Please don't hurt the dog. It's not the dogs fault that he is obviously uncomfortable. Call the humane society because the dog is being abused. If that doesn't work I like the idea of adopting the dog into your home so you can sleep.

 

I'm a long time shift worker and I have to say that if your losing sleep over a barking dog then your not tired enough.

I have two GSD's, they bark, I'm neighboured by a couple of fru fru's(white fluffy), 2 cattle dogs and a border Collie - all bark, but I've learnt to recognise a good (play) bark from a warning bark.

I like dogs, I speak their language, so I can sleep soundly through their usual noise, but when they warn me of strangers I'm immediately wide awake. In fact, I have a hard time sleeping without a dog within arms reach - we are a pack.

 

1. Try to talk to the neighbor once again. It really is your best bet. Try to explain that the situation is serious to you.

If that doesn't work...

2. Buy a digital recorder.

3. Record the dog barking. 4 or 5 hours worth of barking should be sufficient.

4. Install a loudspeaker system with a speaker on a pole aiming at your neighbors house.

5. Play the recorded dog barking all night long while your neighbor is trying to sleep.


Yes, it sucks either way.

I have barking dogs in my neighborhood as well, and there really is no good solution - so long as you rule out moving. You can talk to the neighbors, send them well-worded letters that describe the effect their animals are having on you, etc. - but unless you take significant action: either call the police on a weekly basis, or file an extremely expensive lawsuit, both of which will have significant blow-back on you, financially or otherwise, the probability of the neighbor changing their behavior is extremely low. You can try these devices that send high-frequency noise toward the dog when it barks, however, your chances of success are completely unknown because these devices will work in some cases but not others.

The best thing you can do is to build a package: videotape of the dog barking with time/date stamps, recording the dog barking, a file with letters in it that you've sent the owner, a digital recording you've covertly recorded of you having a polite but in-depth discussion with the owner, etc. The basic need is to amass enough evidence that you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the dog is a nuisance. Then you can call the police and get the law involved, but unless you go to the trouble of collecting this sort of evidence and have the commitment to spend money to take the matter all the way to court, you really don't have many other options.

 

Here is what worked for me . First night dog barked i got up , got some dog treats and headed down the street behind my house and found the dog , opened the gate , didn't even need the treats , he came out thru the gate and followed me back down the street , I bid him goodnight and went home and never heard him bark again .

 

... followed me back down the street , I bid him goodnight and went home and never heard him bark again

So he's now wandering the streets?

 

My solution: This is just my own and I'm not advising it but it works. Xanex. Not for you... for the dog. Usually one in a hot dog is sufficient for about 6 hours of peace, depending on the size of the dog. BTW I am a dog lover and a dog owner, but a man's gotta sleep.

 

there may not be something that the sheriff can do about the noise, but in some places a dog left outside by itself for extended periods - especially if it doesn't have shelter handy is considered neglect of an animal. Maybe you can report him on that basis.

 

I am amazed that no one suggested .... ear plugs!

 

Some of us who have had to wear them a lot get a fungus infection from having them in the ears to long and head set muffs don't work well when you are a tosser and turner sleeper.

 

Also stop being a whining, hand wringing, cringing ninny.
Just go to your neighbor and tell him to shut up his dog.... suggest a bark activated shock collar.
It works in just minutes.

Yes I guess sleep is for whining hand wringing ninnies.....

I DID go to my neighbor, once after months of hearing the dog barking and waking me up EVERY NIGHT, then again a few days latter (had to leave a letter because "no one was home" ), called their house begging them to make their dog stop barking, and then yesterday AGAIN telling them that if the dog didn't shut up I was taking him to small claims court after the deputy I had spoken to had already called and informed them of the situation. The first three times I contacted them I OFFERED TO BUY AN ANTI BARKING COLLAR Funny how last night I didn't hear the dog barking all night long.. hmmm

DOgs bark just get used to it whiners.

I guess we should just get used to you being a d***head too...:thumb:

 

Yes I guess sleep is for whining hand wringing ninnies.....

I DID go to my neighbor, once after months of hearing the dog barking and waking me up EVERY NIGHT, then again a few days latter (had to leave a letter because "no one was home" ), called their house begging them to make their dog stop barking, and then yesterday AGAIN telling them that if the dog didn't shut up I was taking him to small claims court after the deputy I had spoken to had already called and informed them of the situation. The first three times I contacted them I OFFERED TO BUY AN ANTI BARKING COLLAR Funny how last night I didn't hear the dog barking all night long.. hmmm


I guess we should just get used to you being a d***head too...:thumb:

Hopefully, this will be the end of the problem and you can get some sleep!

