If the owners of the dog are to ignorant and egocentric to train the dog or to simply just go out and tell the dog to shutup; then you damn right im gonna try to do something about it if it means trying to train it myself. I cant stand how some dog owners will try to play the “there just doing what dogs do” card on me…

Came here to post similar, so thanks!

I don’t think you grasp what “incessant” means in this context. I have a neighbor who leaves their dog outside all evening. It will bark at least once every five seconds for FOUR HOURS. It is not barking at anything specific, except maybe the idea of being kicked out of the house. That sort of dog is useless as an…

ANY interaction with anything trainable has the potential to affect its behaviour, so getting so huffy about someone doing what the owner should have is probably a bit over the top. Dogs that are barking in a nuisance way, for hours on end, are NOT barking for legit reasons. Dogs are smart enough to figure out what is…

On a tangential note: my father had a very novel way of dealing with a neighbor who would wait until we were gone to school or work for the day and then pick their dog up and lower him over the fence to crap in our yard. We kept finding the dog’s “surprises” when I’d go out to mow the lawn on the weekends. A couple…

The neighbor behind me has dogs he keeps in kennels (in a fenced in yard...) They’re out there 24/7. EVERY TIME I go outside (multiple times a day) they bark and growl and charge their cages. The one that runs loose in the yard charges the fence.