when i finally decided to go ahead and buy it, since i dont like the idea of shock collars, the item was at 3 stars. I should have listened to some of the reviews. While this item is not expensive at all, it was a TOTAL waste of money. My mom has 4 small dogs, a shih tzu pure breed and THREE shih tzu/apsalapsa mixed breeds. They are all small, about the size of normal sized house cats. Well when i visit her on the weekends, all i hear are their barking from when they play with each other. They dont do it all day but when they do, its rampant and can go on for an hour, at random parts of the day. I bought this hoping it will shut them up. I was dead wrong. When i first got the device. I tested it. The dogs would be in their little gated playpen and i would sneak up near them while they were just looking around aimlessly and i would press the device's manual button. Their reaction was just a surprised, wondered look. You know how dogs tilt their head at an angle if they see or hear a funny sound. Well thats all the bark control is good for, to make your dog make weird face angles. I thought maybe i should just wait til they actually bark, because thats what this is meant for. So i placed the device next to the couch, which is literally 6 feet from their little play pen. And before you know it, they still barked and the device didnt phase them AT ALL. Its like i took the battery out of the damn thing. All 4 of them just barking away at each other, or when someone rings the door bell. They just barked and barked like nothing is wrong. I told my mom this is seriouly bad and they need to be trained otherwise they'll never stop barking. So we're thinking about getting those shock collars afterall. Word of advice, DONT buy this unless you have probably ONE dog that occasionally barks, but you want him/her to stop barking when it is really not necessary.

We have a year and a half old (21.5 lb.) Cockapoo and were just about to get a new 7 wk old puppy of the same breed. Our Cockapoo barked a bit more than we'd like-especially at the very busy coming and goings at our neighbors' home across the street from us. Our neighbor is a preacher and there are guests coming and going at his home every single day, many times a day especially on weekends. Our attempts to curb our dog's barking seemed to be falling on deaf ears. We tried shutting our blinds ( I hated blocking the natural light and view, but he could still see plenty through the cracks in and around the blinds anyway). I tried the simple "time out" by saying "no barking" and putting him into his pen for a few minutes but that was not very effective (even though he could not see out the front of our home while in his pen). I really didn't want to try a shock collar and wasn't terribly interested about the spray collars either. Our dog is typically quite friendly and curious, but at times can be non-aggressively timid. I worried that a behavior correction device might make him fearful or more timid. I was hesitant to try this device based on its' lukewarm ratings, but I figured, "If this thing works for us and costs less than $30, it will be amazing!" When I first tried the device during a barking episode I very calmly said, "No barking" and turned it on. My dog stopped dead in his tracks and looked toward me (I stood right next to the unit on the high kitchen counter) and had the expression of "What in the HECK was that?!?" He showed no fear or worry (thank goodness), just literally like "Holy smokes, WHAT WAS THAT?!?" and then he walked over to his favorite spot on the couch and quietly laid down. I have used the device about at least 6 more times (over a two week period) and almost every time he does the same thing, stops barking and goes and lays down on the couch. He shows no sign of stress or freaking out. I have continued to very calmly say "No barking" right before I turn on the unit during his barking episodes. I have noticed a dramatic decline in his barking, sometimes he'll stop with just my voice command, or sometimes he won't bark anymore, but rather uses a very hushed gentle "woof-woof" which I think sounds cute and sweet. I didn't want him to teach our new puppy to do excessive barking or have the two of them feed off each other and exacerbate the episodes. I also don't expect to have silent dogs and do not use this device all the time or when they are playing and just being regular dogs. As a matter of fact, I use the device much less often and for very short durations (literally a minute or two) because it has proven to be so successful in our home. I know that everyone's success rate will vary, as dogs are all individuals, but I am so very thankful that I went ahead and decided to just try this thing out. I can not hear anything when it goes off. The blinking green light lets you know it's on and working, when the red light flashes you know that a two second ultrasonic sound is being emitted. I gave this unit 4 stars instead of 5 only because it does not have an on/off switch-if the battery is in, it's always on and to make it so that it doesn't "alarm" you must remove the battery. For me, this means the battery sits on the counter next to the unit with the battery door laying on the counter beside it, and I have to connect and disconnect the battery each time I want to use the device. Having an on/off switch would be SO much more user friendly, but it works and I'm keeping it!! I try to be very gentle with the battery wire adapter so as not to short out the wires. As per the directions, if you have more than one dog and any one of them barks when this thing is on, they are all going to hear the "correction sound"-something to consider for you and yours. I am so glad there are options other than shock and spray collars. I really like that I can control when this thing is on and off and that my dog does not need to wear an additional collar device. Two big thumbs up!! March 6, 2013 update. So we've had this device for over a year now. It continues to work as I described above. I wanted to mention that I do NOT leave the unit "on" hardly at all. I still basically just plug the battery in when they start barking away for ambient noise or alarming sights (to them, which is almost anything and anybody) outside or a knock at our door. Perhaps because of the "mostly off/only on when I want barking to stop" manner of using this device has a lot to do with my continued success. They still seem to not like the sound, but have not "gotten used to it, or desensitized" and they also have not developed any adverse or fearful behavior because of the sound. About half the time all I have to do is hold up the device so they can see it and say, "no barking" and I don't even need to put the battery in. My dogs seem much more easily set off now that we have two of them; if one has any "alarm" trigger the second jumps in immediately as back up. I can't say that I didn't expect this however. I'm still on my original battery. Occasionally another sharp, loud sound will trigger the device to emit it's sound, but I do not find the device to be overly sensitive. I can see how people who leave the device on all the time would have trouble with their pet becoming desensitized, fearful, and probably confused about the sound emitting when they didn't bark. My house is silent now and my cell phone just rang (volume on highest) as it sat literally 3" from the "on" unit and the unit did not emit a signal. The phone scared me and made me jump, but the device did not trigger! Sharp noises seem to trigger it, like a clap of hands or slapping your hand on a table or counter, or a yell. A cough or sneeze has not set it off. Based on the reviews, you're still going to take a gamble whether this device "works" on your dog(s), but if it does then I think you will find the benefits very much worth the price.

