dog deterrent

Several of my neighbors have cats. These kitties have taken to digging around in my flower beds. My dog offers them no deterrent as she likes to "play" with them.

I’ve heard that pepper spray and even just sprinkled peppercorns can deter some animals. Is this a safe option? I’d rather not resort to chemicals or stand guard over my plants and asking neighbors to keep their cats under control is just silly. Are there better options?

I also have a neighbor dog that constantly escapes and knocks over the garbage cans in the alley. I was considering spraying the cans and the surrounding area with it too.
I’m not going to spray the ANIMALS! I’m going to spray the ground and plants! This isn’t the kind of pepper spray used for self-defense. Did you read my question. Obviously, I’m looking for a safe option.
The section they have been digging is full of daffodils. lol!

dog collar training

My dog is always chasing my cat and every other cat she sees. And this isn’t just playful chasing either. She got out of her pen the other day and attacked my neighbor’s cat. I want to teach her to leave cats alone. I am well aware that shock collars are cruel but it is also cruel having to keep the dog on a chain and cruel to continue allowing the dog to attack cats and cruel to have her put to sleep. What is a good brand of shock collars, like the ones you use to train a dog to stop barking?
I can’t put a muzzle on her all the time

dog collar training

Is there a dog collar system that works like a Bark collar, Training collar, and Electric Fence collar all at the same time?

Right now I have a very resourceful couple of dogs that can escape from and will bark at anything.

I have a dog kennel with 6ft high walls, a floor and roof, tied them in the kennel with 540lb chain and they still manage to get out while I am at work.

While I am home they are perfectly behaved, but once I leave the neighbors say they turn into hell raisers.

The one thing I have found is they will respect electricity. I can find collars that work as a fence (encouraging them to stay in the kennel), others that work for barking (since I guess this is a problem while I am gone too) and yet others that will work for hunting. What I have not found is one that does ALL of this. Does anyone know of one that will (or at least the fence/bark combo, since I already have a hunting set)

I work 4 on 4 off and they get lots of love when I am off work, but there is only so much I can do when I am gone for 4 days.
I do have a neighbor walk them daily, but a 30-90min walk is not the same as all day attention.

I have the electric trainer, and It works fine, but you actually have to be there to use it.

ultrasonic dog

Alright, I just received a call from a past client. She has a kennel run for both her dogs, but one has started to guard the housing unit of the kennel, and the other dog won’t stop barking and whining because he can’t get inside, and her neighbor is complaining.
Another issue is that the kennel is about 100 yards from their house on the back side of their property so getting to the dogs in enough time to correct the behavior when it is happening is impossible for her, and I do NOT make 3 am. house visits to clients. She put an ultrasonic bark deterrent in the kennel run portion, and that has worked to cease the dog’s barking, HOWEVER, the dog with the guarding issues needs to be corrected, and the issue resolved. We’ve already removed one source of contention between the two from the kennel, but the fact still remains that there are 2 dogs in 1 kennel that is too small for the both of them.
I suggested the dogs be crated within the housing unit of the kennel so as to avoid the guarding issue, and that worked for a few weeks before the client explained that she had relented, and let the dog out because she could hear the dog whining and barking over the baby monitor she’d set up in the housing unit.
We’ve tried crating one, and leaving the other free, but that is still an issue. Because the one dog has issues being separated.
I recommended crating the dogs inside the house, but she is completely against that idea due to the inconvenience of having to fold away the crates every morning.
My most recent recommendation was to give the dog’s a freedom trial run. The dogs have a dog door that leads into the house’s attached garage, and I recommended leaving the kennel door open at night so the dogs could go in there, or into the garage. Our only concern with this is that the dogs may bark out near where the neighbor lives and cause her to complain again. (dogs are contained by an invisible fence.)
The fact the dogs are soo far removed from the house, and the client is borderline unwilling to adhere to my suggestions in regard to this issue is a bit of a challenge here, and I’m starting to run out of ideas that don’t include bark collars (I hate them, but the husband is thinking about using them)
I’m beginning to think that it would be best to use an e-collar on the dog guarding the kennel when he’s guarding it because the e-collar would offer the correction from a distance, but at the right time. Now, I would only instruct my client to use the pager setting, and the shock button would be taped off so there wouldn’t be any mistakes there, but I don’t really like this idea, and it’s a last resort sor of thing.
If any of you have any recommendations as to how to handle this I’d be grateful. I’m trying to offer them a cost effective solution, but I’m thinking their best bet would be to put in a second dog door on the housing unit of the kennel, and divide the kennel run with a fence so the dogs have their own housing unit and kennel run.
It is extremely irritating to try and help someone whose dogs are so decidedly removed from the family, and all the dog’s want is to be near said family. The dogs do well in the house, but the owners insist on having them outside at night. This is something I have told them repeatedly I’m not a fan of, but hey, that’s how they want it.
If it matters at all, the dogs are both 9 mo. old adolescent, altered males. One is a Catahoula mix (the one with guarding issues), and the other is a hound/lab mix.
They’ve done well with all the other training, but this one issue has just recently reared it’s ugly head, and I’m at a loss.
Hate to say it DOG, but you really should read the entire thing because if you had…you would know I’ve already, REPEATEDLY told them to do so, and they won’t.
I’m pet sitting for them on Saturday, and we’re going to schedule another session to "talk". I’m basically going to kindly put the hammer down on them, and let them know what needs to be done. After the initial training the way they’ve got the dog’s living is basically undoing all the work we’ve done.
Ironically, I’ve told them they need to walk the dogs, but they argue that the dogs get enough exercise running their three acre yard. I host pack walks around town, and have even invited them to join…offering to assist if need be.
It is becoming clear that they feel I haven’t done anything for them…in this area. Well, frankly, as you all know, I can’t do anything if they won’t listen to reason. SOOOOOO, the hammer will be brought!

