Can You Hear Dog Whistles?

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My cousin has a 'silent' dog alarm - which is meant to send out a noise to stop dogs from barking. It's supposed to be silent but my brother hears it - he isn't an aspie but he is, shall we say, extremely left brained...

Yes.... And not only dog whistles, but also when I was a kid in the 1970s, the TV remote controls and garage door openers were operated by radio frequencies in stead of infrared or digital signals as they are today. Hence they were in my audible range, and nobody believed me until I would prove it. I would tell them to hide the remote, or the garage hand unit behind them, and I'd tell them exactly when they pressed a button. In fact, I could even tell them WHICH button they were pressing on some TV remotes, as they gave out distinctively different ultrasonic tones for each button. And if that's not enough to try to convince a skeptic of my (our in the autism community) ability to hear in the ultrasonic range, I can not only hear all tones on the ear doctor's test set, but I can call out the frequencies. It gets new doctors all buffaloed when in stead of holding up my right hand for a sound heard in the right ear, etc., I hold up the hand and say "10.5khz.", etc.

This is a blessing and a curse, as I am so bothered by some sounds that nobody else can even hear, that I have to leave the room sometimes, and this can cause people to think I'm a nut case who hears nonexistent things. Computer power supplies, CFL bulbs, and other things make a sound which is out of the range of most humans' hearing, but is loud and distressing to me. On the positive side of the hypersensitive hearing, I can tell when a light bulb is thinking about burning out, or when a capacitor starts to leak in a computer power supply, and before it blows out. It makes a vibratory whine. Happily in a way, at age 46, my high-range of hearing is falling off a bit.

Charles

I can hear dog whistles and I can hear the online samples. They don't hurt my ears or give me a headache. High pitched noises don't bother me. Maybe that's due to slight hearing loss because of age, but I don't know. My hearing is good for my age. Dog whistles vary in pitch. I don't know how high the ones I've listened to are

I heard that dog whistle in the sample, but I voted "No" because I thought I couldn't! Oops!
I personally didn't think it was ear-splitting or painful at all. It was just a very high noise.

Age is a huge factor there. The older you get, the less you hear high frequencies.

When TV sets still used cathode ray tubes (the big glass bulbs), the sound of the line transformer drove me crazy, though.

I found the one that I posted (which says it's supposed to be silent) horrible. Not painful...it didn't cause me pain. I just cringed when I heard it , made a noise and turned it off. That's how I react to noises I don't like,I make noise. The other one posted was very annoying but not as bad.

That sample online dog whistle isn't very high pitched... are you sure that's supposed to be silent? Horrible, but less high pitched than I'd expect. Higher pitched would have been more painful. It's not as bad as things I've heard in buildings in real life that people expect people to not hear (that I was the only one to hear of course, they don't build for sensory issues )

I've never been around one IRL because I've purposefully avoided them. I do hear ultrasonic sensors, CFLs, CRTs, all that type of stuff.

That is really much lower pitched than I was expecting compared to some of the other things people talk about hearing.

Dog whistles and also, anti-bark devices. What horrible noises!
Never very loud, but somehow VERY irratating.
Ironically, these do nothing to help stop my Jack Russell terrier from barking, just drove me nuts!

Sincerely,
Matthew

They claim only dogs can here it... How come I can?

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This music is full of dog whistle sounds and high pitched chirping and insect sounds. I love it, I find it very relaxing. Maybe I'm a dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdqpYsEL ... r_embedded