Registered: Oct 2011
Location: South Amherst, Ohio
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Anyones neighbors have a problem with your hounds?

Got the call about an hour ago, for the third time that the local police dept was at my house for my hounds barking...

Now the lady next door has never said one word to me about them barking. Now this is the third time shes called on them barking whilr im at work. The previous two times I went ovet and knocked on the door to talk to her about it and she wouldnt answer.

The dogs arent that bad except one pup who liked the bark. Now he wears a bark collar and after 2-3 quick barks hes had enough for a few hours.

The only time any of them ever really start goin on is whem her kids are running up and down the fence and pretty much teasing them.

Ive lived in this house about.a year nevet had a problem until recently.

Im just lost at what to do here, she wont talk to me about it, has never complained toe about it and keepa calling the cops while im not home.

I cant have the cops keepshowing up and im not getting rid of the dogs

Anyone have a similar problem? If so how did ya handle it?

Oh yeah they really arent bad on the barking, I cant stand hearing tjem bark in the pen, if they were me and the dogs would be having a serious conversation and they wouldnt be barking much anymore

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i sometimes have those probs but theirs not really much they can do about it unless its at night then you can get a ticket most places have sound ordnances or however you spell it but they dont start untill sometime between 7 and 9 am my old neighbors used to call the dog warden and he basicially told her that if she didnt gather her cats he would because they were the reason my dogs barked

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Heck I live on a 220ac farm. Was here way before any neighbors. Still I came home a while back and here's a note taped to my mailbox. Said I hope this bark collar works as well for your dog as it did ours signed david or daniel or something lol. Least I got a bark collar out of the deal. My pup is what caused it though. She did bark a bunch but heck Im only a hundred yards from her. I couldn't hear her hardly. The closest other houses are way off. No way they could hear her. I hope to meet this david feller out one of these days. I don't know what they gonna do when I get my small coon pen built.

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5 gallons gas will solve this prob

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I had the same problem. ended up haveing to go to court and got a $50 fine. The police wouldnt tell me what neighbor it is so I couldnt even go talk to them. Never had anyone complain to me. Guess thats what people do these days. dont talk to there neighbors. Just call the cops on them

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I do know which neighbor it is thanks to another neihbor telling me or else id never know. I dont know if what she is trying to do is get me a fine or what

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Around 20 years ago, I had gone out of town for a long weekend. I came back into town early Monday morning around 3 or 4 am and a few hours later, the police and animal control arrived.

They received a complaint from one of my neighbors about constant barking all weekend long. I verified with the police and animal control the dates of the complaint and the barking.

Only one problem...............no dogs on premise on dates that the neighbor said dogs were barking and filed complaint.

Matter of fact, because I had just gotten back in town a few hours earlier, the dogs hadn't even been picked up yet and brought back home.

Hard to hear dogs barking when no dogs around to be barking.

They never filed another barking complaint again.

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We were turned in and I had to get rid of the one that barked. I keep bark collars on three of them almost 24/7. I was told by Aiken Co that it is a 1000.00 PER DOG fine. I can't tell you the STRESS it has caused for me. I have looked it up and can't find anything in the county as far as sound ordanance or anything having to do with dogs barking. I don't like them barking either. BUT THEY ARE DOGS! My old female only barks when there is something wrong. The other day it was rattle snakes near
her puppy pen. Someone pulls up, sirens.

We have decided to move. I feel so much better now. I don't collar them during the day now unless they are just babbling. Good luck with it. I feel your pain.

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I have to say that I cannot wait to move and get away from the neighbors we have now. I have been unfortunate enough to live in a subdivision every since I got my one hound 4 years ago. He is not a big barker but my neighbors don't want him to EVER bark. We have had complaints several times=one from a neighbor who came to the house and said my dog barked all night long. I told her, "That's impossible because the dog is in the house with me and he lies down and doesn't make a peep!" But nevertheless, I bought a no-bark collar and put it on my dog. He hates it and looks at me like, "Why do you put that thing on me?" I have never collared a dog of mine it delivand don't want to now either. But until we move away from the idiots we live next to, he will have to wear it. Now, there are dogs barking all over this neighborhood, including two collies who bark non-stop even when they are being taken for a walk!! But because we live next to a**holes, we get complaints about my dog. Maybe because he is a hound and when he does bark, it's LOUD. But even when he doesn't wear the collar when I'm here, he hardly ever barks. Kids stand right outside our fenced-in yard and make noise and that upsets him but he can't be a normal dog and bark. Nooooooooo..
I think the thing that pissed me off the most if that our neighbors put a storage unit right up against the side of our fence (on their side of course). And it's right next to my dog's kennel. So when they go out there (even at night) and start banging and bumping around in that, he gets upset. And they stack wood right up against our fence too and it sounds like someone is trying to tear the fence down when they have it delivered!!
I grew up on 15 acres and this is the first time I've ever lived in a subdivision with close neighbors and I HATE it! We are going to move and I can't wait! I can't wait until the day that I can take a hammer to that collar that zaps my dog ever time he decides to be a dog and bark!!
I wish you luck but I honestly think the best thing to do if you have hounds is live out on a big piece of land. And if anyone complains then, then I would say TOUGH LUCK! People are so snotty these days. So sad that neighbor would not talk to you but called the police.
I hope things can work out but if I were you, I'd move if I could. It may be the only way you have much peace.

