Dog Dazer II Ultrasonic Dog Deterrent

Update 05/13/2013 I 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. Background I 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. Review I 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. Conclusion At 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 Tip 1. 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.

We are finally free from the tyranny of our neighbor's dogs!!! My fiancé and I decided to purchase this item after over one year of my neighbor's dogs harassing us. Even though we share a fenceline, they decided to put in a doggie door so their dogs can go in and out of the house as they please. This would have been fine, if my neighbors actually knew how to control their animals. Anytime we let our dogs outside, as soon as we opened our back door, we could hear the next door dogs start barking inside the house. They would run out the dog door and just stand by the fence, yelping their heads off at our boys. Anytime we would try to verbally correct them, they would be quiet for maybe ten seconds at first, and after a week, they would not stop at all. We asked our neighbors for help, to no avail. It got to the point with their dogs, that it didn't even have to be my dogs outside, I could be out back trying to grill or mow the lawn, and their dogs would stand outside, for hours on end, barking at me, causing massive headaches which I told my neighbors about (they didn't care) or they would just stand outside (sometimes around midnight) and just keep barking at nothing, the longest amount of time this has happened for was a little over one hour. Not anymore. ^_^ The first day that we finally got the dazer in the mail, it had snowed outside. That's one of the few times that we get peace and quiet in the backyard, because their pups can't stand to get their paws cold. I'm not even going to try and lie, I was so excited to try out the dazer that I carried it by the belt clip on my pants anytime I was walking around the house, just waiting for the opportunity to try it. The first time the neighbor dogs barked, I was on the second story of my house. Not wanting to take the time to run downstairs and risk their dogs going back into the house by the time I got down there, I ran to my window, opened it up, stuck my hand outside with the dazer and pushed the button. The dogs reaction was interesting. All she did was stop barking, turn around, and walk right back into the house. Was this the dazer working? I wasn't quite sure, but again the next day, I got another opportunity to give it a shot. Letting my dogs out back, the snow had melted, so my neighbor's dogs were back to their old routine. I pushed my door open, they heard me letting my boys out, I heard them start barking in the house and running towards their back door. I was poised on the defense. They ran outside barking, I pointed the dazer at them, pushed the button, and this time I was sure it was the dazer working because as soon as it emitted the sound, the smaller of their two dogs jumped about a foot off the ground, made a whining sound, and ran back into their house followed by the other one. Success!!! It's taken a while to train their dogs for them, but I am pleased to announce we no longer have any issues with our neighbor's dogs. In fact, anytime I open my back door now, their dogs see me and run back into their house. Honesty, it is very satisfying. I had wanted to wait a while to report on this to make sure that it wasn't just an initial reaction, but it is now three months later, and I'm still able to enjoy my back yard noise free. I will say that it does not work for all dogs. I noticed on my two big dogs, who are really laid back, they don't really care. But, for aggressive dogs, it works really well. I have also used it on my cat to keep him from jumping onto the counters because normally as soon as I step foot into the kitchen, he jumps down off the counter and runs away. The dazer allows me to play commando, and sneak up on him, then shoot the dazer at him from another room. He immediately gets off the counter. ^_^ Overall, this product does as it advertises. I'm super satisfied with it and have already recommended it to several of my friends who also have issues with neighbors who are irresponsible pet owners. It's sad that it has to come to something like this, but I did not want to call the police for a noise disturbance and create a hostile living environment. I knew that they would rather not do anything, or even try to push the blame off on me if I did try to call the police, so this was the most peaceful solution we could come up with. I don't even know if they have realized what is going on with their dogs, but no one has approached me about it at all, and I got to smoke ribs on my grill the other weekend bark-free!

This product did not seem to deter my neighbors dog who constantly barks and jumps at the fence if he hears me in my backyard. When I received the DAZER II in the mail, I first tried clicking it inside my house aimed at my own dog just to get an idea of what would happen. My own dog would just tilt his head when i clicked it, but thats pretty much the same reaction I get from him if I say h is name. I read the included booklet and there was some mention that 'Use of the DAZER with familiar and passive friendly dogs or your own pet may not evoke a significant reaction'. This doesn't make sense to me, but I thought oh well, I'll try it on a dog thats aggressive to me. So I took a walk down my fence-line and my neighbor's dog started jumping on the fence and barking at me. I clicked my DAZER, noticing the red LED was lit and this didn't seem to cause the neighbor's dog to stop. The fence is a cedar 6ft privacy fence with small gaps between the fence boards, enough for me to see the neighbor's dog. I thought maybe the sound may not travel well through the fence, so i went to the corner of the fence where i keep my trash cans; there is a 6 inch gap there where I can clearly see through the fences. Arriving at the gap, the neighbor's dog met me as expected, his face looking at me through the gap as he barked and growled at me. So with fingers crossed that my new tool would work, I again clicked my DAZER and the dog was unfazed, not even a pause or a head tilt. I was also shopping for something to deter dogs because I had recently been attacked by two loose dogs while walking my dog. One was a Pit Bull and one was a Boxer. I had to pick up my dog and carry him above my head as the other two dogs kept jumping up on me trying to get him. Luckily they didn't start biting me, but I definitely wanted some kind of protection. I also bought some Halt Dog deterrent (stuff the USPS uses). I had hoped the DAZER would work, but I'm returning it and will keep the Halt with me on my walks.

