PetSafe Outdoor Ultrasonic Bark Control – Weatherproof

não funcionou. os cães continuam latindo.

it does not work. the dogs are still barking

We’ve waited a few days to write this as we wanted to make sure it was “for real”. And it is!!!

Backstory: we have a very happy and energetic 2 year old lab. She is an outside dog as she was born on a farm and we would rather not have her inside (she has a building outside, a crate in the garage, gets walked every day, and has a huge yard with lots of squirrels and frogs). She also hates being inside the house (it scares her) so she’s an outside doggy. She has a ton of energy and usually runs 4-9 miles with me every day. As she was growing up, we purchased a bark collar for her. It worked well and she stayed pretty quiet at night. I think we purchased 4 or 5 collars total (they die eventually). I bought the last one in February. It just didn’t work anymore. I think she had become immune to the shock or just didn’t care. She is also very smart and figured out that if she shook her head enough, she could jimmy the battery and the collar would stop working.

We were at our wits end 2 weeks ago. Lots of stress at both of our jobs and her barking at night was not helping. We started crating her at night in the garage. Luckily, she loves the crate so she would go to sleep easily in there. But, we knew the garage would get too hot soon and the frogs have been appearing in the backyard (did I mention how much she LOVES to bark at frogs? Especially at 3 AM??). I told the hubby that I was going to try something new. He was doubtful and so was I, but we had to do something. Even after a 9 mile run and lots of time spent in the backyard with her (I’m redoing the landscaping), she was still barking at night.

I ordered the bark control birdhouse. Correction, I ordered the MIRACLE bark control birdhouse! The first night we put it up and looked at each other doubtfully. I turned it on (as I said we have a big backyard so it’s on the highest level). Immediately, Daisy knew what was up. Her hackles raised, she barked a few times, whined, and then – sat down and shut up. It was AMAZING.

We have had it on for 4 nights now (we shut it off as soon as we’re up and only turn it on around 10 PM or so). She barked one time over by our bedroom window the other night and I didn’t think the birdhouse would reach there – but it did! She shut up immediately.

I’m sure some folks have a different story, but my crazy lab Daisy is much less crazy at 3 AM because of this device. We will be looking into rechargeable batteries for it very soon. We are also hopeful that we won’t need to have it on in the future because she will know not to bark so much at night.

Buy it!!!! It will change your life!!!! And your sleep!!!!

It worked for couple of days and died.

I sit here at 6:50am on a Sunday not because I normally get up at 6:50am on a Sunday noooo. I’m up because the neighbors dogs were barking t their normal wake up time of 6:50am. Bark bark bark bark. I enjoy being startled awake every. Single. Morning. From these dogs I get to enjoy a heart rate that skyrockets from being startled awake followed by a migraine the size of Kentucky, followed by rage of epic proportions.
Let me share the story of how I know this does not work on ALL dogs. I bought the “elite” out of desperation in hopes I would not have to confront my neighbors after 4 YEARS (yes you heard correctly 4 years) of this non stop barking. I test this out of the amazing box like Ralphie in A Christmas Story opening his air rifle. I immediately put the batteries in. OOOPS! I have a beautiful kind and VERY quiet golden retriever. He runs over to me like WTH momma???!? Runs to the door to do outside. Runs to end of driveway and just stares at house. I can’t get him to come back in. Oh. I but also Yay! It works! I’ll shut these neighbor dogs up once and for all. So now I have to plan. I’m 3 houses away from the dogs. So I plot to sneak over to my first neighbors house at night. I’ll hang it in their pine tree, they will never notice! So night comes. I “sneak” over to my neighbors back yard. Give away # 1. We have 4 feet of snow so now there are track to the tree. Oh well it’s March it has to melt soon. Keep going! I think to myself. So I get up to the tree and find a good Branco. Suddenly BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK! These dogs are like 5 feet away from me, behind a fence luckily. But they are supposed to be inside for the night!! So they scare the crap out of me with their blood curdling barks. And then, I smell cigarette smoke and see a tall silhouette out of the corner of my eye. It’s the dog owner staring at corner of his lot watching me hook up this thing. So now the dogs are out of control, he’s sitting there and in a spineless tone that you can’t even hear above his dogs death barks “hey be quiet”. Then he sees me in the dark, just stands there looking at a tree trying to pull a branch through the hoop it comes with, like this this doesn’t look weird at all. So he says “Uh, sorry about my dogs”. This unleashed the beast in my 110 pound 5’1” frame. Oh I lectured him. I told him how I am losing my mind with his dogs. He needs to control his dogs barking as all the neighbors are sick of it. That I’ve called the cops 10 times and still he does nothing!! He responds in a Forrest Gump like tone “Yeah we tried training but it doesn’t work” (dogs are still barking at this point!) so I say “Get a bark color! They have ones that spray, emit a high pitch tone or shock them…Control your dogs!!” And I walk away (using my same snow path I made going directly to my house). So now I sit and wait. 6:50am next morning arrives. BARK!….and then nothing. Omg this might work!! I celebrate. I was feeling relief for the first time in years not being woke up by satan dogs. Then…Sunday morning. I’m startled awake whilst dreaming. I sit there and I count…30 barks. 10 minutes later. 30 barks. Oh! Just now! More barks. I’m about to have a coronary.
Last ditch effort will be to ask my passive aggressive neighbor if I can hang this on their fence to get a coupe feet closer. Now these neighbors…those barking dogs attacked their golden costing thousands in vet bills and traumatized their dog to this day. Hopefully they will let me hang this on their fence. If that does not work I am returning this. BTW. 2 days later my dog is still staring at me like “Why did you hurt me?”