Barking Dogs - Page 2

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Good deal! I know how that relief feels. If my redneck neighbor had gotten the message and gotten one of those he'd have a lot more friends in the area. But those kind of people put screws under your tires instead.

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As I posted in post #6 I am guilty of letting my dog run freely and terrorize the neighbors. (Chawawa) So I looked on line for one of those invisible fences.

They have one for dogs 8lbs and up. I weigh my Chawawa and she weighs 10lbs so I think things are good. When the unit gets here, I find that the collar is bigger than my dogs head. I called up PetSafe and they recommend their invisible fence for cats. So I send back the unit. (still havent gotten my money back)

I purchased their cat unit and wait for it to arrive. In the mean time, we get second Chawawa. Now there are two running around, but I figure that I will get the fence installed this weekend.

The unit came in and I spend all day installing and burying 500ft of wire. We got 2" of rain in the last 24 hours so the ground is nice and soft and muddy. Which is better than dry when it is hard as a rock.

Now I got the flags in the yard, the dogs have their collars on and I turn it on. The loop light is off and the alarm is beeping. I made a small loop in the garage and still the same. I changes fuses and still not working. So tomorrow I will call customer service and I will have to wait another week while we mail the units back and forth to each other. I guess they will terrorize the neighborhood for another week.

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I finally got the invisible fence up and running for my two Chawawas. Beth is a 2 year old female and is very skittish. She does not like collars at all, so she spent the next day under the bed sulking. Jake is a one year old male and is very easy going and is already trained for a collar. We have a pet door so the dogs can go outside when ever they want so we haven’t had any accidents in the house.

So I am outside working with them and Jake starts getting too close to the boundary. The collar starts beeping. He looks down to see what is in the grass making that noise and then it starts zapping him. He panics and starts spinning around in circles yipping until I got him out of the area. Beth doesn’t know what happened, but she is now spooked. I turned the fence off and called it a day.

The next day I am working with them again and they have realized after getting zapped a few times that the beeping is a warning and it is time to turn around. I think all is going better so I leave it on that night. At about 2:30 that night I am awaken by the sound of water. Jake is pissing in my bed about 2’ from my head! ARGH!! I put him outside and wash my bedding. He seemed ok the next day.

Last night I went outside with them again. We had a chicken carcass left over from dinner so I threw it out in the yard for them to eat. Once again things are looking good. About 9:00 my wife and I are watching TV and Jake is sleeping at my feet. Beth is still sulking under the bed because she is wearing a collar. The Jake gets up and pisses right at my feet!! I put him outside and break out the carpet cleaner. I put Jake in his travel cage for the night.

The whole family is very interactive with both dogs. I am expecting that we will have to work with them more and let time take its course. I am sure that sooner or latter they will catch on.

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Dave,

It sounds like you collared the dogs and left them to figure things out on their own. My neighbors with the invisible fence have shown me that there's a preliminary training process before you turn the fence on.

I've also been told by serious dog owners that you should never feed chicken bones to dogs, as they might eat them and choke or suffer internal harm.

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Not quite that bad. I put the white flags out and walked them around. I read the instructions and I followed them mostly. I didn't like the idea of me walking them on a leash to get zapped. They would wonder what I was doing to them (bad guy) and besides the one won't use a leash. So I walked with them only with out the leash. This way when they wondered into harms way, I was there to rescue them (good guy). The process they have laid out takes hours per day over two weeks. I am trying to follow it the best that time allows though.


Thanks for the heads up with the chicken bones.

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Maybe the directions should be followed MORE specifically.

Chicken and most rib bones splinter and are the same as eating needles.

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Yep..and no fish either, speaking of needles. Also, I've had several of my dogs choke (and scare me to death) on those square raw hydes. When they say supervise on the packaging THEY MEAN IT!

Also adding these as a warning of what can happen: 1. Bear and Goldie used to play together a lot. Bear would playfully take Goldie by the collar and gently pull her around. It was the sweetest thing. But one day Bear got her jaw caught through the collar and couldn't get out. Her bottom teeth were keeping her clamped. Goldie thought Bear was attacking her. Goldie went nuts while I stood there almost helpless. Bear was hurting as her jaw was getting jerked around. I had to pick Goldie up and twist her a bit to get bear loose. Goldie bit Bear on her snout at one point. I still have anxiety just thinking about what could have happened. After that I never had their collars on unless we were going walking or riding in the car. Poor Bear. 2. My old beagle Rip neverly choked when I stupidly tied him in the yard with a choke chain tied to a rope on a runner cord. He twisted around and around over time. I found him one morning barely able to breathe. I had to use wire cutters it was so tight.

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Tuesday I'm looking at a house outside of the DSL range. It's in a neighborhood where every yard is at least an acre. This one happens to be 1.6 ac. It has vacant lots on each side (both 1.6 ac) and woods in the back as far as the eye can see.