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. Had our Dazer worked on all sizes of dogs it would rate a five. Given its very lopsided effectiveness, however, it rates only a three.

I bought this device because when I walk in my neighborhood, there are at least three neighbors who leave their dogs loose in their yard, and when I walk by those houses, the dogs incessantly bark at me. This is hugely irritating, as though someone where standing two feet from you, continually shouting, "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! HEY! HEY!" I know the dogs are only doing their jobs, and in spite of the visions I've had of what I could do to those dogs to make them quit irritating me (the mildest of which was a squirt gun), I truly did not want to hurt the animals. (I would, however, like to stand beside their owners and shout "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!" for several minutes and see how they like it.) So I began looking for something that would cause the dogs to quit barking and leave me alone, but not hurt them. This device is the first thing I bought in that effort. And here's my report on it. IT WORKS - but not always. The first dog I tried it on barked at me from about 15-20 yards away. Yes, that's about 2-3 times farther than the recommended distance. I know the intensity of the sound decreases by the square of the distance, but I thought I'd try it anyway. And wonder of wonders, IT WORKED! When I pressed the button, the dog immediately quit barking and trotted several steps sideways. His attitude was that he had just thought of something else he had to do. There was no indication of discomfort, only distraction. But as dogs do, he immediately forgot what happened and started barking again. Button push. Silence and trot about 30 feet sideways to me. Bark again. One more button push, and the dog got the idea and went around the back of his house. By the fourth time he came out to bark at me, having received the button push three other times, I had forgotten to bring the device, so I just raised my arm at him and he left without barking. Fascinating. I tried it once on a very agitated dog, but the sound evidently didn't break through the agitation, as there was no reaction. I tried it once on a very old dog, who was lying down about 4 feet from me, just to see if it worked, and there was no reaction. I remember that people lose high frequency hearing as they get older (did you ever read the story about a cafe owner who installed a high-frequency noise generator to make teens uncomfortable because they stayed hours and only bought one soft drink, and were keeping away paying customers?), so I figure dogs must also lose high frequency perception as they age. Additionally, squirrels don't hear this. Geese do - I was about 6 feet from a Canada goose and tried it and the goose shook his head as though trying to get rid of a fly. Cats hear it. I beeped it at a cat about 40 feet away and it stopped prowling and looked directly at me with a "What was that?" expression. Finally, just yesterday, I stopped to chat with a neighbor who was out walking his high energy terrier 1-year-old pup, when the pup slipped the leash and started to run off. I beeped this device at the pup, and it immediately stopped and trotted back to the owner. I am totally delighted that this device DOES get a dog's attention and does NOT hurt them. If I get another one, I might look for one with more power, but otherwise, I like this one.

I have two young dogs, a sweet beagle-hound mix (45 lbs) and a cute-as-a-button terrier mix (16 lbs). A year of training (more or less) did not change some undesirable barking behavior from either dog. The beagle goes ballistic outside when the neighbor dog (a Lab) comes out and sniffs at the fence, and will not stop loud, incessant barking until I bring her in. Otherwise she's a normal barker. She was not affected at all with the Dog Dazer, as far as I could tell, though I tried numerous times at the fence. The other dog would run away, but that didn't stop my beagle. BUT the terrier had this thing I've heard call "the terrier scream." The Dog Dazer worked! I'll get to that in a second. First, here's how it used to be: When a dog or person walked by, whether or not the terrier was inside looking out the living room windows, or in the car looking out, he would do this ear-piercing combination howl/bark/screech ululation that sounded like someone was dragging him across hot coals. People would stop and stare, trying to see who was torturing the dog, or perhaps it was caught in a bear trap. It would last until the offender was completely out of site, sometimes 5 minutes. In the house, I had to put phone calls on mute (I work from home), or put him in the basement during conference calls. In the car I had to remember to roll up the windows, otherwise he'd scare bicyclists, or people at stoplights would freak out, looking to see which car was running over a dog. It was HORRIBLE. So I had the DogDazer in my home office, ready to go. The first time the terrier started with the screech, I fast-walked over to him, stood about 5 feet away (per the instructions), said, Dog, Quiet!, waited a couple seconds, and when he didn't immediately stop, pressed the button on the Dazer for 2 seconds. I tell you, that startled the pants off of him. He shut up, jumped a foot, turned around, and ran into the dining room, trying to figure out what happened. I said "good dog" and gave him a pat on the head, and went back to the desk. I used it at most 3 more times over the next couple days, and only once in the car (I brought it there too). Each time his reaction was the same. I'd say "Dog, quiet!" and then press the button for one or two seconds. Whatever sound it made (I never heard it), it snapped him out of "the red zone" as Cesar would say, and he'd startle, and immediately be quiet. The beagle was always in the same room, but it was like she never heard it, as I said above. After that, I'd still have the zapper at the ready, and when he started with a little bit of a screech, I'd say "Dog, quiet!" or just "Quiet!" and man, that was it. No more. No need to press the button. And since then (it's been about a month), the screeching is gone, in the house, and in the car. If he starts, I just say "quiet" and ... silence. (And then I praise him, or sometimes give him a treat.) This past weekend I took them to the dog park, and too late, I remembered that the walk to the dog park would always cause him to start the screeching, the whole way in, but I was out of the habit of bringing along the Dazer. As we neared the park, he started to do a somewhat low-key excited screech, pulling at the leash. I said, "Dog, quiet!" And ... silence! It's a miracle, I tell you. I completely think it's worth a try. If it doesn't work, you can send it back (I assume), Amazon handles refunds quite well.

