Trying to sell my house with yappy dogs next-door

Bigphil1474

OP, we've had a few yappy dog neighbours unfortunately as next door was a rental for quite a few years before being bought. One would only bark when it was left alone, which isn't unusual, so I think the neighbour was genuine when she said she didn't know. After I spoke to her, she would leave the dog with her mum when she went out, and peace was restored. The last one was a dog that belonged to the son of the neighbour. He got it a few months before he moved out - it would bark constantly whether there were people around or not, and I think the son encouraged it a lot. Had a word with the mum who it turns out was equally annoyed, and she told us he'd found a new house and she had a fixed date for him moving out and both of us were happy when he did. 

As others have said, no dispute if there is no official record.

lookstraightahead

sheramber said:

Not everybody is annoyed by dogs barking.  It depends on their tolerance of noise

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But  these do not appear to be available to read anywhere on the website.

I think most people are though, it's not pleasant to listen to. If it's your own dog I don't think you hear it, I'm not annoyed by it, but I'd rather not have it (my neighbours have dogs but don't leave them barking outside)

bunnygo

spam or not, what a brilliant idea!

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RHemmings said:

Martico said:

As a first post it got my "sophisticated spam to advertise a new product" radar flashing 

The website sells a product with a monthly subscription. For a very simple product, it seems. 

Surely you could just do it for one month and record the sound, then keep playing it for free forever.

It might get you in trouble though. The website says it makes the dogs feel "uncomfortable". Harming the dogs is not an option, and if anyone discovered you were doing it that could be as bad as it being a criminal matter.

It's not undetectable either. A free phone app that shows a spectrogram will pick up any inaudible tones.

The neighbours are likely to wonder what is wrong with their dogs, and investigate. The more stuff like this gets advertised, the more people are going to know to check for it.

RHemmings

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RHemmings said:

Martico said:

As a first post it got my "sophisticated spam to advertise a new product" radar flashing 

The website sells a product with a monthly subscription. For a very simple product, it seems. 

Surely you could just do it for one month and record the sound, then keep playing it for free forever.

It might get you in trouble though. The website says it makes the dogs feel "uncomfortable". Harming the dogs is not an option, and if anyone discovered you were doing it that could be as bad as it being a criminal matter.

It's not undetectable either. A free phone app that shows a spectrogram will pick up any inaudible tones.

The neighbours are likely to wonder what is wrong with their dogs, and investigate. The more stuff like this gets advertised, the more people are going to know to check for it.

To record the sound would require more than basic equipment such as a smartphone, if the frequencies are high like dog whistles. Not difficult to find suitable hardware though; I have it at home. 

I agree that people using the system might be guilty of animal cruelty. Detecting a frequency that high would require specialist recording hardware - most recording hardware will filter out frequencies significantly higher than human hearing. A bat detector should pick it up easy, however. 

maladict

deannagone said:

Particularly considering only 2 posts, both about this issue.  Surely if this high pitched sound idea stopped dogs barking, it would be more widely known about?

Something similar works on teenagers apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito and is there that much difference between annoying yappy things and small dogs?