Dog Barking!

PowerHouseDan

Dunno if this is the right forum but anyway.Nextdoor neightbour got a dog,which actually barks 24/7 more so in the middle of night,which none of us can get any sleep,yesterday from 1 o clock to 4 o clock am barking non stop at nothing,Is there a law agaisnt this etc because his owners are Prieks,Thing is if we confronted them about it they would leave him out everyday 24/7 and make him bark just to piss him off,Can something be done,need advice asap as i want some sleep tonight

Phil_321

Kick the dog in the larnyx as hard as you can. If he lives it'll be a while before he barks again, if ever.

Gordon

I get this all the time but in Greece this just happens. Stray dogs are treated better than animal dogs.

Either go and speak to the owners or phone the animal welfare and tell them that your neighbours dog is left outside all the time. I know in UK there is an environmental health department that deals in noise pollution, is there one in Ireland?

Stark

If all else fails you'll eventually get used to the noise. We have the same problem with barking dogs in our neighbourhood. For the first week after I moved home I could get no sleep. Now I sleep fine. Your brain becomes conditioned to accept it as normal background noise.

Personally I would love to be able to follow Phil_321's advice though.

PurpleFistMixer

Isn't there some kind of noise-pollution law, you know - where people's alarms can't go off for more than 20(I think...) minutes? Maybe it applies to dogs too, so they'd actually be breaking a law by having it barking for too long.

Or stuff sleeping pills into food and throw it over the wall.

PowerHouseDan

The thing is the neightbours are mental they would kick the crap out of ya,they look like ****** with the dog thought and small white fluffy dog,getting used to it is out of the question,i am thinking about opening the gate and letting the dog run away,or let it out and call the doggy warden,but it would be even better if there is a law agaisnt it......Can anyone found out?

Gordon

The worst thing you can do is punish the dog. Believe me I've had a similar experience with yapping bloody dogs.. But the reason they are barking is mainly due to the fact that their owners couldn't give a toss about them. At least thats what I think.

Have you tried having a wee chat with the dog?

PowerHouseDan

From what i can see the dog is fairly well kept,does a wee chat consist of beating the dog?

Darwin

You could try an ultra sonic dog deterrent - I got one called Dog Dazer
from the states which worked (for a while) on a neighbour's dog. You need to be within 15 feet to give him a blast of it, so probably not very practical in the middle of the night. Every local council has a dog warden - might be worth giving them an anonymous call. Failing that good 'ol wax earplugs work well for me.

sceptre

You'll be wanting a look at this (see under barking dogs)

PowerHouseDan

sceptre cheers thanks

Sleepy

If that fails, a steak laced with sleeping pills could work for you. Or if you're more vindictive, laxatives

Esel

Take the pills yourself!

dubhthach

Well either that or buy a shotgun

Cabaal

Gordon wrote:

I get this all the time but in Greece this just happens. Stray dogs are treated better than animal dogs.

stray dogs and animal dogs whats the difference?
There both animals

Gordon

heh, oops, I think I meant something else there! Probably "pet" dogs is what I meant..

Actually the "wee chat" consists of going up to the dog to see if it's ok, but I guess that could work its way into beating it up... hrm..

Are you going to do this the legally correct way? It means that you have to go and tell the owners that you are "dogging them in" but it's a good idea.

Let us know!

gurramok

powerhousedan wrote:

From what i can see the dog is fairly well kept,does a wee chat consist of beating the dog?

Just accept the barking.
Buy some earplugs, the work wonders.

That dog is guarding your house via the proxy neighbour 24/7 for free, what burglar would want to be distracted by noise?

The Song Thrush

What I don't understand is.... does the barking not drive the owners mad?

Xcom2

The Song Thrush wrote:

What I don't understand is.... does the barking not drive the owners mad?

I wondered that too!

G

alleepally

Experienced the same problem myself a few years ago. Wasn't the neighbours fault, the gave all attention to the pup. it's like babies - some are wailers and some are really placid. Simple as.

I just bought earplugs and got on with my sleep. The puppy grew up to be a lovely bitch and all was good with the world!

Stark

We've a dog next door who jumps up on our wall to bark at our dog. We're thinking of getting a hedgespray which repels dogs to stop it.

John R

gurramok wrote:

Just accept the barking.
Buy some earplugs, the work wonders.

Sod that, same goes for the legal options too, they are complicated slow and of little practical use.
If they leave the dog in the garden while they are out then grab it put it in a box and drop it off at a dog shelter in another city, why do the dirty work of killing it when the authorities can do it for you.

luckat

My dog was barking at night - letting herself out the cat door and barking at the foxes and cats who passed through. I sleep like a log so I didn't know until my neighbour told me - very politely and nicely. After that I closed the dog into the hall at night.

But if the dog is barking day *and* night, it must be lonely and sad. Poor dog.

In that case what you can do is train it not to bark in the first place; go and stand in your garden and listen carefully to the barking. When it stops, lob over a piece of frankfurter (I hope the dog has water available) as a reward. It'll start barking again. Wait till it stops and lob over another little bit of frank. Reward it each time it stops.

Do this for a few minutes; try again later. As the dog gets better at "not-barking", reward it for longer periods of silence.

You'll have to keep rewarding occasionally; and this method only works if the reward is better than whatever the dog gets out of barking.

It may be that the only company and feedback it gets in its little doggy life is the neighbours shouting at it to shut up.

popinfresh

Yeah, buy ear-plugs

Victor

Darwin wrote:

Failing that good 'ol wax earplugs work well for me.

Foam ones more efficient, more hygenic, blah, blah, blah.

jay567

I know most of u are joking but please dont mess with the dog, stupid comments like tablets for the dog wind me up. Ppl can be so stupid sometimes. Anyway.... What u can do is get a device that emmits a high pitched sound each time they bark. The sound is at a level u wont hear, but annoys the dog so much that he should stop.

I am currently the owner of 2 dogs that like to bark while im at work, didnt even know, but the neighbours were going mad, next thing one called in and told me. Of course i want to help and am waiting for one of the devices to arrive from the US. Hopefully prob solved, everyones happy.

One point, i know if someone messed with my pets they would be taking on a much bigger prob than barking.

If its a case that the neighbours arent very nice, then u could just poin the device over the wall, no one would know, but the dog would stop barking.

Dont be a dick by letting the dog out,

Ruaidhri

powerhousedan wrote:

Dunno if this is the right forum but anyway.Nextdoor neightbour got a dog,which actually barks 24/7 more so in the middle of night,which none of us can get any sleep,yesterday from 1 o clock to 4 o clock am barking non stop at nothing,Is there a law agaisnt this etc because his owners are Prieks,Thing is if we confronted them about it they would leave him out everyday 24/7 and make him bark just to piss him off,Can something be done,need advice asap as i want some sleep tonight

1x large steak
lots of laxatives. just make sure you get your timing right so when the dog needs to go he is in the house at night

it wont solve your problem but a) you just got back at your neighbours and b) they have a lot of s*** to sort out

full forward

I think people who let dogs at home alone all day in a city garden are cruel. The dogs would be better off being put down.

mada999

Here's how to deal with the whole situation . . . .

1. Go to your local hardware store.
2. Purchase a nice pair of steel toe capped boots
3. Go home and when the dog barks punt him 200 yards . . .
4. When the neighbours knock your door asking if you've seen their dog, punt them 200 yards and tell them "he's right next to ya"


Simple solution . . .

if that doesn't work

get a pot of boiling water and "give it" to the dog.