Dog Dazer II Ultrasonic Dog Deterrent

Update 05/13/2013I have now been using the dog dazer 2 for a few weeks and am happy to report that I have trained my neighbor’s dog not to bark at me or my wife when we come out my back door or are in the general area. The training required some consistency on my part, and I made an effort to go outside every time she was let out to help with giving her the repetition needed to figure it out. After about 4 days I was able to get some decent results. Instead of charging over and barking non-stop she would maybe let out a bark or two while running over and then sort of look at me like “oops, I forgot not to bark”. I would still shout “no” and then hit the dazer for a second, to help reinforce the teaching. From 4-7 days, she would mostly not bark at us at all when we would come outside. If she did, I could simply yell “no” and she would stop immediately. At 10 days or so, she has learned never to bark at us at all. The only time she will bark now is if I come over and play with her which causes her to get overly excited. She is still a young dog and probably struggles more with the self control needed to override her urge to bark a lot. I reiterate from my previous post that the dazer seems to do nothing to our neighbor’s other dog who is really small. Luckily for us that one doesn’t bark much at all. But it doesn’t seem to even notice when I use the dazer on the other medium sized dog who definitely notices it. If you have a problem with a medium sized dog, I’d say its worth the try to get the dazer 2. You should be able to tell right away if the dog can hear the sound. If not, just return it right away and try something else.BackgroundI read lots of reviews before buying and was really torn about whether to buy this device or not. After a couple of days of trying it, I would say I am glad I did. We have some really nice neighbors that picked up a dog from a shelter a few months ago. The dog is about 5-7 months old and about 50-60 lbs. She kind of looks like some kind of terrier/lab mix. Her ears don’t perk up (but instead lay over) so I was worried the dazer may not get through to her as well. Still I took some comfort in the fact that she is a midsized dog, and some other have reported success with dogs that size. The problem for me, is that while our neighbors are nice people, they don’t seem to take much interest (at least that I can see) in really training their dog not to bark or spending enough time with their dog playing in the backyard. Its a little sad really, but I guess its better than the pound. So pretty much the last 2 months, without fail, if I walk out my backdoor to go to my garage, the dog will come charging over to the fence that lines our property and bark like crazy at me. At first it was a mean bark, but over time she has gotten used to me and it has become a playful (but loud and obnoxious) bark. For a while, I had hoped that she would eventually get used to me and my wife being around and calm down, but unfortunately that never happened. After putting up with this for a while it was getting to be pretty annoying not being able to be in my backyard or driveway without being barked at incessantly.ReviewI have only been using the dog dazer 2 for a total of 24 hours and it seems to really be working. Last night, I went outside on my back porch and sure enough the dog comes charging over and barking at me. From about 20 feet away, I yelled “no” and hit the button for 2 seconds. She immediately stopped barking and turned her head kind of sideways with a look of confusion. I knew she could hear it. Being a bit stubborn, she let out another bark 20 seconds later and I again yelled “no” and pressed the button again, this time holding it for 4-5 seconds. At this point she sat down, then laid down, and started crying a little. For a few minutes she was quite and then tried her luck again. I said “no” and blasted the dazer again for 3 seconds. At this point, I think she kind of freaked out and starting barking as much as she could. So I hit her with the dazer for about 20 seconds. She finally stopped barking altogether and retreated back into her yard about 30 feet and didn’t bother me anymore while I was out there. This morning, I came out of the house to head out to work, and as per usual she came charging over and barking. I immediately yelled “no” and hit her with the dazer for about 4 seconds. Again she sat down and cried for a few seconds. After that, she didn’t bark at me at all while I was out there for 5 minutes or so. I eventually went and “hid out” in the garage waiting for my wife to come out to the car. I wanted to test the dog to see if she would bark at my wife while I was not around. To my surprise, she just stared at my wife without any barking.ConclusionAt this point, I am cautiously optimistic that I can train our neighbors dog not to bark at us when we are outside. She seems to really respond to the dazer and really looks like she hates the sound. I plan to update this review in another week to report how it turned out.Extra Tip1. Our neighbors actually have 2 dogs, but the other dog is a very small dog that rarely barks. She is usually around when I have used the dazer on the midsized dog and seems to not even notice when I press the button.2. I would not recommend this device as a dog deterrent. From what I can tell, it might stop a charging dog and it might not. It probably would not stop my neighbor’s dog if she didn’t know me and was mad enough even though she can hear it and it definitely annoys her a lot. When it comes to personal safety, its best to stick with something that is very certain to work. Just my 2 cents.