Centenniel
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I think its called "selective hearing". Most wives think their husbands have it...
Why is it that people don't hear their own dogs barking most of the night?
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Forester
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Most husbands do.
Faulkner
Member
I had a problem with a neighbor's barking dog once back when I lived in a subdivision. Nice German Shepard . . . barked all night all the time. I did all the normal try to get along with the neighbor things, didn't seem to stick.
Went to Plan "B" hoping I wouldn't have to opt for Plan "C" (which required the use of a shovel). Plan "B" was I'd train the dog myself. I pulled out my lawn hose and put a long stream nozzle on the end. Every time I walked into my backyard I turned on the hose and called the dog over to the fence. I'd then yell hush at the dog, whether it was barking or not, and blast it down with the water hose. Mainly did it in the daytime, but I did get up in the middle of the night a few times and do it as well. After two weeks, didn't need the water any longer, I could just go out and say hush and the dog would run to the other side of it's yard and shutup.
Since I've moved out in the country, if I have a problem with someone's dog who won't deal with it I just kill it and haul it off. Good neighbors typically take ownership of their dogs. Bad neighbors . . . well why put up with bad neighbors and their dogs.
Went to Plan "B" hoping I wouldn't have to opt for Plan "C" (which required the use of a shovel). Plan "B" was I'd train the dog myself. I pulled out my lawn hose and put a long stream nozzle on the end. Every time I walked into my backyard I turned on the hose and called the dog over to the fence. I'd then yell hush at the dog, whether it was barking or not, and blast it down with the water hose. Mainly did it in the daytime, but I did get up in the middle of the night a few times and do it as well. After two weeks, didn't need the water any longer, I could just go out and say hush and the dog would run to the other side of it's yard and shutup.
Since I've moved out in the country, if I have a problem with someone's dog who won't deal with it I just kill it and haul it off. Good neighbors typically take ownership of their dogs. Bad neighbors . . . well why put up with bad neighbors and their dogs.
Jst1mr
Member
Just remember - if you take justice in to your own hands, be efficient! Around here, someone shot a dog that was always on his property...the dog dragged himself home, neighbors and sheriff followed blood trail (dang snow!), and of course the guy got into more judicial trouble than if he had murdered his wife and family. Just sayin'.
deralte
US Veteran
Don't have to worry about my two barking at night but I do have a problem with them laying beside the bed and snoring.
Douglas Haig
Member
Thats right, If you kill the dog by whatever means you are libel for the value of the property, a couple of hundred bucks. If you wound it you can libel for thousands in medical costs.
I used to keep my dogs outside, until a neighbor told me that they barked in the middle of the night. Now they stay in. Inside, they are even better at letting me know if someone is in the yard.
Doug M.
Member
*Originally posted by NFrameFred:
Yeah - the dogs are only doing what comes naturally - the people are the problem.
Some people should not breed, vote, own guns, drive, speak in public or own pets ( did I miss anything ?)
Breathe.
The dogs should be inside. There are few dogs that should be outside, and protection dogs need to be inside. As noted by another poster, they need to be inside snoring by the bed.
As for shooting one for this, around there, you'll end up with a felony conviction. The rules on defense against a dog are pretty favorable, but this get you jail time. (It would not bother me a lot if the human got shot, but most of them haven't the brains or integrity to do it themselves, and it's a crime to help them.)
S&W-Keeper
Member
My neighbors on both sides of me never hear their dogs bark.
Faulkner
Member
Actually, I think cats are a bigger nusiance than barking dogs.
mwtdvm
Member
Similar problem but a slightly different solution...
Neighbors had two dogs, one a Rottweiler, the other a psycho Shepherd. The Rottie barked and meant "business". The Psycho would go into this frenzied barking/scream forever.. Solid 6' fence between us. TG!
Whenever my dog went outside to take care of business, the Psycho would go off..
