About had it!

[blackdeuce]

I have dogs and it irritates me to no end if our dogs are outside and barking. I just assume that the neighbors don't like it. I immediately bring the dogs in the house. Our dogs are never left outside if we aren't home.

Years ago, a friend of mine had a similar problem as the OP. Talking to the neighbor didn't do any good. So, he flavored a ball of hamburger with a little Decon and threw it over the fence. It didn't kill the dog, but it did something to the dog. He quit barking. You probably want a prescription from a Vet before trying this.....

We have some neighbors with tiny, yippy dogs, but they do a decent job of stopping it. Sometimes I'm not sure which is worse. The dogs, or the owners yelling at the dogs. GIT OVER HERE!!

 

[RightArm]

I have a plan for just such a stuation (I haven't read the whole thread so forgive me if someone already said this). Tell your neighbors you won't hurt a dog, but everytime it bites you, your going to punch the neighbor in the head. I haven't used this yet. The dogs have always gotten themselves under control before I could use it. I'm curious because I think it will work.

 

[Texas Star]

Diluted lemon juice will do the same thing.

What about vinegar?

 

[Dave_n]

being a chemist by training, I have the ultimate weapon. A squirt gun filled with mercaptoethanol. Think of "eau d'skunk". Hit the little bugger with a large squirt on the arse end just before he goes inside to eat. Their house will stink and your answer is "his barking must have upset a skunk". It rarely requires more than one such episode. Dave_n

 

[John Eilertson]

My mom has had such creatures. They yip yap away, and all I say to that is that with every 'squeal' they give themselves away to anything with ears as to how small they are. I have a big ol' Lab, and my opinion is they'd one make a nice breakfast and the other a nice dinner for MY dog. But, aside from the middle o' the night phone calls, the best I can think of is animal control. Sure, poison or a well placed projectile sound great, but the dog only mirrors the maturity of its owner.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I would fill the water gun with urine. Send the dog home stinky and you will always have ammo.

 

[old bear]

Copper Sulfate has always been effective. Ok, bad idea so why not go with the live trap.

 

[Mickey D]

call him up at 3am and bark in his phone.
Norm

I've actually done that several times and they got rid of the dog.
Mess with people's sleep and they will make a change.

 

[A10]

I agree with the sentiment of not taking it out on the dog. I recommend pavlovian retraining of the neighbor. One of my neighbors had a shepard that liked to yip all night. He started barking at an owl at 3 a.m. one night, so I went next door and rang the doorbell till the neighbor answered. I asked him to take the dog inside, and he did. A couple weeks later the dog was at it again. I was forearmed this time with an air horn. I shouted at the dog to shut up, then set the horn off. It didn't take long for the neighbor to get the dog in, as they new the next step would be setting the horn off near their bedroom window and doing it all night. That was the last of the issues with the dog.....

 

[Rule3]

And if the owners don't claim the dog in (usually) a very short time the dog will die.

Inviting .gov entities into one's life has many many ways to go sideways. Always my very last resort.

From the one who suggests dying it pink, paying to fix it at a vet and buying a fence. See how fast you get arrested for that.

Better yet move down here and take care of all the feral cats for us. Animal control will not take them if captured in your own trap. If you use theirs, they will fix the cat and then RETURN it to the capture site so it can continue to kill native wildlife.

If animal control can not adopt out the dog then too bad so sad, the people should not own a dog if all they do is let it roam and bother people.. No, it's not the dogs fault but that's what AC is for.

I have JRT who barks at anything that moves. If he barks I bring him in, he does not leave my property and does not bite people.

Better yet try "bonding" with the little PITA. Buy hot dogs, every time you see him offer him some, talk nicely, softly, become his friend, have positive feedback, play and be happy.

 

[Fishslayer]

I have JRT who barks at anything that moves. If he barks I bring him in, he does not leave my property and does not bite people.

Ditto my Cattle Dog & the wife's GSD. That's part of their job. They are "watch dogs" not "guard dogs."

Funny thing. Our dogs don't roam either. Even on the very rare occasion I leave the gate open.

