disgusting yappy barking dogs

System

Give me a yappy little dog rather than a cat that patrols my garden like it owns it and wees and poos everywhere.

gunsandbanjos

Interesting I don't see the OP as a troll, I found their post quite amusingly and think they were just trying to inject a little humour to the situation.

I've got no advice but I can understand why you're getting annoyed to be honest. I would try and have a word with your neighbours, nothing confrontational, just maybe in passing.

Prothet_of_Doom

I don't allow my dog to bark outside in the garden. I trained him not to.

How you train someone elses dog from the wrong side of the fence, though, I've no idea.

gettingready

I have a feeling people having a go at OP never have never been exposed to high pitch barking that little dogs produce - over a period of time?

Everyone has a differente noise tolerance level - what may be ok for one person, can drive another person insane.

I have no problems with ocassional deep kind of bark from a large dog but small high pitch barking drives me absolutely insane. Same as kids screeming their heads off or any kind of high pitched noise.

OP - just have a word with yoru neighbours, they may honesly not realise how much their dogs are bothering you.

Norma_Desmond

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

How you train someone elses dog from the wrong side of the fence, though, I've no idea.

Big Super-Soaker water pistol?

bazingamo

Oh my god do not buy that...what if it affects the dog negatively in some way, gets stressed and ends up biting someone?

Just have a word with your neighbors about it, get some ear plugs. Also, is the yapping just when they dogs go out to pee and sniff? Surely they are not out there all day? My dog is never outside more than 2-3 minutes to do his business.

Good dog behaviour only comes from positive reinforcement. Doing something like that could negatively affect them in some other way.

toniq

Maybe the smell of your cats winds them up, they might have been fine till you moved in.

gettingready

OP - when you are at work all day, when do they bark to annoy you? Early morning? late evening? Nights?

gettingready

toniq wrote: »

Maybe the smell of your cats winds them up, they might have been fine till you moved in.

That is actually quite possible...

OP says his cats are indoor cat but still - dogs will know there are cats next door..

pops5588

gettingready wrote: »

I have a feeling people having a go at OP never have never been exposed to high pitch barking that little dogs produce - over a period of time?

Everyone has a differente noise tolerance level - what may be ok for one person, can drive another person insane.

Of course, but I can't understand why someone would come on here and use such provocative language to complain instead of approaching their neighbours who, by OP's own admission, have thus far been perfectly reasonable and raise it with them. So far they haven't been given an opportunity to rectify the matter by training their dogs or taking them to classes etc.