<p>New neighbors-- they have a barking dog. It barks outside at 630 am, it barks mid afternoon when tied to their back deck. It barks bark barks.</p>
<p>I googled and found plenty of high pitched devices that are supposedly going to end the dog barking and I don’t have to confront new neighbor.</p>
<p>Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>I could poison the dog - but all the doglovers on CC will send me hate mail. (just kidding I would never hurt a living thing).</p>
<p>Seriously-this blasted dog is waking me up far too early.
There are no nuisance laws in my community - i checked.
It’s not very neighborly to let your dog out that early but equally unwelcoming to ask a new neighbor to nix the dog being outdoors.
It’s a rural community -both of us have upscale homes-- and live outside city limit presumably for privacy- but this ridiculous.</p>
<p>we put out one of the birdhouses that makes noise and deters barking for our neighbors dog. It confuses them more than anything. But works well. They bark once, then look around trying to find what the noise is. We put one out for our dog that barks at a certian spot in the woods. It worked short term for her, then she ignored it. She has hearing in only one ear, and I suspect that it is not as irritating to her as to other dogs.</p>
<p>When our dogs barked inside the house, I spritzed them in the face with a water bottle and shouted “Quiet!” After once or twice of that, all I need to do is say “Quiet!” and they slink away.</p>
<p>A few years ago I had the same problem–neighbors at work, dog barking all day. I didn’t want to confront the neighbors since I had just moved in. Also had a newborn at the time and just couldn’t take the noise–my room was right next to where their dog was. Drove me nuts.
I was desperate, so I tried the type of device you mention–supposed to make a noise that dogs don’t like when the dog starts barking. I really didn’t think it would work, but it did for me. (After the dog calmed down, I let my kids feed it dog biscuits under the fence. . .)</p>
<p>BTW, a few years later, someone actually did poison their neighbor’s dogs in neighborhood!</p>
<p>Inconsiderate dog owners–one of my pet peeves! (I’m a cat person. I keep mine indoors.)</p>
<p>Many dog owners don’t realize they have a barking dog, because the dog only barks when left at home alone. Constant barking = torture.</p>
<p>Can you leave an unsigned note on their front door? Like, “Dear Neighbor, you may not realize this because you are out, but your dog barks all day, beginning at 6:30 a.m. Would you please keep him inside while you are out? We would really appreciate it. Thank you.”</p>
<p>If you don’t get results, then blast music toward their house at all hours of the night. ;)</p>
<p>For those of you who bought the product-- do you remember which of the many countless ones on the market you purchased?</p>
<p>I have to find a place to hang it – they say 50 to 75 feet radius. Thankfully, mailboxes on one side of the road-- their side, so in theory I could affix it to my mailbox!</p>
<p>I went over finally and had to confront them-- I tried to be reasonable and told single mom that I am exhausted-- the dog is up 630 and barked today for 30 minutes.
She was in disbelief- I have my coffee that time of day – points to kitchen near front of house- -and says-- he barks once or twice at that’s it- -are you sure it’s not another dog?
*** – It’s your dog lady- the only dog on the entire block - I see him barking, i hear him barking and I’m going to take out his larynx if you don’t shut him up.
(these my thoughts- but I politely reiterate - no mam, it’s your dog and I’d greatly appreciate if you would consider delaying his outside time to a more reasonable hour, or consider walking your dog rather than chaining him out front 50 feet from my bedroom window.
She says: “I really appreciate your bringing this to my attention - I’ll take care of”.
?HUH - what does that mean?</p>
<p>Product recommendations-- ?!! Which one do you recommend? They aren’t cheap-- 50 - 150 are the ones popping up in Google.</p>
<p>Can I leave it outdoors in the elements - rain, snow, wind? that’s ok?</p>
<p>Ps Yes I am also a cat person- indoor cat person.</p>
<p>“Can you leave an unsigned note on their front door?”</p>
<p>The inconsiderate dog owners I’ve encountered are oblivious to comments and/or criticism. “He only barks once or twice.” Very funny. But back to the OP’s question. YES they do work. Get two of the highest power units. Amazon sells the ones used in our neighborhood. Not cheap … but what’s quiet worth to you?</p>
<p>Note: In our neighborhood the offending dogs stand just beyond the range of the bark suppressors … and bark. Two units should cover 100 to 150 feet of property line. Just don’t be surprised if the dogs retreat a ways and keep barking. Your property will be quieter … but other neighbors? not so much.</p>
<p>I haven’t decided which is worse–the barking dog or the owner screaming at it to stop. At least now they only have one; they used to have two at a time.</p>
<p>overachieversmom, it sounds like she intends to stop the dog from barking so early, and was quite polite. It sounds like you don’t have faith in her though…I hope you will report back on what happened!
