BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!

Subject: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 05:24 PM

Dogs bark at neighbour's houses nearby, long enough to me to piss me off. What's with that? I mean, I DO put up with it on accounta I am a cool guy but it gets to me sometimes. Not the wind chimes, though. Ya wanna buy some wind chimes? I have quite a collection. It ain't easy... they got dogs eh?

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From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 05:36 PM

It's me gnu I told them, I bribed them with treats good doggie good doggie

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From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 05:47 PM

Shoot 'em, Gnu - they're much more a pain in the ass than brush wolves.

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From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 05:57 PM

I would NEVER shoot their wind chimes. City by-laws eh? Although... I have been tempted. I mean... wind chimes? Who the fuck would put up wind chimes in a residential area? Stunnedasmearse fuckin rude!

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From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 06:10 PM

Yeah my neighbor has Xmas light . All of them seem to be right were they can shine and keep me from sleeping. Where is a power failure when ya need it right

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From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 06:12 PM

It's like a 50's diner eat at Joes eat at Joes but it seems to always get me right in the face even with curtains closed

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From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 07:11 PM

Say the word "PHOOEY"...strong, loud, and forceful, in their direction.

They will stop.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle,

An old trick of the dog whispered.

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From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 08:43 PM

To Olddude:
are
Regarding the Christmas lights keeping you awake:

You could go to your local pharmacy or (chemist if you are in UK) and buy a sleep mask for about $5.00 or $6.00) Very inexpensive.
Don't get a sinus mask but get a Sleep Mask - the dark/black sleep mask that has an elastic piece that goes around the back of your head. Buy a dark one because it keeps any bright light out of your eyes. I have seen them sometimes for $3.00 or $4.00. Sometimes they are in the pharmacy area and sometimes with beauty products in some stores. If you can't find it just ask a clerk for the sleep masks. Oh yeah, sometimes they are kept where they sell the ear plugs.

I actually use them for keeping out the morning light. Takes a day or two to maybe get used to them but then it really helps.

Oh, some have just a elastic piece and some types have adjustable ones that you can stretch/adjust for your comfort.

They really work - but buy the black ones - not light colored ones as those don't keep the light out.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: GUEST,Guest - David
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 08:58 PM

Hi Gnu;

Perhaps you can contact your local Code Enforcement Department in your city (different from police dept). Give them the address where the dogs are barking and let them know that it is continually an ongoing problem. I had to call some years ago about a neighbors dog that barked almost all night long in their back yard next door.
Every single night! For hours and hours! I couldn't take it anymore as I could not get any sleep.

Code Enforcement usually sends someone to the home where the dog is barking to talk to the people in the daytime/ and or sends a letter of complaint. You can remain anonymous if you wish. If they get enough complaints (even from same person) they can fine the people if they do not comply.(to quiet their dog.)

It's worth a try to get peace and quiet.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 09:04 PM

Valium in raw hamburger. An old CIA trick.

When I drive around the sun gets in my eyes. The police here frowned on me using a sleep mask. I think I'll write the Mayor and see if he can do anything about it. This has to STOP!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: GUEST,David
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 09:13 PM

Sleep masks are to be worn when you go to bed to sleep not for driving. GEEEEEEEEEEEEz.

USE YOUR CAR VISOR FOR THE SUN! Or take the bus instead!

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From: Gurney
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 09:49 PM

I've heard that dogs bark when they hear some types of wind chimes.

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From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 09:50 PM

Guest/David, Rapparee has a LOT of tricks that usually work. Think you couldn't set Cruise Control and get in the back seat for a nap? Think again.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Janie
Date: 15 Dec 14 - 11:59 PM

Tough one, gnu. I love dogs.

With the exception of nearly always friendly but also nearly always incorrigible to training and otherwise indifferent coon hounds (and city dwellers are doing a coon hound (and most beagles) grave injustice to keep it in a city) no one should own a dog who is not willing to give it the same attention, care, attention to the physical and social needs and inclusion in the life of the family their 7 year old human child warrants.

There are still a few places and spaces waaaayyy out in the country where so much attention may not be needed. But not many.

Deleted most of this post which was a rant about my nearest neighbor and her relationship with dogs which is pathological and has to do with behaviors bordering on animal hoarding and also her own unrealistic fears about intruders.

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From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 03:45 AM

As guest David says, call code enforcement. If they don't respond, call them every time that it happens.

I hear that in California you can buy wind chimes made of foam rubber.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Musket
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 03:47 AM

Hah! My brother complained about his neighbour's dogs. 24/7 barking. The neighbour ignored the polite request so my brother complained to the local council who sent a reply with a "one week diary" for him to complete.

