6 August 2010

Dogs barking

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Canberra has a bad Dog owner problem. You let them bark all day because you know the authorities will do not more than a little note in your letter box. Get you dog bebarked! Theres no word to describe you people and you know who you are.

[ED – Fire at will chillun’]

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ex-vectis said :

JerraTerra said :

Have you considered poisoning the offending animals?

Yep, sure have! But then the poor dog would be without an owner…..

Hehe. Nice answer!

JerraTerra said :

Have you considered poisoning the offending animals?

Yep, sure have! But then the poor dog would be without an owner…..

JerraTerra said :

Have you considered poisoning the offending animals?

Have you considered hari kari?

shadow boxer said :

Everyone that lives next door to a barking dog has considered poisining it….

No, I’ve considered poisoning the owners though…

shadow boxer11:41 am 17 Aug 10

Everyone that lives next door to a barking dog has considered poisining it….

Have you considered poisoning the offending animals?

Antagonist said :

Proudof Canberra said :

And for what it is worth, the RSPCA’s ‘course’ did not help at all. Nor did I get my nominal $145 back. In fact I found the ‘instructors’ attitude to Huskies to be very disappointing – being told they are ‘notoriously difficult to train’ which is a load of bollocks. I still support the RSPCA’s work though 😉

I think it’s hit and miss. I have had a really bad experience with their dog training course. Less than useless and ended up with my dog being placed in ‘remedial dog school’ (who would have thought such a thing existed), which involved little more than patting the dog.

Despite my objections, Ma Bodine insisted we send our new furry critter to the RSPCA’s course and it was great. Probably has a lot to do with the trainer, although their ‘positive reinforcement only’ policy isn’t great for training out really negative behaviours.

shadow boxer11:24 am 13 Aug 10

Lol, Now you’re talking, the audible alarm on one of these has a similar effect

http://www.amazon.com/Lentek-Super-Bark-Training-Device/dp/B000N2N9DU/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t

I remember as a kid, my mother had to work night shifts which meant that she had to sleep in the day time. I know what people think, “stupid night workers! Who cares. They are a minority amd should put up or shut up”, was a common responce she got from the neighbours when she complained about their barking dogs. The dogs eventually shut up when the “real” Authorities (there was no TAMS back then) came knocking at our door. After mother explained the situation, and the reason why she was recording the barking dogs on a ghetto blaster, and playing it back in high volume at 11pm in the evening, no more barking.

CraigT said :

Pandy’s on the money.
The very last thing I would ever do is ask the ACT government for help. They will take the side of the anti-social dog-owning scum’s “human rights” every time.

Spot on CT. Has anyone ever had any joy from TAMs http://www.tams.act.gov.au/live/pets/Dog_Policy#animal_nuisance ?

Why we pay taxes for this ‘dept’ beats the hell out of me. First, you have to take a poll of every single house in a 200Km radius to see if they mind the socially inept barking-dog-owning-scum, then you you have to keep an hour-by-hour log over a period of 15 years and report your findings to TAMs, in tripicate and the pray. After a year of waiting with absolutely no result whatsoever, you have to start the whole damn process again!

But lets not blame the wrong animals; its not the dogs fault, its the owners fault 100%. I actually know (and, even friends with!) know some dog owners whose dogs are fantastic. And its because the owners knew what their responsibility was as dog owners and ensured the dogs were well trained – not surgically altered (thats just wrong. How can you say you love animals/dogs and then have surgery done on them to alter thyem to how you want them. jeeeez!), but properly trained. It really does make me seeth that these people have no respect whatsoever for their neighbours and dont give a damn.

shadow boxer8:49 am 13 Aug 10

Even worse I had to explain to my 7 year old twin girls why there would be no cracker night this year.

I told them it was because some selfish, stupid people are totally incapble of meeting their legal obligation to safely restrain there pets on their own property for one night a year.

Ah man, barking f****ng dogs. Dont get me started on that one – personally I’d get the damn dogs and shove them hard up the ‘owners’ backsides. Teeth first.

How would these dog owners like it if we played Cliff Richard and Abba songs constantly day in and day out? It just amazes me at the total lack of respect these people have for their neighbours. And they wonder why every now and then there is a dog poisoning case in the news.

http://www.beedogs.com – now thats just going too far!

