This may be a weird question, but for those of you with animals, are there devices that emit high frequencies and bother your pets?
Nothing I've had over the last 10+ years has phased my cats. The nice ones have remained nice. And the a-holes have remained a-holes.
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Over the last 10-ish years, I have never noticed any behavior in two dogs and two cats that I would attribute to the presence of high frequency noises coming from electronic equipment (smart home devices or otherwise).
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Your SO reading this same thing?
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I've heard smart home electronics can have effects on other inhabitants of a smart home 
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No. lol actually I was on a dog group when this got brought up. My SO doesn’t know anything about smart devices lol.
I read SO as significant other lol. Sorry. But yeah, that was the same article in the dog group that got posted 
The hype may have come from that same post if it is making its rounds. Looks like maybe it was posted on Reddit. It actually sounds legit in their case, but seems to not be a very frequent occurrence. Could have been some faulty devices, or maybe their power is "dirty" and causing issues with the plugs.
That's what I meant. Just thought it would have been funny if it happened to two of us on here the same week.
Oh it was just me being a dog helicopter mom 
I read the post you linked and I never really equated it to smart devices making dogs sick. It was more like a high pitched frequency bothering them or something. I can definitely hear frequencies that my husband doesn’t and calls me crazy for it. His Jeep lets out this intermittent high frequency sound he can’t hear and it drives me absolutely insane. I was thinking more along the lines of that lol.
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We do a lot of work with Rescue dogs, and that post was shared to my wife yesterday morning by one of the rescues we work with. I tend to think its a lot of hooey. The app she talks about, Audio Tools, is an acoustics tuning app for media and entertainment (think recording studios, concert venues). I don't see how it could help identify a device causing these issues. It likely can't even reach the frequencies these devices MIGHT make a sound at, and I'm not about to spend $19.99 to find out. Everything I dug up yesterday said Zigbee and Z-Wave do not emit any sound, even in ranges that a dog could hear. The other app mentioned is just an environmental decibel meter, so it would also be useless in picking out anything at any frequency, but ti could tell you if your neighbors party is too loud at 2:00 in the morning.
We have four dogs and three cats of our own, and at any given time we have between one and three foster dogs in our home. Since 2017 we have had forty seven foster dogs come through our home. Out of all those animals I have only ever seen one have ANY kind of reaction to any smart device, and it was a practically feral dog that freaked out when a zooz double switch would "click" turning on or off.
After finally being able to read that post yesterday, I figured it was mostly bull dung.
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A prior post was closed, but this proves it is bs.
If the frequency was “off the charts” then if it was WiFi or ZigBee or Z-Wave, they would not work.
All this needs is “tell all your friends”
My Punkin chihuahua gets spooked by any click or beep. She doesn’t seem to be fazed by our smart devices.
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It probably also depends on the individual (human, dog, cat, etc.) and if there are frequencies that bother them. My husband's Jeep makes this intermittent high frequency noise that drives me absolutely insane. He can't hear it and calls me crazy. If I had to listen to that noise all day everyday, I'd probably burn it to the ground.
I don’t know if any of this is true, but if you don’t send this thread to 10 of your friends, bad luck will follow you all day. 
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Yeah I agree a lot of that article was hyperbole. What I took away from that is each individual (human, dog, cat, etc.) can have frequencies that bother them and some electronics can be a source for that. For example, my husband's Jeep lets out this intermittent high frequency that he can't hear that drives me absolutely insane. If whatever was emitting that had to be in the house, I'd probably burn it down.
I have 7 Grandfather clocks that send me daft at midday and midnight and have no connection to my smart home
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LOL
The thing is this can happen, but it isn't a sign of a bad technology. It highlights more the effects of cheap poorly designed device that is probably faulty can cause problems for anyone one or any thing. This isn't just a dog thing.
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I have tenitus in the very high frequency range. It go about my day basically listening to hat sounds like electrical feedback. It's been going on for over a year, I slowly gotten used to it over time.
That was why I was initially saying cheap Wi-Fi or zigbee devices. Backed on the picture there were zigbee plugs. Anyone here have these? Do they make your pets crazy?
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We have a neighborhood jeweler that sells high dollar clocks. I noticed they were all at different times. Seems if they were all set to the same time the cacophony would be deafening. They don’t want to turn the sound off because that is a sellling point.
I have about 8 of these exact plugs. They are Zigbee and my dog doesn’t seem to mind them.
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Well, I have one cat, Loki, who gets VERY upset and starts crying loudly during a power fail when all the UPS devices start beeping.
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