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Our neighbor has a largeish dog with a VERY deep, loud voice. He moved in last week. He thinks the dog is an outside animal and apparently isn’t well enough behaved to live in doors (no training). She barks ALL the time – anytime a door opens, anywhere on the street. Anytime a car goes by. Anytime another dog barks. She starts at about 2am, ends at about 6am. Their yard is directly across from our bedroom window. He refuses to take her inside at night, since she’s untrained and won’t train her to end the barking.
Now, city ordinance is pretty useless. You need to enter court on your own expense, with TWO other neighbors backing you up in writing and willing to testify. We have two neighbors and he is one of them… so that is pretty much out. We’ve talked to him and he isn’t willing to train his dog, take it inside EVER, or otherwise help beyond he threw up a privacy fence which doesn’t help since she barks at any and all noises. Edit: And even if we could get enough people to testify (ha!), the court could order him to debark his dog or get rid of her is about all. One is cruel, the other would basically be her death warrant as shelters are over full and won’t take in dogs.
So, we’re moving our bedroom to the living room, since it’s the only room we can’t hear his dog bark in.
Effectively cutting our lovely, large, two bedroom house with a huge living room/dining room into a 2 room apartment.Which means I have to move the bunnies out of their room, into the bird room. Big pain in the neck! And I was just starting to make progress in getting their litter habits back, now I am worried they’ll destroy the hardwood in the room we’re moving them to peeing on it. :s
And I feel really sorry for his dog with winter coming up, it’s going to be stuck outside in the snow and not allowed indoors.
People wonder why I prefer being around animals to humans.
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I read the barking dog website and they say that 90% of owners of barking dogs have psychological issues of control and aggression, which makes sense
and yes it is VERY annoying. Boyfriend went to work today for a 12 hour factory shift on 2 hours of sleep because the dog wouldn’t shut up. And he only gets one day off a week. Luckily we don’t _own_ the house, it’s a rental, so moving is an option… which boyfriend started looking for new places last night since he wasn’t allowed to sleep. But, sheesh. I love dogs, I will be happy to have his dog bark all day long just not at night – I would even pet sit for him if he wanted, I miss having a doggy around since I can’t have one with the bird. We politely asked him to keep the dog quiet, even took organic home made doggy treats as a peace offering to show we aren’t dog haters – but no winning with some people. I think we’re going to end up moving soon, the rent we pay here was a great deal for what we got – super quiet home, large enough for our family, allows pets and has a yard. But, now the yard is no longer useable for the bird because the dog barks anytime we walk outside and won’t stop until we go in, which freaks out my parrot so he can’t have yard time (which means I have to buy a UV lamp for him). No way could I take the buns out for a run, which I had planned to make a safe outdoor area next summer. And we lost both our bedrooms because the dog is CLEARLY heard in both all night long. They are going to be turned into animal rooms for the time being. Stickers has been more on edge too, she’s scared of everything and I am sure the dog barking all night isn’t helping her skittish nerves.
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I live on the top floor of an apartment complex. I used to have people living on the 2nd floor apartment. The people had 2 dogs, one small dog, one big dog. I believe that the people worked at night, because that is when the dogs would bark bark bark bark like NUTS. EVERYTIME a person walked up the stairs, or came near the apartment complex, BARK BARK BARK BARK, YIP YIP YIP YIP. It really made me so angry!!
I called the apartment security, but everytime they came by, nobody answered their door. That is how I came to the conclusion that the residents must work at night, or just not be a home.
The barking would be at anytime of day, but mostly at night from midnight until whenever.
Eventually, the people got evicted
Every now and then, I will see the former neighbors at my work
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Molzy, haven’t tried the landlord… but I don’t think there is much he can do. Without written testimony of two neighbors, the law states there is no evidence, even if we could recorded it, it wouldn’t count. Even if police came and witnessed it, it wouldn’t count. Which is dumb, but that is laws for ya.
For now we’ve moved into the living room, which is a temporary solution til we can find something better. lol
Water would probably teach the cat to leave them alone, or you could try something smelly that cats can’t stand to make a perimeter around your buns area. As long as you’re there to supervise.
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They do have a noise ordinance – if you and two neighbors come together to bring a WRITTEN complaint to the court, you can get something done, if the judge orders it, there is no actual _law_ about what noise and when, it’s completely up to the judge. That is the only ordinance. The police get annoyed and tell you to stop bothering them if you call them about noise. And he’s not renting. When we lived in an apartment, it was HARD to get the people beside us in trouble even with there being a landlord, they played music at 3am and other hours all through the night, but without the rest of the apartment complex to back us up, the landlord could do nothing to stop them legally. We recorded it on voicemail for the landlord, we had the maintenance guy come over, the landlord came over, but without the neighbors to join in… all they could tell us to do was turn the TV on in our apartment to drown it out (which would not help, since we were trying to sleep
). The city doesn’t care much about noise pollution. We moved from the apartment mainly because of that, though they did get evicted eventually, it was because they stopped paying rent. The dog is cared for, except for leaving her outside all the time. Which isn’t illegal, unfortunately – though I wish it was, the poor thing is going to be freezing when snow hits.
All she needs is more attention and a little training to know that every door opening isn’t a threat she needs to bark about. And the sonic things don’t go through privacy fences – so the neighbor would have to hang it, which he doesn’t want to stop his dog barking, so don’t see that happening. I already looked into that. lol For now we’re living in the living room, we turned our bedroom into the bird room and the birds room into the bunny room. There are some houses available in town for sale that are waaaaaaaaay away from the nearest neighbor we’re thinking about, that way it doesn’t matter if the neighbor is annoying, they’re too far away to care about.
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You have my sympathy. I know what you’re going through. We had to sell our house because of neighbor problems. The entire neighborhood had dogs, and none of the dogs were taught not to bark constantly, or to stay on their own property, etc. It was a daily chore cleaning up feces, and my DH does much of his work from home, preparing lesson plans and grading papers, etc., so the constant barking was disruptive even during the day. It didn’t help that our windows were ancient, so there was no escape. The neighbors played music loudly at all hours, too! There was a noise ordinance but it was not enforced, and the police got annoyed when we’d call about it.
I’m so glad to be out of there. Good luck to you. Hopefully you’ll find a wonderful, peaceful place to live in the very near future. 
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They belong there, and will take over anyways 
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