Pandy’s on the money.

“Animal Rights” is hysterical nonsense. They are dumb animals, nothing more. People who confuse animals with humans are quite simply demented.

If selfish people won’t control their animals in a shared environment, those affected will take action by necessity, and fair enough, too.

I’ve never gone so far as to bait a dog, but I recall when I was a kid some guvvie-housed scum moved into our street bringing with them a dog which immediately attacked my sister. It was a typical redneck’s pig-dog, uncontrolled and aggressive and allowed to roam the street at will. Over the next couple of months I stalked it mercilessly. I got a few bites, but whatever I got I repaid tenfold. Eventually the revolting creature learned to stay well clear of our block or the sidewalk leading past its own house. I got it so it would stand at its front door staring out at the street and all the neighbourhood kids it would like to chase and bite, but it was too terrified to come out.
It would have been simply to just cull it, I suppose.

The very last thing I would ever do is ask the ACT government for help. They will take the side of the anti-social dog-owning scum’s “human rights” every time.

Blamemonkey said :

How does one get the dogs bebarked? Is that when they have a mouth full of bees and when the bark they shoot bees at you?

HAHAHAHAHA! I love a good Simpson’s reference. Nice work! : )

So what you are saying wickerman is that you need to take the law into your own hands to save your health? Just don’t leave a trail of complaints pointing the finger to you then.

shadow boxer said :

I feel for you Wickerman, I have been there and sense your frustration, that said all is not lost. The first thing you need to do is work out what sort of dog owner you neighbour is, if he is one of these, Taken from the excellent resource barkingdogs.net

“Malicious and/or Recalcitrant Dog Owners

In my experience, better than 45% of those who maintain noisy dogs are reflexively obstinate people who ignore polite requests and pathetic pleas, and will quiet their dogs only if you hound them for an extended period of time. Incredibly, an equal percentage are dig-in-your-heels, never-give-an-inch, hard core, incorrigibles whose perspective parallels that of Charleton Heston: i.e. you can have quiet when you pry it out of their cold, dead hands.

At first blush, it doesn’t seem possible that the rate of recalcitrance could be that high. After all, if you randomly selected ten people on the street and did a psychological work-up on them, you might find that one or two of them are chronically oppositional. But you would never expect to find that 90% of those whom you randomly evaluated, were predisposed to that kind of behavior. Nonetheless, if you take a close look at those who keep chronically barking dogs, the rate of recalcitrance does indeed seem to be that high.

I’m convinced that the extremely large percentage of belligerent people found among those who choose to keep chronically barking dogs is due to the fact that it is a self-selecting population. In other words, there exists such a high rate of hostility among those with barking dogs because keeping a barking dog within earshot of a neighbor’s home is a hostile thing to do. That’s why we find a disproportionately large percentage of hostile people among those who choose to do it.

It should be no surprise, then, that the great majority of the time, when you scratch the surface of a person keeping a barking dog, you will find someone prone to hostility and/or altogether lacking in empathy. So trying to persuade someone to take responsibility for their canine can be a treacherous proposition, and taking steps to force them to do it can be downright dangerous.”

then no amount of reasonable behaviour will work and you will need to accept that your relationship with your neighbour will never recover once you take action. Once you accept this there are options.

TAMS is actually pretty good but I had excellent success with one of these,http://www.amazon.com/Lentek-Super-Bark-Training-Device/dp/B000N2N9DU/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t if the Ultrasonic doesn’t work (which it did for me, not 100% but it stopped the bored yapping) it has an excellent audible alarm which will bring the matter to a head fairly quickly.

As for people who walk dogs without leads because “its not hurting anyone”, dont get me started

I had to move house because of barking dogs. I had complained to TAMS for over 2 years, amounting to 4 written complaints. They issued a couple of orders but within 2 months the dogs were barking the same as they were. They didnt follow up and were basically useless. I was told by one of the employees of TAMS that they were not interested in noise complaints but more serious things like dog attacks.

