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Where I live if someone complained about your barking dog. You could be pretty certain that it would be someone scoping you out for the deed.
To many people have dogs that bark all night long and even though you do not get use to it. It is one of the things that you put up with.

Fireball,

Here's your next assignment ...

Read the entire thread, again, and put into quotes where I've said that I wouldn't take measures to stop my dog from being a nuisance.

If my dog don't bark at something that needs barked at when its outside I'm firing their asses. If my neighbors need barked at so be it as my dogs are good judges of character....sure am glad I don't live in town....

One of the neighbors cows got out the other day and shat in the driveway. That don't bother me none but if they showed up to drive their cows home wearin' what your ole boy does things could get dicey....

You know, that's how I did it with a golden retriever back in my early days. Pretty much cost me one night's sleep laying by the door and bailing out with that rolled up newspaper, but he figured it out. And that was that.

What part of this don't some of you understand?

a good trained dog should not bark but once in a great while and only a couple barks unless hes trained to bark for a reason

Rig up a water hose in the house to a sprinkler by the dog pen. When fido starts barking at the moon, versus a prowler, hit the faucet a few seconds. The dog will learn not bark unless really agitated or fearful.

If you can't tell the difference in a serious bark and a racket from your mut, the dog needs an owner smarter than it is.

I always talk to my dogs and they can learn what they are supposed to do by inflection. A decent dog wants to please. When they prefer their way a swat to the butt is good to let them know you mean business. A good training aid is a length of cane split lengthwise three or four times and almost to the handle. The split prices are thin and rattle loudly together with a swat without being stiff enough to hurt.

Amen! I don't let my dog keep on barking, regardless of time.

BS.

I have no respect for a man who lets his dogs bark until his neighbor is forced to either confront him or call the police.

If the neighbors aren't bothered by dogs barking some on a Saturday afternoon (and it appears there are a number of dogs in the neighborhood), then who cares if the dog is barking? The OP hadn't had any complaints about his dog barking in the five years he has lived in the neighborhood. After five years of no complaints, why should the OP have thought the level of barking on that Saturday was unacceptable?

Dogs bark - that's a fact of life. The level of barking that's acceptable - that's what neighbors communicating establishes.

I know of a family that would NEVER complain about a neighborhood beagle barking under any circumstances, but if they heard a couple barks from another type of dog, they were immediately on the phone. That family had owned beagles and obviously had a soft spot for beagles. Just one example of how people can be a little strange when it comes to dogs.

^^This ^^

Welcome to frickin' Sandymanginaville...

goldang, I'm gonna have to keep a close eye on my dog mushing friends!

Elf, step away from the gun!


David B. murdered folks cause he was a mentally disturbed freak job, he just blamed it on barking dogs.

You'd think if that was the case he'd have murdered dogs, not folks trying to get a lil action in their cars.

Some folks are very inconsiderate of others re the actions of their pets, but equally on the opposite side of the coin some folks are A-holes who complain at the drop of the hat.

Sounds like you are a responsible dog owner and a person who wants to be a good neighbor.

I have "inherited" a young Cocker Spaniel with more than a few problems I am trying to get straightened out..I am slowly getting there, but I have to be mindful that he can be a PITA to the neighbors with his barking and crying. He has settled to the point of spending nights in a large dog crate without barking, and now I am working on getting him used to being outside in a run without him kicking up a racket..

I have explained this to my neighbors and they are being very patient about the whole thing, but I realize I can only impinge on their good will for so long..

There's a responsible dog owner. Good attitude. We're all in the fishbowl together, gotta work together.

Colorado? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Besides, I don't think I'd like your dog or suburbia! I like livin' in the sticks.

+1 I have 13 acres myself just so I don't have to listen to my neighbors [bleep] or fight. My dog barks when all is not right, I've learned to pay att'n to it ,kind like a alarm system that runs real cheap. Magnum Man

More liberal logic, it isn't the barking dog's fault, it isn't the owner's fault, is the rest of the world's fault for living in a neighborhood and not on a ranchette.

Here is a newsflash...nobody finds your pet as endearing as you do.

Never said it was anyone's fault, I just don't want to live next to a bunch of folks that sit to piss.