Thread: Stopping a barking dog at 100 paces

Originally Posted by Chops

Ring your local council Mick. If you document the events, they will deal with it.

We had neighbours of ours do that with our dog,,,

We had to prove it wasn't ours, that it was a dog further down the road. We then had to do the documenting, but it worked.

That's the go Mick, but understand the process varies from Council to Council. In a past working life I used to deal with these often in my capacity as Supervisor in Animal Control at a Council in Tasmania.
It is common the dog owner is totally unaware the dog even barks in their absence, as don't when they're home. It is usually down to either separation anxiety from pack leader creating insecurity and/or boredom, or visual stimulation as they have access to seeing movement from neighbouring property or street, so feel the need to do what comes naturally ie protect his patch.
The citronella barking collars are quite affective in retraining not to bark, but it's also vitally important that the cause is correctly identified, as eventually, if not, regardless of collar, the dog will start barking again.
If the Council does their job properly, you will find they will usually interview other neighbouring property owners, and sure as **** there will be others being driven crazy by the barking too. All good! Best of luck

Originally Posted by sschmez

1.) lose the attitude
2.) talk to neighbour

probably be sorted after that

having been on the receiving end of neighbours not liking my dogs being dogs I'll assure you anonomous letters will have no effect. threatening me or my family or my animals even less effect. Call the council if you wish, do the logs ... then I'll do logs .... then "notice to abate a nuisance" ... then complain again, with your neighbours.

Then I'll submit the video I've been taking all along of neighbours stirring up the dogs, police will come round to your place, some mentions of cruelty to animals, charges etc.

Life goes on for me.
Neighbours are still "R" soles.
Dogs are still dogs.
further complaints to council go in bin.

My dogs were only barking when there was something to bark at. Like the council car parked opposite - clearly visible in the video - could've parked around the corner.

I wish I could post some video of my neighbour and his Ebay special anti dog barking gadget which the coppers loved and nearly landed him a cruelty charge.

Go talk to your neighbours.

Sounds like your barking dogs have a balance problem. This can be cured 100% by inserting a balance weight behind an ear. .22 calibre is sufficient. Bigger ones can be messy.

What i did was went to see the neighbours.They had only recently moved in.Had two little Jack Russel looking things.
The dogs used to bark as soon as they drove out their driveway.They barked continually at absolutely nothing.
The dogs were quiet for a couple of weeks then it started again.
I then went to see them again,same thing happened,barking started after a couple of weeks.
Then i put a letter in their letterbox saying if it continues,notifying the council will be next,as we had run out of options.
Four weeks later we notified the council,dogs barking again.
A day after notifying the council,one of their dogs got into our yard(our bitch was on heat,but they did't know),and our sharpie(male,desexed)ripped it to shreds.The dog limped home,howling, and i never saw it again

The council did whatever they did,and gave us some paperwork to write the time and date,whenever the dogs barked.

Never herd a whisper from the dogs,or dog ever again
And have never spoken to them(neighbours) again either...

One of my brothers had a dog that continually barked and annoyed the neighbours.
He came home one day and it was hanging from the fence.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Sounds like your barking dogs have a balance problem. This can be cured 100% by inserting a balance weight behind an ear. .22 calibre is sufficient. Bigger ones can be messy.

Nah, you missed the point in what you quoted above.

The dogs are fine and it was the neighbours that were unbalanced - even the police and council agreed.

Some of the heroic suggestions in this thread also indicate balance problems in the contributors - bit disappointing really from this place ... just hoping it's lots of hot air and anonymous bravado.

anyway, it's all good now, still have the dogs and now have new neighbours ... funnily enough no further problems.

Stevo

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Mick and if all else fails, you could get some valium and rissoles and keep the dog doped up while the owners out.

Nar mate, Ford Pills and Rissoles, It'll be too scared to bark!

Hi Mick, sorry to hear that you are having these problems. I have a neighbour with some pesky birds in huge cages, making horrendous noises all day (as you see, I don't like birds being birds). It is a rented place, so I will be leaving it soon. The other neighbours are retired persons, I am the only one who uses his backyard.

My boss did the same a year ago, his neighbour had lots of frogs (he didn't like frogs being frogs) so he ended leaving the place.

If you look at whirpool forums, you will see what is the standard approach by the council in these cases. They take you details so, in case that something happens to the dog, they have your name.

Originally Posted by FFR

Hi Mick, sorry to hear that you are having these problems. I have a neighbour with some pesky birds in huge cages, making horrendous noises all day (as you see, I don't like birds being birds). It is a rented place, so I will be leaving it soon. The other neighbours are retired persons, I am the only one who uses his backyard.

My boss did the same a year ago, his neighbour had lots of frogs (he didn't like frogs being frogs) so he ended leaving the place.

If you look at whirpool forums, you will see what is the standard approach by the council in these cases. They take you details so, in case that something happens to the dog, they have your name.

I've been down the council path before on other issues. I wouldn't go so far as to say they are totally useless, after all, they're great at collecting rates.
I know how the council operates with respect to these matters and that is not the solution I am after. We'll see how the frequency generator, amplifier, speaker combination works. Any further advice to this method will be much appreciated.

Well if it's just animals being animals then I'll tell my neighbours they have no right to complain when my pet velociraptor snacks on their kids as they walk to school.