Intruder arrives. Dog wants to protect its territory. Dog barks. Intruder leaves. Mission accomplished.
And this happens EVERY DAY.
The UPS guy shows up, what, once a month? Once a week? This isn’t often enough to get a pattern established. But if that little daschund can drive the mailman away on a daily basis that daschund has done his job.
Byz, I understand your pain, but I don’t understand this (in regards to barking dogs, of course, not general training):
If the owner’s not there, how can s/he know there’s a problem? (Yes, I understand that your case is an extreme; I’m talking about barking dogs in general.) I’m not a fan of the firecracker solution, but when my grandparents moved off the farm and into town they had great success with the neigbor’s dogs by using a water hose and the word “QUIET!!” spoken in a firm manner.
A long time ago I moved into a house with a fenced yard and got a dog; the first thing I did was go to my neighbors (the adjacent ones) and told them to please let me know if my dog made noise. Whether she did or not, I don’t know, but I never received any complaints.
Luckily I have not heard them since. I assume my yelling out the window “shut the fuck up you stupid dogs” was a strong enough clue I was pissed off at 6:30 in the morning.
True, to administer advil to the nice doggies is a last resort but if I owned the house and after repeated attempts to rectify the problem, I would wait some months–earplugs, yes–and then I would cak the little yaps. Hmmm, sleep or dogs, sleep or dogs? If puppycide is really that egregious a crime, especially in relation to your inevitable psychotic break with reality from lack of sleep, then a nice dose of lysergic acid–6 or 25, doesn’t matter which, has been known to be efficacious in “treating” fractious quadripeds. They usually become exceedingly timid–forever. I recommend 50,000IUs. Whatever you do, wear gloves and be very careful. Getting the slightest bit on your fingers could turn you into a slobbering goofasaurus in perpetuity.
you are under the impression that there are sacred things here in the pit. Your appearance here in the trenchant doggie dilemma thread, replete with your adenoidal, platitude ridden conventional morality confirms what I suspected. You have a real need to stick your flat little proboscis in everyone else’s business. You have a sweeping ignorance of everything but an informed opinion about what you feel about everything. By this method you are an authority. Now get on your knees and inspect my posterior while I flick cigarette butts at my five well fed and well loved cats, you suppurating, seething cryptofascist gash.
Hey, Chronolichtmydog’sass, do you really feel that the use of hundred dollar words lessens the inaneness of your initial post in this thread? Had there been a “:rolleyes:” or “Well, not really” or “j/k” at the end it may have been humorous; unfortunately, all techchick68, yosemitebabe and I saw was cruelty. Don’t like it? Think I’m wrong? Go whine to your mama as I don’t give a shit.
Your remark about hundred dollar words betrays a pathetically typical anti-intellectual impulse. No, you wouldn’t want to take the time to be able to express yourself well, and in your native tongue, no less. And this you teach to your children? If there is anything sick and criminal here it is you, who would deny your own children the richness of life, full of all sorts of words, symbols for ideas. What a bitter killing joke that the richest, most descriptive language the world has ever known would be spoken by so many ingrates like you. Giving the nice woof woofs a big candy bar is benign in comparison on a par with living a sick little voyeuristic existence by reading the police blotter in a rundown hasbeen town.
What anti-intellectual impulse? I just thought you were a prick using long words to impress someone.
Why? I’m sure if I tried I could come up with an intellectual way to say “prick”, but I happen to like the low-class version of that word.
See, when you assume, you make a “rectum” out of “you” and “I”.
Birth control, baby - I wouldn’t want any children I have the possibility of bearing to have to put up with pissantes the likes of you.
…is not toxic. Chocolate is toxic to canines in specific doses. I’ll leave it to someone with such intelligence as yours to search the net to find the maximum toxic dose per pound of dog. :rolleyes:
Heh. I was raised on a small, family run dairy farm in central Minnesota. Do you think what you said insults me? I pity those who have not experienced the cycle of life as I have, and those who haven’t the closeness of family, friends, and community during their formative years. Perhaps if Chronolichtmydog’sass had experienced this closeness he wouldn’t be such an anal-retentive asshole now.
Sandyr, ditto what you said! Chronolicht is a sicko. A verbose sicko.