I've only been using this for three days, so I will update this review in the next few months BUT.. I have 3 yorkshire terriers. I also dog-sit dogs at my house. So, at any given moment, I have between 3-6 dogs at my residence. My yorkies are definite barkers. They bark at everything and anything. They bark at each other all the time (if one of them takes a toy another one wants... or, my favorite, if one of them is laying on a pillow or a spot on the couch another one wants. Once one of them starts barking, the others usually all follow. If I am not there to stop it, it can go on for HOURS. I moved into a townhouse recently and started to get REALLY anxious about leaving the house because there were multiple instances where I would come home and hear one of my dogs barking from the outside of the house. I can differentiate their barks (I know which one of them is barking and what type of bark they are using... like, they have an intruder bark, they have a annoyed bark, or they just have a bored bark, etc). My girl dog was barking her bored bark... the Bored Bark usually goes on for hours, there is no telling how long my neighbors must have been subjected to her barking. I was mortified. I tried setting up distractions for them while I leave the house. I don't leave the house a lot, I work from home, but I go out for about 2-3 hours a day to run errands or see people. So I tried giving them bones to gnaw on, toys filled with treats, anything. But they would just end up barking at each other because one of them would want the other one's toy. So I finally got a shock collars. I tried it for a day and felt too bad. So I returned them. I also I purchased "spray collars". Those are coming tomorrow and I plan on using those in conjunction to this device. I also purchased muzzles and will be muzzling them if ever needed. Hey, it's better than getting complaints from neighbors and fines from the city and god knows whatever else. I have one neighbor who didn't say anything to my face about my dogs but who wrote a long complaint on Facebook about us. But, anyway, I purchased this alongside my muzzles, and it works beautifully! one of my male terriers has high anxiety (he is scared of everything) and so I feel a little bad for him because he immediately jumps onto my lap and tries to hide his face in my shirt. The other two don't have anxiety but immediately stopped barking when this thing detected them. I manually pushed it today and all three of my dogs SCATTERED. I can hear the noise on some level. But then again, I am very young and my hearing is extremely good and I often hear high frequency pitches that others cannot. I have a frequent larger terrier that I look after (dog-sit) who loves to bark whenever I leave the house because she has separation anxiety. She has a deep, woofing bark that is much louder than my yorkies and much more annoying. She is over right now and this device immediately stops her barking as well. I think it is a hit-or-miss, completely depends on your dog type... but for my yorkies... It is working great and I am so happy. For the first time in weeks, I don't feel anxiety leaving the house. I actually finish all my errands and the thought of "having to go home ASAP just in case they have started a barking war" is no longer entering my mind. Even though I am only gone for 2-3 hours at a time, I still feel bad for my neighbors and truly just want my home to be quiet when I am gone. I even considered getting a two-way voice pet cam so I could check in and tell them to stop barking if needed. I might get one of those regardless, I am just so set on stopping this barking for the sake of my neighbors. Again, I will update this review in about a month or so but I actually am thinking about purchasing several more of these for more coverage!

