Barking dog problem makes life hell

I missed a word there.

I meant to say that the dog "will be happier in a more lowly (place) in the "pack".

A dog can't be trained by an owner that hasn't a clue.
A dog is within its rights to bark to let people know he is there as a warning when the owner isn't about. But to bark constantly means there is a problem, either with itself, or its surroundings.The owner should be pack leader not the dog.
It's Cesar Millan Kathleen was thinking of.

meesh

If a dog constantly barks at visitors or people passing by it is usually because it believes it is "pack leader" and must defend its territory and family.

The only way to stop it is for its owner to spend time and effort in retraining it to understand its place in the pack; it will then start to relax knowing that it is not his responsibility to protect everyone.

Dogs who have been improperly trained and indulged in a way that makes them believe that they are in charge are actually very stressed and will be happier in a more lowly in the "pack".

There are programmes on TV and plenty of books, such as Jan Fennel's, on retraining dogs. That American guy who uses a similar method is also good - Cesar something?

If the owner will not accept their responsibility then there is nothing you can do.

My next-door neighbour has a jack-russell which constantly barks, even if I am standing in my bedroom window in my own house. My partner and I have asked the neighbours why this is, have suggested ways of solving the problem such as the collars which spray water at the dog/minor electric shock but the neighbour has taken no notice. I am ashamed to say I have seriously considered doing something so that this dog a) no longer barks or b) is no longer there - and I love all dogs!!!
This jack-russell goes mental at anyone, even all the neighbours it has actually been introduced to, I have even asked the neighbour whilst patting the dog why he is this way. The neighbour says it is because the dog wants to say hello and barks for attention - I gave the dog loads of fuss whilst we were talking, it still barked and continued to do so when I walked away, so it is not that this dog thinks I am an intruder, a threat, or that he wants attention. I know dogs bark - it is in their nature - but this is incessantly and taking the p**s.
Any thoughts?

yes, I know what your saying. I have a neighbour with four dogs. they all bark whenever they like and no one tells them to stop. the owner relishes in how empowering the situation is. frankly, the neighbours are anti social and enjoy it. I would love to lie in and not be disturbed, go a whole day and night and not hear a dog bark, actually go in my own back garden. i'm sick of my mp3 player, ear plugs don't work. i'm looking forward to going on holiday, no barking dogs!! at one point the neighbours talked about moving, although they never have. i'd like them to, i'd like them to move far far away...if only.

I love wild animals and dogs too. But I have a major problem with selfish dog-owners who ruin their neighbours' opportunity to relax and in doing so violate them fundamentally. If there is a just God, surely he will ensure that such selfish dogowners rot in everlasting hell. Amen.

I too have neighbours either side of me, neither of them cre that their dogs are continously barking, whinning, yelping etc etc...Same as you no lie ins and it is also making me depressed...Both my neighbours have been told about the ongoing problems that their pets are causing others yet they choose to do nothing about it...If it were me I would be mortified that my dogs were doing this and I wouldnt wish to affend any of my neighbours and I would therefore want to resolve the ongoing problem...But hey not every one is as considerate as me or you. It all boils down to complete ignorance at the end of the day...

Buy one of these and your problems will be over.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080819/ultrasonic-barking-dog-deterrent/

I am also living next to inconsiderate neighbours that have a lot of dogs, have made sooo many complaints over the years and they know how upset we are with them. Phone calls and texts are sent to them all day and night and still they bark. I am now suffering with depression and it is affecting my young children also. Why are people so horrible in life. Why don't the police lock them up. How would they like it if I started drilling the walls at 3am!!!

Sleepy, have you ever considered a steak slung over the fence laced with some sort of rodent control chemical - cough!

I don't know how to deal with my neigbhours yapping dog. I think it's looked after but just yaps a lot. The walls are very thin so most weekends and evenings I hear it. It has woken me up a few nights the past few weeks, not with constant barking, just that I couldn't get back to sleep after it woke me. They are both professional people, but in other areas have little consideration for others, like taking a year to pay me some money they owed me. It's a problem because it's not obvious neglect, just a dog that yaps. I like animals, but it's affecting my sleep recently.

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