Neighbour's barking dog.....

[MasterOfReality]

Ok,

Well my neighbour has a dog (some sort of staffy cross mongrel looking thing, typical bogan dog) that starts to howl & moan as soon as its owner leaves the house, and I mean as soon as the owner has gotten into his car. After about 10 minutes this then turns into barking which then alternates between howling and barking.

The dog is going off when I get up in the morning and is still going one hour later when I leave for work, and he also carries on when the neighbour isn't a home when he is doing night shift.

On weekends, I have regularly clocked the dog going continiously for over 6 hours during the day. On one occasion the dude was at a bbq at my other neighbours house. Surely he could hear his mongrel dog making a racket, as I'm sure the whole street heard me yelling at it to shut up. The worst part is, the dog always hangs around their back door, which is on the side of the house closest to my living room.

I bought this house 6 months ago (the neighbour rents) and put up with this **** but now I have had enough. I approached him about 2 months ago and asked him to keep his dog quiet, and he did that, until now where he has let his dog go mental again.

I don't want trouble with my neighbour as I don't want my property vandalised, but it ****s me as he has no respect for others (typical bogan asshole, pretty much out of place in the suburb I live) and as far as I am concerned, being asked once is enough and I'm not going over there again. If he doesn't want to keep his dog quiet, then I'll shut it up for him.

Now, apart from poisoning the mongrel, I was thinking of using one of those ultrasonic devices which annoys the **** out of dogs until they learn to stop barking.

Has anybody had any experience with these?

[Jesterarts]

(some sort of staffy cross mongrel looking thing, typical bogan dog)

First things first... never a good idea you generalize like that on thise site as you just insulted a couple of my mates dogs, my future dog plus atleast one member I know on this site.

You can complain to the council and if there are other neighbours that can co-roberate your claims then they should do something.

Unfortunetely if you do anything to the dog and and someone finds out you could be in a fair bit of what the dog leaves behind.

The ultrasonic thing is actually a good idea but it can go either way... it would have it stop or make it bark more.

Plus if that dog shuts up other dogs in the neighbourhood might end up barking at the noise instead... so back to square one.

But try the council first and see what they say.

Edit:

Just read the bit about not wanting to cause issue with your neighbours... thank one depends on how mnay mate you have and how built they are really.

You can look at something like this:

Petsafe Ultrasonic Portable Indoor Bark Control Unit

But personally I would get a remote activated device so you have control over the situation...

Though i'm not sure about the effective range on these things.... should be a good 30meters if its ultrasonic...

Good Luck

[pow3rslave]

one of my friends bought one of those devices, basically plugs into the power point and emits an ultrasonic frequency that only dogs can hear when it registers a dog bark.

i don't have any word on whether they work because he bought it from overseas and used the wrong polarity, so we think it's fried.
let me know if you get one how it goes.

[Shounak]

So you're pssed off because the dog next door is barking too much.

Take the dog from your neighbours backyard and put it in your backyard. Then your neighbour will know what it feels like.

[Jesterarts]

^^^ I don't get it... then he will have the neighbours barkin dog in his backyard... barking... louder... lol

Link:

Pet Agree - Ultrasonic Dog & Cat Trainer #ES-K2-PETAG

^^^ That looks like what you need

[vnv8driver]

Ok,

Well my neighbour has a dog (some sort of staffy cross mongrel looking thing, typical bogan dog) that starts to howl & moan as soon as its owner leaves the house, and I mean as soon as the owner has gotten into his car. After about 10 minutes this then turns into barking which then alternates between howling and barking.

The dog is going off when I get up in the morning and is still going one hour later when I leave for work, and he also carries on when the neighbour isn't a home when he is doing night shift.

On weekends, I have regularly clocked the dog going continiously for over 6 hours during the day. On one occasion the dude was at a bbq at my other neighbours house. Surely he could hear his mongrel dog making a racket, as I'm sure the whole street heard me yelling at it to shut up. The worst part is, the dog always hangs around their back door, which is on the side of the house closest to my living room.

