Does this work??

fryup

Does this yoke work??

My neighbour's new dog keeps running around my back garden, at first i found it amusing but now its getting annoying, i don't talk to my neighbour..so thats out the window.

so will the repellant work?

hardCopy

Without knowing exactly how it works, it doesn't look like something that would respect the neighbours boundary, i.e. it would annoy the dog even when he's on his own side of the divide.

Do you have a fence?

Alcoheda

I don't think that would be very humane.
What if the dog can hear it from your neighbor's house also?
I'd try shooing or scolding the dog when it comes into your garden.
Talking to the neighbor would also help, if possible.

fryup

theres a vacant field between us so it shouldn't be an issue

Talking to the neighbor would also help, if possible.

no it isn't i'm afraid

Alcoheda

fryup wrote: »

theres a vacant field between us so it shouldn't be an issue



no it isn't i'm afraid

Yeah but it seems like a nasty thing to install anyway.
It will affect all animals in the vicinity, you'll driving out a lot more than the dog.

Maybe try something less drastic first.

Super Soaker?

Could be a bit of craic

baby and crumble

fryup wrote: »

no it isn't i'm afraid

Why not? Not to be rude but surely just talking to the owner is far more sensible than spending money on something that will cause more harm than good?

DBB

Alcoheda wrote: »

Yeah but it seems like a nasty thing to install anyway.
It will affect all animals in the vicinity, you'll driving out a lot more than the dog.

Maybe try something less drastic first.

Super Soaker?

Could be a bit of craic

Please make yourself aware of the charter, and indeed the "ethos" of the forum before you post.
Using a super soaker to deter a neighbour's dog is inching up to the line of what's ethically acceptable in this forum.
Suggesting that it "could be a bit of craic" gallops across that line.
Please take care to post in line with the charter.
Do not reply to this post on thread.
Thanks.
DBB

borderlinemeath

Why don't you call the dog warden? The dog is technically roaming, particularly if there's a field between your houses. If you don't talk to your neighbour anyway then there's no issue with falling out.

Also, the fact that there's a field between you would indicate a rural/semi rural location and it's lambing season. You'd be doing all the farmers in your locality a favour and also the owner - because if he's caught worrying livestock a farmer has every right to shoot the dog. By worrying he doesn't have to be attacking livestock, just running around a field with a flock of sheep is enough to get ewes to abort in distress .

fryup

people, i just want to know has anyone out there have any experience of using these repellents??

do they work or are they a gimmick?? thats all

baby and crumble

fryup wrote: »

people, i just want to know has anyone out there have any experience of using these repellents??

do they work or are they a gimmick?? thats all

Well put it this way. My dad had a load of the rodent repeller ones that work the same way in his house in the countryside to get rid of mice.

I had to move home with my pet hamster.

She didn't seem even remotely bothered by them at all, and I saw about 3 mice in the house anyway.

So no. I don't think they do work.

DBB

OP, from what I've seen, there's a reasonable chance it'll work at first, but dogs seem to tend to become somewhat immune to the noise after a while, especially if they're motivated/determined to access the place where the repellent is set up.
I've also seen dogs standing looking at them, as if to day "pfffft"

Choc Chip

Maybe (pure guessing!) dogs are like people and it depends on the dog?

I was at a house viewing with my friend a few weeks ago and there was one of those rodent deterrents plugged in. The high-pitched buzzing drove me and my friend mental in that specific room, but the guy showing the house couldn't hear it at all.

Essentally, I'd imagine there's a possibility that you could spend your money and not bother the dog at all.

Alcoheda

DBB wrote: »

Please make yourself aware of the charter, and indeed the "ethos" of the forum before you post.
Using a super soaker to deter a neighbour's dog is inching up to the line of what's ethically acceptable in this forum.
Suggesting that it "could be a bit of craic" gallops across that line.
Please take care to post in line with the charter.
Do not reply to this post on thread.
Thanks.
DBB

I asked you not to reply. And you did.
Sorry... You lose the right to reply in the way you did.

kylith

I recommend a fence.

hardCopy

kylith wrote: »

I recommend a fence.

The Frost approach.

philstar

^^^^^^^

who's frost ??

hardCopy

philstar wrote: »

^^^^^^^

who's frost ??

He was a block layer of some note

Robert Frost wrote:

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."