 

DOgs bark just get used to it whiners.
I had some idiot neighbors calling the law on me saying my dogs were barking,when I didnt even have any dogs!

 

DOgs bark just get used to it whiners.

No. They don't.

Dogs don't bark constantly at everything or nothing, every night, always.

Something is peculiar about that dog in particular.
It wasn't brought up and trained correctly, it's being neglected in some way, it hasn't been been corrected and steered toward what it is supposed to bark at; something is off, causing the dog to bark in the amounts people can't get to sleep over.

That something, whatever it is, needs to be addressed and corrected.

I had some idiot neighbors calling the law on me saying my dogs were barking,when I didnt even have any dogs!

Well that is some crap.

Yes some people are about as sensitive, and delicate as a tomato.
Those people are whiners.


Doesn't mean "dogs just bark" though.
People talk, it's what they do, but they don't cup their hands and scream out loud through the back door all night long.

A person that routinely can't get any sleep due to an animal's routine, incessant pointless noise isn't a whiner.

 

Typo in my post above.
Sorry...

"Suck it up" not "suck it"

Ooops!

I guess when the neighbors kids key your car it's ok cause hey, they're kids right?

How do we jump from a barking dog to malicious destruction of property?!
What sort of insane, non-analytical mind do you possess?!

As for keying the paint on a car....

I support the punishment of public "disembowelment" for such an offense.



Also stop being a whining, hand wringing, cringing ninny.
Just go to your neighbor and tell him to shut up his dog.... suggest a bark activated shock collar.
It works in just minutes.




ST

 

I guess when the neighbors kids key your car it's ok cause hey, they're kids right?

How do we jump from a barking dog to malicious destruction of property?!
What sort of insane, non-analytical mind do you possess?!

As for keying the paint on a car....

I support the punishment of public "disembowelment" for such an offense.



Also stop being a whining, hand wringing, cringing ninny.
Just go to your neighbor and tell him to shut up his dog.... suggest a bark activated shock collar.
It works in just minutes.




ST

Any time you violate someones rights be it their right to peace or their right not to have their property damaged, you are wrong. Kids do dumb things all the time, so does that mean you ignore it or do you rectify the situation? The dog owner is clearly in inconsiderate piece of garbage and should be dealt with accordingly. I hope you never get a neighbor like me. Whining, hand wringing, and cringing don't exist in my vocabulary. Confrontation, retribution, and resolution, do. I don't have neighbor problems.

 

Have you made a donation to the Sheriff's next campaign?

I voted for him, does that count?

 

No, you need to bribe him...Er..I mean donate to his next election campaign.

 

When in the city i have to use ear plugs to sleep....I have been using them since about 1972.....I like the ones at Menards in the hardware dept ...Also most drug stores sell them...Hope this helps as a person needs their sleep....:thumb:

 

To the OP:

From sad personal experience in dealing with inconsiderate pet owners I have to say you stepped over a threshold when you approached the owner that you can't back over now. As stated before, if you plan on taking any action you are now the prime suspect.

Unfortunately, you need to accept the fact that many people are too self-centered to be concerned with their neighbor's well being and interests. That, along with their penchant to constantly be at odds with everyone around them and their deriving pleasure from contention.

That CD looks like an interesting solution though. I'll have to check that one out myself.

 

Wow is "ass" not censored any more?



...hehehe

 

Why don't you just put a pillow over your head and stop posting this drivel.

Dogs bark.
Deal with it.
Suck it up.

Whoooo---ahhh!

ST

 

We know which post is drivel and it wasn't his. When you have to get up and go to work at 0400 hrs, its after midnight, the dog has been barking since sunset that dog is a nuisance and your cavalier attitude tells me you have never had to face that problem. I have had to face that problem twice, one resolved peacefully the other dog I had to shoot. Not my first choice but some idiots will not take a hint.

Nothing but nothing is more irritating at night when you are trying to sleep then some neighbors cats howling because another cat is in heat or a dog no matter how big or small will not stop barking. Do what you have to do, talk to neighbor first, then police then take action. It's not like they weren't warned.

