Home › Forums › Open Discussion › Owners of Barking/Howling Dog on 54th SW
- This topic is empty.
-
AuthorPosts
-
September 12, 2009 at 3:09 pm #592281
jwwsParticipantTo my neighbors on 54th (btwn Dakota and Andover) who think it is OK to allow their dog to bark and howl constantly beginning at 5 a.m. (and continuing to do so as I post this), I just want you to know that it is NOT OK and is extremely annoying/disruptive to my sleep – especially this time of year when we all like to have our windows open. Does your dog’s constant barking and howling not annoy you/keep you awake? This is not the first time this has occurred, I can count dozens over the past months, on one occasion the barking started at 3:00 am and lasted until 6:00. Please show some consideration for your neighbors and let your dog back in the house or quiet it down. I don’t let my dogs bark through the night and expect the same from my neighbors, not to mention that the barking in the early morning hours is a violation of the noise ordinance. I hope you read this post, recognize your bad behavior and are ashamed by it, you certainly don’t respond to a shout of QUIET! or SHUT YOUR D@#N DOG UP in the middle of the night!
September 12, 2009 at 3:42 pm #677084
cjboffoliParticipantjwws: Have you communicated more directly with these irresponsible dog owners? King County Animal Care and Control can be very helpful with excessive barking complaints if the owners continue this nuisance:
September 13, 2009 at 4:15 am #677085
vincentMembercomplaining on the internet works better! Passive aggressive rants are in the WSB charter aren’t they?
September 13, 2009 at 4:23 am #677086
swimcatMemberoh my- i have the same issue with my neighbors dogs’. annoying. call animal control- that is easier than a potentially nasty confrontation.
September 13, 2009 at 4:27 am #677087
vincentMemberIf its a noise complaint it has nothing to do with animal control. Find some integrity and talk to your neighbor, or have the stones to call the cops and put your name behind the complaint. Otherwise consider earplugs, or some upgraded windows, obama has a great rebate on them.
September 13, 2009 at 5:33 am #677088
WSBKeymasterSeattle is handled by the city Animal Shelter.
Their advice begins with Vincent’s 1st point. Entire page here that runs through potential escalation from there.
September 13, 2009 at 4:19 pm #677089
JenVMembervincent, maybe the OP doesn’t know where the dogs live. I have plenty of howling and barking dogs in my neighborhood – but short of walking up and knocking on doors and asking if they have a dog it’s pretty hard to know which exact house they’re in – you just know one of your neighbors has an annoying dog.
but attacking someone on the internet is so much easier than giving them the benefit of the doubt, isn’t it? is that in the WSB charter?
September 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm #677090
vincentMemberThat word does not mean what you think it means. Also, have you considered a hearing aid?
September 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm #677091
JanSParticipantgood grief, vincent…is every day a bad hair day for you? can we just please let the comments be about the original post?
September 13, 2009 at 10:40 pm #677092
bluebirdMemberThe OP is being passive aggressive. Doesn’t confront and/or talk to neighbor, does rant on an anonymous post. Doesn’t call the police and go on record with a legitimate complaint (noise ordinance), does do their own shouting into the night, committing a noise violation themselves.
“you certainly don’t respond to a shout of QUIET! or SHUT YOUR D@#N DOG UP in the middle of the night”
People can be as oblivious with their pets as they are with their children. Some bizarre skill where they can tune out their own. Doesn’t mean there is malicious intent.
I can understand not wanting to get out of bed to scour the neighborhood for a source, but why not call the police if it’s as bad as you say?
September 14, 2009 at 2:51 am #677093
valvashonParticipantThere is an obvious personal safety issue with confronting a neighbor who keeps a howling/barking dog. In my case, the large dog was tied up in the backyard seemingly 24/7 on a short rope. Nobody from the family ever interacted with the dog as far as I was able to tell, and the only thing I ever heard from next door was the big dumb truck driving meathead with the military buzzcut screaming abusively at his two small children and wife. I don’t make the stereotypes up, people, I just report them.
I was told by animal control that there was no anonymous reporting of animal noise complaints; a copy of my complaint as filed would be sent to the offender. At the time I had a very small child and an odd work schedule, so I put up with it for months. I found that throwing a beer bottle at the fence would shut it up for a few minutes, but other than that there was no real relief.
Finally one day I snapped, climbed on my patio table and screamed at the dog for about 15 minutes. The dog shut up, and shortly after I fell off the table in a whimpering mess, somebody came out of the house and got the dog. Almost every neighbor came over later that day to thank me and ask how I was. That emboldened me to file a noise complaint, and within a few months the offender moved out. Later I found out that he had confronted/threatened most of the other neighbors about the noise complaint filing, so maybe it was anonymous to him.
People are passionate about their dogs, which is good, but this also leads some to have unrealistic expectations about what their dogs are allowed to do.
As you might guess, my sympathies lie with the OP. I really felt like reporting this dog was taking my life into my hands. At the time, I would have loved to have a community based forum in which to discuss the problem.
September 14, 2009 at 3:45 pm #677094
MagpieParticipantI have a great cd called “Annoy your neighbor”, has some really great sounds including an air raid siren…(and a screaming baby)..maybe you could play it across the fence for a while…he he..
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.