Barking Dog Dilemma
 

I admit that I am sensitive to noise, especially repetitive noise. But school has gone back in session today and god help me, I'm going to blow!

A neighbor's dog started this AM when the owners went to work (school), well before I prized myself out of bed. It's been barking for at least 6 straight hours now (ok, it seemed to take a nap around noon for a half or so). By 'neighbor', I mean they live a block away but this dog's voice! is very penetrating. It actually woke me before the alarm (dangerous).

Thank god the one that lives on the other side of me has not started up; she usually goes all day when left alone but her bosses must be home.

What complicates this is that I'm acquainted with the owners. They're very nice & I'm sure they don't know, and the altruistic part of me thinks they would want to know... there's no way I'm facing down another dog owner around here. The Devil Dog in the back that barks for hours on end? When I tried to bring it up to him, her lovely owner told me "Yes, isn't that awful? She's old and set in her ways..." :blink::eek:

I think I'm developing a reputation, but sheesh, wouldn't YOU have a word with the unemployed neighbor who spaced out with his leaf blower for TWO hours, cleaning the street?!

Thank god the pile driver on the bluff hasn't started up again this week. That almost put me over the edge with the clang, clang, clang...

But seriously, Paco the dog is giving me issues. What to do?!
(sedatives?)

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Shoot the frickin dog or if you aint got the balls...slyly poison it.

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Does Portland have a code enforcement officer. Milwaukie does, he deals with noisy dog complaints, usually in the first instant by friendly advice and as a last resort by a ticket.

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someone fed a dog laxatives...the following day the furniture suite was found by the side of the road because whenever the dog barked, it shat itself across the room.

Mucho cruel...but very funny :D

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If you are friendly with the owners and they don't know the dog barks ALL day, then maybe just bringing it to their notice could help?

It's a sensitive area though, I know I had a neighbour with a loud barking dog in OK, I approached friendly like, but got told to mind my own business and if it bothered me, I was welcome to keep the dog in my house all day!:ohmy:

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It's like a sketch in personalities. :lol:

I like both ideas even if neither will fly.



OMG I just saw Bob's. THAT has merit... it's a big dog! :lol::lol:
lansbury, they're too busy for barking dog calls up here now. I mean, I know the owners.. by rights I should just say something to them.

Now that I'm on the neighborhood board I have to be careful about getting caught in my usual mayhem.

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I've actually planned an end run around the new next door people and their problem dog by offering to walk it every day while they're at work.
I'm coaching their dog, because it wants to murder the Devil Dog, and I want her to win. Goooooo Gracie!

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:rofl: You go Girl!!!:thumbup:

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That's what I would do. I live in a small town so I would call the police or the local council.

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That's what my daughter's neighbor does with their dogs when they get out of hand. Takes them into the woods and shoots them. I kid you not. And this is a "respected" member of the national guard and a police officer.:eek:

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LOL you think you have problems the old battle axe next door has a mutt that yaps and yaps all the bloody time :frown: to the point of us going insane :blink: I have shouted and screamed at it, thrown it meat with a laxative inside hoping it would crap its self and be more concerned at the smell then the yowling, the other neighbors called the animal control and still this bastard dog persists:frown: WHY!

I will tell you why!......... the OLD BAG next door is deaf as a flippen post and does not hear a thing NADA JACK SH!T, I love animals but if I can find a taxidermist in the area believe me its days are numbered.

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Bonus points if the suite is white :D

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That's what happens in Austria, call the police, get three warnings, after that, a hunter is called.

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Our local chief of police told us that everyone is entitled to a good nights sleep when I complained about a dog near us that just yapped and yapped for hours and hours night after night. He told us to call and make a complaint and the cops would go and talk to the owner.

One night when we just couldn't sleep I called, it was about 2am. We watched from the window as the cop banged on the door, all the time the dog was barking and barking. No-one answered the door. The cop left and as he drove away the neighbour stuck her head out the door and then went straight back in again.So I called the cop again and he came back and he kept banging on the door until she answered. He gave her 3 choices, she either took the dog in the house and kept it under control, she could leave it outside but put a shock collar on it or he would have animal control take it to the pound. She took it in the house.

Last month her husband died and the day after he died the dog was gone. Turns out she didn't even want a dog, it was his and she hated having it in the house.

What I can never figure is, if your own dog is out in the yard barking continually how do you not hear it yourself? Surely it is louder in your own house than what the neighbours hear?

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I sympathise, I am screwing up the courage to say something about the f$*%ing rooser problem we have, my neighbour said I'm voted to handle it because of my 'nice English accent'. :eek:

Why can't people realize when they are just pissing everyone in the neighbourhood off.