ultrasonic dog

My neighbor has an annoying little dog that won’t shut up. Unfortunately she is also local councilwoman. We have spoken directly to them (before anyone called the police) in the friendliest manner possible and they simply replied that it doesn’t bother them so we should just deal. As she is one the council (and sets the police departments budget) the cops refuse to act. We (and our neighbors) have called the police multiple times but to no avail. Also my roommates have cats so they won’t let me get anything ultrasonic.
While I like the idea of going to the news I live in a small town right next to a large city so all our local stations are the city stations and there’s more than enough other stuff for them not to care. I’m not gonna lie I’ve thought about hitting it with a paintball gun or something but I couldn’t bring myself to abuse an animal.

dog deterrent

It would seem to make sense that if it were difficult to break into your home a thief would rather break into your neighbor’s home instead.

One of my aunt’s hubby layered a perimeter of a hedge in front with razor wire, cactus & sharpened steel spikes and assorted shrubs & flowers (to conceal the traps from the house’s view). They don’t like having dogs gallivanting on their property. Their front gates are electrified. My dad likes to say "at least they haven’t put in a moat with alligators – . . . yet".

ultrasonic dog bark

both the neighbor’s next to my house have dogs, and they can’t control the damn dogs to stop making noise, they absolutely don’t care, im going crazy, and so does my GF who lives with me, she often fights me because of it, a little noise happens and one dog begin bark, and all dogs begin bark, i even thought about poisoning the dogs but there are too many of them, five in total

i saw a add about ultrasonic bark control, its suppose to make a annoying noise that can only be heard by the dog every time the dog bark and it keeps them quiet

anyone ever tried this? how effective is it?

ultrasonic dog

I bought a Yard Guard ultrasonic pest repeller for the deer in my back yard. I know that a dog’s hearing range overlaps a deer’s but I am wondering if it will bother their dogs (they are inside/outside). It would be pointed in my neighbor’s direction, but it has to go about 15′ to my fence, about 10′ more and then they have a fence (both are 6′ wood fences with very small gaps). TIA
I haven’t put the darn thing up YET. I just wanted some opinions on whether the sound range, being interrupted by both fences and possibly a house, could still get to the dogs.

ultrasonic dog

Sorry to the animal lovers, but it is very annoying. If you have an animal, have respect for your neighbor’s. I’ve bought the whistle, the ultrasonic bird house, called the county . Nothing seems to help. Love some sound advice.

ultrasonic dog bark

Okay, I live in a garage apartment behing my brother-in-law’s house and it backs up to an alley way and then a neighbor’s fenced backyard. The mutt can’t be more than 30 yards away from me and it barks all night long at something or nothing, but I have absolutely had it. Obviously it doesn’t bother anyone else even it’s owners. What would be the appropriate action to silence that dog after hours?
A. Confront it’s owners
B. Write a letter of complaint
C. Buy an ultrasonic dog silencer
D. Shoot it with an airsoft gun or pellet gun and stun it
E. Stuff some valium in a T-bone and trow it over the fence?
F. Call the police or animal patrol?

Please help this dog has to shut-up.