DAZER II Ultrasonic Dog Deterrent
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Customer Review: It's WORKING!
Summary: 4 Stars
I just bought my 1st house in a lovely neighborhood with a nicely landscaped (tiny) backyard. I have wire fencing (which I will replace with stockade next year). My neighbor's dog Bella is a medium/small dog that constantly barks so I could never enjoy the backyard at all. I have talked to her, met the dog, even invited the dog and the neighbor into my house to try and get it to know me and stop barking. But it doesn't. As soon as it's back on her side of the fence the barking is non-stop and the neighbor does nothing to quiet it other than say in soft spoken words; "Bella, that's the neighbor. We like him so please don't bark". The darn dog even barks at 2am! I was up last night making pasta for a work party and dropped a pan. I don't know how she heard it, but she did and it was non stop barking for an hour.
Today the Dazer arrived. I went out in the yard to check some plantings, and there was Bella. She started right in. But I was equipped. I faced her and looked over head avoiding eye contact and blasted her with the Dazer. She stopped barking and her ears went back. Then she started again, so I pressed it again...again the same results, she stopped barking and her ears went back. I repeated this each time she started barking and by the 4th time she just gave up and stopped. I was then out in the yard for another 5-10 minutes just "pretending" to poke around the garden. NO BARKING. I can't believe it. And my neighbor was outside with Bella the entire time, and just thinks nothing of it since she cannot herself hear the ultrasonic sound. SO not only am I keeping peace with the barking, I am keeping peace with my neighbor who doesn't have a clue.
I intend to take this out in the yard with me for the next 5 or 6 times I am out to reinforce the hidden training. I'll be sure and post my results.
Excellent shipping too! received in just 2 days with normal processing! The battery was installed and it was ready to go!
Customer Review: It shut 'em down.
Summary: 4 Stars
Our neighbors decided that getting two constantly barking labs was a good idea. You all know the mentalities involved and that there aren't a lot of good options.
The easy choice, if it works, is a sonic dog trainer. Unfortunately, they get very mixed reviews, with no one brand really standing out and with around a 50 percent failure rate. I thought this was worth a try and I decided on the Dog Dazer II just because its reviews were like the others, no worse, and it was the cheapest and portable.
When the hell-dogs bark and whine, I point the device up and over the 6' fence. I press the button when they bark and if they bark more, they get a longer dose of it. Sometimes I'll give them a real quick blip just so they know "it" is there. If they are in a different part of the yard, I go there. This makes it smarter than an automatic unit hung from a branch and more directional as it can be pointed at the perps, wherever they are.
And, it works! Maybe for the reasons above, or just because these particular dogs have super hearing and happen to respond to high-pitched sounds. Or, mavbe because I use it on certain occasions, not all the time like an automatic unit would. Maybe the more selective approach is better. Now, I often just have to give them a long distance blip. They know more is coming, so they shut it down, usually for quite awhile.
It does not work if they are really in a frenzy. I wish you could select more power for those situations, but they must have decided on a safe volume limit and and limit you to that.
Dog barking is a serious problem. Hopefully, a high-tech company will really attack this problem with computer-controlled units that can send out specific sounds and patterns that really go after all but the truly deaf dogs. They would sell millions of these devices if they really worked. In the meantime, though, the Dazer II is a flexible unit that worked for me.
Customer Review: Be patient...it works!
Summary: 5 Stars
Our neighbor's dog barks at us every time we walk down the sidewalk in our side yard to throw away trash, take out the trash, go out the gate to the front yard...BARK, BARK, BARK!!! She would even bark occasionally if she heard us in our house with the windows open!!
In desperation I researched barking deterrents on the internet and found the Dog Dazer II and hoped it would be our way stop the barking once and for all without resorting to a confrontation with the neighbor, or worse.
At first, I thought I had wasted the money on the purchase. She just kept barking. Once even so viciously I thought she was going to come through the fence! I just kept trying each and every time I went down the sidewalk. Pulsing the Dazer for one second..off for about three seconds.
