Dog owners and barking...

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by DandJ

I got one of those compact air horns in case I run into another coyote on our neighborhood walks. When it arrived, I tested it. I went deaf for a few seconds and Artie didn't even bark (I totally expected him to), with a WTF! look in his eye.

LOL. I love those things. It keeps the cats away also. I literally scared the crap out of a cat in our flower beds one time. It was funny until I had to pick up the crap. Damn frigging loose cats.

[little elmer]

A lot of owners of "guardian" type breeds don't want to discourage their animals from barking, in the event that when they "should" bark, they won't. Of course, the guardian breeds aren't heavy barkers to begin with.

I let Brody out this morning before dawn, and he would not stop barking. It was after a storm, and I wondered if something was wrong in the back of the house - but when I went out to inspect I found what he was focusing his wrath out on - it was a trespassing frog.

[stan4]

The air horns work well. Those ultrasonic bark stoppers work on some dogs, too.

[Ringo1]

A little barking does not bother me at all. Never did. But if it's late at night or really early in the am . . . well, then it does.

Ringo and Lucy are both barkers. I try to abide by the five minute rule and bring them in if they are on a non-stop, barking rampage.

There's two big dogs next to me and the four of them like to engage in a little 'fence fighting' from time to time. Little Lucy is quite the instigator of that.

[LookinForMayberry]

Maybe your neighbor doesn't know her dog sits around barking all day. Have you bothered to go over and ask her, nicely?