Yes, I suppose he goes to work and leaves his two dogs outside. In the evening, his dogs shut up, so I guess he takes them inside when he gets home. They are fairly big dogs, don't know the breeds. They look to be maybe 80 pounders.
I suppose they are lonely. I think they bark every time someone walks by the front of his house, although there's a tight/high wooden fence in front. His left-side fence is my back fence (he's on the cross street, I've got the 2nd lot on my street from the corner.
I own my house, I figure he owns his. We've been here quite a few years. I met him when I needed all my neighbors to sign off on a minor change in my house.
A few years ago he used to not clean up the dog doo in the back of his house and it stunk up my yard really bad when the weather was warm and it wasn't windy and I talked to him about it. He didn't do anything at first but after a 2nd talk he started cleaning it up. A glance into his yard a couple weeks ago shows some dog doo but not the pig sty look it used to have and I haven't been overwhelmed by the smell for a few years.
His dogs' barking, however, is something that's become intolerable during the week (I don't go off to work). I don't know how the other neighbors can stand it. There's an apartment building on the corner, probably those people are reticent to complain about a home owner, they are in a low rent affair.
It's hard for me not to fantasize about murdering the dogs but I'm not about to do anything like that. I could have a talk with him, don't know if it would do much good. I did say something toward him a couple weeks ago but if he heard me, he pretended not to. Yes, I could knock on his door and have a talk. I think there are noise regulations here (Berkeley, CA), I looked it up one time online. I don't know what kind of reaction I'd get from the local authorities. The regulation has some vague information about quality of life, IIRC.
Now, I just did some internet searching (before composing this) and a search of Amazon for dog control devices and there's a device for ~$30 that emits a high pitched sound when it detects a bark. The reviews are quite mixed. Some people have bought one or two of these and mounted them in a tree. There are also dog whistles for sale at Amazon (cheaper, generally $10-15). I'm thinking these devices could really help here, don't know, and a lot of the time the dogs are going to be on the other side of the neighbor's house, so the dogs will be shielded, maybe, from the effects of a whistle. Generally, 1/2 the time there's barking during the day on weekdays (not sure about weekends), today seems like 3/4 of the time. I like music but having to use music to drown out dogs' barking isn't something I want to do all the time. I don't want to constantly listen to music.
OK, I know some of you people have real world experience with this and hope you can give me some good info... thanks!
I suppose they are lonely. I think they bark every time someone walks by the front of his house, although there's a tight/high wooden fence in front. His left-side fence is my back fence (he's on the cross street, I've got the 2nd lot on my street from the corner.
I own my house, I figure he owns his. We've been here quite a few years. I met him when I needed all my neighbors to sign off on a minor change in my house.
A few years ago he used to not clean up the dog doo in the back of his house and it stunk up my yard really bad when the weather was warm and it wasn't windy and I talked to him about it. He didn't do anything at first but after a 2nd talk he started cleaning it up. A glance into his yard a couple weeks ago shows some dog doo but not the pig sty look it used to have and I haven't been overwhelmed by the smell for a few years.
His dogs' barking, however, is something that's become intolerable during the week (I don't go off to work). I don't know how the other neighbors can stand it. There's an apartment building on the corner, probably those people are reticent to complain about a home owner, they are in a low rent affair.
It's hard for me not to fantasize about murdering the dogs but I'm not about to do anything like that. I could have a talk with him, don't know if it would do much good. I did say something toward him a couple weeks ago but if he heard me, he pretended not to. Yes, I could knock on his door and have a talk. I think there are noise regulations here (Berkeley, CA), I looked it up one time online. I don't know what kind of reaction I'd get from the local authorities. The regulation has some vague information about quality of life, IIRC.
Now, I just did some internet searching (before composing this) and a search of Amazon for dog control devices and there's a device for ~$30 that emits a high pitched sound when it detects a bark. The reviews are quite mixed. Some people have bought one or two of these and mounted them in a tree. There are also dog whistles for sale at Amazon (cheaper, generally $10-15). I'm thinking these devices could really help here, don't know, and a lot of the time the dogs are going to be on the other side of the neighbor's house, so the dogs will be shielded, maybe, from the effects of a whistle. Generally, 1/2 the time there's barking during the day on weekdays (not sure about weekends), today seems like 3/4 of the time. I like music but having to use music to drown out dogs' barking isn't something I want to do all the time. I don't want to constantly listen to music.
OK, I know some of you people have real world experience with this and hope you can give me some good info... thanks!
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