Neighbor dilemna
 

How do ask your neighbors to try and keep their dog from barking incessantly without sounding like an ass. Getting woke up 3 days in a row now working nights is killing me. All the while they are leaving the dog outside for hours at a time. Something they didn't used to do.

Since I have to sleep from 8:30 to 4:00 everyday, getting woke up all the time like this is becoming a problem now. It doesn't help that my bedroom is right next to where their dog does this.

They are great neighbors BTW. Never had an issue until this.

Buy one of those cheap bark collars and ask them if they will put it on him during the day.

Change your WIFI name to "shut that ****ing dog up, you piece of monkey shit."

That'll do it.

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and pour the doggie a cup of this
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well then, just mention it to them. see what happens.
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you could explain your situation to them and see if they can accommodate you.

I would try to use a fan to muffle out the sound if it were me though.

Then head back to sleep.

See if your town has a barking dog noise ordinance.

IF not implement your own...

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Ask them if the dog is OK, or if something is wrong with him. You've just noticed a ton of barking lately, and it's waking you up. When they say there's nothing wrong with the dog, you say "Thank goodness for that. Is there any way you could try to calm him down a little? He just keeps waking me up and it's really starting to kill me with work".

That way you sound concerned, non-accusatory and that might make them a little more sympathetic.

Yeah, that's the place to start. As long as you don't come off as an ass berating them, most reasonable people would at least make an effort to be more quick to shush the dog if they know you're sleeping next door.

I have a neighbor directly behind me and they have a little dog that barked nonstop all damn night and all damn morning. It just..wouldn't stop. I'd never heard anything like it. I wanted to murder that damn thing. Hasn't happened again though.

Oh but as far as a solution to your problem, get a treble hook and stuff it in a meatball, toss that thing over the fence and call it a day.

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Without reading the thread, this really is where anti-freeze comes in.

With your shift, I bet this does suck.

Those bark collars are effective though. My dog went through a stage where he'd bark his balls off for no reason. So, the wife got a bark collar and I insisted on trying on myself first.

I don't recommend my decision.

Holy crap, I thought I was going to be the first. This place really has lost it's burst.


On a more serious note, we have two Yorkies. We were fortunate, that our 11 year old just does not bark. He will grunt when he wants something.

But our young one makes up for it, and a squirt gun full of water handy is the solution.
Maybe you could set something up short term that may pay long term benefits.

I'm probably not who you're talking about, but recently I've had to leave my dog outside during the day for a few days.. My dog ate a ton of toilet paper when my 3 year old told him that was an ok choice, got stuffed up pretty bad and then got the squirts, and damned if I'm cleaning that up more than once.. Maybe your neighbor has a similar situation.

ROFL

Yeah, I already have a fan and noise machine running all day. the dog is louder.

It's always best to handle these matters in a mature, loving way, Mr. Guru. Call your neighbors and invite them over for a prayer meeting and read them this Bible verse;

"And thou shalt not beset unto thine encampment any aggravation, sayeth the Lord, and no annoyance shalt thy suffer into thine dwelling places. For behold, thy beasts shalt be bound and silent shalt they be. And without irritation shalt thy animals be kept lest fire consume thine abode and all the vessels therein. For shouldst thou release thine creatures unto the people who hear their cry, great shalt be thine cumbrance, and terrible thine burden and thine strife. For wheresoever any live who shalt hear thine beasts shalt rise and set ablaze thy home and thy shrubberies and thy outbuildings and great shall be the wailing in thy household."

That should do it.

FAX

I tried asking nicely regarding a mean dog situation a while back.

3 days later he roared out of the house beady eyed and sweaty when I got home from lunch and wanted to argue in front of my wife and kid. Tats blazing, no shirt, sweating like a whore in church and at one point told me he'd been to prison 3 times. I told him in some direct form that this information did not make me nervous and that he didn't make me nervous, which kind of took him back a step I think.

I then said "just so there is no confusion, what I meant was, If that ****ing dog comes back in my yard, I will kill it in front of you. I care more about keeping my kids safe than pissing you off and if that pisses you off, I don't give a shit"

In short....My experience has been that asking nice never works out because they're pissed off anyway.


