[QUOTE=Bacardi1;6629485]
Sorry, but if you’re not home during the day & your dog is causing enough problems to have someone calling Animal Control, she needs to be kept indoors when you’re not home. Period.
Having been someone subjected to incessant barking from a dog (owned by a very nice couple) who just would. not. shut. the. F. up. all. day. long. - I can completely empathize with whomever called AC on you.
Suck it up & keep the dog indoors when no one will be home. Dog barking from indoors if someone tries to break in should be “doggie protection” enough.[/QUOTE]
This. There is almost nothing more rude than to subject your neighbors to incessant barking.
[QUOTE=marianne;6629577]I have a nice big backyard, that comes with a home that I have owned for the last 25 years. This is the first time we have had ANY complaint about our dogs and we have had them since the mid-90’s. On these forums we read about people who do not have good living conditions for their animals. I have very good facilities for my two dogs. I have all the required licenses etc. As this is a college town, a lot of the neighborhood has changed to renters and those who are not here for the long term. There is one household who kept their dog on a chain in front yard during the heat of summer. There is another dog owner who lets their dog out in the early hours of the morning. He wanders the neighborhood to use everyone’s yard. But because it is before the office hours of animal control-they don’t see it.
So how do the citronella collars work?[/QUOTE]
I have a neighbor who lives up behind me who used to put her dog out at 6-7am and brought him in sometimes at 10-11pm. She could somehow ignore him and sometimes it was apparent (when it was 10, 11 midnight) that she just was not home. He never-stopped-barking. He was like a metronome, one bark about every 2 seconds, -all-day-long.
I left her an anonymous but nice letter in her mailbox letter in her mailbox. Nothing changed. Then I left an anonymous but not so nice letter in her mailbox with ordering information for the same model bark collars I use on my dogs so that my neighbors do not have to listen to them barking. No change. I called her, told her who I was and told her if she did not start controlling her dog’s barking that i would be calling and reporting her. Nothing changed but I did get her litany of excuses.
I called animal who control who happens to be an ignorant idiot (and GSD dog breeder btw) who informed me he knew her and that her dogs were show dogs who were bred to work and that she could not use a bark collar on them because it would alter their behavior in the show ring (the conformation ring btw, not even out working). I told him I did not care and that since our town had a brand new nuisance bylaw I told him that I did not really care what his personal opinion was but that after 3 calls I would be seeing her before the board of selectman. Geesh. I have working dogs too and I can pretty much guarantee you the drive on my dogs would whip the drive on hers since mine were actually bred to work and can be quite difficult to live with.
Well, there have been about 5 calls in the last two years. The first 3 were all in one summer. When we got to call number 3, I noticed the problem pretty much resolved because I told the dog officer in no uncertain terms that I was done listening to her nuisance. Especially from some wingnut who considered herself a professional breeder.
I guess this woman saw that there were people being brought before the selectmen and being ordered to deal with their issues in ways that meant business she finally smartened up.
But to the OP, try and understand, there are plenty of people around you who are PISSED OFF about your dog but do not want to fight with a neighbor so they put up with it. I guarantee it. There is no excuse in the world for them to have to listen to your dog on a regular basis and any reason you come up with is just an excuse.
My dgs still bark, if I let them out to pee sometimes they will bark at something and I have no problem with someone else’s dog doing normal barking for a minute her and there as mine do.
But my dogs wear bark collars that are the strongest I could find as they would not be deterred by the dog store collars. I do not think spraying them in the face is kind, one zap and they do not bark. I put the collar on them and the do not get zapped because they know not to bark when they have it on. I do not want to leave them in because they love the yard and I am generally home all day. I am always paranoid that they will bark in their pen when I am gone and always, always, always have their collars on if I am not home.
I really can not think of any reason my neighbors should have to listen do my fogs and Op you should be a responsible and considerate neighbor and do the same. Or simply do not have a dog.