 

Had the same problem, the dog barked all the time (I work day and wife works nights, so it was double the torture) plus it would come into the yard and bark at my wife when she went to get the mail. I was on the porch with a pistol at one point, but the dog (luckily for it) responded to my shout and backed off. Honestly, I don't think it's truely aggressive, just bored and looking for any kind of attention it can get. Usually, it was in a 10x10 cage in their front yard for the entire day.

Luckily, my neighbor and I both rent from the same landlord, and after a handful of complaints to her, the dog disappeared.

Now if I in your situation and wasn't renting from the same landlord as the dog owners, I'd suggest a few options:

Get their number and call them any hour of the day that the dog starts up. I suspect they'd be annoyed by being interrupted by their phone ringing constantly. They probably don't hear the noise from the dog any more. Alternately, I'd knock on their door each and every time, any hour of the day, and complain. Of course, they've already shown themselves to be a$$holes, so no telling what they might do to you in person.

Call the cops every day when the dog bothers you until it annoys them so much they do something about it.

Put a big sign in your yard with an arrow pointing at the neighbors' and in big letters, "THESE PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT BEING GOOD NEIGHBORS. THEY LET THEIR DOG BARK CONSTANTLY DESPITE MY PLEAS FOR THEM TO STOP IT." Just embarrass them until they stop the dog.

DON'T harm the dog in any way, or you'll end up the one in trouble, not them.

 

I would have to "accidentally" leave my car outside as near as his house as I could manage and "accidentally" set off the alarm every five minutes.

If I weren't feeling vindictive, I actually sleep with headphones(earbuds) in with white noise playing.

 

I know it's an absolute pain in the butt ... we lived in the country but the neighbours used to leave over the weekend and lock their old blind dog outside. He would bark all night, just the same monotonous woofing over and over. I went and threw him a few massive bones and that kept him busy.

Keep knocking on your neighbours door. Daily if you have to until he does something about it. It's not fair on you and I know it's grating on the nerves. Please don't do anything cruel to the dog like shoot it, throw things at it or try to poison it - it's not the animals fault. It's doing what a stressed, frightened and alone animal does to get some form of comfort and attention. It is annoying but also really really sad. A big marrow bone just before it starts barking might be the way to try and get some peace too.

 

Sorry any dog that gets out that acts aggressively is going to get maced by me, or worse. I don't put up with irresponsible dog owners, although I feel bad for the dog, but I have my own dogs and family too wory about

 

One device, a boat horn. During night, go out and get right up to the fence and lay it on him. If you get the opp to do it during the day go for it.

 

Try a white or brown noise generator - either like an iPhone/iPad app like something from AmbiScience or the White Noise app, or a mechanical white noise machine. I use both the software and the mechanical one (see vid below) and they're awesome at 'jamming' your auditory senses so other noises seem to fade into the background. Makes concentrating, meditation and falling asleep so much easier.

Dunno whether it'd be enough to drown out a barking dog though ...

 

Yeah, barking dogs are low priority around here. When the neighbors 2 pit bull/boxer mix`s got out & were really aggresive, called the cops and was told since it was a Sunday, the dog catcher was off and they didnt have an officer to respond to that kind of call unless it attacked someone.

And in one of the community newsletters, the Chief said he would like to see things like noisy dogs handled by homeowners.

I liked this town better when it was small.

 

So I was FINALLY able to talk to the Deputy who "deals" with this sort of thing and advised me I needed to file a nuisance complaint (I've already been to the Sheriff's Department once and they told me something different), and once I do that they will send them a letter, and if it continues I can take them to small claims court.
He also said he was going to call the person who owns the house to let them know what was going on.

I don't feel so abandoned anymore but we'll see what happens. :thumb:

 

I've noticed that a lot of advice on this message board about various problems tends to be along "shoot it", "fight it", "do X ninja thing to stop it" lines. I see that kind of advice all the time and wonder what decade some people are living in. Most of the time, securing a lawyer will do two things:

1. End the problem.
2. Cover your ass.

Much of the advice I see on the internet only covers #1. I'm glad you went about this the right way.

 

Take the guy to court.

 

try a couple of the barking devices! Works on my dog in the basement. I freakin hate when she starts barking about 10 minutes before the alarm is going to go off. Some react to a bark and send off a high/low pitch sound, etc. Set them up on your side of the fence right next to where your neighbor's dog is.