I suggest to anyone considering lodging a noise complaint with TAMS to further write to their local member and to the opposition and let them know of the torture you are going through. You might get a positive result but dont hold your breath. I would never go through that avenue again as it was the worst 2 years of my life. If your neighbour wont attend to the barking, lodging a complaint with TAMS from my experience is not going to help.

Pandy said :

Debarking is NOT illegal. Conditions apply.

Correct Pandy. If the dog owner has been issued with more than one order from ‘Dog Control’ then they are allowed to seek Veterinary intervention.

Anatagonist exactly what was the cause of your dogs excessive barking?

Excitement. She barks in the car on the way to a sledding run. She barks while running in a harness. She barks when I play with her in the house or in the yard. She barks when I am preparing her food. She barks when I pick up her lead to take her for a walk. She barks while playing with her sister. She barks while chasing birds out of the yard. She barks while digging in the corner of the yard (a big favourite with all Huskies). She has even been known to bark in her sleep – hopefully dreaming about chasing hysterical animal libbers off my property, LOL. She is simply the polar opposite of her equally happy and contented sister. She just likes to bark excessively.

Did the course perhaps not work because you did not put enough effort into it?

Having trained show dogs and sledding dogs, I can assure you I put all reasonable effort into her training and kept up with it for several weeks after the course was completed. It just did not work for my dog – although has worked wonders for countless other people.

Desexing is like vasectomies it prevents unwanted babies.

Bollocks. Desexing involves major abdominal surgery while a vasectomy is, literally, a ‘walk-in, walk-out’ procedure (the apple and oranges thing). If I apply your reasoning to desexing, it would be fair to say it is the responsibility of the owner to ensure their dogs are not having a naughty with other strange dogs. Therefore desexing is mutilation. Do you see the hypocrisy in your argument?

How do you know your dog is really happy? How do you know it isn’t traumatised by the loss of it’s voice? With your attitude should you even have dogs?

Give it up, sunshine. My dogs are living the good life. Aren’t there some tofu burgers out there that need rescuing?

The Laws regarding dogs and noise in Canberra need to be completely revised. They are totally one sided in favour of any petty spiteful idiot who makes a complaint.

If that were true then why are we hearing so many stories about TaMS being unwilling or unable to do anything about barking dogs? You are making assertions (insertions?) through your bumhole again.

shadow boxer11:32 am 09 Aug 10

Hi Feathergirl, that’s really bad, my neighbour is just a buffoon and not really dangerous,

Maybe you need to start growing a hedge and call TAMS, spend a fortnight documenting the times and durations of the barking so you have evidence and there is a form to fill in on the internet. In the first instance TAMS will contact the other neighbours to confirm your story and take it from there.

It would be an offence for them to harrass you once a complaint is made but it’s hard if you need to see these people every day.

Feathergirl said :

I too feel for you Wickerman. My neighbours dogs bark and bark and bark. He keeps his two large dogs in a courtyard right next to our lounge room wall. When ever anyone visits the first thing they mention is the dogs and how loud they are. They are louder than our TV. Each show we watch has a soundtrack of dogs barking. I have seen the dogs with blood on them from catching kangaroos, his own kids can’t go in the courtyard there is so much poo and rubbish there, he recently went on holiday and I don’t know who was looking after the dogs. I have told the RSPCA, the dogs are still there. I’m afraid if I complain to TAMS the neighbour will become violent or move the dogs into his backyard where they will jump the fence and attack us. What do you do?

Nothing left to do. Read comments by people who think we are unreasonable for hating dogs, and dog owners, who make our lives a little more sucky.

Maybe you should give the dogs some SSSRIs to make them feel better?

I too feel for you Wickerman. My neighbours dogs bark and bark and bark. He keeps his two large dogs in a courtyard right next to our lounge room wall. When ever anyone visits the first thing they mention is the dogs and how loud they are. They are louder than our TV. Each show we watch has a soundtrack of dogs barking. I have seen the dogs with blood on them from catching kangaroos, his own kids can’t go in the courtyard there is so much poo and rubbish there, he recently went on holiday and I don’t know who was looking after the dogs. I have told the RSPCA, the dogs are still there. I’m afraid if I complain to TAMS the neighbour will become violent or move the dogs into his backyard where they will jump the fence and attack us. What do you do?

