Is the dog barking just next door of 100 feet away?
Four ‘reached out’s. Can we get rid of that useless phrase?
how about cat meowing problems?
I live in Southern California and here is what my city did.
We decided to leave our big dog home for a few days while we traveled north to visit relatives - our neighbors walk the big dog every morning for an hour (they asked US if they could do this, lucky us!!). They graciously offered to not only walk our dog but feed our him while we were away and make sure he had water, etc.
When we returned, we received a voice message from the city stating that there had been a complaint that our dog had been barking all night non stop while we were gone. We were told the next complaint would merit a fine of $1000.
Needless to say, the big dog now goes to a kennel - a no-cage kennel with massive play yard and a shallow pool for the dogs to play in.
If the problem was that bad I’d buy a giant pair of weather-resistant speakers and hook them up to my home stereo system. Then record the problem dog barking with a high quality digital audio recorder and mic. Take the speakers and point them at the home owners who own the dog. Then turn up the volume as loud as the speakers can handle and play the dog’s barking continually 24/7 until the neighbors get tired of it.
In the mean time wear ear plugs!
I just turn my hearing aid off...
The guy who is complaining probably owns a leaf blower, uses it frequently, and has no idea how annoying THOSE #$%^^^@ things are.
He complained about the problem and the problem is still ongoing. Am I missing something?
Not guiltyHe simply called the owner up, in the middle of the night and said, "Your dog is barking." And then he hung up.
He only had to repeat the process a couple of times.
Evidently, the guy would let his dog out and then he went back to bed and to sleep before retrieving the dog from the back yard.
This is a serious problem, thinking, listening to music, watching a movie DVD, even phone conversations can become impossible.
I have noticed that in better neighborhoods dogs aren’t a problem, but in areas of more ignorant people, they seem oblivious to their dogs making constant, non-ending noise, and it goes on everyday, and forever, unlike a roofing crew, or someone jack hammering.
Get the dogs!!
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.
I’m surprised I have not heard of some neighbor totally detonating on some of these illegals over this lunacy...
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Barking dogs can generate noise levels upwards of 120 dB. Even if the walls of a house are insulated for noise reduction of -35dB, that is still an 85dB bark from inside the house.
During hours of darkness, when many people tend to sleep, their auditory perception becomes more acute. Sharp changes in noise levels are more sensitively perceived in these environments.
Kennel permits, depending upon state and county /authority having jurisdiction, are not uncommonly not permitted for parcels within 770ft to 1320ft of the nearest inhabited building where any person might sleep. The conditions vary considerably, but this also applies to enclosed kennel spaces.
The policies of 2 complaints prior to formal action isn’t uncommon.
Multiple interests arise. The dog owner might have good reason for the pet, such as local security or to alert the owner in unsafe situations. For solitary senior citizens, the pet might be a very valued interest in their family. The disturbed neighbor also has an interest to protect their privacy and right to pursue their own happiness on their property without the nuisance of the barking dog.
One solution is to try and determine the cause of the dog’s alerting and barking. Kennel designs are laid out to avoid exterior traffic from being visible to the dogs or surprising them when unavoidable in order to reduce alerts by the animals.
Training the animal is also helpful, and many of the solutions require the owner’s positive volition to reduce the nuisance.
There also are the ultrasonic freq dog fences, which are advertized to silence dogs, but they frequently require line of sight to the animal.
If the situation is problematic enough to keep neighbors from sleeping, then it isn’t unreasonable to address the issue with the neighboring dog owner, perhaps in a friendly fashion first. IMHO, it isn’t always easily resolved.
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I once lived in a duplex. The neighbors upstairs left their dog behind for the weekend. It was non stop barking for 48 hours. I could not get a hold of the duplex owners. I really wanted to bust the door down to let the animal out.
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.
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.