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Amazing! Why do dogs bark??? Usually, they are trying to warn the owner something is wrong!! Several years back my neighbor next door had a knife in his neck (he was robbed). He crawled from his house and landed in the middle of his yard and my yard (MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT). My dog starting barking because she heard a faint noise. She kept barking and I finally went to see what was going on and I found my neighbor. I called the police and my neighbor is alive today! Why!!! Because my dog was barking.... YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON NEXT TIME.
You should probably read the OP before posting AND reviving a 2 year old thread.
You should probably read the OP before posting AND reviving a 2 year old thread.
Actually, it worked out well. I missed this thread and now I love the idea of the prepaid phone. I just need to see if I can get the neighbor's phone number.
Actually, it worked out well. I missed this thread and now I love the idea of the prepaid phone. I just need to see if I can get the neighbor's phone number.
Actually phone number is pretty easy to get now and days. Do a google search and any of those whois lookup place that you paid couple dollars for will usually have it.
No seriously, this is my biggest fear about moving into a house. I've lived in apartments my entire life and the most desirable aspect of owning a home is the space, peace, and quiet.
I would really plea with them to make it stop. If it doesn't, well... I'm the kind of person that gets even. No I wouldn't poison their dogs but I'd come up with a nonchalant method to annoy them until they got the hint.
Sometime after midnight last night I was awakened to someone (loudly) knocking at the house next door. It turned out to be a law officer. Word this morning is that the incessant barking next door (I can attest to 15-18 hours yesterday and on through the night) prompted a neighbor to make a noise disturbance call. I almost laughed out loud. Barking has become the least of my worries. The "house" next door has at least 6-8 big adult dogs in a small backyard. A few dogs, apparently females, are housed inside homemade "kennels", chained or otherwise tethered, and are usually accompanied by a litter of pups. The rest, apparently males, are on chains out in the open, with home-made "doghouses" nearby. (I use the terms "house", "kennels" and "doghouses" quite loosely here.) These dogs are bred continuously and do not venture outside of their very small areas (except for one particular dog who sometimes manages to flee); however, the same cannot be said for their "owners" (yes, a term used loosely again), who seemingly change hands quite often. There have been many different people "living" there, off and on, beginning in the summer of 2011, yet...the same dogs remain behind. Hmmm. Suffice it to say that we who live around this aren't stupid and even the teenagers recognize the situation next door for what it is, in the rawest of terms: a traphouse. So I look this word up in the urban dictionary and find out that the definition definitively defines what everyone else around me already knew: the property is indeed a traphouse, complete with drug transactions and a puppy mill grinding away, with the dogs obviously winning out as the top moneymaker. It seems that a person can really get away with abuse and neglect in the name of money these days, just as long as it's an animal that is neglected and abused. The police force can do absolutely nothing, other than to dampen the access to the drugs, which is excellent, and it works, except that those particular dog "owners" leave to escape the heat. The dogs then must remain behind to fend for themselves, hopefully for just a couple or more days, until their new "owners" arrive to set up shop. The SPCA can do nothing because the "owners" mimic the minimum specifications needed to appear to be in compliance with cruelty laws. The county dog control can do nothing, unless the dog is loose, in which case I have personally seen a county dog control officer manuever the dog back in the "kennel" and leave, literally turning their back on the root of this problem. At any rate, the traphouse renter is now in the process of sub-letting to new dog "owners", so, once again, the dogs are "living" without human supervision and are loudly barking out their dissatisfaction and discontent. And who could blame them?
Even though the dogs are annoying as hell, I know it's not their fault. While I do want some quiet, a part of me honestly feels bad for them.
You are right, it's not dogs fault that their owners are inconsiderate morons.
Part of the problem is that windows in houses are typically made of the cheapest material available on the market at the time of construction, so they do not have any sound insulation properties whatsoever.
Anyway, if nothing else is helping, try to talk to animal control and see what they have to say.
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Barking Up The Wrong Tree
