The neighbours' dog is driving me nuts!

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It barks for hours at a stretch: really high-pitched ,incessant barking. we've spoken to the neighbours a couple of times- it still barks. Quite a few times I've gone to stick my head over the fence to see if it is stuck trying to escape under the gate( happened once before and we had to free the mongrel) or there is any real reason for its barking - and the owners are standing in the backyard watching it bark!
I'm home with the flu and a thumping headache and the dog has been going off for the lat 3 hours. When I finally snapped and yelled for them to shut their mongrel up - it went silent.!
What's with some people?

That sounds very annoying. I don't like the sound of dogs barking, and I have a dog! Luckily my dog doesn't bark very much, mostly only when someone walks past the house (which isn't very often, I live in a fairly quiet street).

Luckily I don't hear any dogs barking in my neighborhood thank god. I hated when my aunt and uncle's dog would bark indoors, my parents had more than one dog and I hated when they bark inside. I don't care for outdoor barking but inside, it bothers me. I even hated when my own dog bark so whenever I take her down to my parents when I go to work, I used to put my hair tie over her mouth and once she stopped barking, I stopped putting it on her. I had to put her in the cage in my back seat because she get up to the front seat where I'm driving so she stopped barking in there after a while knowing I let her out of there after I drop her off. I should have done the same to my aunt and uncle's dog with a hair tie but I never thought of it. I just held my ears shut.

I'm not sure where the jurisdiction for noise pollution issues lies where you are. Over here, it used to be that you could call the police (and you still can, if it's in the street). However, for issues around domestic noise, including noisy dogs, I'd need to speak to the local environmental health office, which is part of the council.

My sister had a similar problem a little while back, with her neighbour's landlord - he is a dog breeder and keeps his dogs in an outdoor kennel at the property. The noise, especially at certain times of the year, was really bad, but the environmental health officers helped to sort things out.

Unfortunatly the neighbour's a cop.
we could call the council , but I'm not sure if that will make it worse.
They are quite Ok , apart fom their clueless behaviour with the dog.

Actually that might be a good thing.
If he fails to comply with a noise abatement order, he may face losing his job. So it's quite a big stick in your arsenal.

I had a similar problem. The neighbor would go out partying, leaving the stupid dog in the yard. He would bark, non stop, for up to 5 hours. Finally, my other neighbor and I decided that we'd had enough. He elected to speak to her, explaining how the barking inconvenienced others. (I had told him that I switched bedrooms, moving into the back bedroom to get distance from the barking.) She started keeping the dog indoors. We didn't have to call the cops on her.
You might write them a note if confrontations make you uncomfortable, (they do for me!) Just mention how you were sick, and how the barking made you feel even worse. Don't mention any steps you might take. They may appreciate you not calling authorities and making a stink. Hope this helps!

I don't think people should own dogs unless they are willing to invest in some good quality training. At least in a populated area.

I used to live on the third floor of an apartment building that overlooked a neighbor's yard. The neighbor kept his dog tethered in the little yard all day, and it would cry all day long. Then the guy would come home and instead of bringing the dog inside, he'd just shout at it, "Shut the h*** up, Butt!!" I think he was one of those a--holes who is mean to his dog in order to raise it to be fierce.

The noise was bad enough, but it was doubly bad because I could tell the dog was being treated poorly. I wanted to call the cops about it, but I could never tell which house the yard belongs to, because there were too many things obstructing my view, and a lot of the houses were divided into apartments.

Buy this item:

PetSafe Outdoor Ultrasonic Bark Deterrent

http://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Outdoor-U ... 287&sr=1-1

You can set it up in your yard, facing the dog, and your neighbor will never know! It just looks like a birdhouse.
It emits an unpleasant noise (inaudible to human ears) every thime the dog barks. There are four different "correction" settings, to fit your needs. And, it's battery operated!

From the reviews, it seems to work better on smaller dogs. It might work perfectly for you then!

I would call animal bylaw, and have your neighbors ticketed, it may not
be very neighborly of you, but they are not being very neighborly either.