Nothing left to do. Read comments by people who think we are unreasonable for hating dogs, and dog owners, who make our lives a little more sucky.

So ProudofCanberra when you said de-barking was illegal, you were just talking thought your arse right? Better keep your mouth shut next time.

shadow boxer8:35 am 09 Aug 10

I feel for you Wickerman, I have been there and sense your frustration, that said all is not lost. The first thing you need to do is work out what sort of dog owner you neighbour is, if he is one of these, Taken from the excellent resource barkingdogs.net

“Malicious and/or Recalcitrant Dog Owners

In my experience, better than 45% of those who maintain noisy dogs are reflexively obstinate people who ignore polite requests and pathetic pleas, and will quiet their dogs only if you hound them for an extended period of time. Incredibly, an equal percentage are dig-in-your-heels, never-give-an-inch, hard core, incorrigibles whose perspective parallels that of Charleton Heston: i.e. you can have quiet when you pry it out of their cold, dead hands.

At first blush, it doesn’t seem possible that the rate of recalcitrance could be that high. After all, if you randomly selected ten people on the street and did a psychological work-up on them, you might find that one or two of them are chronically oppositional. But you would never expect to find that 90% of those whom you randomly evaluated, were predisposed to that kind of behavior. Nonetheless, if you take a close look at those who keep chronically barking dogs, the rate of recalcitrance does indeed seem to be that high.

I’m convinced that the extremely large percentage of belligerent people found among those who choose to keep chronically barking dogs is due to the fact that it is a self-selecting population. In other words, there exists such a high rate of hostility among those with barking dogs because keeping a barking dog within earshot of a neighbor’s home is a hostile thing to do. That’s why we find a disproportionately large percentage of hostile people among those who choose to do it.

It should be no surprise, then, that the great majority of the time, when you scratch the surface of a person keeping a barking dog, you will find someone prone to hostility and/or altogether lacking in empathy. So trying to persuade someone to take responsibility for their canine can be a treacherous proposition, and taking steps to force them to do it can be downright dangerous.”

then no amount of reasonable behaviour will work and you will need to accept that your relationship with your neighbour will never recover once you take action. Once you accept this there are options.

TAMS is actually pretty good but I had excellent success with one of these,http://www.amazon.com/Lentek-Super-Bark-Training-Device/dp/B000N2N9DU/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t if the Ultrasonic doesn’t work (which it did for me, not 100% but it stopped the bored yapping) it has an excellent audible alarm which will bring the matter to a head fairly quickly.

As for people who walk dogs without leads because “its not hurting anyone”, dont get me started

Proudof Canberra5:40 am 09 Aug 10

Anatagonist exactly what was the cause of your dogs excessive barking? Did the course perhaps not work because you did not put enough effort into it? Desexing is like vasectomies it prevents unwanted babies.
Debarking is mutilation.
How do you know your dog is really happy? How do you know it isn’t traumatised by the loss of it’s voice? With your attitude should you even have dogs?

Icepoet I quoted from the Victorian rspcas website from convinience. The rspca Australia wide condemns debarking.

To deprive any creature of the ability to use it’s voice is cruel.

The Laws regarding dogs and noise in Canberra need to be completely revised. They are totally one sided in favour of any petty spiteful idiot who makes a complaint.

Proudof Canberra said :

You’re getting into a very sensitive issue here.So I quote from the Victorian RSPCAs website though the RSPCA Australia wide is against debarking.

Debarking is the surgical operation that involves removing tissue from a dog’s vocal chords. This results in a dog’s voice box being quieter, however does not stop barking behaviour.

RSPCA Victoria does not support the debarking of dogs to prevent excessive barking. It is an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act to perform, or allow this prohibited procedure to be performed in Victoria.

The RSPCA believes it is the responsibility of the owner to control and manage their dog’s behaviour. Debarking surgery subjects dogs to unnecessary surgery and does not allow them to display their full range of natural behaviours.

*As with many problem behaviours exhibited by dogs, with training, obedience classes and mental and physical stimulation, barking problems can be overcome easily. There are many organisations, including the RSPCA that run these training sessions for nominal fees.