You can add "boom cars" just under "barking dogs" for reasons I'm doing this. There's always a slower/more expensive satellite internet. God, worth it!!

Yeah, it's sad when you have to move to get peace and quiet. But times change too much.

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Vacant lots are not guaranteed to remain vacant lots, unless you own them.

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It's a good thing your co-worker was never discovered as having done this because someone would have burned her/his house to the ground, and he/she would have deserved it. My sister was taking care of my cat while I was temporarily relocated in another city. The cat, accidently, one time only, manages to escape her house and gets poisoned by anti-freeze that was left out by a cat killing prick in her neighborhood. I'm still pissed off about it and it happened 2+ years ago. If I could figure who the prick was, he would be replacing a lot of tires on his car or a lot of windows in his house.

In regards to phoning people about their barking dogs. Here is the other side of the story when someone does that. This happened years ago. I was woken up at 4.00 in the morning by some bitch, who starts screaming at me to shut my dog up or she would call animal control. I'm barely awake as she starts verbally assaulting me and slams the phone down in my ear before I can say even word one in reply. I hang up and go to see if the dog is barking and I don't hear shit. If there was dog barking in the fevered imagination of that bitch it certainly wasn't our dog. I can tell you, I was f'ing pissed off. That was another one that I wished I could have found out the identity of. She would have be waking up to a hangup every day at 4.00 AM for a year.

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how did she know your phone number?

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I don't really know. She must have known our last name and the fact that we had a dog. The battleaxe just naturally assumed that a barking dog in the neighborhood had to be ours.

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That's true. One of them is available. Good thing about this neighborhood is there is a loooot of space. Many many lots sit unused. It's far enough away from a major town to tell me that it would be a freak happening to get a bad one. I know it can happen but it's real doubtful.

Oops. I worded that badly. I meant that it was in her neighborhood that someone did that. She didn't have anything to do with it and was appauled that someone would do such a thing.

That sucks about your cat. Hard to believe there are many people out there who could do that. If I even did something like that accidentally I would lose sleep over it for a long while.

I can relate to both sides of your phone calling lady. Sounds like she might be getting tormented by your pet and it makes noice at odd times. I was getting that with my neighbor. It would bark so much I'd hear it even when it wasn't barking. I'd wear ear plugs and still hear it...until I took the plugs out and realized it was only in my head. I do that with boom cars right now. I'll hear it and figure out it's my AC or something else that's making the noise. It consumes you eventually and you really teeter on being normal and going nuts. I've been there.

Cant' wait to look at that house tomorrow. I really want that place!!

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reverse phone book

Donnac keeps trying.

anyway what's reverse phone book?

Reverse Phone Book

Phone Book:  you know a person/business name and find their address/phone number.

Reverse Phone Book:  you know the phone number and find out name/address.

There are other ways to cross-reference all that kind of info:  city directories, etc.

Ok but James answered my question of how did she know your phone number with reverse phone book, that's only if you know the phone number already.

she apparently knew his phone number by normal look up by name.
So hence my confusion of why james answered "reverse phone book".

I never noticed he posted that until now.

Someone named donnac has been trying to spam a few threads with links to a dog collar, I saw the post in my email update.
Speaking of which this was supposed to be something else that was updated and still hasn't.

Guess I'm fortunate that my two beagles are surprisingly quiet...except when they happen upon a rabbit that has stupidly strayed into our yard.  Unfortunately this usually happens late at night after I've let them out to do their buisness.  Nothing like trying to corral two excited hounds in freezing weather at midnight! 



Ramsay and Sarah relaxing in my bed.

Since my beloved Corgiterripoo has reached the advanced age of 16 and gone completely deaf and half blind I haven't heard her bark in over a year--it would be music to my ears though.  This is Margo at 14:

^^^^^

Corgiterripoo?

She's a cutie, but we used to call them "Heinz57s" where I come from.  
Now, they call them "designer dogs" and charge 5000 bucks a pop. How times change.

Actually my calling her a Corgiterripoo is my sarcastic little shot at "designer dogs".  She's a plain old mutt, not a pound pup but I only paid $20 for her.  Her dad was a purebred Welsh Corgi but her mom was a tiny, ugly, scruffy thing that looked part terrier and part miniature or even toy poodle.  As a pup Margo looked like a tiny handful of bear cub.  She hid behind the toilet for a couple of days and acted like a real drama queen when taken in for her first shots, hence the name Margo after the Bette Davis character in All About Eve.

Oddly her behavior has always been very true to her ancestry--she's a devoted one-person dog with a great herding instinct as evidenced by her always bossing the cat around--that's the Corgi, and a real people pleaser--that's the poodle, and until old age caught up boundless energy from the terrier.  Now she's pretty much the grouchy old lady but she's entitled. 

I saw that there was a superbowl  ad highlighting a barking-dog-collar.