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I'm not an attorney, but if you're thinking about paying your neighbors to keep their dogs inside, or even asking them to keep them inside, what happens when the buyers are new home owners, are annoyed with the barking, approach the owners, and they tell the buyers that you asking them to hide the barking??
Wow Im so glad I don't live by any of you LOL ....My dog barks occasionally and so do my other neighbors dogs ..we all don't care if someone s dog is barking . That is just ridiculous to be so upset over a barking dog considering what is going on in the world . How do you know it was the dogs barking that lost the sale ? you don't ..could have been anything but let us pick on the dog owner right ? wow , just wow .
This is about incessant and consistent barking, not an occasional outburst of barking.
If dogs are barking through most, if not all, of a showing, I would consider that too much barking.
I have a dog. I know dogs bark, but I don't want to hear a dog barking for long stretches of time, day or night.
It's an inconsiderate dog owner who allows continual barking. Not acceptable. I was up to 8 dogs when I was working with rescues. Mine never sat outside barking their heads off.
Why would anyone intentionally irritate their neighbors?
While we now know who's running the house next door, and it's not the homo sapiens, there's got to be a solution somewhere in all this mess. I love dogs and they seem to like me, but the focus should be on the digit level of the owner.
I was just in a development that would have to have had some kind of stand alone noise bylaw of some kind, and an even worse problem existed, as a doggie duo would start when I was a quarter mile across a road and fenced field, and that would get the hounds next door going, which got the Bernard down the block going, etc. 101 Dalmations.
In that area not only are there night shift employees, but also small kids doing nap time. So there has to be something just short of a gift certificate to dog school, which includes the owner going as well.
We have a barker next door. Love the neighbors, their dog not so much. So we bought an anti-bark device and aimed it at their fence line. It's a birdhouse shaped contraption that is battery operated. When the dog barks, it emits some sort of noise only dogs can here and keeps them quiet. It really works. Neighbors don't mind (keeps them from having to train their dog). Maybe try something like that?
Half eaten peanut butter jar, one for each dog. Toss it over the fence. They will spend hours trying to clean it out. Caution: might be a disclosure lawsuit if someone saw the realtor lobbing peanut butter grenades after the new homeowner buys the house and notices the dogs.
Caution - do that and be prepared to be arrested in some areas! I would have the police on you for doing that since you have no right to throw food at my dogs which may or may not be on a special diet.
Not sure how many dogs the neighbor has but assuming they are legal I can see the neighbors desire to make sure the potential neighbors know there are dogs next door.
If there are anti barking ordinances (many places have them) It might be worth looking into what the criteria is. If the neighbor is violating them it would be worth using them.
As a side note in our area there was a kennel that when the farm next to them was subdivided but up a large sign (4x8 sheet of plywood) that said -
KENNEL licensed for 50 dogs. We have been here for 20 years and do not plan on moving.
They wanted anyone buying next to them to know what they were moving next to. Over the next 20 years people occasionally called County Animal Control and or Zoning to complain. The answer was always the same - The Kennel was there first, We will check it out but they have always been operating within the parameters of animal control and they are grandfathered under the zoning regs.
So as long as the neighbors are not violating some law they are within their rights to make sure a potential buyer knows there are dogs next door.
Wow Im so glad I don't live by any of you LOL ....My dog barks occasionally and so do my other neighbors dogs ..we all don't care if someone s dog is barking . That is just ridiculous to be so upset over a barking dog considering what is going on in the world . How do you know it was the dogs barking that lost the sale ? you don't ..could have been anything but let us pick on the dog owner right ? wow , just wow .
Spoken like a true dog owner. A barking dog is worse than a crying baby....simply because they never grow out of it.
A few psychos in my neighborhood have been poisoning dogs by throwing laced meat into yards. Sucks, but here's one article about it:
I'm not an attorney, but if you're thinking about paying your neighbors to keep their dogs inside, or even asking them to keep them inside, what happens when the buyers are new home owners, are annoyed with the barking, approach the owners, and they tell the buyers that you asking them to hide the barking??
*sniff sniff* smells like a lawsuit to me...
This is funny, and for the reasons you cite it wouldn't be a good idea.
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