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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't live next door to anyone with kids but I have a dog who tends to bark outside at night and we feel really bad about it. We try not to let her out too late but sometimes she scratches at the door around 10 or so and it doesn't seem humane to make her wait until morning. She barks whether we're outside with her or not. Our guess is she hears other dogs in the distance or animals rustling or who knows what in the dark. If my dog were disturbing someone on a regular basis I'd definitely be receptive to hearing about it from them.

I thought all bark collars involved administering shock and have thus been hesitant to use one. But it looks like some spray a scent or emit an ultrasonic noise to distract the dog. I'm going to look into this. [/quote]

Heard of Pavlov? Dogs learn pretty quickly, so a small shock is okay.[/quote]

Ha, if you knew me you would appreciate the irony of your question. Pavlov used classical conditioning to teach dogs to salivate to a bell. Shocking a dog every time they bark is punishment a la BF Skinner. My dog has a condition that causes her chronic pain so I'm not really interested in adding to that, even if it's brief. But an unpleasant smell seems ok to me.[/quote]

What about your neighbors who might have chronic pain and need their rest?

I had some miscarriages before we were able to have kids, and all the doctor could come up with after many tests was that it was likely stress related and I just had to try to look after myself. So, I decided to put my career on hold for a while and focus on my health including getting more rest... and the #1 annoyance in my life was the annoying dog that would bark across the road. It used to drive me crazy. And yes, we had a noise machine, but if you want to be able to have conversations, watch a movie, read a book, play an instrument, then those things aren't really possible with loud white noise going. If you even just want to sit in silence and think then you should be able to do that in your own home without hearing an animal making a racket.

Allowing your neighbors peace and enjoyment in their own home is always the right thing to do.[/quote]

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