Anonymous wrote:This is 100% trainable. There is no excuse for letting them bark.

PP whose dog barks while walking, this is the easiest scenario. Carry some training treats and redirect your dog.

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Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

Why don't you get off my yard?

I'm not on your yard.
And I guarantee that her (your?) dog barks at people who are not in their yard, but merely walking down the sidewalk or on the neighbor's strip of yard.

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Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

Why don't you get off my yard?

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Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Pp was rectifying the situation and you're just being an @$$

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

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Anonymous wrote:I had major surgery Thanksgiving week and am home from the hospital but still pretty mobility impaired. My husband is taking care of the dogs, and yes, he thinks it’s perfectly ok to leave them barking outside at 10 pm while he gets his stuff ready for the next day.

I don’t agree with him, but when I tried to get up to let the dogs in a couple days ago, I slipped and almost fell on our stairs. So I am really sorry OP, but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.

Yeah, this is an outlier situation ...

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Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Anonymous wrote: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.