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a drunk that likes a little reefer too... Gets real nasty when he is wired 440 on beer and smoke... When sober he is fine ... Good luck, not every one can move....

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What Wayne is saying be a bigger nascent than your dog. Know your local laws and ordnances. Draw a line and stand firm, but know your limitations.

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Lol i live way out in the country and my closest neighbor lives about 700 yrds from me and the griped about my dogs barking so i just put a coon in the tree and let them have at it ,i live so far out the cops said they couldnt do anything and after that nite they didnt fuss anymore guess they figured a lil barking aint as bad as them treed all nite lol

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i dont like a barking dog myself but i got a 10 month old beagle that barks quite abit went over to my neighobors he told me his nieghbor was telling him my dog bark to much told him i couldnt keep a noisy dog i told him to tell him the hell i cant if he had something to tell me come on up to the house aint seen him yet been bout 3 mons

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I live on 50acres and don't have a neighbor problem, due to the fact my lovely wife is my driving force to keep relatively quite hounds. She enjoys them even cares for them while I'm offshore. But if they do some barking that wakes her I'll hear about it. And I've developed the ultimate training/breaking tool. They get the three verbal warnings to hush. Then a 12 - 24 Inch very slender switch. It usually only takes once.

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I live on 50acres and don't have a neighbor problem, due to the fact my lovely wife is my driving force to keep relatively quite hounds. She enjoys them even cares for them while I'm offshore. But if they do some barking that wakes her I'll hear about it. And I've developed the ultimate training/breaking tool. They get the three verbal warnings to hush. Then a 12 - 24 Inch very slender switch. It usually only takes once.

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what works good is game caller...if they think the dogs drive them nuts well then listen to this coyote howl for a night, or maybe they like the dying rabbit sound....whatever sound you want that will drive them nuts...it only takes a couple nights and they get the message real quick...

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I can tell you this, there is NO WAY one of my dogs barking could possibly bother a neighbor as much as it bothers me. If they think they can bark at the house, they are extremely mistaken. Dogs have indoor kennels, clean well bedded houses, feeders and heated water buckets. I can take about any bad habit a dog has, but if you want to bark you will either leave my house, suffer brain damage, or die. I don't care if you can't tree coon like I never saw before, there is no excuse for barking other than stupidity and I just will not take it.

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Put Rattlesnakes in the Vents and Air Ducts of their house....Then barking dogs will be the least of their problems...

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i wouldn't move or invest in anything other than a 911 trespassing call. You said the kids of hers are causing the problem by parading up and down the fence. Turn the table on her and i'll be willing to bet that she will gladly open the door to conversation on the problem. YES its a bad deal, but i wouldn't allow her to dictate to me how i am going to live. deal with the problem quickly and you'll all be better off.

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I have not lived in town for many years but had a similiar problem when I did. This is what I did since the neighbor also would not talk to me face to face. I wrote a polite and respectful letter detailing all the measures I had taken to curb any excessive and/or unnecessary barking my dogs were guilty of. I then asked them if there was still a reasonable problem that they meet with me in person to discuss what they expected me to do to correct them. I also suggested the meeting take place in a neutral site and that they could bring another party along with them if they were not comfortable meeting with me alone. After signing it with my full legal name I sent it via certified mail so they had to sign for it to prove they had received it as well as keeping a photocopy for myself. Although we never met, I no longer had any visits from law enforcement or animal control after doing this.
I would suggest that you document any attempts that you have made or make to speak directly to the complaining neighbor for proof that you are making a reasonable effort to correct things and be a "good neighbor". If you ever do get a face to face with them remember to stay calm, be reasonable and respectful, take notes of the issues they present to you and ask them to review your notes and if possible have them sign and date the notes. Third party witnesses are a wonderful thing as well.

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I can tell you this, there is NO WAY one of my dogs barking could possibly bother a neighbor as much as it bothers me. If they think they can bark at the house, they are extremely mistaken. Dogs have indoor kennels, clean well bedded houses, feeders and heated water buckets. I can take about any bad habit a dog has, but if you want to bark you will either leave my house, suffer brain damage, or die. I don't care if you can't tree coon like I never saw before, there is no excuse for barking other than stupidity and I just will not take it.

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i had a buddy that had the same promple he sent them ear plugs in the mail help him i think they got te point

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i hate a dog barking in the kennel.mine learn right off no barking in the kennel.theres plenty of time in the woods for that.i would get mad if i had neighbors with barking dogs too.its all in respect fellas.if you didnt have barking dogs you wouldnt have bitching neighbors.

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bull was bad about treeing possums coming dwn the light wire
when he 5-6 mths old.the neighbor got a wild hair and started
turn his cur collie out with him to make sure i new he was barking
in behind the garage so one night i went out and it was on the fence
i knocked him off to the dog he finaly killed it drug it back threw the
pet door never had any more problem they always came out
and knock it off to the cur.

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