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.
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.
They could just hire Newman to get rid of them.
The dogs may have a perfectly legitimate reason for barking.
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.
Juries of dogs’ peers will have to decide if there was a reason for barking incessantly.
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.
Cats don’t bark! :)
I have four cats that meow, especially when it is feeding time. Do I need to be concerned?
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.
Now if they’ll just add car alarms...
In our town, some number of calls to the police about a barking dog (I’m not sure how many) will cause the owner to be required to have the dog’s vocal chords clipped. A de-barked dog just sounds like a hoarse whisper afterward.
The law also sets down minimum requirements for shelter, water and food for dogs.good