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Stop Neighbor Dog From Barking: How to Silence Their Barking Dog

Is your barking neighbor's dog driving you nuts? Here are four tips to stop neighbors dog barking. You may not have a lot of control over your neighbor's dog, but these tips will help bring peace and quiet back to your neighborhood.

Talk To Your Neighbor
This is a good place to start as one should never assume that the neighbor even knows his dog is barking as much as he is if that neighbors at work all day, or sleeping thru most of his dogs barking. When approaching him, make sure it’s not when you’re angry, also keep in mind that staying on friendly terms goes a long way to keeping him a neighbor, and not an enemy.

This might also be a good time to start taking notes. Write down the times and dates that the dog is barking as well notes on when you’ve interacted with your neighbor. Doing this will be helpful when dealing with the police or animal control, should things get that far.

Ultra Sonic Devices
More often than not a neighbors dog that’s barking is doing so because he's been left outside. If this is the case, solving the barking issue might be as simple as setting up an ultra sonic device in your yard and aiming it at your neighbor's.

Your neighbor can do nothing about what you set up in your own yard and these ultra sonic devices have a long range of effectiveness. In many cases, the dog makes one or two feeble attempts to bark, gets bothered by the squealing noise that he can hear, but humans can't, and gives up barking altogether when he's in the yard.

Everyone's Legal Rights
If you must get legal authorities involved in the process due to a non-compliant neighbor, you should first understand everyone's legal rights in this situation. Knowing your own legal rights, as well as your neighbors, can unlock the secret to stop neighbors dog barking.

You definitely have rights if you live in a community. You have the right to a peaceful neighborhood and a decent night's rest. Regulations like noise ordinances are put in place to protect those rights. A quick visit to the local police station can not only enlighten you as to what those ordinances are, but can also give you friendly contacts at the station who might be of assistance at a later time.

Pay a visit to your local animal control as well. Tell them of your situation and ask them what the best way to handle the problem is. You’d be surprised how making personal contact (not a phone call) with people in these agencies will help to get them on your side, and get you peace and quiet quicker.

Your neighbor has rights too though. He has the right to own a dog. Within reason, he has the right to deal with his dog as he sees fit. He also has the right to take a reasonable amount of time resolving a dog barking problem.

And let's not forget the rights of the dog in all this. In fact, the dog's rights might just be your key to getting the issue resolved. The dog has the right to humane treatment, good care, and a quality life. If he's barking because he's staked in the backyard during a rainstorm, or due to other mistreatment, animal control might just take him away from his negligent master.

Law Enforcement
Your last effort for resolution is getting law enforcement involved. They're going to want to know you tried to resolve the issue yourself before coming to them, so make sure you've tried some of the above items before calling them. And make sure you've talked with your neighbor. The police usually want to see that you've done that before coming to them.

If you live in a bigger community and want to stop your neighbors dog barking, try calling animal control rather than the police. Animal control specializes in legalities with animals. Most of their job is educating the public about how to properly care for their pets, but they have a great deal of authority when it comes to animal problems.

If you live in a smaller community, you probably don't have an animal control division and the police will deal with any dog barking issues. In each of these cases, you may have to file a formal complaint for anything to really get done. But calling them and having the police show up at your neighbor's house may be enough to stop the problem.

Although there are many other effective ways to stop your neighbors barking dog, please be kind to the dog itself. In most cases it's just expressing a need it has thru it's barking, that the neighbor himself might not yet recognize.

 

When dog trainer Richard Livitski isn't helping others to achieve peace and quiet with his popular e-book Stop Dog Barking Now, he's busy chasing around his own dogs.

Richard Livitski

When dog trainer Richard Livitski isn't helping others to achieve peace and quiet with his popular e-book Stop Dog Barking Now, he's busy chasing around his own dogs.

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