Qinux BarkBuz placement for a dog that moves around a lot?

If he’s moving around a lot, the 10m range is really the limiting factor. It only reacts when he’s within that bubble of the unit, so you’d basically need one per zone or move it with him. My setup works because my dog mostly barks from the same couple of spots.

Mine only really caught my dog when he happened to be near it, and he’s a pacer too. I ended up leaving it in the hallway since that’s the one spot he crosses no matter where he’s headed. It’s not going to follow him around, so you kind of just pick your best guess spot.

Placement barely mattered for mine. He barks from all over and it still caught him fine, so I never bothered moving it around.

I’m weird about not having gadgets sitting out in the open, so that would bug me more than the range thing. Mine lives tucked on a shelf and I just accept that it’s not going to catch every single bark from the far corner of the house.

I wouldn’t count on one spot covering a dog that roams. Mine only caught barks when he was in the same room, so if your dog is all over the place I’d skip it or plan on following him around with it.

Mine caught my dog from two rooms over.

I’d push back on the idea that one unit handles a dog that’s constantly changing rooms. Mine only really did anything when my dog was in the same space as it. I had it near the living room for about a month and it would trigger when he barked at the window there, but if he wandered off to the back bedroom or out through the dog door, nothing. It’s not tracking him, it’s just listening near wherever it sits. So if your dog is a real roamer, you’re basically looking at buying more than one or moving it around constantly. I ended up just keeping it in the one spot where he barks the most and accepting that it’s a partial fix. For the price I wasn’t thrilled, but it did break the cycle in that one room.

I think placement matters less than people make it out to be, at least in my experience watching my sister use hers. Her dog is a total wanderer, goes from the couch to the back door to the kitchen while barking at nothing, and the unit still caught him from across the room pretty consistently. The one thing I noticed is that it seemed to work better when it wasn’t tucked behind furniture or anything blocking the sound. She had it sitting on a shelf kind of out in the open and that seemed to do the trick. So I’d say just pick a spot that’s central to where your dog hangs out most and leave it visible. The moving around part didn’t seem to be the issue for her setup.