I Hate Barking Dogs.
Why do people have dogs only to keep them outside? If they actually loved the thing, or took decent care of it, wouldn’t they want it to be inside?
Is it that they’ve failed somehow in training the thing and now it’s a troublesome bother and thus they put it outside, thinking outside would be no longer a bother? Or is it the fault of the dog for being mentally worthless?
In either case, and case doesn’t particularly matter anyway, by putting the beast outside they’re only sharing their problem with the neighborhood.
I absolutely hate barking dogs. I should not have to hear dog barking if I don’t have one. I should not have to be bothered by a dog barking when I’m in my bedroom at 2AM. My cat when she meows doesn’t reverberate throughout the neighborhood.
Unfortunately the laws in this particular area apparently have no provision for constantly barking dogs, there is no sort of noise ordinance in my township.
I’m a very “leave them alone, they’ll leave me alone” sort of neighbor. It seems I’ll have to call the dog warden now, as I’ve dealt with that horrible barking dog the neighbor has for a good week now. My only possible reprieve would be if the dog warden would find some sort of mistreatment or neglect. I was successful in getting a dog removed a few years ago on those grounds. I’ll need to figure out who actually has the dog, though I believe it’s the super-rednecks that moved in most recently.
I think it’s inhumane to allow a dog to remain outside when it’s below freezing. Clearly the dog doesn’t like it either, at least that makes sense… if I was freezing I’d be yelling too.
I’ve even taken to yelling things like “Take the dog inside!” and “The barking needs to stop!” and even “Get rid of that dog.” Clearly those “subtle” hints haven’t made an impact. In fact, they’re even more a bother for the whole neighborhood.
Maybe the title of my post shouldn’t be that I hate barking dogs, but that I hate people that have no consideration for others. Their rights end where mine begin after all.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Yeah, I hear you, I have a neighbor that I have spoken to about his German Sheppard and he and his wife say “it’s the squirrels in your backyard”, basically their dog would not bark if I didn’t have tree rats. Talking does no good, so I got a Bark stop, that worked for a while and then started to make an audible noise that upset the neighbors, so I told him if you don’t like that noise then shut your dog up. Well he is an idiot and I kind of backed down and stopped using the bark stop and of course the dog is barking none stop. Today I finally called the county and reported a nuisance dog. I have no doubt my courteous neighbor will ask me if I reported him and be pissed. My response will be then SHUT YOUR F**KING DOG UP. I love people that get upset when someone reports their bad behavior.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Sometimes I wish I could buy a shotgun and ….
July 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
DOGS SUCK! I live below 4 weiner dogs, & all those worthless things ever seem to do is BARK. I FREAKIN HATE THEM! If I thought I could get away with it, I would poison those f***ers! Their owner (my landlady)loves them & thinks that they can do NO WRONG! I don’t want to turn her in, one, because I’m not a punk like that, and ywo, I would worry about retaliation.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
i really hate weiner dogs! cindy and i are in EXACTLY the same situation except the little bastard has tried to attack me a few times and it never stops barking. last night, it went on till 4am. ive talked to the landlord about it and he will do nothing and thinks that i have the problem not his piece of sh1t mut. ive also called animal control about 3 times now and nothing has been fixed. the hamburger laced with ground up glass is starting to look like a good idea…
August 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I was reading this post, and responses, and I know exactly where you are coming from. You sound exactly like I was eight years ago. I can’t say that I ever thought of ‘hamburger laced with broken glass’ but I was close. The thing that pissed me off the most was that my wife and I were being kept up all night by barking dogs and every time I tried to do something about it, I was made to be the bad guy. So, being a sound guy, I had a crazy idea. I got a tone generator, hooked it up to some speakers, pointed them towards the neighbor’s yard, and when the dogs started barking, I blasted them with high pitched sounds that only they could hear. I was surprised that it actually worked. The beauty of this is that I was doing this at 2am and only me and the dogs knew about it. So, I decided to put those tones on a CD and market the thing. Now, I do apologize if this sounds like spam but I really do feel like I am trying to help people in your situation, and I’m certainly not getting rich off the idea. You can find details at http://www.IHateBarkingDogs.com.
Thank you,
Mike Atwood