If you have a situation like that it is often worth talking to your neighbours and asking them to be understanding, many people will be more tolerant if they are kept informed. It sounds as if Orrymain's neighbour was not very caring.
I had the situation a few years ago where the people in the road opposite to us were shutting their dog outside in the garden and going off to work. That poor dog barked on and off on and off from 8am till 6.30-7.00pm sometimes even later than this. I went round and told them the dog was very distressed, but they couldn't care less, they had bought the dog as a guard dog and as far as they were concerned it was staying out in the garden. So I reported them to the council and the RSPCA. Both organisations finally went round to them and asked them to keep the dog inside the house or surrender it, but they still left it out in the garden barking all day. This went on for months, despite further complaints from myself and others to both the council and the RSPCA, and more visits from them to the owners. Then one day it went quiet. I asked around to see what had happened and was so sad to learn that someone had thrown poisioned meat into the garden then broken into their garden and bashed the dog on the head and had virtually killed it, the poor dog was in such a bad way it had be put down.
I am in favour of some sort of fines be levied on owners that leave their dogs out all day like this. It's one thing if a dog is barking because it is mourning and the owner is trying to deal with the situation, it's quite another when owners don't give a toss about the dog and leave it out all day. It is another thing again where a dog is shut in a house all day and barking because it is bored, bored, bored.
I can't help thinking that if the owners of this dog had been fined heavily the poor dog would not have suffered the way it did.
My city already has a barking ordinance.. basically the same as what LA is trying to do. And I don't mind it so much. But my neighborhood doesn't have excessive constant barking.. very rare. But when there is a dog that just won't stop, it's always the annoying little ones with the really high pitch bark. And the owners think it's "cute" and encourage it.. -_- I have no problem with the city fining them.. maybe they will be too broke to buy anymore annoying, yappy dogs.
Last edited by SammRose; 11-07-2011 at 09:44 PM.
Oh Stephanie.... that poor dog.... those people/person that did that to the dog should have the same thing done to them!
NO animal should ever be treated like that. It makes my blood boil!
women and cats will do as they please,
men and dogs need to get used to the fact.
Stephanie what a sad story. I agree with you about laws being necessary but I think they need to deal with individual cases rather than if the dog barks for 10 minutes you get a fine. I just think it will catch the wrong dogs and the owners who really don't care will get away with it one way or another.
It also makes me wonder what will become a crime next. I had a crying baby, a real screamer. If I'd had him first he would have been an only child! He cried from 11pm until after 3am every night for over 3 years! My neighbour was very understanding and I had help from the doctor and the health visitor, but I am sure it was a real pain. If you start just imposing fines for the duration of noise from dogs without looking at the circumstance why not fine for crying children, fire alarms, car alarms, fighting cats etc, the list is endless!
Stephanie that is terrible, that poor dog. They need to be able to act more quickly in cases of constant barking, but I don't think people should be fined for one short incident of their dog barking.
Kernow, I have had fears like that before because it does seem as if we have too many controls on our freedom, eg. when they brought in the anti hunting law in England I wondered what next. I think it is reasonable to restrict freedom if our actions impose negatively on others, so I can see that legislation to control barking is necessary, but I am not sure that this is the best way of doing it.
Kernow, they weren't. It turned out they kept their windows open all day and night so they amplified things. I told them by dog was blind and deaf practically, old, and griefing and probably didn't have long, but they just didn't care. There was no compassion from them at all. Honestly, I was worried about them doing something nasty.
Orrymain, I am sorry you had all that worry, your neighbours sound heartless. One day they may need people to be understanding about something, as they say what goes around comes around.
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