Edit: the dog in the review below has definitely had a change of attitude whenever I'm around. He hardly ever barks at me since using the device. He never tries to goad me into getting what he wants. He knows I am the dominant one and won't respond to his goose tornado barking. That's the good news. The bad news is - his barking begins the moment I'm out of the room and he barks at nearly everyone else! AAAAARGH! I've told the owner how to get him quiet (you make a sudden PSH! noise and he goes quiet) but she won't even do this. She doesn't really see his barking as a problem or issues reflexive and ineffective "SHHH!" noises, which just gets him to bark more. The problem here isn't really the dog so much as the owner doesn't know, or isn't willing to, discipline him, discipline he sorely needs. I need a zapper for inconsiderate humans! Otherwise, the device has been great. I dropped it by accident, and it is a little less reliable, but I still give this 5 stars. ================================== Original review: Headline pretty much says it all. This device definitely works, even though I had reservations. That's the short review. The longer version: my neighbor has a cute, lovable, but very yappy and disruptive Pomeranian. If you've ever owned a Pom, you know their bark can be very biting, piercing and irritating, especially if it is repetitive. His bark would wake me up every morning and wouldn't stop for 30-40 minutes while the owner went about her business (he would chase her around the house barking endlessly wanting attention, food, etc, and according to her, it doesn't bother her at all). Very annoying, and it was happening constantly, driving me nuts! I brought it up with the owner and suggested a shock collar. She thought that solution was mean, so I shelved the idea, as well as any other corrective tools. But I value my sanity, so I researched more. Eventually, my findings led me to the Dazer. I read the reviews and was convinced enough to give it a try. Ordered it, got her a couple of days later. I was partly doubtful it would work, because other reviews state that it doesn't work well on small dogs, and Pomeranians are a small breed. My doubts were unfounded. The very first time I used it to correct his incessant yapping, he literally jumped and ran a few feet, as if he was slapped. I pressed the button for less than a second, stated a firm "NO!" and he stopped for a few seconds. Then he started barking again. Used it again - same result! A jump and a scramble, and he stopped barking. Other times I've used it, he flinches (I only use it for less than half a second, will have to press it longer). Part of me was elated and relieved. It works! Now the training can begin! Keep in mind that this dog is probably 8 or 9 years old and has been barking his entire life, inappropriately, whenever he wants something. He received absolutely no discipline from his owner, unless you count when she says "SHUSH!", which really does nothing, except to give the dog attention, and thus reinforce the cycle of barking. No more! He stops barking immediately when I use the Dazer, especially when I'm around. He seems to understand "No!" a lot more now, too. Curiously, he seems to be more attentive and even more loving towards me now. Maybe now that he barks less, he's less agitated? His attitude has become much more charitable. Big wags of his body when he sees me. I really love him! As an aside, the only hard part about using the device in my case is logistical. The owner does not know I have the Dazer - I do not want to risk telling her for fear she will prevent me from using it, because she might think it's mean or something like that. So I have to put it in my shorts pocket, or have it under the kitchen table when he's being noisy. Also a bit difficult to correct him when he's chasing the owner around the house wreaking sonic havoc. Can't just be like "Oh, yeah, I just wanted to uh... look at these flower pots suddenly while you were doing laundry... ZAP!" My own logistics aside, this device has been a real sanity saver. I was getting pretty miffed at the constant yipping yapping, sleep-interrupting racket. I now have the power to stop it and get a full night's sleep! Very grateful. I highly recommend you at least give it a try if you value your emotional health and your ears. You may just avoid being committed once the barking stops.

As a package delivery driver that has to deal with the occasional aggressive dog from incompetent owners, it works really well for the dogs that are not on the verge of def. Manager rode with me, had a Dog Dazer in truck and the door I went to had an extremely large dog tied up in front yard overly aggressive jumping towards me, barking crazy. Owner met me out on porch and that dog would go from barking to the extreme to silence and his head twitching, barking to head twitching. Owner kept looking at dog wondering what the heck is going on and I looked back in the truck where my supervisor was sitting in passenger seat laughing so hard, bark, silence, head twitch, repeat. Manager was crying with laughter when I got back in truck. They have saved me from a loose aggressive dog a time or two, dog typically backs off quick and goes opposite direction if they can hear it. That was 20 years ago, lost it and finally remembered the name, buying another today.