I bought this house 6 months ago (the neighbour rents) and put up with this **** but now I have had enough. I approached him about 2 months ago and asked him to keep his dog quiet, and he did that, until now where he has let his dog go mental again.

I don't want trouble with my neighbour as I don't want my property vandalised, but it ****s me as he has no respect for others (typical bogan asshole, pretty much out of place in the suburb I live) and as far as I am concerned, being asked once is enough and I'm not going over there again. If he doesn't want to keep his dog quiet, then I'll shut it up for him.

Now, apart from poisoning the mongrel, I was thinking of using one of those ultrasonic devices which annoys the **** out of dogs until they learn to stop barking.

Has anybody had any experience with these?

do you want the legal way or the nodg way???

legal way is to write to the council and they will warn the owner, if they keep doing it, the dog WILL be asked to, then forced to move....

my way would be to crank your stereo when there trying to sleep for hours on end right beside their windows....

have you tried talking to h them??????

[EvoVIIIJDM]

have you tried talking to h them??????

have you tried reading the OP properly?

[MasterOfReality]

First things first... never a good idea you generalize like that on thise site as you just insulted a couple of my mates dogs, my future dog plus atleast one member I know on this site.

You can complain to the council and if there are other neighbours that can co-roberate your claims then they should do something.

Unfortunetely if you do anything to the dog and and someone finds out you could be in a fair bit of what the dog leaves behind.

The ultrasonic thing is actually a good idea but it can go either way... it would have it stop or make it bark more.

Plus if that dog shuts up other dogs in the neighbourhood might end up barking at the noise instead... so back to square one.

But try the council first and see what they say.

Edit:

Just read the bit about not wanting to cause issue with your neighbours... thank one depends on how mnay mate you have and how built they are really.

You can look at something like this:

Petsafe Ultrasonic Portable Indoor Bark Control Unit

But personally I would get a remote activated device so you have control over the situation...

Though i'm not sure about the effective range on these things.... should be a good 30meters if its ultrasonic...

Good Luck

I did see the ultrasonic devices on the net, I think the range is about 15m.

My other neighbours have 2 small terriers which are fine.

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid going to the council as he will know it was me and will get all his bogan mates around. I'll be moving to a 8 day on, 6 day off roster towards the end of the year and the last thing I want is something to happen to my house or car when I am gone.

I'm not generalising purebred staffys or their owners, I did say its a staffy cross ugly looking mongrel, prob has about 25% staffy in it, and is probably the most common crossbreed dog that is owned by bogans

one of my friends bought one of those devices, basically plugs into the power point and emits an ultrasonic frequency that only dogs can hear when it registers a dog bark.

i don't have any word on whether they work because he bought it from overseas and used the wrong polarity, so we think it's fried.
let me know if you get one how it goes.

They range from $50-$150, so I'm unsure of which one to get. The dog is quite thick, never does what its told so I don't know if I'll be wasting money on it if the dog is just going to ignore it.

So you're pssed off because the dog next door is barking too much.

Take the dog from your neighbours backyard and put it in your backyard. Then your neighbour will know what it feels like.

Nah doesn't worry him, the guy is never home so he doesn't know what its like.

[MasterOfReality]

^^^ I don't get it... then he will have the neighbours barkin dog in his backyard... barking... louder... lol

Link:

Pet Agree - Ultrasonic Dog & Cat Trainer *ES-K2-PETAG

^^^ That looks like what you need

Ah cheers, thats not bad. Not too expensive either.

I'm still reading about the ones that you can set up outside and they activate when the dog starts barking.

[MasterOfReality]

do you want the legal way or the nodg way???

legal way is to write to the council and they will warn the owner, if they keep doing it, the dog WILL be asked to, then forced to move....

my way would be to crank your stereo when there trying to sleep for hours on end right beside their windows....

have you tried talking to h them??????

I would prefer the legal way, but going to the council will just get him cranky.

My stereo is on at 7am so I can't hear the mongrel thing!!!!

The stereo trick has worked for me before in an apartment block I used to live in, but if i do it here it will turn ugly.

