Not quite along the lines you were necessarily hoping for Woody, but I once worked with an engineer with a horrid lap dog that would constantly yap.
He had a go a fixing it with an automatic citronella collar. If the dog barked once it would arm the collar, if the dog then barked again within 6 seconds or something like that it would get a squirt.
Rather than completely correct the dog of its yapping, the collar was very successful at teaching the dog to count to 7, then yap, then count to seven again, then yap. Thus avoiding the citronella.
I say it was useful tool if not quite achieving the desired effect in this instance.
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