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Posted on 07/17/2007 9:55:15 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Santa Ana has created a new category of public nuisance: dogs that bark incessantly for no apparent reason.
And under the law, the owners of such dogs may have to pay.
The city has received nearly 1,000 complaints of noisy animals since 2001, but only three rose to the level of a criminal proceeding. The new law, adopted late Monday, allows the city to issue citations to the owners of barking dogs without pursuing a criminal case.
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Shoot them, and then find a new home for the dog.
Good. Some people have to get up and got to work in the morning.
Proof that God really does exist!
There's always a reason - chained 24/7, no food or water, lonely, neighbors coming in at all hours waking it up, etc.
Why have a pet if you aren’t going to love it and keep it with you and your family.
They should charge by the bark not by the complaint.
Some dogs I just don’t understand. My daughter is back home from College for the summer and brought her long haired chichuaua with her. The dog is cute as a button and quite loveable but the darn thing is constantly barking in that high pitched yap-yap-yap that drives you crazy. When I take him out to do his duty he will stand there and bark at the top of his lungs for 10 solid minutes at .....nothing. No car, joggers or cycles...just barking at nothing. I never take him out before 10 AM because it wouldn’t be fair to the neighbors. I’ll be glad when it goes back to campus.
Nobody wants a dog that barks all the time in the house with them :^)
They could just hire Newman to get rid of them.
The dogs may have a perfectly legitimate reason for barking.
We have a Papillon Puppy that is the same way.
The Humane Society says give her a treat to distract her. Oh right, that’s going to work.....
Chichuauas and poodles should never be classified as dogs.
That’s a step in the right direction, but still way too lenient.
15 minutes of barking should be the absolute top-end limit. 15 minutes of inaction by the dog’s owner means it’s been abandoned or ignored. That person has no business keeping an animal.
You wouldn’t leave a young child out in the yard for 15 minutes, alone and crying. Why should anybody allow that to happen to a dog?
Some people do have animals that are difficult to train. In that case, the owner should always be present with the dog and a muzzle should be used while he or she is doing their business outdoors.
Nobody wants a dog that barks all the time in the house with them :^)
Which is exactly why my neighbor’s two Pomeranians (ugh) bark all day outside.
Juries of dogs’ peers will have to decide if there was a reason for barking incessantly.
I bought this because of my next door neighbors dog. http://www.ultimatebarkcontrol.com/ds_Pro.htm It really works.
My next door neighbor has a golden retriever that barks all the time. When we first moved into our house, he would let it loose at night so it was like a guard dog. The stupid thing would come to our kitchen or living room window and bark at us. When I complained to my neighbor, he understood and now keeps his dog in the back yard behind a fence. Now he barks constantly all day and night because he can't get out.
This is the first dog legislation I cannot oppose.
It is very possible to train a dog not to bark. And not all that hard, either.
The dogs that are chained 24/7 in the back yard bark out of boredom and frustration. I expect you would too in that situation.
“The dogs may have a perfectly legitimate reason for barking.”
Baloney.
There is never a reason for a dog to bark incessantly.
You rang?
Baloney.......
Cats don’t bark! :)
Hello, Newman.
What this does though, is create work for investigators whose sole job is responding to dog barking complaints and determining if the dog was barking for a reason or none. What kind of job is that?
How do you know this?
I'm sure the dog thinks there is. Of course, it is up to the human who owns the dog to either see to its needs so the reason to bark is removed, or to train the dog properly so it knows when barking is appropriate.
The dog may have his or her reasons, but there is no reason or excuse for the dog owner to allow that kind of behavior. I'm surprised there aren't more homicides (of dog owners) over this issue. It can be very aggravating.
It may get to that.
She is a house dog. She doesn’t go outside except for
“Nature calls”
That doesn’t mean she is not annoying in the house.
Most dog owners with barking dogs don't have a clue that their dogs bark. A $1,000 fine should enlighten them a little.
I have four cats that meow, especially when it is feeding time. Do I need to be concerned?
Or, just feed them some “Chinese toothpaste”.
2 of my neighbors have stupid barking dogs and now they both hate me for leaving a polite note about it.
First of all, bark collars work and work very well.
Before we moved to a place where our neighbors are far enough away to not matter, we had a neighbor whos stupid dog would set-off barking 24 hours per day at the slightest noise or motion. I couldn’t even go to our kitchen at night to get a drink of water without that idiot dog detecting me and barking for the next 45 minutes. And if I was in my back yard it was continuous barking, regardless of the time of day.
I remember that there was a hole in the fence and his dog would poke his kisser through the hole and snivel and bark and yap at me while I was in my back yard. One day I had a tennis ball in a “Chuck-It” and that moron dog had his face in the hole and I let that tennis ball fly... I did feel some guilt because physical violence against a dog is .... well, I guess it’s wrong. But it sure felt right that day. Unfortunately, I just missed the dog’s face. It would have sure felt good to bop him right in the nose.
I eventually called the city enough times that they came and took the dog away, permanently... presumably to be ground up and made into Chinese toothpaste.
I feel for you, our previous neighbor had Pomeranians like that. It would seem that these are good reasons to a dog.
Sometimes the reason is they are just naturally obnoxious.
But granted, dogs left outside are the 1s most likely to cause a disturbance (unless you’re the next neighbor in the apartment complex - which is REALLY annoying).
Some throw them outside because they can’t control the dog. Others because it’s just the way they do things.
I don’t mind people being fined for this. Not dogs that sometimes bark (they should!), but the “incessant” type.
grab the leash and train the dog. Where this is nothing there tell it NO BARK.
You have to train the “4 legged, flea bitten hound.”
I have neighbors with 2 barking dogs. I’ve gotten so used to it that it no longer bothers me though - I hardly notice. They can be barking at my cat, five inches away on the other side of the fence, and she doesn’t even flinch - she just ignores them like they don’t exist. It’s hilarious.
>We have a Papillon Puppy that is the same way.
The Humane Society says give her a treat to distract her. Oh right, that’s going to work.....<
I’ve 5 of them, of varying ages. It’s amazing, they are quite capable of learning “Hush”, and “No”. Treat them as you would a child.
A water sprayer, or if you need to go up in corrective power, a flyswatter, works wonders as a behavior modifier.
What molly-coddling BS, always shoving a treat at a dog. It’s bribery, never teaches them anything except you’re a sucker, and makes them fat. And that is if they feel like eating.
He HAD a fence and still let him run wild at night?????
Now if they’ll just add car alarms...
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