New law gives county teeth to stop barking dogs
Excerpt: “I can’t talk on my property. I can’t blow my nose. I can’t open an outside gate,” [the bark-bedeviled man] told Clackamas County commissioners. “I can’t stand out there and water my own backyard.”
Why not? Because, according to him, each time he does, two neighboring dogs start barking incessantly.
Dog owner fears court over barking noise complaints
Excerpt: [The clueless dog owner] was served with an abatement notice ordering her to take action to stop the nuisance barking earlier in the year, but as the complaints continued council staff visited the property next-door on three occasions in May and have compiled a report noting on the noise sending neighbours barking mad.
I rarely hear a barking dog in the UAE and long may that situation continue
Excerpt: In my old house in East London, my next door neighbour had a Jack Russell, which not only yapped at all hours of the day and night, disturbing my sleep, but burrowed under the garden fence and used my lawn as a toilet. The response from the dog owner was not repeatable.
Dispute over barking dog ends in assault, arrest
Excerpt: “The defendant said that the dog constantly barks at him and he is tired of it,” according to the documents.
The Department of Shameless Self-Promotion. Fed up with barking dog noise? Well, head over to my QuietBarkingDogs store. It has tee shirts and bumper stickers that quietly and firmly get our point across.
So, what is a good policy for quieting barking dogs? I am starting to lean towards a mandatory de-bark/bark softening policy.
ReplyDeleteIf fireworks, leaf blowers, goats, sheep, horses, etc... are banned, then why are explosively loud bark-machines allowed in our neighborhoods? Its not enough that they own them, but they set them off at all hours of the day and night? Any reason these "devices" remain operational?