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Inaudible to most human beings. Your dog won't like this.
by yborg 9y ago
Inaudible to most human beings. Your dog won't like this.
- johnhenry 9y agoJust because a dog can hear something doesn't mean that it will be bothered by it.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAnd even if it would be, the attacker is not likely to care about your dog's happiness.
- jaclaz 9y agoWell, you could train your dog to attack anyone that emits an ultrasound "Ok, Google", then the attacker will care. ;)
- gnicholas 9y agoTrue. But isn't this basically like a dog whistle (which is at high frequencies and is used as a deterrent)? If this were super low frequencies, I'd be less likely to make the leap from [inaudible to humans but audible to dogs] -> [annoying to dogs]. But if we already use high frequencies to annoy/discourage/train dogs, isn't that evidence of what dogs think of these frequencies?
- johnhenry 9y agoIt's noise from the whistle itself that drives dogs crazy, not it's pitch. The reason this isn't basically a dog whistle is because a normal whistle produces a bunch of random annoying noise. If you continually blow a normal whistle, most things that can hear it will be annoyed. So, a dog whistle is simply a normal annoying whistle that humans can't hear. This, on the other hand, isn't a bunch of random annoying noise. If humans could hear it, it would just sound like someone speaking. There's no reason to believe that dogs would be especially annoyed.
- logfromblammo 9y agoI'm pretty annoyed by Munchkins, and enraged by Alvin and the Chipmunks, so maybe there is a reason.
- DannyB2 9y agoYou're thinking ultrasonic TV remotes from a different millennium, long ago swept away in the sands of time. Dogs aren't bothered by the pitch, but by the loudness. Ultrasonic remotes were amazingly LOUD. Loud enough for some humans to perceive.