[vnv8driver]

who cares if it get him cranky, your cranky about it. do whats best for you, you own he rents he wont be there forever if hes a menace. if he doesnt want to cooperate then its his own fault, and i think the letter form the council will be anonymous

[Cordelia calais]

You kneed to know that its not ok to do anything to this animal, it is not fair and any fool can see the dog is so very lonely, its not the dogs fault it is the owner, you want it to be quiet buy a big bone full of yummy marrow and give this poor animal something to do! This is not the type of animal to be on its own and this person should not have a dog, You can contact the council telling them about it, you can also contact the RSPCA and tell them what the animal is doing this is still a form of cruelty ( called separation anxiety ) in the eyes of the RSPCA and more offten than not they can suggest things this person can do to keep the dog happy and you can also contact his landloard, I urge you to consider these options before you do anything to a harmless, lonely animal.

[Bax]

How old is the dog, it's not a pup is it?

Try talking to him again, the dog just wants attention that's all. Not really the owners fault or the dogs fault. Ignorance is usually the best way I thought. But yeah obviously not working here.

If it was me I'd nearly be tempted to get the dog over when it sooks and have a play and let it run around my yard. But that's just me.

[MasterOfReality]

who cares if it get him cranky, your cranky about it. do whats best for you, you own he rents he wont be there forever if hes a menace. if he doesnt want to cooperate then its his own fault, and i think the letter form the council will be anonymous

The letter from the council will be anonymous, but I have recently complained about his dog and he will know straight away. Neighbour wars are the worst and I am trying to prevent it from escalating. I'm a pacifist but I know I will fly off the handle if i speak to him again and he tells me tough luck (which is what he almost said last time).

The problem is, when speaking to this guy the first impression I got was he doesn't have any respect for others. I don't want to go off to work and fly back 6 days later to find my shed has had something lobbed at it, or my car vandalised etc etc.

On the upside, his missus has just left him and taken his kids, leaving him to pay the rent on his own. Maybe the interest rates will go up, forcing him out due to increased rents

[sixshooter]

Talk to the owner again and tell him that if he leaves the dog with something to occupy it's brain it probably wont bark as much when he goes out... Or throw the dog a ball or a bone when he's gone... It's just bored ****less with an insercurity problem... a nice tastey bone will keep it occupied.

Thinking of poisoning the dog is an asshole of a thing to contemplate... when you have a baby and it's crying are you gonna think the same ? If your worried about what he'll do if you dob him in what do you think he'd do if you kill his dog ?

Talk to the property owner aswell as the council about the problem if it can't be resolved I'm sure you can work it out if you approach this from a better angle.

[Cordelia calais]

The letter from the council will be anonymous, but I have recently complained about his dog and he will know straight away. Neighbour wars are the worst and I am trying to prevent it from escalating. I'm a pacifist but I know I will fly off the handle if i speak to him again and he tells me tough luck (which is what he almost said last time).

The problem is, when speaking to this guy the first impression I got was he doesn't have any respect for others. I don't want to go off to work and fly back 6 days later to find my shed has had something lobbed at it, or my car vandalised etc etc.

On the upside, his missus has just left him and taken his kids, leaving him to pay the rent on his own. Maybe the interest rates will go up, forcing him out due to increased rents

Hope it works out for you, the dog will be sensing all of this, if it has gone from a family with kids to being a pain in the asss out the back yard it will be very depressed, you could let it out? then hopefully he wont want it back from the pound and someone nice will take it home.

[MasterOfReality]

You kneed to know that its not ok to do anything to this animal, it is not fair and any fool can see the dog is so very lonely, its not the dogs fault it is the owner, you want it to be quiet buy a big bone full of yummy marrow and give this poor animal something to do! This is not the type of animal to be on its own and this person should not have a dog, You can contact the council telling them about it, you can also contact the RSPCA and tell them what the animal is doing this is still a form of cruelty ( called separation anxiety ) in the eyes of the RSPCA and more offten than not they can suggest things this person can do to keep the dog happy and you can also contact his landloard, I urge you to consider these options before you do anything to a harmless, lonely animal.

