We've got 3 of them in our neighborhood. They can go off any time of the day or night and let me tell you - they have healthy lungs! Barking dogs is a major problem in Southern California in family developments. People get cute pups for their kids, but "forget" to invest into any obedience classes, so the hell begins... Then there is a story in a paper about some "unhappy" neighbor who went "nuts" and onto a shooting spree... and dog owners get up on their ears: "How could he do that... the pup was so cute and devoted to community, highlight of the neighborhood... and that bad-bad man (woman) terminated the young and blooming life.... blah-blah... Animal control admitted that they can't do anything except of sending the letters of recommendation to the owners that get tossed away. Association, City, police, court system (it can take up to 2 years to have a hearing on that subject) can't do anything to cure the bark disease. I talked to our dog owners nicely - they were very understanding and promised to take care of them. Guess, their dogs disagree, so they keep barking. My niceness is evaporating very quickly and my gypsy blood is boiling, so I need to become creative to resolve the problem, but stay within the law parameters (I already thought about taking cups off the CS or pulling out our Harley and "leisurely" drive those up and down their street to set off their car alarms and cause their windows shatter - so they'd get a taste of being "interrupted" ... )) Would love to figure out how to make our legal system to protect/help people who happened to live in the barking neighborhood. Do you have your barking story and how you fought for the chance to be able to use your own house. Any constructive input would be appreciated.
By Your post Title...I thought you meant those radio like devices that have motion sensors that go off in your house or outside while you are away as anti burgulary devices....I would like one that hooks up to my surround sound system and leave it on when I go Out...You see I have 2 dogs as well...But at this stage they are both DEAF!.
Last summer, we had new people move in a couple of houses down, and they have 2 Jack Russell yapmeisters. On a weekend, the couple would leave the dogs outside, then disappear for the day, allowing their dogs to yap to their little darlings' hearts' content. Since they weren't at home (and I knew they were new to the country), I left a note in their mailbox saying, effectively, that I hoped they enjoyed their new neighbourhood, but that their dogs had been barking for hours which was destroying a peaceful sunny day for the rest of us. Would they please make other arrangements for the dogs when they are away for the day? Problem did not disappear completely, but it sure went down by a large piece. Neil
barking dogs are part of the envrinment we all live in with loud music screaming kids and false car alarms...I join you in the annoyances esp. screaming kids, loud tv's (crazy home theater over powered surround sound systems they drag back from Best Buys) for better or worse in most jurisdictions there isn't a law against every annoyance unless we make one and yes that takes months...best trying to reason with your neighbors as best you can.
Get together with the other neighbors, have a drink, and go knock on the door of the offending house. When they answer, stand there and bark at them. They should get the message.
Do they not have any noise ordinances or nuisance laws where you live? Call the cops every night the dogs bark, then let them deal with it. Have your neighbors do the same. Police in Chicago are pretty good about dealing with bothersome neighbors.
You could probably devise some type of very high frequency, high output device and aim it at the offending dogs. Using sound waves as a weapon has been used by the US military for years.
So you're saying that you feel bad for this guy because he got a bad rap for shooting dogs because their owners refused to control them? Getting back at the neighbor by making noise is a good way to get your point across... but hurting an animal that doesn't know it's doing something wrong is just ****ing stupid, and anyone who thinks it isn't is a piece of **** piss poor excuse for a human being. Just looked at your profile by the way... what's a "Porscha"?
That's a low-down thing to do or to suggest. The dogs are just being dogs. If you have a problem with the neighbors, man up and talk to them. Torturing pets is indefensible.
I don't think a high-pitched siren going off for 3-4 seconds at a time would be considered torture.. at least that's how I envisioned it. Bark, siren, bark, siren.. they'll get the idea eventually! If the neighbors don't notice a problem now they probably won't get the idea by you making noise of your own. You do have to talk to them directly.
i LOVE pets and spoil my dog, my wife's cat, and my pet parrot Billie. What are you views on the US governement torturing the hostages they hold in Cuba?
Another idea is to call Animal Control when the dog are incessantly barking. If they visit the home often enough... the owners WILL get the point.
There's something I still haven't figured out, so please finish this statement for me: I, Baby's Mama, live in... A) ...an apartment/condominium complex where sound travels through the walls. B) ...in a rundown, gang-infested area where criminals rule the streets C) ...a nice neighborhood where every little thing people do bothers me and nobody else D) ...a developing rural area where animals commonly roam on peoples' land. E) ...did I miss anything? If you answered with A, then move out and find a place with better sound deadening. If you answered with B, then move out and find a place with better everything. If you answered with C, then you most likely have some sort of "laws", enforced by people called "police", whose salaries are paid by your "taxes". If you are just overly-sensitive to things (I don't know, I just know these people exist) then move out and find a place with better spacing between homes. If you answered with D, then run for local office and get the ordinances re-written. And finally, when you talk to dog owners who say they will do something, and then nothing happens, it's not the dogs disagreeing with their owners. You see, dogs don't actually understand or speak English. In fact, it's the owners of the dogs saying "eff you".
Rarely do dogs bark continuously when the owners are around. So, I think the only answer is to keep making the owners aware that the dogs bark when they are gone. If that doesn't do it you may have to move if it is too disruptive. I'd be curious if the high pitched noise thing would work? It would only be activated when they bark If an owner can't control their animals then they are the a-holes and the ones to blame.
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Tillman, You are right, my audio device would be cruel and it is best to alert the owners. It is not the dogs fault, but the owner who has not properly trained the dog. The other side of the coin is that some animals just do as they please no matter what. Guess animal control may be the solution if the dog's owners can not control things. Have never run into the problem and i guess my previous fast reply was said in haste. For that i apologize.