Better yet try "bonding" with the little PITA. Buy hot dogs, every time you see him offer him some, talk nicely, softly, become his friend, have positive feedback, play and be happy.

THIS I like. If the little **** is over there anyway. Always the danger that the yappy little monster will decide it likes YOU better than THEM & decide to stay.

As for getting arrested for dying or fixing the beast... "WHAT? Why no... they are exactly as they were when they showed up." I didn't say we were not going to be sneaky or underhanded...

 

[tork'd]

when we lived in the city, we had a neighbor that had a black lab he left out all night. his area to run and bark was outside our bedroom window. all night long the guy would bark. after trying to get the homeowner to do something, we started throwing milkbone biskets to him. the large size. would open the window and sidearm it out and against the side of their house.
the dog stopped barking. the lights would come on and the curtains would part to see what was going on.
i know he had an idea what was happening, but fido ate the evidence.
we moved after suffering for a year

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Next time you see the little feller outside go grab a slice of bolonga out of the fridge. My guess is that he'll be your pal real quick.

 

[Dr.-d]

????????????

 

[pinduck]

Consult Sip, he knows how to take care of cockroaches, might work on the dog.

 

[Deacon KC]

Pepper spray him. It will not hurt him and the owners will have the problem of cleaning him. I have had to pepper spray many dogs [I'm a Parole Agent] hit em right at the muzzle. If they call the police, tell them you have complained before and the dog was acting like it was going to bite you. After a couple of times at most, the dog will get the message.

 

[Glockman9mm]

Thanks for the advice guys! I'll give the hot dog/bologna thing a try. If that doesn't work I'll try the squirt gun method. If both of those fail I guess I'll order a can of Fox spray.

 

[rburg]

Back in the 1960s I rode a bicycle for fun. And got chased by a bunch of 4 legged friends, and some not so friendly. Someplace in my travels I found and bought a noise maker. It was designed to make a high pitched squeal that dogs hated. I tried it and it did upset them, but not enough to make them leave me alone.

So when Skinner, the old guy next door got a barker and left it outside all night, I tried it. I just taped the trigger down and put the thing outside. Drove the poor dog nuts, yelping and crying. So my wife made me stop. She said I was worse than the dog and mean to boot.

It never ceases to amaze me how others can have their dog bark constantly and never hear it, but everyone else in the region is going crazy listening.

Anyway, when we got our dalmatian I tried the thing on him. Those dogs are really high strung when young. He'd pick out one of my sons and bark at him until he got petted or played with. All it did was make him bark at me, not the kid he picked out.

For a while I considered putting an amplifier on my jeep and using the squealer as the input. Then using an auto outdoor speaker and just leaving the thing on when I drove. Seeing if I could make entire towns or neighborhoods unhappy. My wife vetoed that, too.

Down where Charlie lives, he could just get the guy with the pet alligator to solve the problem. Dog barks, alligator gets a snack! In his spare time he could double as the animal control officer in Brooklyn, MS!

 

[G.T. Smith]

Dogs barking at night, to me, are kinda like baby's crying or bull frogs or whip-poor-wills. If they are not in pain or hungry it just don't bother me. I would wear good ear plugs if it bothered me bad enough to consider moving, that is if the owner didn't understand the problem. One time my wife and I put ear plugs in because my Son and his idiot girlfriend were arguing at night. We still laugh about that one. If that happens again I'm going with the Decon in a double cheeseburger for her! Wish I'd have known about that then.
Peace,
gordon

 

[Glockman9mm]

Dogs barking at night, to me, are kinda like baby's crying or bull frogs or whip-poor-wills. If they are not in pain or hungry it just don't bother me. I would wear good ear plugs if it bothered me bad enough to consider moving, that is if the owner didn't understand the problem. One time my wife and I put ear plugs in because my Son and his idiot girlfriend were arguing at night. We still laugh about that one. If that happens again I'm going with the Decon in a double cheeseburger for her! Wish I'd have known about that then.
Peace,
gordon

Moving isn't an option and I don't think I should have to try to sleep in peace with ear plugs in. Ear plugs are for shooting which I enjoy.