Thank You for the compliment Antagonist I certainly believe that animals should have rights.And your concern for my emotional state is very thoughtful but I am not prone to hysterics.

I’m confused. Since when did the Victorian parliament create laws for the ACT? Just because the RSPCA doesn’t agree with a practice, doesn’t necessarily make it illegal.

As far as I’m aware the RSPCA doesn’t condone tail docking for sheep either, but it still happens. (Happy to be corrected there).

Proudof Canberra said :

The RSPCA believes it is the responsibility of the owner to control and manage their dog’s behaviour. Debarking surgery subjects dogs to unnecessary surgery and does not allow them to display their full range of natural behaviours.

The same weak argument (unnecessary surgery) could be made for desexing a dog too, but we both know that is BS. If the dog can still bark (although much quieter) how is it that they are unable to display their full range of behaviours? The ‘bark’ is still audible, although a LOT quieter. She can still let me know if she is happy, not happy, hungry, time for a run, bored etc etc. She can still drag her bum across the carpet. She can still run like the wind too. She still doesn’t need a psychiatrist either. I wonder which behaviours it is I am supposed to be missing then?

And for what it is worth, the RSPCA’s ‘course’ did not help at all. Nor did I get my nominal $145 back. In fact I found the ‘instructors’ attitude to Huskies to be very disappointing – being told they are ‘notoriously difficult to train’ which is a load of bollocks. I still support the RSPCA’s work though 😉

Like I said, I have tried just about everything in (and not in) the book. Debarking is a legitimate and legal last resort option.

Proudof Canberra2:59 pm 08 Aug 10

You’re getting into a very sensitive issue here.So I quote from the Victorian RSPCAs website though the RSPCA Australia wide is against debarking.

Debarking is the surgical operation that involves removing tissue from a dog’s vocal chords. This results in a dog’s voice box being quieter, however does not stop barking behaviour.

RSPCA Victoria does not support the debarking of dogs to prevent excessive barking. It is an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act to perform, or allow this prohibited procedure to be performed in Victoria.

The RSPCA believes it is the responsibility of the owner to control and manage their dog’s behaviour. Debarking surgery subjects dogs to unnecessary surgery and does not allow them to display their full range of natural behaviours.

*As with many problem behaviours exhibited by dogs, with training, obedience classes and mental and physical stimulation, barking problems can be overcome easily. There are many organisations, including the RSPCA that run these training sessions for nominal fees.

Thank You for the compliment Antagonist I certainly believe that animals should have rights.And your concern for my emotional state is very thoughtful but I am not prone to hysterics.

Pandy and Antagonist are right, debarking isn’t illegal in the ACT.

I had a friend who was told by Tams (or whoever the authority responsible for barking dogs is), that she would either have to get rid of her barking dog or have him debarked if she wanted to keep him, after a number of complaints from her neighbours.

She got him debarked.

Proudof Canberra said :

Check again Pandy. It is a Prohibited Proceedure along with Tail Docking it is also cruel and unethical.

Enter the hysterical animal libbers. Quoted directly from the Animal Welfare Act 1992:

19A Medical and surgical procedures—veterinary surgeons
(1) A veterinary surgeon must not do any of the following for a purpose
other than a therapeutic purpose:
(a) dock a dog’s tail;
(b) crop a dog’s ear;
(c) remove a dog’s ear;
(d) perform a clitoridectomy on a dog;
(e) carry out any other procedure prescribed by regulation.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

Nothing there about debarking, sunshine. In fact I have had one of my dogs debarked, although it was done in NSW. Let me tell you about my Siberians – having already typed this out once before on these boards …

I am at home full-time and have two dogs. Both are females from the same litter. Both are Australian Champion showdogs, and therefore well trained and disciplined. Both have earned their Endurance Titles (gait 20km beside a scooter in less than 2 hours) and therefore very fit and well exercised. One is as quiet as a mouse. The other was debarked as a last resort – having tried just about everything EXCEPT a shock collar.

The difference between the dogs? Personality. Just like some hysterical animal libbers (presumably vegan too?) will not keep their uneducated opinions to themselves, some dogs just like to bark. In most cases it is the owners fault … but not ALL of the time.

