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8/19/2015 8:43am
8/19/2015 8:43am
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8/28/2015 1:12pm
Could have put this in the other thread but I didn't want to be a debbie downer in such a cool thread.
Anyway we have an alley in back that separates the houses on the block. This is a dog neighborhood. Seems like everybody has one. I live in the rear house which is about 3 feet from the alley. There is one dog that starts barking when there is any sound coming from the alley. It wont stop for 20 minutes after the noise is gone. The other night it barked from about 3:00 AM to about 3:30. I was unable to get back to sleep. It did it again this morning and woke my Daughter up. She works nights. It really sucks when you have to close the windows on a hot night. (No A/C). Not sure what to do. I'm new in the neighborhood and I don't know anybody on the other side of the alley. My next door neighbor has two dogs that are just as bad but they keep them in at night and at least shush them during the morning if they start. Once they go to work the dogs are out and there is nothing to stop them but at least they are aware of the problem. I realize that having an alley is like advertising to burglars so I understand the need for a dog. My neighbor on the other side has a big beautiful Shepard that never barks. I can walk right up to the fence and she just stares at me like, "come on in, I won't rip your pants to get to the tender meat". I guess it's just an effed up situation that I have to deal with living in a crowded area with an alley.
Anyway we have an alley in back that separates the houses on the block. This is a dog neighborhood. Seems like everybody has one. I live in the rear house which is about 3 feet from the alley. There is one dog that starts barking when there is any sound coming from the alley. It wont stop for 20 minutes after the noise is gone. The other night it barked from about 3:00 AM to about 3:30. I was unable to get back to sleep. It did it again this morning and woke my Daughter up. She works nights. It really sucks when you have to close the windows on a hot night. (No A/C). Not sure what to do. I'm new in the neighborhood and I don't know anybody on the other side of the alley. My next door neighbor has two dogs that are just as bad but they keep them in at night and at least shush them during the morning if they start. Once they go to work the dogs are out and there is nothing to stop them but at least they are aware of the problem. I realize that having an alley is like advertising to burglars so I understand the need for a dog. My neighbor on the other side has a big beautiful Shepard that never barks. I can walk right up to the fence and she just stares at me like, "come on in, I won't rip your pants to get to the tender meat". I guess it's just an effed up situation that I have to deal with living in a crowded area with an alley.
Drop them a letter stating whats up and if that don't work you have no choice but to call Animal control.
Some people are idiots as humans and even worse as animal owners. Dogs need guidance just like Kids
soon i am goimg to punch my neighbours face in.
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Neighbor has two dogs. One is a dauchound, the other some form of terrier. They bark at ANYTHING that moves. They are put out sometimes as early as 5 am, and they can stay outside until 11:30 at night.
We have an open space behind our homes that a lot of people use for walking, so it is constant stimulus to incite them to bark. The neighbor on the other side of us, two doors down puts peanuts out for the squirrels, so those bastards are always in our yards trying to bury the peanuts.
I bought one of those high-pitched emitters that triggers on barking, but the range is not all that far.
What kills me is that we have talked to them, and they don't do ANYTHING to correct the problem. They do not walk the dogs, or provide any stimulus, so the dogs just have nothing but energy to bark their brains out.
We have even been in the back yard when they have company over, and the company asks them about how much their dogs bark.
"We want the dogs to bark if there is an intruder, so we or OK with them barking".
I don't think they have thought that all the way through. Their dogs bark ALL THE TIME, at EVERYTHING. They are desensitized to it.
http://www.ultimatebarkcontrol.com/dog-silencer.htm?pk_campaign=Adwords…
It is worth it to me to throw another $100 at this. I love that it has a remote so that I can manually trigger the damn thing.
My wife is FAR MORE tolerant than I am. She likes to garden, and spends A LOT of time in the back yard. She is ready to throttle those dogs.
I have ordered that thing, and it is on its way.
Will report back how well it works.
At this point I'm going to see if it continues. It could be that they are away and the dog is out at night. If it does continue I will have talk to them but I cant believe that nobody else has by now. Having that goddamn alley is starting to make me think twice about my decision. Trash diggers come through looking for cans and it starts him up. I can see the need for a deterrent like a dog if you have an alley though so it's hard blame them. But after a minute or so, go out and shut the fucker up. Two barks and any possible intruder is going to move on. Hell they can come to my house. My deterrent only barks once. Once! (Imagine Joe Piscopo wagging finger in Johnny Dangerously)
Id give your neighbor a fair warning and if no results.......I guarantee you thump your neighbor a half dozen or so times with a couple high velocity marbles every time he steps outside and that fucker is gonna train his dog and spend some time with it.
Most times dogs bark like that because of separation anxiety and have nothing else to do. They do need attention and exercise. Some people are just shitty animal owners!
It could be the separation thing though. When I went past their house today there were coolers and camping gear in the driveway. They were probably out of town. Hopefully it's over.
https://youtu.be/pxh-Hjj8T9o
I ended up going to their house at 3:00 AM one morning. I beat on their door and rang the doorbell until the wife came to the door - it took at least five minutes.
She opened the door completely bewildered and had obviously been in a deep sleep. I said, "Your dog is barking and we can't sleep."
Her reply? "What? The dog? Barking? Ok."
Never heard it again. It was either that, or my sweet, demure, southern-belle of a wife was going to rip that dog's throat out, quarter the remains and spread the pieces to the four corners of Duval County.
Pit Row
http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/disturbing-the-peace.html
Disturbing the peace, also known as breach of the peace, is a criminal offense that occurs when a person engages in some form of disorderly conduct, such as fighting or threatening to fight in public, causing excessively loud noise, by shouting, playing loud music, or even allowing a dog to bark for prolonged periods of time. When a person's words or conduct jeopardizes others right to peace and tranquility, he or she may be charged with disturbing the peace.
We have neighbors like this. Barking dog, their kids leaving their bikes in my yard, parking 6 cars on the street for two damn drivers.... on and on and on.
I feel for you...sucks having to put up with a bunch of idiot neighbors who can't think of anyone other then themselves.
I share my back yard with 5 neighbors fence lines.Over 22 years they (5) neighbors had dogs,not puppies.
I have a old Daisy Red Rider BB gun that spits out the bb.You can see the BB coming out of the gun.When the neighbors dog's start barking for no reason at all I would pop them on the back side thru the fence.I have been shot with it and it just stings.ONLY when they bark for no reason is when I used it.It worked for me.Peaceful now.
I am more a cat guy but love dogs as well!I wouldn't recommend this for small dogs or non hairy.
Thing is I ride my bike pretty much never anymore and when I did ride I would ride for 30 minutes maybe about once a month which is better than a dog barking for 10 hours a day every day.
They are a bunch of fucking rednecks over there too so that should tell you something. The dog never fucking stopped barking and it's not the dogs fault it's the owners for not doing something about it. I was worried they would abuse the dog or something for barking so I put off snitching but I finally just had enough. Left nasty letters in there mailbox and then finally called animal control.
Dogs and people burning shit are 2 of my neighbor pet peeves.
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