PLEASE HELP!!! whats a legal, effective way to stop our new neighbors dog barking?

Question

i've called animal control twice...when they came out the ppl werent home. i wake up, and go to sleep hearing this mutt. two weeks now...they even stsrted keeping it the front yard....its surrounded by a security fence so noone cane get near the door to talk with the owners.....i have a dog and i appreciate much more now than i ever did. i hate to call a cop but..................

Answer 1

I have the exact same prob. with my neighbours.
And it's not like the dog barks sometimes. As soon as it's let out of the house it barks incessantly until they scream at it and drag it back in a couple hours later.
It drives me insane!!!!!!

I would call the cops. It's disturbing the peace.
My husband yelled at the lady over the hedge the other day and she stopped putting the dog out early in the morning, now only in the middle of the day.
It's so much better we should have lost our cool ages ago.

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/q7CMV

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

There is no law that says a dog can't bark. BUT after 10 p.m., at night , it is a reason to complain. Send the neighbors a message in the mail and ask them to please quiet the dog. Tell them how the dog keeps you awake. Then if that doesn't work, find out from your city dog control laws, if there is a dog curfew law, telling that a dog cannot keep neighbors awake by barking late at night. Then if there is such a law in your city, the Animal control officer need to enforce that and serve the neighbors with a violation ticket. One hates to do that to the neighbor, and it should be the last resort. But first send the new neighbors a letter. They may not realize it is bothering you. Be good to your neighbor and visa versa

Answer 4

You can keep calling the cops and animal control, but you efforts may not stop the dog from barking. I was in the situation once and I was told by the officer that all that I could do was take the neighbor to small claims court. Luckily, I moved shortly thereafter. Good luck!

Answer 5

Keep calling Eventually something will happen. No one should have to put up with that. If all else fails cut a whole in the fence, let the dog run out, then call animal control, that's the end of that.

Answer 6

You could mail them a letter signed by you and your neighbors asking (politely) that they either train their dog better or keep it inside the house at night (give specific hours like 9pm to 8am). and insinuate that you will be forced to seek a legal remedy if they do not show some amount of cooperation.

I don't know that there is "legally" anything you can do past calling in a noise complaint, but it may prod them into action nonetheless. Also, next time you call animal control, check that the neighbors are home first.

Answer 7

There are these nifty devices to help dogs learn how to stop barking so much. They are noise activated so when the dog barks, the device emits a noise that only the dog can hear and apparently it's pretty effective. I believe that these devises work outside. I can't remember where to get them but I think that it might be a catalog called Solutions or Hammacher Schlemmer (sp?). It might be worth a shot.

Answer 8

Try talking or writing a note to the owner of the dog. They should be taking responsibility and their are options for them. They could use the various bark collars that the pet stores sell. Some spray them in the face with a citrus spray when they bark. They could talk to a trainer or a vet. I would think that they would not want a legal battle about it, so hopefully they will listen to you.

Answer 9

Keep calling animal control and if nothing is done, call the police and inform them of the situation. Most places have a 10 minute barking ordinance and you should NOT have to suffer.

Answer 10

You might try leaving them a nicely worded note on their gate or in their mail box. My neighbor left a note on my security gate to inform me that my dogs were bothering him. Our houses are far enough apart that I did not realize that he could hear them.
If that doesn't work then you have no choice but to call the police. Don't feel bad about that, it is the dog owners responsibility to keep them from disturbing the neighbors.