Training device for dogs

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Dear tinkerers,

I'm dog sitting for these people -- they let their dogs bully them into feeding them at 3am and each morning it's been earlier and earlier. Today they've started barking for food at 2am. 2AM!

I would like to have a device that I can put on the dogs' back and that emits electric shocks whenever they make loud noises between 1am and 7am. Can you help me build such a thing?

Thanks and best,
NikkiDogSitter

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just go out and buy a bark stop collar and only put it on (the dogs) at night

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Anti-Barking-Dog-Bark-Stop-Barking-Shock-Trainer-Collar-/251402850923

Cheers Pete.

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Thanks for the link! The bark stopper is a good way to get started.

However, I would also like to do a couple of more advanced things:

  • gather data, including

  • a history of all barks registered (time, volume)

  • a history of all chocks emitted (time, intensity)

  • make several devices communicate with each other
    such that one dog barking can lead to another dog getting the electric shock

  • configure the device, including

  • the intensity of the shocks

  • the threshold in terms of volume to emit the shocks

  • which dog should get the shock if the devices registers a bark

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Are you trying to make your (friends) dogs paranoid.

All you need here is one dog with an evil sense of humor to bark to get his mate electrocuted.

sound like the sort of thing you would have as a pub drinking game.

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Why not feed the dogs enough in the evening?

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Hi again and thank you for your responses and for your concerns!

I'm definitely feeding them at night. They just keep getting up earlier and earlier to be fed again in the morning. I know shock collar technology is controversial, but I am a dog trainer and strongly believe that when used sparingly and at precisely the right moment, it's a very humane way of quickly instructing the dog to not repeat the non-desired response. If they don't repeat the behaviour then don't get the zap again. The "shock" would be a tiny, mild zap -- we're not talking electrocuting a dog here. A little zap or tingle to get their attention... I ALWAYS test shock collars on myself to make sure they are never harmful.

What is really intriguing to me is the technology that might be possible here -- there potentially could be a very interesting idea born from this little dilemma. I was just curious to see if anyone had thoughts to contribute.

Thanks so much!

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These bark shockers are sort of animal abuse and there is a growing movement to ban them worldwide.
Dogs are living creatures made to bark, keep company and protect human...
If one cannot live with the bark better sell the dog instead of keep it and torture it...
Shocking an innocent animal on its neck is simply inhumane....and why? because this animal is behaving by its nature...
Please look to it in a merciful eye...when you hurt a human; that human can complain, and talk..but animal is under your mercy and cannot talk...

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Hi,

The dogs are barking for food, and you are trying to find a solution with Arduino. Why not try Aurduino based automatic feeder?.
Quick search gives me these results.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DogduinoThe-Automatic-Dog-Feeder/

Apart from that there are so many ways to entertain dogs with crazy sounds to which dogs get attracted, or visuals to keep them occupied.

Barking is part of dog's nature, if you apply mild shocks, just for them to learn not to bark when they collared. I dont think it will learn it that way,It can happen that some dogs will never bark at all :blush:, or the next time you try to put a collar it will bite you ]:).

You know what, Barking dog seldom bite :slight_smile:

Krishna

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In addition to the shock collars there are also the ultrasound versions that emit a loud (to animals) beep when the dog barks.

Positive and negative reinforcement of rules is something that nature does all the time. A mother dog will teach hep pups correct behavior using these methods.

Arbitrarily Zapping your pet however when they do something that you dont like is not the way forward perhaps the original poster would consider wearing one so that his dogs can zap him when they are hungry or want a walk :slight_smile:

I am the keeper of a Great Dane he wears a remote bleeper. when he was a pup i would reinforce my instruction with a bleep from the collar. Now if he start to get a little unruly all it takes is a little bleep and he sits and behaves. No shocking required.

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Dogs also bark when a stranger; or something bad like earthquake, robbery or murder is about to happen...so supressing other creatures nature is simply unfair..
BTW: not trying to be irrelevant; but 2 ladies(I would monsters) in UK starved their dog for few days; which caused the dog to attack and kill a retired neighbor....sad; and a lesson to humans not to mess up with mother nature..They only got 12 months jail..