Does the dog need to see a psychiatrist? Nope – she is every bit as happy now as she was before debarking. No noticable change in her personality. Is it cruel and unethical? A lot less cruel and unethical compared to euthanising her for the sake of keeping a neighbour happy.

I think you are all “barking” up the wrong tree. His issue has nothing to do with Scientology or Psychiatry, it has more to do with – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_Man. Of particular note from this info is the sentance “Some Wicker men are extremely complex and require days of construction.” I reckon the dogs are just barking because they are scared of Wickerman/men!

Malteser # 13 That’s what I originally said, just give a dog a huge bone! Always works

Proudof Canberra6:42 pm 07 Aug 10

Check again Pandy. It is a Prohibited Proceedure along with Tail Docking it is also cruel and unethical.

Children make a huge amount of noise but nobdy suggests having their voices surgically destroyed

Debarking is NOT illegal. Conditions apply.

I hate it when the near by dog-owners bark too. The dogs are bad enough, but their owners, Jay-zussssss…

Proudof Canberra1:12 am 07 Aug 10

People make vastly more noise all day and night with music ,cars and of course mobile phones.
Debarking is illeagal.
There are no words to describe hypocrites like you.

People can make as much noise as they like but if a poor dog so much as whimpers the whingers start.

What’s with the antagonism directed at people who are sick of dogs barking??

Seems like there’s too many irresponsible dog owners who are neglecting their dogs and causing their neighbours’ misery.

As a dog owner who takes their dog for at least a half hour walk each moring and an hour walk each evening I’m pretty shocked to see on my walks:

1. the number of very big dogs kept on very small properties, with no yard or room to move
2. the number of dogs that seem to always be locked in their little back yards with no stimulation, human contact or exercise

For some strange reasons these two factors seem to be linked to barking incidents. Go figure?

Makes me wonder why they even bothered getting a dog at all, since the poor mutts’ lives seem pretty miserable.

Debarking isnt a proper solution. People should take responcibility to entertain their pets adequatly so they dont bark

Mothy said :

I had wondered what the hell was going on with all the Scientology jokes.

Just read the psychiatry thread… wow.

Ha ha! Wickerman you didn’t take your meds today did you?

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LOVE IT!!! hahahaha

dogs bark for a reason, hey maybe the neighbours house is being broken into etc….
debarking is an awful thing to do to a dog! i think you need debarking

Dog owners are, almost without exception, inconsiderate douchebags. What did you expect?

Maybe there’s an iBark app at the iClone store to get you used to it?

Realistically, sound insulation is your only practical hope.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Theres no word to describe Youse and TOU KNOW WHO YOUSE ARE

Had a dream about barking woolly youse this afternoon. Should I make an appointment to see my psychiatrist, or should I wait for Ronny L Hubbard to return to Earth? Maybe he can help me come to my candle wick scents(es). On top of all that, all the candles in my house started burning when Pluto let out an inconsiderate bark while I watched the Disney channel. Wick! Now my fwicken paragraph key is jammed. What’s going on? Wick me … this is wicken’ frustrating, and I think I’ve gone barkin’ mad. Youse are ALL TOU BLAME in big capital letter with typos.

I’m expecting Captain RAAF to post at any moment with “how can a dog bark with a cat half way down it’s throat…”
I hope he doesn’t disappoint.

I just heard a dog bark!

Where do I complain?

It’s still barking now. Oh, wait. It stopped.

justin heywood4:15 pm 06 Aug 10

That, and all the highly diluted (and thus highly effective) homeopathic remedies in the water supply.

WHAT? Homeopathic medicine is contaminating our water supply? They will almost certainly interfere with my current medication. Is there any way to filter them out?

no wait….

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Woody Mann-Caruso3:57 pm 06 Aug 10

I would have expected the ensuing tranquility would have already washed serenely over the entire animal population by now

That, and all the highly diluted (and thus highly effective) homeopathic remedies in the water supply.

Blamemonkey said :

How does one get the dogs bebarked? Is that when they have a mouth full of bees and when the bark they shoot bees at you?

I think I love you.