However, the council sent it to the neighbour by mistake and just to be totally crap, sent my brother a letter asking him to control his dogs.

Needless to say they don't have the expense of sending each other Xmas cards these days.

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From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 04:25 AM

An uncle of mine who was a barrister once got a letter from a neighbour complaining of his dogs' barking. He replied that he had gone outside and read the letter to the dogs, who had promised to be quieter in future.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 07:33 AM

I live too far from any neighbors for their barking dogs to be a nuisance. The barking dogs on the YouTube videos my wife's watching in the other room are a different matter.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 09:29 AM

Unplug the speakers.

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From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 09:34 AM

Throw them a couple of bones .................... laced with arsenic

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 11:48 AM

WTF have you got that arsenal of bang-bangs for? Shoot the fuckers.

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From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 11:56 AM

We used to have that problem, neurotic purebred dachshund used to bark when they went to work, bark when we left for school, bark when the postman came, morning and afternoon, bark when we got home, bark when they got home, the bloody thing never stopped. But then again, they'd decided not to have kids, which was probably merciful, they were as neurotic as the rat and it was her babykins. To describe him, he set about panelling the front room, and spent the next eighteen months murdering nails, tap- taptap, tap, tap, tap tap tap, ta, tap tap - and that was just one. One Sunday lunchtime he started working on the party wall, there was a sudden shower of mortar in the fireplace and the end of a straightened clotheshanger came through. My father had got himself set with a pair of pliers, turned the end over so it couldn't be pulled back, while he fetched a plumbers wrench to pull it through. That done, he returned it - and the SOB denied it was his.
The story came to an end one day when he discovered she'd been humping his dad for years - and she left him for pa. Next thing we knew the cops were round, he'd killed the dog and hung himself. Nowt so queer as folks...but it did sort the problem.

They say that 6gm of baking chocolate per kilo of dog has a similar result.

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 02:10 PM

Dogs have every right to bark, they are simple protecting their territory.

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 02:11 PM

Simple???? I meant simply!

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From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 02:19 PM

Go to the SPCA, find thd biggest, loudest, barky-dog. Tell them you want to take it home to test. After a few days of back door barking, the annoying neighbours may get the message. If you survive the noise, and you don't fall in love with the dog, take it back.

Just an idea, maybe a bad one, as I don't have a "dourg".

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From: GUEST,#
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 02:26 PM

"Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating."

James Oswald, Natural Causes

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 06:05 PM

It's no more the dog's fault for barking than it is the gun's for killing: it's the owner's. The owner should not have a dog which can do nothing but bark, because it's so psychotic anything at all is seen as an invasion of its territory. The odd bark is normal: the one I talked about yapped continuously for ten or twelve hours on end each and every single day. That was a failure in training, probably aggravated by its pedigree imbreeding. And it is an abuse of the neighbours: you try doing homework for life-making exams with that kind of grating sound in the background. A student who fails his exams doersn't get chances, no more should a dog which has failed to learn only to bark when it's needful.

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From: Greg F.
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 06:18 PM

Yes, its the owners's fault, no question. However, considering the various options of calling the authorities & etc.& the result therefrom, the logical thing to do to resolve the situation is shoot the dogs - since you can't shoot the owners.

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From: Firecat
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 06:52 PM

MGM-Lion, my husband says "I wonder if your uncle's dogs considered getting the letter as woof justice? Then again, why is a coffee shop worker reading letters to dogs anyway?"

I pointed out that he was getting confused with "Barista", to which he replied "No wonder I lost that court case!"

Yes, I'm married to a comedian(!)

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From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 12:33 AM

LoL

☺〠☺~M~☺〠☺

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From: Musket
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 03:53 AM

I feel somewhat left out.

My little boy (greyhound, rescued ex racer) doesn't bark. If burglars came in he would angrily sleep at them, possibly a few farts to warn them off and if all else failed, slowly get up, stretch (two farts there, he stretches both ways) and stand at the side of the cupboard where I keep the gravy bones, looking at the burglars hopefully.

If he could bark, he'd tell them which guitars are worth a bit and which aren't, possibly to serve me right for letting the vet stick a thermometer up his arse last week.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 12:26 PM

Bonnie the Small Dane tended to approach the invader, stand on her hind legs with her front paws on their shoulders, look down at them, and then gas them to death with her halitosis.

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From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 12:44 PM

A dog thread eh?

Paddy took two stuffed dogs to the Antiques Roadshow.

"Ooh", said the presenter. "This is a very rare set produced by the celebrated Johns Brothers taxidermists who operated in London at the turn of the last century. Do you have any idea what they would fetch if they were in good condition?"