Meatball the canine and say nothing.

Most people are reasonable, they're just too oblivious to think there could possibly be a problem until they're told about it.

oh that sucks, when my fan is on high it pretty much muffles all the sounds out for me and I live in Boston where houses are 2 feet apart from each other.

Bingo

This story has nothing to do with the OP's dilemma.

The dog BARKS, not BITES.
The neighbor is NICE, not a TATTED OUT EX-CON.

You just wanted to tell a story about how tough you are.

I don't think he was trying to intimidate you, I think he was coming on to you. :D

No, he wanted his ass kicked from his demeanor.

It was pretty obvious I was supposed to be scared and surprising to him when I wasn't at all.
My 2yr old was on my leg when he said it and my wife pulled the kid off and headed for the house when she heard what I said back.
I also told the guy I'm old enough I'm not interested in stupid drama and if I wanted trailer park drama I'd move to a trailer park.

It was stupid.


The situation isn't the same, I agree. I've had discussions with 3 neighbors in the past few years about barking dogs, dogs shitting in my yard on the end of their leash and this one. I've attempted reasoned discussions with all of them and all 3 resulted in future drama.

No, But I'd like to tell you to sit on a parking cone, my little tulip.

ROFL

Have I told you guys the story about how I once beat my neighbor into a near-coma using nothing but the carcass of his own, pet cat? Those were the days, I tell you. Once word got around, there wasn't a cat to be found anywhere around here, by God.

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Most dog people appear to be fairly oblivious to how other people are affected by their pets.

Be it barking, shitting, or bringing them overnight into the homes of people with no inside pets or letting them bark at babies.

Try to ask nicely, but don't be surprised when they are butt sore and act accordingly.

It boggles my mind. I'm sure a lot of people simply put the burden on the neighbor to complain if it's an issue, but I cannot understand how people think it's okay if their dog sits outside for hours at a time barking at everything that moves. I've thought about mowing my lawn at 7am on a Saturday to see if they're okay with that... :shrug:

Had a neighbor with a ****ing beagle that did that non stop barking all day long and when they left her out at night, all night long. Dude was a preacher man and was married to some gal from Norway? One of those European countries where you take the name of your wife along with your name when you marry one of them. Anyway, the other neighbors were bitching and moaning about the damn dog too, so I wrote up a nice little letter informing them of how their dog was making everyone else's life miserable and that we all really enjoyed having them as neighbors and didn't want trouble. Even offerred to buy them a bark collar if we could to help rectify the situation. 3 families signed it and I sent it in the mail. I don't think they took the dog in for like a week after that. Preacherman would dodge us when he saw us, hanging his head and looking away. I wanted to tell him that's what you get marrying some broad who makes you put her last name right in there beside yours and makes you have to use three names instead of two

So then what happened? That can't be the end of the story. Were there riots on the cul-de-sac? Did the Norwegian wife mysteriously disappear? Did the Preacherman open a Korean restaurant?

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We ended up moving on the other side of them across a street and I couldn't hear the little bastard anymore

run it over and write a post it that says "My bad!"

Try taking your dick out of the dog's ass and see if that doesn't do the trick.

If they're good neighbors, just tell them you work at night and sleep during the day and their dog is keeping you awake. If that doesn't work, a .22 at close range should be good enough to fix the problem

This.

Turn on the fan and put the pillow over you head.

'Dilemna' is misspelled.

Truth.

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LOL forgot about that thread.

Im unristed. I dn't giv a fling fck.

The dogs are barking because they want to be let out of the back yard. Go over and let them out.

I think I love you.
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Yeah, dog people just don't seem to get it. One of my best friends had a hyper-spastic Rhodesian Ridgeback - the dog was friendly, but it was huge and it wouldn't leave us alone. It clawed a hole in my shirt, scratched my wife and me enough to draw blood, and he didn't lift a finger to stop it or put the goddamn thing away. Just seemed offended that we didn't like his dumbass dog. This was in New York and we were supposed to spend the night with them - instead we opted for a hotel - and ventured out into an ice storm to do it. Discipline your kids, discipline your pets. It's really not that hard.