A solution I’ve always found useful for some, is taking that nice big breath of fresh air, breathing in with the nose, out with the mouth, and STFU!! I’m pretty dogs are just barking away in response to something. Crazy thought, why not talk to the neighbours? It can’t hurt.

I think you need to be de-sexed. There is no way you should be allowed to breed.

I can think of tonnes of words to describe you Wickerman, lets start with ‘idiot’.

I had wondered what the hell was going on with all the Scientology jokes.

Just read the psychiatry thread… wow. Yep. Realise i was out of line trying to rationalise with the Wickerman.

Malteser said :

I’ve found that chucking a nice meaty bone over the fence in the mornings keeps it quiet for the rest of the day. Easy fix.

No bones over my fence, thanks, my dog has enough that we provide. You can get good beef marrow bones from coles for less than $3, the dog will spend hours trying to get the marrow out.

If you wanna get creative, freeze a chicken neck in a bowl of water. That’ll keep the dog hush for a while – just please watch where you throw it!!

🙂

pop your eardrums with a knitting needle: and hey presto, problem solved (unless someone pops up in your window and ‘signs’ dogs barking incessantly…)

troll-sniffer said :

Slip your neighbours a flyer from the horse and dog Reiki clinic. Or learn Reiki and do the job yourself. Can’t be that hard, I know several Reiki practitioners who would be hard pressed to scrape together an IQ of 100 between the lot of them.

There are several Reiki practitioners in Canberra? I would have expected the ensuing tranquility would have already washed serenely over the entire animal population by now, bringing all barking to an end. Unless these dedicated little creatures are desperately calling out to passers-by (grammar) who have yet to experience the benefits of one of these Mandrakes gesturing hypnotically in the direction of their nethers.

Perhaps that’s why dogs are so prone to rolling over on their backs and exposing their bellies. For centuries their human companions have been scratching their tummies and all they’ve wanted was a little bit of laying on of hands.

Whilst I, as a responsible dog owner, take great offence at your statments and would prefer to just alleviate you of your ability to post such a rant (aka de-bark you).
I would like to know what exactly IS the problem with their barking, as dogs are inclined to do.

Are you a shift worker? (As day barking would be as irritating as night barking).
Or is it that they can sense how much of a tard you are and just don’t like you… I could see how that would cause you offence, to be rejected by such beautiful and loyal creatures, who are merely trying to protect their owners and property.

thy_dungeonman said :

My neighbors will yell across the fence at my dog (becuase dogs totally understand English)when it barks oblivious to the fact that it’s the noise from their bug-zapper/leaf-blower/circular saw that is causing her to bark,and being an irritating din in its own right.

I teach my seventeen pitbulls that “shut up ya’ mongrel” is the instruction to attack the person yellin’ it….

la mente torbida1:21 pm 06 Aug 10

@wickerman

No I don’t….maybe your neighbour does

Do you have children?

Woody Mann-Caruso1:03 pm 06 Aug 10

No Capt RAAF suggesting a finely crushed stubbie in a bowl of mince? Disappointed. Guess it’s a cats == abos / dogs == Aryan thing.

thy_dungeonman12:55 pm 06 Aug 10

My neighbors will yell across the fence at my dog (becuase dogs totally understand English)when it barks oblivious to the fact that it’s the noise from their bug-zapper/leaf-blower/circular saw that is causing her to bark,and being an irritating din in its own right.

You just be thankful you don’t live next door to this guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9Yt92Yc1E

Every time a dog barks, I let off a illegal cracker, thus maintaining an ordered balance in the universe.

Vote for the restoration of fireworks before I run out.

Trunking symbols12:08 pm 06 Aug 10

“The dogs may be barking but the caravan moves on” – Alan Jones, 1993.

Malteser said :

There is a dog over my fence that barks constantly, but that is because the owners never seem to exercise it or pay much attention to it. I’ve found that chucking a nice meaty bone over the fence in the mornings keeps it quiet for the rest of the day. Easy fix.

Now the owners just need to realise that their beautiful dog is crying out for a little bit of attention! Stupid owners.

Some dogs have it their genes to bark. mine barks at moving shadows and lights. shadows and lights. how do I as an owner compete with that? I can’t even look at a dvd in the daylight anymore or having lights on in the house at night without copping an earful.

