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Just because a dog can hear something doesn't mean that it will be bothered by it.
by johnhenry 9y ago
Just 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.