Obnoxious neighbor dog

[chuckd4735]

As someone who deals with complaints against neighbors on a daily basis, here is what I would do:

1. Contact your City, and ask them what the laws are regarding this. Depending on the City will depend on what department you should talk to, but calling the general number should get you there.
2. Before you file an official complaint with the City, go talk to your neighbor and inform him of the law, and let him know if it continues you'll have no choice but to file a complaint with the City. The only reason I tell you to do this is that because 90% of neighbors who get complained upon will retaliate with something stupid on you (i.e. your not storing your trash can by City Code, your fence is leaning, your tree is dying, etc.), so being nice and allowing the neighbor to do something about it before you call the City can go along way.
3. Obviously, if there is no resolve, get the City involved.

 

[Bigman38]

We have a neighbor that puts their dog out at 6am some mornings and it just barks nonstop until they let it back in. Someone indirectly shamed them on the neighborhood Facebook page and that helped.

 

[Sigmapolis]

If you die in your house that cat will eat you.

And dogs wouldn't...?

 

[KennyPratt42]

The order of things I'd try:

1st: Anti-bark deterrent device, give it at least a couple weeks to see if it makes any noticeable difference (many times the barking will get worse at first, but then might improve). As said above, can be hit or miss. If there's no improvement after a couple weeks you can return it. You can also try training the dog with a dog whistle, but that will take more effort on your part.

2nd: Attempt to have a conversation with the neighbor. Keep it casual and focus on listening. Don't start by telling them what to do or saying that they have to make it stop. Your goal is to work on the problem together. If they're unwilling to do anything then at least you gave them a chance.

3rd: If the dog barks more when you're outside, look into ways to block the dogs view. Either a privacy fence or some type of planting. Also, should reduce the volume of the barks a little.

4th: Look up/call to find any local dog or noise ordinances that are being broken. Personally, I wouldn't do this without telling the neighbor before hand that I'm going to file a complaint. If I can't/don't want to have that conversation, I'm not filing a complaint.

 

[Chitownclone2]

You should put on an Orlando Magic jacket, jersey, or hat That should get the dog to stop barking.

 

[NorthCyd]

And dogs wouldn't...?

They most certainly would. I have 2 dogs and love them, but they are disgusting creatures. I use to be a cat owner and loved them too, but my wife hates cats so I'm never owning one again.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...ling-to-eat-the-remains-of-their-masters.html

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

And dogs wouldn't...?

Nope.

 

[clonefreek]

My advice, get a larger meaner dog. It will shut that dog up.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

My advice, get a larger meaner dog. It will shut that dog up.

Or make it worse.

 

[clonefreek]

Or make it worse.

Not if your dog eats that dog.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Not if your dog eats that dog.

Funny story, my dog is about as well behaved as they get, even trainers slobber over my dog's good behavior. There's a pretty white Shepard mix that gets jealous of my dog when he's outside. My dog will go over, pee right in front of the dog behind the glass doors and start kicking his back feet. The Shepard loses his mind, I'm too busy pissing myself from laughing at the display. Never seen my dog do that before and he's almost 8.

 

[Beernuts]

The problem is there are so many dog owners that do not understand the commitment a pet is. They buy them as cute puppies and within a month regret their purchase and ignore their dog, which then forces others to deal with their laziness.

Or even worse, many pet owners that live in apartments / housing complexes do no research before buying their dog. They end up purchasing a sporting dog / working dog breed with no thought on how much activity these dogs need to be healthy or engaged. They think bringing their lab out to the farm twice a year to shoot pheasants is enough exercise for the dog, when in reality that poor dog spends 99% of its lifetime in a confined space with little to no attention.

 

[BoxsterCy]

There are tons of sonic anti bark deterrents on Amazon. For $30 your problem will go away and your neighbor will never know what is causing it.

Or find out what the Russians (likely them) have been targeting our State Department peeps with over the last 10 years.

 

[cyfan92]

Owners who don't control pets should have to pay a fine or have the animal removed when living in city limits.

I'd report them to the county/city for noise 100/100 times and not feel guilty once.

There is nothing better than a friendly neighbor dog who will let you be their best friend. There is nothing worse than a neighborhood dog who is untrained and the owners don't care enough to fix it... I could make the same statements about bad parents but that could get dicey pretty fast and so I'll leave it there

 

[BoxsterCy]

And dogs wouldn't...?

Not until after they had eaten any cats in the house.

Unless they were pit bulls that had killed the owner. Than they would eat the peeps first and save the cats for dessert.

 

[Clonefan32]

I had a buddy in this same position and he tried to passive aggressive joke his way around it for a while. Finally one day he snapped and just let the neighbor have it. Guy finally would make sure to keep his dogs inside when they were outside.

In his case it really did become a problem. We'd go over and sit outside and the dog would stand by the fence and bark continuously. I'm talking hours. Really made it unenjoyable to sit outside and talk.

 

[VeloClone]

Not until after they had eaten any cats in the house.

Unless they were pit bulls that had killed the owner. Than they would eat the peeps first and save the cats for dessert.

+1 Good humor has a basis in truth.

 

[mj4cy]

Honestly you just need to have a discussion with the neighbor. It's not fun trust me but its the first step.

 

[Clonehomer]

Talk to them about it. There are some owners that don't know that there are solutions like bark collars. If you've owned dogs before, offer some suggestions on products that might have worked for you. It won't solve all situations, but it's worth a try before jumping to reporting it. Cause if they're a giant dbag, they'll probably fight it in court causing you to testify anyways.

 

[CYdTracked]

I'm with those who suggested talking to the owner first and have a conversation about this. We seem to have become a society today that would rather avoid confrontation and just rant about it on social media or try to hide behind an anonymous complaint and hope someone else takes care of it for you. If your neighbor can't have a civil conversation with you about your displeasure with his dog barking then at least you made the attempt and have shown good faith in trying to resolve the conflict yourself before going down the road of filing a complaint with the city. I don't own any pets but if I was doing something that annoyed my neighbor I would hope that they would confront me about it first before filing a complaint to the city.

Closest situation I have had to this was someone in the neighborhood would park a crappy car in front of my house or the neighbor next door then leave it there and not move it for weeks. It's not illegal to park on the street but city code is you have to move it within 48 hours. We didn't know who owned it and never saw them park it or get into it just that it would sometimes sit for a couple weeks or more in front of my house or the neighbor's and never move so I had no way to ask them to stop in person. In the winter it got more annoying too because they would not move it for snow ordinances either and since the Polk County Sherriff is our town "police" they weren't too concerned about issuing parking citations at the time either. I printed out the parking and snow ordinances off the city website and highlighted the ordinances this person was not following and put it in an envelope under the windshield wiper. A couple days later they apparently found it and their reaction was to park the car about a foot from the end of my drive. So next step was file a complaint with the city as well with the non-emergency hotline with Polk County Sherriff who started to mark the tire then would come back a few days later and if it had not moved they issued citations or towed it. One of my neighbors apparently was filing complaints on the same car too and said they came to tow it once and the owner must have been home and came running out of the nearby townhouses trying to stop the tow truck. We finally figured out who the owner was which made it even more annoying because the townhomes have 2 car garages, enough driveway to park 2 cars, and their own private street with room to park so don't know why they could not have just parked the car in their own garage, drive, or complex. Needless to say after some diligence by some of the neighbors to keep calling it in when that car sat in the same spot for a week or more they finally stopped parking it on the street in front of our houses.