"Sticks", said Paddy.

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 01:52 PM

PMSL. 😃

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From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 02:55 PM

Spread some Velveeta on his dog bones-he will have the shits for a week, disabling his bark.

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 02:26 PM

Ed T clearly is not a dog owner.

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From: GUEST,#
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 03:05 PM

"Ed T clearly is not a dog owner."

See Ed T's post of 16 Dec 14 - 02:19 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 07:30 PM

We had a barking dog in the neighborhood, but one of my neighbors bought some sort of small ultrasonic noise-maker designed specifically for that purpose and after that the dog was quiet.

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From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 07:32 PM

Why should I have to search for the post? Obviously, you copied and pasted the date and time. Why not the entire post? What am I? A fuckin bird dog sniffing fer a post. ARF!

Arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf,...

>;-)

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From: GUEST,#
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 07:48 PM

Damn. And here I coulda provided a hot link. The shame :-)

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From: Ed T
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 08:14 PM

Not only am I clearly not a dog owner, I clearly have zero interest in owning one (if own is the politically correct word).

Maybe I have super-sensitive sense of smells-but I find dogs "stink". I can smell them in houses and cars (where they reside), and often even on some dog owners. Oddly enough, I grew up on a farm, and farm animals never bothered me-but, then, we never had them in the house :), and changed our barn clothes in a special entrance and always washed up shortly after.

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From: GUEST,#
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 10:13 PM

Ain't nothing like the smell of wet dog.

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 03:33 AM

I like the smell of my dog (in the dry state). Very comforting when he cuddles up to me and Mrs. BWM on the sofa of an evening. 👍

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From: Musket
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 04:58 AM

Ever thought Ed, why after sniffing humans, dogs lick their balls to get rid of the taste? Two way street.

My little boy doesn't smell bad in terms of body odour but when he farts, and seriously it isn't socially acceptable, I find myself having a fleeting moment of sympathy for Ed's view.

Although poisoning dogs is of course about the only crime for which hanging is too good for 'em.

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From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 05:11 AM

Strange one, that, Musket: life must be tough on bitches.

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From: Musket
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 06:06 AM

Life is tough on my little boy. He doesn't have any balls.

Still tries to lick them though.

Which forms the basis of my explanation of religion, as eagle eyed Mudcatters may recall.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 06:15 AM

Can't guarantee its effectiveness, but there is a device said to stop barking.
After having lived next to an quiet elderly local for nearly ten years, on his death, we acquired a new neighbour with two barking dogs.
Our complaints were met with the moronic, "that's what they are there for, they're only doing their job".
We finally bought a device which is advertised to respond to loud barking by issuing a harmless sonic whine, undetectable to the human ear.
May be a coincidence, but after a month, they stopped - the barking hasn't been an issue for a year now.
Got the poisoned steaks ready, just in case!
Jim Carroll

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From: Ed T
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 06:22 AM

A few years ago I bought a house and it had a carpet in one room that reeked of dog- anytime the humidity rose, even after it was cleaned many times. The carpet was removed and I got the hardwood floor refinished. The refinishers told me that when they sanded the floor, one spot, where the dog slept reeked of dog. Fortunately, the finishing sealed it.

Another experience was, when my daughter was younger, she purchased a low mileage car from an elderly neighbour who took his dog everywhere in his car. We tried everything to get the dog smell out-but were never successful. It smelled of dog until she traded it.

Some people cant smell their own farts, or grow into liking the smell-but, not everyone finds them enjoyable.

Subject: RE: BS: Dogs barking next door... grrrrrrrr!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 08:18 AM

Dogs in cars
In the balmy days before parking meters, it was the duty of the police to issue summonses to owners of illegally parked cars.
In those days, in Liverpool at least, they carried master keys which could open most car doors, and they would tape the summons onto the inside of the windscreens, so some drivers took to leaving their dogs inside parked cars.
The police retaliated by carrying packets of aptly named 'Bonio' - laxative chewing gum, which they would hastily throw into the car for the delectation of it's guard dog.
Jim Carroll

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From: GUEST,.
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 12:02 PM

Phooey on Dogs

I think that I shall never see
A dog as he's supposed to be;
A dog who since he was a pup
Has learned when he should just shut up.

I'm tired of hearing dogs just yap
And wake me when I take a nap.
Those boisterous creatures bark and growl,
Bay at the moon and screech and howl.

They never do a lick of work,
They run around like they're berserk.
They irritate like hordes of gnats.
I wish that dogs were more like cats.

For cats are quiet, sweet, demure
And known for being clean and pure.
But dogs are different, that's the truth
And, more than that, they're just uncouth.

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