I have a similar problem, but I wonder how this device mentioned here (which I hadn’t heard of before) might affect cats? Apparently it doesn’t affect people? I must be confused about what it is and how it works - it’s not the high-pitched thing that sends rodents scurrying away (into the next room, or the neighbor’s place!), is it?</p>
<p>So, was the dog out at 6:30 this morning barking or did the owner actually do something? A dog barking for 30 minutes straight isn’t acceptable at any time of day, in my opinion. I am admittedly paranoid about annoying my neighbors and at the first bark, the dogs come in. My dogs aren’t out in the yard for any lengthy amount of time unless I’m out there, too. I know some people put their dogs out and leave them for hours at a time, which is also not a great idea, particularly if they’re not at home. </p>
<p>I will say, though, that it is unreasonable to expect dogs never to bark. It’s what they do and unless you live in the middle of nowhere, neighborhood sounds are going to be a part of life. I’ve heard mixed reviews of the no bark devices, and if you have cats, they, too will be affected by the ultrasonic sound that is emitted, if they happen to be in range.</p>
<p>It sounds as though the neighbor in question reacted positively, though, so hopefully the dogs will no longer be a nuisance.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to take this to a Dog-Cat fight but our neighbor lets her cat out all the time. The cat prowls the neighborhood. If we are not visible, it comes to our picture window taunting our dog. Our dog goes nuts barking.</p>
<p>I could have written your OP including the 6:30am time for the barking dog, although I live in suburbia. I left notes for my neighbor signed with my name and address (I tried to see them in person but they were never home). My neighbors only tried to keep their dogs quiet for a few days after I left the notes and then they would go right back to letting their dogs out at 6:30am and many other times where the dogs would bark non-stop.</p>
<p>What I realized is that my neighbors were rude and weren’t going to change so I needed to figure out what I could do to save my sanity. My young son was in tears when the dogs would wake him up really early in the morning. I ended up buying Sleep-Mate white noise machines on Amazon and they really have made a difference in drowning out most of the barking noise. I will read this thread with interest to see if there might be a product that would actually keep the dogs from barking in the first place.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this link is going to stay in the message. But we purchased the Dog Bark Control Bridhouse from Solutions. And it is ment to be outside. It does need frequent battery changes, at least in my opinion. But worked like a charm. </p>
<p>I used to train dog agility in a facility where the neighbor next door had put up an anti-bark device. It went off (I could hear the high-pitched squeal it made) whenever a dog started barking, which was a lot, because it was an agility facility. (I’ll note that this facility had been a dog-training facility for more than 60 years; no one told the neighbor when he built his fancy house that it backed on a kennel.)</p>
<p>After a while it didn’t even distract the dogs. </p>
<p>Continuous barking is very self-rewarding for dogs. It is really hard to stop. If your neighbor leaves the dog tied outside to the deck all day in the country, that would be considered animal cruelty in some areas. My inclination would be to go and get the dog, put it in my garage, and tell the neighbor “I found him running loose.” I would do this day after day after day until the neighbor got a decent kennel.</p>
<p>No dog today-- I’m not holding my breadth. She teaches yoga at 7 am three mornings a week-- she left him chained to front porch guarded front door where sons left sleeping until her return.
Urgh!</p>
<p>I don’t know why people get dogs if they are just going to leave them tied up outside, or alone in a fenced yard all day. Dogs are social; they want to be inside with their families. Of course they bark when they’re left alone outside, and it’s unfair for people to subject their neighbors to the noise.</p>
<p>My neighbor puts her dog outside to bark while she walks on her treadmill. The dog is fat and bored. It seems like a simple solution would be to get off the treadmill and take the dog for a long walk every day. But no effort whatsoever has been made to train this dog, so she cannot be walked safely (she’s big). The dog escapes from the house at every opportunity and runs loose in the street. Of course, she hasn’t been trained to come when called. Other neighbors got an Australian Cattle Dog because they wanted a “smart dog.” Again, the dog is totally untrained, cannot be walked, and is bored out of its neurotic little mind. Another dog barking in a back yard. I truly do not understand why these people got dogs in the first place.</p>
<p>"My inclination would be to go and get the dog, put it in my garage, and tell the neighbor “I found him running loose.” "</p>
<p>It is a great approach, but I DO NOT recommend this strategy because the neighbor can have a hidden CCTV camera trained on the yard, and any footage from that can be used against you should the matter get completely out of control.</p>
<p>There are no bad pets, but there are irresponsible pet owners! The majority of them are just oblivious and do not mean any harm to their pets or the neighbors. Sometimes a knock on the door and a little chat can work. Other times, the dog’s barking, taped and then strategically anplified and blasted towards the dog owner’s bedroom windows at 2 am, delivers the message. :)</p>
<p>"…alone in a fenced yard all day"</p>
<p>As long as the dog is not chained, it is a much better arrangement for the dogs than being confined within 4 walls or worse, cooped up inside the car parked by the owner’s workplace that</p>