Posted on 04/26/2015 3:42:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mike Landie says he doesn’t know what else to do.
He reached out to NBC 7 after, he says, he’s had to live with constant dog barking coming from his neighbor’s home for years now. He says he’s reached out to police, animal services and his homeowner’s association but the problem is still ongoing.
“At night, I’ve had the dogs wake me up at 11, 12, 3 and 5 a.m.,” said Landie, who lives in Otay Ranch.
His neighbor lives up a grassy hill from his home and when our NBC 7 camera was there, two or three dogs could be heard barking.
“We’ve gone through the routine of doing what you have to do to fix the problem. Nothing’s been fixed,” said Landie.
Landie says he reached out to the Chula Vista Police Department who referred him to the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility. He filed a complaint with the facility and ultimately received a letter from the city stating, “unless and until a second person who lives at a separate address within 100 feet of [neighbor’s address] submits a completed and signed Barking Dog Complaint Form, the City may not issue a barking dog citation to the dog owner.”
In the City of Chula Vista, dog owners may be issued citations if he or she violates municipal code section 6.24.040, Barking Dogs, Enforcement Procedure & Nuisance. It requires that two people who are disturbed by the barking dog and who resides in Chula Vista at separate addresses submit completed and signed complaint forms.
“Yes, [my neighbors] did from both sides of me. Both neighbors, signed complaints as well,” said Landie. NBC 7 spoke to one of Landie’s next door neighbors and he said he did submit a signed complaint.
City officials maintain they have one complaint. The letter goes on to state Chula Vista staff members have met with the dogs’ owner several times.
After our e-mails, Landie’s homeowner association said it will contact the dogs’ owner. NBC 7 reached out to the owner, but has not received a response.
Most areas of the county have laws to stop and prevent frequent or long continued noise, including from animals. Each jurisdiction has its own way of dealing with the issue. In San Diego, residents must contact the city’s Noise Abatement Office. Code enforcement officers respond to complaints, although there must be more than one formal complaint from different households before action by the City is taken.
If you are dealing with a dog barking problem, click here to see how your city handles complaints.
I couldn’t get my dog to stop barking one night...turns out that some thugs were burglarizing my garage shile I tried to shush him up.
Man! I’m so happy to hear you say that! That is one of the most over used stupid phrases in the universe in recent years! Drives me crazy!
Man, I have a screaming bird problem. There are frakkin alarm birds all over the place that start up at 7 am.
An elegant and effective solution...
When we lived in California, our property line was five feet from our house and then five feet to our next door neighbor. They had a dog that barked a lot. But for us, the more obnoxious problem was them blaring music late into the evening. We could sing along in our family room with our TV on and the sound up high. The only solution came when they moved away. After numerous complaints, our homeowners association put a noise restriction into the CC+Rs. There are few things more energy draining than not even wanting to go out into your own yard because the neighbors are out in theirs, knowing (but not caring) that they are making your ‘safe, private place’ unlivable.
I'll reach out and see what I can do about that.
Thank you for efforting that.
I'm trying to ISO9003 more, so I appreciate you noticing my Best Practice.
But don’t you dare touch any illegal aliens with their obnoxious never ending blowers and weed eaters from 730 a.m. to dusk every day of the week.
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A neighborhood nearby doesn’t use dirt blowers. They use a vacuum that is about one hundred times louder.
Does he use it multiple times daily?
That’s what the poor suckers in the suburbs get with endless blowers and weed trimmers from illegals... No joke.
Not everyday, but when it is used it’s close to all day with a break for lunch. I used to live near a small shopping center. They had a sweeper vacuum truck. It would make a couple of passes, could only be heard for a few seconds, and was done. It wasn’t nearly as loud as this one man banshee vacuum used by the illegals that takes all day.
Listen, we have friends who lives in a suburb where one neighbor has the illegals over with their blowers and weed eaters, then the next day the neighbor on the others side, the next day behind her, next day across the street and then it starts all over again...Over and over and over.
So loud, so much noise even his wife said they were ready to go to war over it.
Not that you were irresponsible, it seems like you had no idea that was going to happen and you took care of it when you found out it did.
Now that they build on 7,000 square foot lots, the days of having an outside dog are over. Here in Phoenix, it's ridiculous, they go out and impulsively buy 2, 3 and 4 of these yippy bark machines. The novelty wears off and they try and throw them out in the back yard.
Tell that to me.
No, they cannot bark as much as they want all day.
Trust me, I live right next to a couple of nuts and if you cannot get them to shut up, take them in. Doesn’t matter what time of day. Endless barking for hours is unnecessarily annoying and disruptive.
They don’t bark all day because I couldn’t stand that either.
Get rid of “passionate” too. What a lame word
Then I bought this bad boy: Dog Silencer Pro
Laughed my butt off when chatting with the neighbor and he says, "Yeah, she's finally settling down and not barking so much." I smiled and then told him I was using a military grade dog silencer aimed at his barking dog. She would still alarm bark, but that annoying issue of barking to hear herself make noise all but stopped.
Well that’s good. :-)
My neighbor’s Papillons are neurotic. Scared of everything and won’t stop barking even long after they’ve seen us whenever we come out. Can’t have nice back-deck picnics without them ruining everything (they are 10 feet from us when they come outside). The good thing is neighbors got the message, but are mad at us and won’t talk to us anymore (long story). They are now really jumpy about it and pack up the dogs at the least start. If I come out, she’s after them. If we have a dog come out and meet them at the fence, she wants them in. I don’t mind a dog barking for 5 or 10 min until he’s satisfied; it’s the incessant neurotic never-ending that they were doing (especially when I had a baby and I myself was trying to nap just 20 ft from their corner INSIDE our house).
I had a German Shepherd (died last year) and occasionally visitor dogs. I don’t mind and understand if they are “after” each other at the fence, but if they won’t let it go, that is another thing. Or cannot tolerate even the sight of someone across the street - yap yap yap for an HOUR if they let them. Yes, they will not give it up. These are not normal dogs, who give it up if they see no threat. I think they are treated too much like “babies” as little dogs often are.
That’s what I mean. I would never let my dogs act like that. If something made my GS’s keep barking, I’d be after them or take them in in 10 min. But they would not be neurotic enough to keep it up without some reason.
If there is something winding my dogs up enough to bark for more than a minute or two I bring them in to settle them down.
They don’t bark at the neighbors. They just sit and watch when the kids are out running around next door.
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