Anyone With Experience Using Sound Devices for Animal Control?

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Just saw a tv commercial touting a 'high frequency sonic device' for dog and cat training plus fending off vicious dogs. I have to wonder if these will really work? My wife and I used to train dogs and we tried the shock collars with limited success, at least for heavy coated dogs like the Great Pyrenees.

Also tried the sound emitters that are supposed to stop dogs from nuisance barking. Ha! Some of ours seemed to enjoy the beeps or whistles from the damned things and would intentionally bark just to hear the sound, then bark again to keep it going.

However, if there is such a device that's really effective it might be a great thing to have on hikes and ramblings in the woods....? Would a powerful and quality high frequency sound emitter have any effect on hungry coyotes or feral dogs? How about something like a cougar or bear? I don't know which is why I'm asking.
 
The only sound device I have used for animal control was basically big firecrackers to move the more stubborn bears out of town. That and rubber buckshot.

If you want a non lethal option your best bet is pepper spray. Spray them in the face and get away. I can tell you it works very well on agressive dogs but the downside is you have to be close.
 
I work in pest control and we stopped selling and endorsing those sound products for rodent/raccoon repellent. They just don't work effectively.
The emitter gives off a cone of sound like any other speaker and to work you need overlapping cones from different angles. This means having lots of them(expensive) and we have found that rodents will still come to feed tolerating the sound then leave to an area outside of the effect to live. Usually not very far.

I can't see it being an effective training tool just a lazy one with the limited success you mentioned. Can it see giving the cat and sensitive dogs complex behavior issues.

For fending off animals an airhorn should work at point blank range.....
but I KNOW bear spray works on dogs, thats what I carry in the bush with a good fixed and a hiking pole or stick.
 
.....borrowed a neighbor kid's "boom box" and set the bass on high; it drove a skunk out from under the porch in short order. A few neighbors were contemplating relocating too. :)

- regards
 
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Thanks to all! Keep the comments coming. I would like to learn more in this area which, frankly, I consider to be mostly BS but who knows? I recall years back when some companies sold, or tried to sell, little electronic boxes 'guaranteed' to repell mosquitos. That was obviously a failure also. When the little blood suckers are hungry, sound be damned. Very similar to all the 'lose fat quick' claims for the miracle weight loss products on the tv and internet.... No?
 
Tatoo Blade, It's been posted as a medical fact that the human male loses the ability to clearly hear women's voices at about age 40. Could it be that the Gods are trying to tell us something when we approach a number of years of marriage...?
 
I have a neighbor who walks her Rottie past my Pit Bull every day. One day I saw she had what appeared to be a stun gun on her belt. It was a sonic dog device. My Pit was there with me on my side of the fence with our other four dogs. He was shaking with rage wanting to go out and eat the Rottie but since I was there he was trying to behave.

I had her activate the dog blaster and all five of our dogs took off at once and ran back into the yard. It seemed to me like it caused momentary confusion but it was something they would get over if they wanted to. No sound at all, it was comical to see the dogs suddenly bolt like that. Her dog didn't seem to care. Mac
 
Old CW4 said:
Tatoo Blade, It's been posted as a medical fact that the human male loses the ability to clearly hear women's voices at about age 40. Could it be that the Gods are trying to tell us something when we approach a number of years of marriage...?
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Keep in mind, that women have a genetic quirk that mandates that they wait until the men in their lives go one and one-half rooms away, before speaking in a conversational voice.

Proven by Harvard, or the Muncie Institute for Men who say "what????" a lot. Don't remember.:rolleyes:
 
I have sometimes used a 12 Ga Shotgun blast as a deterrent
to an attacking animal.
I never knew if the buck shot or the sound was what stopped the dog though. :)
 
I put one of these devices with a PIR and ultrasonic emitter on my back yard in an attempt to keep neighborhood cats away. It seems to work on some cats but not others. Some will run away as soon as they trigger it, others will completely ignore it.
 
I think these sound devices are designed not to hurt animals (ie cause excessive pain) now that is all good and fine however if I need to defend myself I am not willing to take the risk of the animal being resistant to the slight pain a neutered device generates.

Screw that crap if it's life or death. Does anyone know where I can get schematics to build an ultrasonic device that will generate excruciating pain or how to tweak a mild one up to that level. I used to see articles on the web on how to build them. There is a frequency range that is used at certain decibel levels does anyone know off hand what they are. This concept is not by any means new.

I also heard tests were conducted in which rats starved to death rather than approach the food that was in the field of the sound device.

But I don't see these web articles anymore in fact it seems the web these days is much more censored and commercialized as it is hard to come by any articles on manufacturing strange but effective improvised weapons.
 
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I tried the little ultrasonic hand held device that supposedly sets dogs running away from you. No reaction whatsoever. I don't know about anything else...
 
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