Happy for some free bones though, I advocate this as a solution

troll-sniffer12:03 pm 06 Aug 10

Slip your neighbours a flyer from the horse and dog Reiki clinic. Or learn Reiki and do the job yourself. Can’t be that hard, I know several Reiki practitioners who would be hard pressed to scrape together an IQ of 100 between the lot of them.

Just give the dog a touch-assist and the dog’s thetan will stop the dog’s body from barking.

Move house.
My two dogs are going nuts at the Postie as we speak – serves him right for riding on their lawn.
Postie’s gone, now they’re barking at a mother pushing a pram on the footpath – oh well, at least I know I’ll never be burgled (by a mother with a pram)….it’s worth it.

There is a dog over my fence that barks constantly, but that is because the owners never seem to exercise it or pay much attention to it. I’ve found that chucking a nice meaty bone over the fence in the mornings keeps it quiet for the rest of the day. Easy fix.

Now the owners just need to realise that their beautiful dog is crying out for a little bit of attention! Stupid owners.

colourful sydney racing identity11:19 am 06 Aug 10

Canberra has a BAD DOG OWNER PROBLEM. YOU let them BARK ALL DAY cause you no the authorities will do not more than a little note in your letters box. GET YOUR DOG EBARKED!!!!!!! Theres no word to describe Youse and TOU KNOW WHO YOUSE ARE

Nenaderthalsis said

“I am disappointed. Only one unnecessary capital, only one exclamation mark, no frothing at the mouth frenzy of vitriol. It’s too short to be a really good, ultra looney rant. No threats of violence, unspeakable acts of cruelty or call to arms for people to write a letter about this scourge on modern society.

Hmm, I’d call suggesting to debark dogs an unspeakable act of cruelty. Just my opinion.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-debarking-a-dog.htm

Maybe we should suggest the OP has similar surgery first and reports back to us on how humane s/he found it?

neanderthalsis said :

I am disappointed. Only one unnecessary capital, only one exclamation mark, no frothing at the mouth frenzy of vitriol. It’s too short to be a really good, ultra looney rant. No threats of violence, unspeakable acts of cruelty or call to arms for people to write a letter about this scourge on modern society.

A troll post is also unlikely to succeed when a thread on the same subject has barely stopped smouldering.

Bark is the outside layer of trees. If you debark dogs, won’t they bleed all over your furniture?

neanderthalsis11:04 am 06 Aug 10

I am disappointed. Only one unnecessary capital, only one exclamation mark, no frothing at the mouth frenzy of vitriol. It’s too short to be a really good, ultra looney rant. No threats of violence, unspeakable acts of cruelty or call to arms for people to write a letter about this scourge on modern society.

Theres no word to describe you people and you know who you are!!!11one!!

ban all dogs.

Blamemonkey said :

How does one get the dogs bebarked? Is that when they have a mouth full of bees and when the bark they shoot bees at you?

lol

Dog’s barking, can’t fly without umbrella?

There’s nothing like the frustration of typing up a rant, only to have it get lost in cyberspace…

Yeah I’ll take the bait.

For it to be a Canberra-wide problem, it needs to be something more than in your own street. On behalf of easily thousands of pet owners in the ACT, and as one who makes a point of finding ways to entertain his pet while he’s at work, thanks so very much for tarring us all with that brush. <<<<<====== Note: There is no sarcasm font. Otherwise I would have used it.

So rather than starting out with a note to your neighbor, you've gone straight to the authorities? Well done, you've just put your neighbour offside.

Might I suggest next time you print out some useful information for them and drop that around instead?

And while you’re educating – take a look at the RSPCA Victoria’s comments on debarking.

And, just since I’m annoyed…

“do no more”
“Get your dog bebarked”

Just, you know, to cap off the totality of your wrong-ness.

My psychiatrist showed me a way to block out the noise using a method called not being a douchebag.

How does one get the dogs bebarked? Is that when they have a mouth full of bees and when the bark they shoot bees at you?

colourful sydney racing identity10:17 am 06 Aug 10

I think it something to do with thetans.

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