Dont You Hate It When...

[Nevafollo]

Sammy I think you said it all, you live in Cessnock LOL

HEYYYY dont knock the nock!

[shapeshifter]

ROFL, I used to work in Coles there, now that was an experience I tell you, never seen so much cash money in my life

[Nevafollo]

ROFL, I used to work in Coles there, now that was an experience I tell you, never seen so much cash money in my life

That I can believe! Its a shame to be honest its really not that bad of a place but it gets a bad rep because there are just some absolute morons around.

[Teebs]

Try being next door to a boarding kennel whose proprietors have no idea how to keep their charges quiet... barking 24 hours a day from about 30 dogs who aren't exactly happy about being dumped into kennels while their humans go for a holiday...

You don't even want to hear the excuses that the proprietors have come up with as to why their charges bark non-stop. Maybe exercising the poor buggers for more than 1 hour a day would be a start... or moving the fence fighters to kennels next to non-reactive dogs so they won't set each other off... don't let 5 bloody dogs loose in the area directly in front of the kennels where all the others can see them... grrr!

T.

Ring council and complain

When I worked at the kennels, I stayed on site for a few weeks, none of the dogs barked at all at night time, and if they did (even one bark) the next door neighbors would be on the phone to council about it!

[The Ark]

If my dogs bark at night (usually only when something is going on they are unsure of) I get up straight away to quieten them down so they do not disturb others.

I wouldn't let it go on for longer than 30 seconds at night - because I know how much it would annoy me if it was someone else's dog barking continuously.

The only time I have allowed her to bark is when the idiots next door were playing frisbee at 11.30pm at night and were continually banging the frisbee into the colorbond fence over and over. It stopped them after a few minutes when THEY realised how disruptive THEY were being at a ridiculous time of night.

Yeah we had some stupid drunk teens laying all over the front lawn a few weeks before xmas they were slowly making their way down the street so I let the big scary black mutt run the fence barking at them which moved a few of the squeally girls along the boys were abit more stubborn so then I opened my front window and pretented to be on the phone and said very loudly "hello officer I live at XXXXX st cessnock there are a bunch of drunk teens out the front" this made them run for their lives

:D :D Go Sammy!

I try to be SO careful with our dogs here and not let them bark for too long, as I know we have more dogs than the Council would probably like us to. My worst culprit is the dominant min pin, but he has collars or comes inside if he is too noisy. My Maremma pup will trot up to the front fence and woof if someone walks past, but so far she is just doing her job and doesn't keep going (like the min pin would!! ). Because we foster dogs now I really keep a lid on anything that might annoy our neighbours, as most of them just aren't animal people (not sure why they are living on 2 or 3 acres out in the sticks if they don't like animals....). Definitely NO night-time barking allowed!

[Daisy]

I have several dogs and usually a couple of fosters too. I work very hard to try and ensure there is not excessive barking to upset the neighbours. ALL dogs are inside of a night time, and during the day my dogs are usually inside when I go out, and the fosters outside, to minimise any problems. When I am home I am constantly monitoring them and any barking is dealt with quickly.

I do have a lot of dogs here at the moment, I am trying to rehome some fosters and get the numbers down again (one is going tomorrow). Yesterday I was at work and my kids (one is 18) were at home. They usually keep an eye on the dogs. They decided to go to the movies and get their hair cut yesterday and went out leaving ALL the dogs out in the yard (note that there are seperate sections, not all dogs running loose together!)

And our new neighbours, who have been moving things in over the last week, moved their dogs in yesterday. Apparently there was a LOT of barking going on from my dogs, their dogs, and the dogs on the other side of them :D The new neighbour (whom I used to work with) mentioned it to me, and I apologised, she was ok about it, I just said I would try to keep my dogs quiet (most of them are inside with me at the moment, till I have to go to work later today) and hopefully when all the dogs get used to each other things will settle down.

So last night, mine were all locked inside, sleeping quietly, and the new neighbours dogs went off at about 5am and wouldn't shut up! aaaaarrrrgh!

Edited January 6, 2010 by Daisy

[sandgrubber]

Try being next door to a boarding kennel whose proprietors have no idea how to keep their charges quiet... barking 24 hours a day from about 30 dogs who aren't exactly happy about being dumped into kennels while their humans go for a holiday...

You don't even want to hear the excuses that the proprietors have come up with as to why their charges bark non-stop. Maybe exercising the poor buggers for more than 1 hour a day would be a start... or moving the fence fighters to kennels next to non-reactive dogs so they won't set each other off... don't let 5 bloody dogs loose in the area directly in front of the kennels where all the others can see them... grrr!

T.

