this is just daft

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

ah she didnt phone the council - she rang the rspca, 4 times. 4 inspections - only thing i've ever been advised to is to put newspaper down in his kennel to prevent sores (he has one of those great big fluffy beds in his kennel but he pulls it out to erm . .hump it lol)

jazzyman01

She obviously has it in for you and your poor dog! I can understand why he is yapping if they are teasing him. Can they get to him now?

I remember a friend who had a similar problem and it escalated to something much more serious when the neigbour's child got nipped while "playing" with her dog over the fence. She reported the incident to the police and advised that her child was now "terrified of going out in case another dog attacked her". It resulted in a claim on her insurance but no further action.

kazschow

Can you not keep him indoors while you are at work, if your mum pops round to let him out for a pee, he should be perfectly happy in the house. Give him a stuffed kong to keep him occupied for part of the time, this should mentally wear him out and he'll happily doze the rest of the day away

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

I've padalocked the gate so they cant come through. Have already told her if her child gets bite that i'll apologise profoundly but she really shouldnt tease him.

Kaz - he used to be indoors, but hated it, he ripped everything to bits to get out and used to howl (so neighbours was complaining!) now he's outside he's a lot happier, just apart rom the cats and neighbours child lol

Other neighbours have insisted the dog doesnt bark unless he has reason so im a little wary of this one neighbours comments, especially as so many have been found to be untrue

She complained to my other half earlier - supposidly our bedroom walls are thin and we've been trying for a baby I was SO embarrassed - but then she mentioned that i'd apprently erm . . .shouted (sorry!). . . which i know is completely false so either she's making it up or OH is knocking someone off lol :rotfl: (oh dear - my mums round a lot . . . . . . . . lol)

I think no matter what i do i'm going to get complaints. Maybe I should turn the back yard into a kennel for stray animals and open a brothel . . . . .

mishkanorman

My neighbours have 4 dogs who live in the garden all day, they dont bark unless something goes past their garden - which is almost constant throughout the day ! cats, birds, cars, people, other dogs you name it they 'see it off' from one end of the garden to the other !

As a dog owner you may find they only do the occasional bark, as a non dog owner I notice it so much more - summer for me means my kids cant play in the garden without the dogs barking - and we live over the road from them !

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

And im not disputing that the dog barks, or that she notices it more than me. But i know he only barks at cats/other dogs/people. He cant see other dogs on the back yard, he does bark at the cats and he will bark if people are round the back (but thats what he's there for)

I think she may be exagerrating as other neighbours have all said different to this one neighbour. It's 3 against 1 IYKWIM so not taking her grumbles TOO serious

But i'm trying to do the neighbourly thing and prevent the dog from barking but how do you stop cats from coming over?

meritaten

I would suggest that you ask a cat owning friend very, very nicely if you could borrow her/him and the cat to train your dog NOT to bark at cats. you can use whatever method you want but, tbh I dont think a JR YAPS when it sees a cat - its more likely it goes into a frenzy. that would eliminate one problem.
to stop a cat using an established route is another! my first cat actually delighted in tormenting the neighbours dogs! he had three dobermans and they were penned in his garden which Timmy had previously crossed to get to his girlfriends...........the fact that three dobermans now lived there didnt faze him - he just walked over the top of their pen! which had a wire mesh roof! and the owner actually laughed when he told me that MY cat had taken to walking halfway across then sitting and dangling his tail into the pen!!! twitching his tail up when the dogs leaped for it!!! when he got bored he would saunter off! I advised the owner to get a water pistol or the hose as Timmy hated getting soaked and after a few soakings the cat got the message and the dogs were left in peace! and the dogs owner and I still laugh about it! but we could have fallen out as these dogs were show dogs and they got a bit stressed with Tims daily visits!

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

LOL I thik i'd of giggled too.

Benji is only 2 years old so doesnt frenzy much, he's bouncy but when he barks it is a yap rather than a "Bark"

We have doberman's, a rottweiler and 2 labs that bark around us, but only my dogs getting the complaints from this one neighbour

obviously do need to do something but it's annoying all other neighbours are saying something different to this one.

Could i get a water pistol for the cats near us? or will i get in trouble?

I dont know anyone with cats :eek: Everyone i know has dogs hmmm must be able to find one somewhere . . ..

SarahLou

Hmmm, what a tricky situation!

But yeah, you can squirt water at cats without getting into trouble - unless your neighbour sees you, anyway :rotfl: No, but seriously, as long as you aren't hurting/attempting to hurt the cats, then by all means, try water pistols or just a jug of water always to hand. I don't really think you'll succeed though as cats being cats will just keep coming back for more if its an established route.

Maybe try water pistols + cat deterrent (that rub on/spray on/pour on stinky stuff you can get in Focus DIY and the likes - put it all along the top of the fence and anywhere you see them sitting in your garden) + put some mirrors/old CDs out hanging from branches/trees + maybe invest in one of those cat-scarer things you see in the Bettaware catalogues (with the glowing eyes).

Beyond that, I don't think you'll ever stop them coming in the garden unfortunately.

Being a JRT, you'll never have a dog that doesn't yap and you're unlikely to ever train him to be perfectly silent when he sees a cat in "his" garden. (Even if you managed to train him to be quiet with a friends cat around - fact is, that one wouldn't be roaming/snooping around your garden, so that cat might be OK but others still wouldn't be).

Such a tricky one.

I think what I'd do would be get a dictaphone (or suchlikes) with as long a recording time as possible. Place it by an open window (or waterproof it in some way) - place it out of your dogs reach, and leave it recording all day (over consecutive days ideally).

Then you'll know for definite that your dog (as per your other neighbours state) isn't a "nuisance barker" when you're out normally and also you'll have the proof for if your neighbour doesn't drop it (I'd let them listen to the recording though if it goes in favour of your dog!)

kazschow

I'd get online, find some good old noisy hard core !!!!!!, and leave it blasting when you go out lets see if she complains about the mutt barking then