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My parents used to be friendly with an awful couple, the woman was like the Alison Steadman character in Abigail's Party, she had a load of yappy Yorkshire terriers that she called 'moy baybeees' which her neighbours were doing their collective nut over, but she just wouldn't hear a word against them.

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The neighbour that died was the one that had the Rooster as well.....that went AWOL the day after he died as well.

Peace in the neighbourhood.....for now!

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:thumbsup:

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You and I must live in parallel universes! I think I have the most sensitive ears in the universe.

I was on good terms with a neighbor some time ago, but didn't have daily contact with them; their dogs were great when they were home, but barked endlessly when they were away. I finally had the occasion to write them an email and mentioned it in passing. They did try various things (shock collars, etc) but nothing was very successful. They started 'boarding' their dog when they went away for weekends, so all I had to endure was the time they were gone during the day. I fantasized about poisoning the dogs ... Eventually, they moved on ... releif!

Just recently, a new family has moved into the neighborhood, and their dog yaps all morning and wakes me up. I wrote an anonymous letter to them, telling them I would report the dog if they didn't control it. I'm waiting to see if it has any effect.

It's the only reason I'd ever consider buying a gun - to shoot the f**ckers.

I don't do well with snoring either ... :)

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My sister (in England) had next door neighbours who managed an Irish social club, so they were rarely home until about 1am.

They had a Jack Russell which they left in their back garden most of the time and the damn dog would yap and bark for hours. I always stay with her on trips back to the UK and the dog would go berserk when I was hanging out the washing in the garden.

It drove my sister insane and was the main reason why she moved to another house in the same neighbourhood; she asked the (very nice) neighbours to take the dog indoors whenever they had a viewing otherwise she would never have been able to sell that house!

(She was also angry about a neighbour's cat that would come to her back garden and consistently crap in it - she hates cats - so got a super-soaker water gun and would blast it whenever she spotted it in her garden....mind you she did have a small pond and I guess the cat was attracted to the fish and the frog).

Maybe the o/p could try a super-soaker water gun on the barking dog?;)

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A cricket in the house can keep me up all night.:frown: I once had a mouse chewing it's way in the house in the corner of my bedroom, kept me awake but not my OH. Me screaming "**** off you bastard" and banging a broom handle on the skirting board woke him up though.

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Seeing as your friendly with the owner can you take the stance of "hi, I'm really concerned about Fi-fi as she seems very upset when you're gone during the day and won't stop barking, I'm sure it's not good for her stress levels...."etc. etc.?? :)

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Chubby Brown's neighbour to Chubby Brown;

"Oi Chubby - Your f*****g dog keeps going for me."

Chubby Brown To His Neighbour;

"Do you want to buy him? - He won't go anywhere for me."

Jim.

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Stay up all night on a weeknight. Call them every 30 minutes barking into the phone.

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Ah, Mo. And you being a cat lover and all. The solution is obvious - arm Wanda.:D

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com...0780615961.jpg

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I'm sure that they do. You learn selective hearing. The dog's bark is much the same as kid noise or husband's voice, you learn to ignore it.

What I hate most is when those neighbors' have dogs that are not tied up in the yard and jump over the fence or the kids let him out and they trespass on your property, take their dumps and you are left to clean up after them.

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Arrange literature through the internet on dog barking to be posted to their address,they may get the point ;)

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One way to solve the problem :lol:

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...or they are are so doped up on drugs or alcohol that there could be a Cat 3 hurricane come through and they still don't know whats going on (and that was a fact;))

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And you were eating coq au vin that evening. Pure coincidence?

As for the posters who are troubled by neighbours' noisy dogs - they make me glad I live in a place where handgun ownership is legal.

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That may be so, but I don't think shooting neighbours noisy dogs is:rolleyes:

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Unless you're a kitten. ;)

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Well that's a given :lol:

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Shovel this onto their door step with a polite note thanking them, but telling them that you already take enough of this from them already.

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So many good suggestions... so few neighborhood dogs to eliminate!

:lol: You guys gave me a good laugh to shake it off, thanks! Still don't know which approach to use, but fantasizing about the more artistic ones sure is fun!

Not a peep from Paco this morning, so maybe someone else read them the riot act last night & gave them a clue.

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Perhaps a Stealth Ninja Kitten went round and gave Paco a talking to...

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....Absolutely appropriate for step one. Failing that, shovel it onto their windshield. Trust me.........problem solved.:)

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One with a Texas accent?! :eek:
:thumbsup:

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The kitten informs me that she is not disposed to answer that question at this time, Ma'am. :D

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:D

Please tell her 'hello' from us and that Wanda had a dodgy belly this week too. In sympathy, I'm sure.