Following is my initial review, sadly it stopped being effective altogether at about one month in. -- We were at the end of our rope with our barky dog. We have tried a few things to correct the barking (Pet Corrector air canister, removing her to a small bathroom whenever she would bark, etc.), but we just weren't consistent enough to see results. We also have a newborn and a toddler, so often when the barking would happen we had our hands full. We bought this as a last resort before considering something like a bark collar (which we REALLY did not want to do!) Within an hour or two of setting this up, we basically had a whole new dog. I think she set it off maybe two times before she clearly "got it." She did come running up shaking and clearly startled by the tone (she does the same thing occasionally with the dishwasher, so while I felt bad it wasn't an out of the ordinary response for her.) This was a good reminder to give constant positive reinforcement whenever she doesn't bark when she otherwise would have, so we're sure to praise whenever people come to the door, whenever we come home, etc. This weekend, we had pizza delivered, multiple mailman/Amazon deliveries, several television shows with doorbells in them and all no barking. We are having some trouble figuring out the light scheme on the front, though. The manual says this indicates either that it's working, that it needs a new battery, or that it's sounding. We are trying to be sure we're putting it somewhere that only barking sets it off and not something like the baby crying, so it's not super helpful that the light could mean our battery is low or could mean or dog is getting blasted. It would be nice to know for sure which. Also, it does seem to chew through batteries, We've had to replace once already and now that new battery has the light flashing red, but I suspect we won't need to have this on all the time. Just maybe set it back up if the behaviour returns. I wish we'd gotten this years ago vs all the stress we've had.

Wouldn’t recommend it.

El aparato promete ayudar a disminuir los ladridos de los perros, yo lo utilicé en casa y no noté ninguna diferencia, me funcionó más colocar una EchoDot en el area de los perros y ponerles música relajante ( y básicamente cuesta lo mismo). Le pongo 3 estrellas por qué tal vez a alguien si le pueda funcionar

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Despite some shaky reviews I bought this because I have a Petsafe collar that works great. Unfortunately this unit is absolutely not functional due to being much, much too sensitive. I have a quiet house in a rural area, and even when I was trying to tiptoe around, this bark deterrent unit was constantly going off for no reason. It is useless as a training tool because of this, and will just confuse and upset your dog. I returned it. Don’t buy it. I’m going to get a manually activated one instead, which I was hoping to avoid. Also as other reviews have mentioned there is no off switch, and it’s really hard to disconnect the battery. Not that it really matters since there’s effectively no time it can reasonably be left on.

Doesn’t work on our 4 month old puppy. Instead it made her bark even more!