Relax, I'm not going to physically harm the dog. I had my own Border Collie baited once because we had neighbours that thought they owned the place. What I said about poisoning it was a figure of speech, i could never do it as i know what its like.

The bone is an idea, this thing has got a good set of chops on him and the piece and quiet will last around 5 mins heheh.

How old is the dog, it's not a pup is it?

Try talking to him again, the dog just wants attention that's all. Not really the owners fault or the dogs fault. Ignorance is usually the best way I thought. But yeah obviously not working here.

If it was me I'd nearly be tempted to get the dog over when it sooks and have a play and let it run around my yard. But that's just me.

No, its not a pup. I'd say its around 3-5 years old.

I know its not the dog's fault, it does have separation axiety, but I feel the blame does rest on the owner because any responsible person would realise getting a dog and leaving it in the yard on its own for the majority of the day is a bad idea. Thats the exact reason why I won't get another dog right now, as there will be no one at home to look after it.

I would be willing to look after it when he isn't at home, actually thats a good idea, at least it might shut up then. Its got a wicked set of teeth on it, and being a staffy cross it does look like a strong little nugget. If it decides to go ape**** at me, I'll be the one coming off second best hehe.

[vnv8driver]

it should work out whether its on good terms or bad terms, having a play with the dog if your into that sort of thing may be a good idea.. but ill stock with it hes an arsehole to you, treat him the same dont get walked over.

[Jesterarts]

^^^ Actually the bone idea is not bad....

THe dog will shut up and the neighbour will end up with holes all over his yard from the dog burying it.

But yeah... the dog is after attention most of the time... so... i dunno... throw a cat in there or something... lol

[MasterOfReality]

Talk to the owner again and tell him that if he leaves the dog with something to occupy it's brain it probably wont bark as much when he goes out... Or throw the dog a ball or a bone when he's gone... It's just bored ****less with an insercurity problem... a nice tastey bone will keep it occupied.

Thinking of poisoning the dog is an asshole of a thing to contemplate... when you have a baby and it's crying are you gonna think the same ? If your worried about what he'll do if you dob him in what do you think he'd do if you kill his dog ?

Talk to the property owner aswell as the council about the problem if it can't be resolved I'm sure you can work it out if you approach this from a better angle.

Like I said before, I'm not going to poison it, its a figure of speech that I put in.

I'm quite patient, I let him know the first time the constant noise was getting to me.

Do you reckon if I chuck a bone in his backyard that the owner will actually get suspicious of me and think that I am trying to bait his dog?

[Bax]

Maybe just have a chat to him beforehand. A better idea may even be one of those toys that you can stuff things into. That way you're not forking out on bones all the time.

Going to have to be careful though, just lob it over the fence when he/she's being quiet and well behaved. If you start giving him a bone after he/she's been barking it might just encourage more of it.

[evil_monkey]

join my neighbourhood, the next door neighbours used to have 6 dogs all of which bark excessively, jump my fence, **** everywhere dig up the lawn n gardens, bark at you and charge when you walk outside into your own yard lucky they don’t get close or ill be breaking some doggy jaws...

house next to them have about 5 dogs aswell all of which bark constantly.

[minux]

throw some meat over the fence laced with round up. Should solve the problem pretty quick.

Just expect the same when he hands your kid a lolly

[MasterOfReality]

join my neighbourhood, the next door neighbours used to have 6 dogs all of which bark excessively, jump my fence, **** everywhere dig up the lawn n gardens, bark at you and charge when you walk outside into your own yard lucky they don’t get close or ill be breaking some doggy jaws...

house next to them have about 5 dogs aswell all of which bark constantly.

How the hell did you put up with that?

[MasterOfReality]

throw some meat over the fence laced with round up. Should solve the problem pretty quick.

Just expect the same when he hands your kid a lolly

Hehe, as tempting as it is, I just cannot do it.

I don't want the mullet brigade on my ass