Jiff is the white bread of peanut butter, too. It is so packed with sugar, I’m always suprised that it doesn’t crystalize in the jar. My roomate uses it, and (although I would never be rude enough to say so) it always makes me gag a little to see her eating it on her bagel. Of course, I think that sugar (or anything else) in peanut butter is an abomination unto Nuggan anyway.
We had a neighbor with two barking dogs (although they would do it all day and all night, whenever they were outside). It was a woman, her two teenaged kids (stoners, skaters) and her husband(?) the trucker.
Whenever we would talk to her about her dogs, she would start crying. And telling us about her kids that never helped out around the house. And her husband who was never home. And her job that made her work such long hours. And (you get the picture).
We eventually got a sonic anti-bark thingey, but it would hurt our (quiet, innocent) dog’s ears too. Luckily, in our small town the police were only too happy to step in. Eventually. After three months.
So, what do you do if your neighbors don’t speak english? Our next door neighbors are currently breeding Dobermans, (well the dogs are doing the lions share of the breeding) and the puppies and adult dogs will not shut up. Miming the barking has not gotten me anywhere, and now I’m sure they think I’m El Loco Grande. I’m going to look into the Super Soaker idea.
I’ve been in a similar situation before, but I think it’s important to keep your focus on the neighbors, not the dog. It ain’t the dog’s fault-- he’s just being a dog. The neighbors have to either stop the dog from barking, or bring the thing inside.
Neightbours with barking dogs - first, be prepared to go a night without sleep (it’ll be worth it!) first get one of those things which shoots balls (not THOSE kind, the other kind - very similar to a tennis ball launcher) - aim it at the neighbours bedroom wall out your window (hopefully you have one) then, every time the dog barks, shoot a tennis ball against their wall: woof, wham, woof, wham, woof, wham - how long do you figure it will take before they give up?
After all, it is the people, not the dog.
If this doesn’t work, call animal control - the basic requirement of food, water and shelter must be present in order for them not to take the dog (at least here anyway).
Howling Hound howls, as you might guess. Howling Hound howls if we go into our kitchen, because our kitchen window over the sink faces Howling Hound’s spot on the patio. Howling Hound howls all day. Howling Hound howls all night. Not only that, but they let Howling Hound off his chain and then Howling Hound comes to my house and knocks over my trashcans and growls and snaps at us.
I hate my neighbors. I’ve even had people calling me to complain about the dog because he’s off leash and on my porch often enough that they didn’t know he belonged to the neighbors.
Well then, bitch, why’d you get the dog? Christ, I hate people who get dogs and then…leave them outside all the time and do nothing with them. What’s the fucking point? :rolleyes:
I had this problem and I can’t say the results turned out in the dog’s favor.
One morning I woke up – on a Saturday – at 7:30 a.m. to the sound of dogkilling neighbor’s pup barking. By 11:30 a.m. I was tearing my hair out and finally marched next door. Flaky mom answers and says, “Oh, that’s our roommate’s dog. I didn’t know he was outside.”
And I’m thinking, are you deaf? You cannot hear a dog barking right outside your window for four hours straight? Turns out, the dog was chained to a clothesline and had gotten himself tangled up in the chain and was stuck to a tree. They freed him and he was quiet. Nice dog.
Every time I heard the dog barking (they left him outside in a hurricane last summer), I called Animal Control. I figured dead would be a better quality of life than chained to a tree. I saw that they visited at least once.
Then one Saturday, I awoke to the sound of a woman screaming. As if she’d gotten up in the morning and found that her dog had hung himself by tangling up to the tree and panicking… or barking all night. I swear, I think that dog came to no good end, but I don’t know for sure what happened to it. Just suddenly one day, the neighbors didn’t have a dog anymore.
If you can, or know someone who can, I recommend dog-napping. Anyone who neglects their “pet” by leaving it outside 24/7 would hardly notice if it went missing.
And how/where do you hope this affects the dog? Gets in its eyes? In its ears? In its mouth? Merely irritates the skin? Do you think any of these scenarios constitutes animal cruelty?
I second everybody who says “call the cops” - I just read this far to see if anybody mentioned calling the non-emergency number. It seems like common sense but I think a lot of people don’t bother to look it up.
And it is their job; the city’s TV channel tells us every so often to call it for things just like that, and what it is (the non-emergency number, I mean.)
Scuse me? I had a husky that hated being inside. The wolf-shepherd hybrid loved being inside with the rest of the pack[mrAru and I], but Blue would not come in. If we went out and dragged her in, she would leave by the doggie door in our back door as soon as whoever let go of her. She had food, water and a very nice dog house she slept on top of.
Of course she probably would have tried to eat you if you had tried to come into the yard to steal her…she was very protective of her chickens, and very territorial on top of all that.
Not that I actually blame the cats (well, maybe a little), but our neighborhood is full of stray cats. I honestly think that the stray cats walking by the fence are what sets the dog off.
We tried the ultrasonic bark deterant last night and it seems to have helped. Of course it was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock last night, so that may actually be why it either wasn’t barking or I just didn’t hear it. I guess we will see how it goes tonight.