TULSA, OK (KJRH/CNN) – An Oklahoma family is fed up with a high-pitched noise coming from their neighbor’s bark deterring device, which creates sounds only dogs and young people can hear.
The Bryant family says the neighbor's Ultrasonic Bark Deterrent isn’t affecting their dogs but instead their children, who are in their teens and twenties, and their granddaughter.
It says online the device is used to prevent dogs from barking but can also keep teens from loitering. Adults can’t hear the high frequency tone it produces.
Marina Bryant, a senior in high school, can’t go into her front or back yard when the neighbor’s device is on because it gives her a headache. She describes the noise it makes as “atrocious.”
"Every time our adult children come home for birthdays or just weekends and we go out to sit at the table, all of them are very annoyed by the sound. We can't enjoy being out there, and it cycles. The sound comes off and on, so you can't get used to it. It's just very irritating for them,” said Sandra Bryant, the children’s mother.
Neither Sandra Bryant nor her husband Chuck can hear the noise.
The Bryants want to warn others to think twice before using one of these devices because of the potentially detrimental effect it could have on children.
A spokesman for the Tulsa Police Department said he had never heard of anything like the device before, and he was unaware of any state laws or city ordinances that prohibit someone from using one.
After being contacted about the device, the neighbor unplugged it.
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