This same friend spent the past weekend here. I was hoping one of my cats would piss on his luggage, but sadly they don't **** with house guests. :D

don't hurt a dog for barking

I have a guy who walks his three big dogs past the shop three times a day. He let's them shit anywhere, and then he let's them piss on tires. One day he stops and let's them piss on all four tires of a car in getting ready to rotate and balance the tires on.

Needless to saythey don't piss or shit in front of the shop anymore. I just told him in no uncertain terms I was tired of it and would pick up spill the shit I could find and put it on the hood of his brand new ****ing truck. Just returning his property officer...
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we have two beagles
male is calm and never barks. Female is SUPER HYPER and ****ing barks nonstop. She got a bark collar after two days
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This sounds too good to be true.

The force is strong with you.

They have sleeping pills and alcohol to help with this. I worked for years working the midnight shift living in apartments.

Rod, give one of these a try. MUCH more effective than the regular "static" white noise machines.

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Shoot the ****ing dog.

**** that...i aint giving good shit to a barking dog.:#
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I'm probably going to hell for this, but oh well. I used to have some neighbors who had a dog that did this non stop. They had 3 dogs, and one of them was this little annoying rat terrier that barked really loud all the damn time. Every time it saw me it would bark incessantly. I tried befriending the dog and even gave him food to see if it would shut him up but it didn't work. The owners of the dog were both deaf so they didn't realize how annoying their dog was.

After about 6 months of this, the owners went out of town for a week and asked me if I could feed their dogs while they were gone. When they were gone I bought one of those bark collars for the dog and let him wear it for a week. It's amazing how good those things work.

Move.

Too expensive, not worth it.

I just don't see how that little thing could be loud enough to mask barking literally 10' away from me. I have kick ass speaker right by me on my bed that I use the Ipod app PureSleep with and even that can't mask it. This ain't no cheap speaker either.

True life experience:

We have 10+ dogs on our block. They are for the most part pretty quiet. However a few years ago there were a few that barked all night long and the owners were (evidently) oblivious to it. So when the dogs barked for 10 minutes or so Kipp would go out on the porch and start yelling "Hey your dog's barking, hey shut up dog" and other comments about all you do is bark shit and howl at the moon as long as they kept barking...then the dogs owners would come outside and tell Kipp to shut up and he'd say I will when your dog does. They'd either go back inside and put up with his shouting or shut the dogs up.

ya just kill someones best friend instead of asking first. great person you are.

Problem solved.

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These do work good as we got one for our 2 dogs and they just stopped barking it was great. But you shouldn't have to buy one they should to be respectful.

hmmmmm I would have to find a pretty high place to mount that as the yard has a 6' privacy fence.

Our neighbor called the police on us for this issue. We were out of town, and it was during the afternoon. (We keep our dogs in at night.) After he also threatened to shoot our dog, we bought her a shock collar and built a nice new wooden fence to obscure our view of the guy.

Both strategies have had their intended effect, I'd say.

Obviously it isn't their best friend if they leave it outside like that for hours and ignore its pleas for attention.

But please do ask nicely the first time. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how much farther that gets you with people like me vs. thumping your chest out and having me cackle in your face. Some of us are the easiest going people in the world until you try and push us around. That's the only time I'll get defensive. I'll go out of my way to accommodate you if you show me the respect you deserve in return.

On a side note, this shit never comes up with me because I trained my mutt when she was a pup. She's a Jack Russell, so she barks, but every time she does she looks at me, hangs her head, and goes to bed. I don't even have to say it anymore.

Moral of the story, just like some people can't train their kids, even more people can't train their dogs.

Thats me right there:thumb:

Hopefully today is a better experience. Otherwise I will have to meet with him.

Just be calm and explain to him you are working nights, you already said they were good people.

Of course I'll be calm, its not like I am going to go all Iowanian on them. LMAO

Offer to give their dog a bath in a flaming bucket of aids...

Get a dog taunting cat.

There you go, get a pet mountain lion or perhaps a pet grizzly, they will take care of the problem. :)

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