My sympathy. Try a kennel zone in WA . . . you get the same thing from three sides. It's hard to keep kennel dogs quiet, especially on holidays when it's crowded. 95% of them are find, but you always seem to get one or two who don't respond to any attempts to quiet them. We exercise dogs throughout daylight hours, and some of them still bark all night -- eg, we have a little JRT with doggy dementia who will not shutup. There are some kennels that do such lovely things as locking dogs OUTSIDE in the exercise yard all night, resulting in fence fighting and other great sounds.

On the other hand, I have learned to enjoy and mostly sleep through chorus bark/howling by the greyhounds and the Rotti pack nextdoor. But that's not all night.

[corrie]

There is a little Pom X behind us that doesnt stop barking.

I have learnt to shut it out but I feel so sorry for him. I have never seen our neighbour walk him.

In my little area everyone is like clockwork with walking their dogs around the block. You could just about set the time to it. But my neighbours very rarely see me walk my dogs and I wouldn't be surprised if there has been gossip about that. The fact is though, my dogs are either walked later in the evenings or taken in the car out to parks, trails or beaches.

I am quite strict with any barking and cannot get over people allowing their dogs to bark all through the night.

[Nic oh lah]

We have neighbours to our left with 2 cattle dogs that bark anytime I set foot in my yard, which is a pain in the butt, but it could be much worse. They just go off their nut for a few minutes - so i've started taking a small handful of Sophies Uncle Albers and tossing it to them through the fence (wire-mesh type - all the other sides of the house are 7ft timber) and that shuts them up - lol! Sweet sweet bribery. It's actually really sad, as we've lived there 5 months and i've never seen them walked or even patted or spoken to other than "SHUT UP!" out the window occasionally. Their owner wanders out in the morning about 7.30am, gives them their kibble and goes back inside, and that's it. So I think the barking is just them being attention starved. I'd walk them but they get a bit snappy and growly when i come too close to the fence so i'm not game to enter their yard - and i can guarantee they're not socialised though they tolerate Sophie through the fence, but i'm not willing to risk her safety to give them a walk. The owner is polite enough though a bit gruff - he didn't seem too bothered when I knocked on his door to let him know i was giving them small handfuls of food to quiet them when i'm in the yard - thought i should let him know so they don't get too fat, and after seeing them eyeing Sophie with all her toys, and seeing that i'd given them a ball and a knotted tug toy to play that Soph wasn't interested in, he's given them a few squeaky toys for Christmas that they just love - so maybe i'm leading by example.

The dogs on our other side are a nightmare - bark bark bark - they seem to be better in the last few weeks since I chatted to their owner - he commented on Sophie being to quiet and I explained politely that if she was a nuisance the council could slap down fines and i'd hate to let my dog disrupt my neighbours - all of a sudden after 5 months of 4am wake-up-calls of barking he's keeping them quiet - golden silence.

[tdierikx]

Try being next door to a boarding kennel whose proprietors have no idea how to keep their charges quiet... barking 24 hours a day from about 30 dogs who aren't exactly happy about being dumped into kennels while their humans go for a holiday...

You don't even want to hear the excuses that the proprietors have come up with as to why their charges bark non-stop. Maybe exercising the poor buggers for more than 1 hour a day would be a start... or moving the fence fighters to kennels next to non-reactive dogs so they won't set each other off... don't let 5 bloody dogs loose in the area directly in front of the kennels where all the others can see them... grrr!

T.

Ring council and complain

When I worked at the kennels, I stayed on site for a few weeks, none of the dogs barked at all at night time, and if they did (even one bark) the next door neighbors would be on the phone to council about it!

The friendly local council contact has numerous voicemails (with timestamps) at all hours of the night with the choruses of barking at a pitch that he reckons it's hard to hear the actual speaking. There is also a diary with decibel meter readings that is being sent in every week.

The police have been called regularly for noise complaints after midnight - not that they care much about it, or are actually willing to do much...

Community mediation has been suggested, but considering that the owners of the boarding kennels seem to take great delight in yelling abuse at anyone on our side of the fence, I don't see that as a viable option... grrr!

Is it a bad thing to wish that someone's business venture fails just so you can get some bloody sleep at night - it's OK for them, their house is way down the other end of their property from their kennels - THEY get a great night's sleep by all accounts...

T.

[GRLC]

uuugggh at my old house we had a dog living next door that never received one bit of attention or exercise It was a blue heeler and bored out of it's brain . The only time the dog got to go for a walk was when they carelessly left a gate open and he would then roam the streets . He barked continuously every day for hrs on end ,night time morning you name it he barked it was a nightmare ! I swear that my dogs were as frustrated as i was . The owner didn't seem to care she never tried to stop it never tried to fix it , the whole time we lived there which was 5 years . Some people should not be allowed to have animals . My dogs are never allowed to bark excessively as soon as they start its investigated as usually something or someone near the house .