Chronolicht has graced us with his wisdom over on the “Cigarette Assholes” thread, for those of you who haven’t been following it. He is Mr. Cigarette Asshole, actually. Catch his pretentious rambling act over there. This guy is the epitome of pompous windbag!
And yes, Chronolicht, we ALL ARE BETTER THAN YOU!!! ALL OF US!!!
This is MY thread…you wanna give people shit then direct it to me. Don’t you dare direct your vomit at other people with whom I consider my friends.
So if you fuck with them, you are fucking with me.
Your idea of “killing” an animal is disgusting. I find your kind worthy of a serious tar and feathering…your genitals shall be burned with a torch and your eyelids are fused with super glue then your mouth is filled with acid so your innerds need to retreat.
Mess with my friends and you mess with me…mess with my Pit thread and you will be flogged.
Simply put you are not human, you need your intestines pulled through your asshole…something I can have done if you so choose to mess with people or animals.
I was about to suggest calling Animal Control, but Byzantine beat me to it. In my experience, this will work…eventually. Here the fine starts at $50 and goes up for each offense. Sooner or later it gets too expensive to let it go on. Be aware that you just might have to face your neighbor in court and prove your charges. The video tape is a VERY good idea. If you cannot remain anonymous (I don’t know the rules of your jurisdiction), this could cause friction between you and your neighbor.
However I agree with you that a 911 operator should know better.
Good luck.
I didn’t see this discussed yet, so I’ll offer it as a potential solution of last resort.
There are devices you can buy which consist of a very high-frequency speaker and tone generator - sometimes called such amusing titles as “Ultrasonic Dog Blaster”, and so forth. I built one once using a Radio Shack speaker, and found that it would, in fact, upset a dog so much that it would stop barking and cower and hide when it was activated. I did have to tune the frequency a bit with the pot, and found that of the three dogs we had, they responded at different frequencies. However, I only built it as a test, and only used it once just to see if it would work (I used to tinker with things like that in the 80’s…damn I’m old…).
Anyhow, I wonder if you could come up with a voice (bark) activated switch that would turn the blaster on and leave it on until the dog staopped barking. These things are very directional, so it is likely your dog might not hear it at all. It might “train” the annoying dog that barking is punishable by “the noise”, and thus stop it from barking.
I know I’ll get a flame for suggesting this, but I see it as little different then throwing firecrackers at a dog. And it could be a completely automated system. And, unlike firecrackers (which might even result in the neighbors prosecuting YOU for the noise, now there’s irony!) this is undetectable and will not disturb anyone’s sleep.
And, BTW, I built the Dog Blaster because I was hoping to make a handheld device that would protect me from the serious, massive, criminal fuckheads who thinks it’s oh so funny to let the dog run up to and maul the Pizza Gal when she comes to your house. FTR, I only ever hurt a dog once in my life - when a Great Dane almost as tall as my shoulder grabbed my elbow in his mouth and tried to pull me away to be eaten. And then the owner called the police on me for “hurting his baby”, so I waited for a hour to hear a cop dress down the owner about he was lucky he was not in jail. Very satisfying.
He was one of those dogs that “only makes noise, he doesn’t bite”. I guess because he was able to dispose of all of his victims so there was no evidence. But this is not the thread for that story.
“Simply put you are not human, you need your intestines pulled through your asshole…something I can have done if you so choose to mess with people or animals.”
How quickly we discard our smug pacifist ethos when confronted by an opinion contrary to our own. If I am not human then am I, am I an animal? If so, don’t I merit the same regard? How about some consistency you fucking little hypocrite?
Anth,
You aren’t too far off the mark of what’s already available- From Petsmart.com
Innotek Smart Dog Ultrasonic Bark Stopper
Put a stop to your dog’s bad behavior. His barking automatically triggers a piercing, high-pitched tone from this unit. Much of the tonal spectrum is inaudible to humans, but dogs find it unpleasant. It runs on a 9-volt battery and has a range of 25 feet.
Our price: $40.99
Retail: $44.99
I was going to get one of these for my neighborly barking problem, but the range wasn’t good enough. For Techie, it might work. The other anti-barking units were collars, which won’t work without the owners cooperation.
These work on the same premise as the firecrackers or a water hose. The dog barks, receives an immediate unpleasant (but not harmful) response, and associates barking with that response. It does work. Worth a shot for $40, anyway.