Now as an older guy, I have to get up in the night, usually around 2:30-3:30 and take care of my business. While I'm up, I decide it's a good idea to let my dog also take care of her business.
Yep, 8 times out of 10 Psycho would go off on it's own! and when it didn't, a soft WOOF from me was enough to get things going. Almost forgot the most important part.. Psycho running up and down the fence barking set off my motion detector lights, one of which was aimed at their bedroom window, about 15 feet away.
Psycho went away and pretty soon the rest of that clan moved on as well..
Neighbors had two dogs, one a Rottweiler, the other a psycho Shepherd. The Rottie barked and meant "business". The Psycho would go into this frenzied barking/scream forever.. Solid 6' fence between us. TG!
Whenever my dog went outside to take care of business, the Psycho would go off..
Now as an older guy, I have to get up in the night, usually around 2:30-3:30 and take care of my business. While I'm up, I decide it's a good idea to let my dog also take care of her business.
Yep, 8 times out of 10 Psycho would go off on it's own! and when it didn't, a soft WOOF from me was enough to get things going. Almost forgot the most important part.. Psycho running up and down the fence barking set off my motion detector lights, one of which was aimed at their bedroom window, about 15 feet away.
Psycho went away and pretty soon the rest of that clan moved on as well..
One of my neighbors had a German Shepard that would bark at night . They were good people but just didn't " get it " when I mentioned the barking . I started going out at night and opening their gate and letting the dog out .
Then I would close it back and go inside for a quiet night's sleep . The lady kept talking about how she couldn't figure out how the dog was getting out . She assumed he was climbing it , so she started putting him in at night .
Then I would close it back and go inside for a quiet night's sleep . The lady kept talking about how she couldn't figure out how the dog was getting out . She assumed he was climbing it , so she started putting him in at night .
Smitty500Mag
Member
I've got some neighbors that live a pretty good distance from me that have barking dogs. They're far enough away from me to not really be a nuisance but I can still hear them if I'm in the bathroom late at night. I figure they must love to hear them barking so I help out where I can. I've got one of those old silent dog whistles that'll set'em off and if I'm up late or when I get up early in the morning to go to work and don't hear them barking I'll sometimes blow the whistle and get'em going real good and then go to bed or leave for work.
Smitty
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Milanfire2
Member
I have a GSD also and an older couple moved in next door who came from city. Well unlike rest of you I was the one who got the call 2nd week they lived there.My son came home from college about midnight just as I was putting the dog out for his last nightly job.Well he barked up a storm for all of 2 to 3 minutes and the jack*** next door called me screaming and letting me have it with very choice words.Now mind you I have been here 16 years and my dog is a house dog not stuck outside.I told him where to stick it and hung up on him.That was 2 years ago and no he still doent talk to me (no loss) his wife is very nice person and we talk all the time.I see you all have point I would not like that either but my situation is different as my dog is house dog.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Years ago I took a girl friend to laughlin nevada to do some gambling. She had two fife pommerian dogs. We stayed at the motel on the other side the river that allowed dogs. We werent even at the casino that owned the motel, but another. In the middle of the night I was paged to call the motel. Her dogs were acting up! Now if you ever been to laughlin, its a gambling town with about a dozen huge casinos, and I had to marval how they found me!
gunnut44
Member
I have been training my inbread hillbilly neighbors dogs for about a year now and I think I finally got them trained, when I am in my backyard which I spend alot of time and hard work and when I sit down on the patio to have a few cold ones and grill some burgers I don't want to hear some mutt barking, I have a two year old shepard that does not bark unless the doorbell rings, and when it does LOOK OUT! So I have been calling the dogs over to the fence and they sound like they will kill if they could get to me and I light off a quarter stick, It blows a nice big hole in my mulch but it is easily fixed and those dogs shut up, after about a dozen quarter sticks as soon as those dogs see me (because they probally can't hear me) go sit on their porch. Just the way I like it! Wife says I'm crazy!