Well, after about a week of still thinking I had wasted my money, suddenly the bark turned to a growl. I would do extra training by moving the trashcans around (a noise that she was always freak out at) and just when she'd start to bark, I'd press the button and the bark would turn to a growl.
Once in awhile we still get a growl, but more often there is no sound at all. I AM SO HAPPY!! I don't dread going outside anymore! That dog was getting out of control and now I am in control thanks to the Dog Dazer II.
So the moral of this story is, be patient...and hopefully your patience will pay off with SILENCE!
O.k.. I don't know what happened, but the dog started freaking out again. Not as much when I'm outside, but when my son is outside. I think she can smell me and then knows I make her ears hurt. One day she just freaked while I was out there zapping her, then she started with the low growl again. I think I just have a psycho neighbor dog with a very short memory!
Customer Review: It works. Believe it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Add me to the growing list here of people who swear by this product and are amazed at its effectiveness. It really does work, so much so that I felt compelled to tell others.
Like other reviewers, I bought the Dazer in desperation after all other methods had failed to stop my neighbors' two Schnauzers from barking at me and my children every time we tried to use our own back yard. When I first used the Dazer on them, the dogs actually stopped mid-bark and looked at me as if I had just called them Chihuahuas. When they started to bark again, I Dazed them a second time and again, they stopped instantly. I then gave the now-silent and clearly befuddled mutts one final shot of ultrasonic goodness for good measure (heh heh), at which they turned and scurried off into their house - not in pain, but clearly annoyed at whatever sound the Dazer puts out (humans cannot hear it, nor can my two elderly dogs).
The mongrels and I repeated this scenario for two more days after this, and that did the trick. Now when anybody in my family goes into the back, they either run off or ignore us completely. Oh, they still bark sometimes, but not at us. Like John Wayne (as one reviewer put it so well), I keep the Dazer clipped to my waistband just in case I need to remind them what it sounds like. I might even have done so once or twice, but that cannot be confirmed.
I don't know if the thing works on all dogs, or if it stops a charging dog, and I hope never to find out. I wouldn't rely on the Dazer or any other device to protect my children from an attacking dog, anyway, as Mr. Schinzer below might. But I know this: the Dazer has made my back yard a fun and QUIET place for me and my family to enjoy once again.
Now, if it only worked on loud people...
Customer Review: Useless On Small Dogs
Summary: 3 Stars
If a smaller dog is the source of your barking annoyance, do not waste money or time trying to solve the problem with the Dog Dazer.
We found after moving that our new house was surrounded by small dogs (corgis, dachshunds and a beagle) that were left outside in neighboring yards to bark nonstop for hours. Requests to their owners to quiet their dogs brought little to no relief, so we bought a Dog Dazer to try and solve the problem ourselves.
Regardless of the distance from or the duration for which they were "dazed", we found that none of the smaller dogs that we tried the Dog Dazer on showed any response to it. None of them appeared to hear it at all, and all kept right on barking as usual.
On larger dogs, however, we found that the Dazer did actually work as advertised. Our neighborhood has a labrador and a mastiff that are both kept in fenced yards bordered by sidewalks. The mastiff barks at pedestrians, and the labrador both barks and ferociously charges its fence when anyone walks by. One blast from the Dazer at ten feet instantly stopped the labrador's barking and sent it racing in the other direction. A single blast from 15 feet also stopped the mastiff's barking, though it lingered at its fence, looking extremely puzzled, through two more blasts before finally trotting off with a whine on blast four.
Other reviewers have reported the opposite results with their Dog Dazers, i.e. effective on small dogs but not large. Could this be an indication of a manufacturing variation at play that causes some Dazers to be effective on only certain sized dogs? Had our Dazer elicited a more uniform response it would rate higher. Given its very lopsided effectiveness, however, it rates only a three.