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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every once in a while my dog barks at a fox if she sees one while out on a walk. I don't "let" her bark, she just does it. If it is early in the morning, I do turn her around toward home to try to stop the barking, and it mostly works, but there isn't much more I can do.

If you don't like being around dogs, or neighbors in general, you are going to need to leave suburbia.

Dogs left outside all day barking their head off are another matter. i would take that up with the neighbor. [/quote]

NP. I can't stand dogs. I am not leaving a suburb due to this.  Get lost with that idea.

This isn't the fairytale of, "once in a while my dog barks at a fox" as you surely read in the OP.

It's directed at those who have barky dogs (yes, the house right behind mine) and [b]keep them outside for an hour or more while they bark constantly.  [/b]
There are not enough foxes to cause this.  Or birds.  Or cats.  
They are barkers.  Obviously the owners do not care.   The neighbors subjected to this cannot stand them and their noise.
These are not our dogs and we did not sign up to listen to them at all hours.   [/quote]

Okay, here it is. I was hunting for a timeframe. I don't think anyone here would find an hour or more to be reasonable for a dog to bark constantly. We pull ours in after a few annoying minutes. And he's never out when we're not home. [/quote]

Sadly, you'd be surprised.

One hour is kind of my upper limit on a dog barking loud enough for me to hear it in my home. It will annoy me before then but I will assume it is a one-off situation by the owners -- some scheduling error that resulted in the dog being unattended but safe for an hour. Things happen.

Well I have a neighbor who has done this multiple times with their dog and at the 1 hour mark I will send a text: "Hey hope you are well. Your dog has been barking for about an hour -- just checking to make sure everything is okay." The response is always hostile, rude and dismissive. I have been told "dogs bark, if you don't like it, move" and "yes we are aware, our dog is entitled to bark if it wants."

I don't think I'm an unreasonable person and I actually like dogs but this situation is so frustrating. I want to call 311 to report the dog as a noise violation but my spouse keeps talking me out of it because the neighbors are so hostile and obnoxious and he's worried about retaliation or violence. It is depressing to feel like there is no way to address the situation without an escalation that risks our own safety.

Some people suck. But yeah, an hour of a dog barking is not acceptable. I hear a dog barking for an hour and I start to wonder if the owner is incapacitated or the dog is hurt, and that's a normal reaction. Not "oh well I guess dogs just bark all the time in this neighborhood."[/quote]

This is why I skip the middle and just report people. I used to "try to be neighborly" but the thing is: they're not being neighborly to begin with. The typical response is the same smug entitlement PP showed upthread (expecting thanks for finally doing what he should've been doing all along?!) or the hostility you mentioned.

It's not my job to reparent people who weren't properly house trained. There are rules for a reason, and professionals who are paid to enforce them. I let them do their jobs, with the understanding that "don't start none, won't be none" can be liberally applied by all parties.[/quote]Just make sure you report the right neighbor.  We had a neighbor who would come over frequently to complain about our dog barking. We'd always told her that we didn't think it was our dog, but that we'd try to be more aware. One holiday we went on a vacation and were gone for a week. When we got back there was a citation on our door for a noise violation for dog barking, but our dog had been boarded for the entire week including the date of the citation. It must have been a different dog. We called the police station and they sent an officer over who looked at our dog boarding receipt + plane tickets and then went over to talk to the elderly neighbor. Apparently she was quite belligerent because a few months later when she accidentally backed into our car, didn't notice and drove away, the same officer came and arrested her for hit and run and took her to the station and booked her. It's seems she hadn't made friends with the officers in that initial interaction.  [/quote]

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