The drowned barking dog incident.

PhilE

Rosemary7391 wrote: »

You don't seem to have accounted for dampening due to space, walls etc between you and the dog.
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Depends on the dog. Barking goes from 80-100 decibels, ears get damaged at 85. So hearing may get affected by 100 decibels 5 feet away.

As you say, mental health could be chronically affected,

Pollycat

Gavin83 wrote: »

It wasn't even clear in the article if he'd discussed the issue with the neighbours. What is clear is that he clearly isn't a mentally stable person. I can understand someone losing their temper but the way he went about it, along with his follow up actions suggest that frankly he's psychotic.

Indeed it isn't.
Nor is it clear from the article what action - if any - the Council took in response to Woodhouse's complaint about the barking.

JReacher1

No matter how bad the noise was there must be a better solution to the problem than killing the dog!

hollydays

What's prompted you to post this?

minimad1970

I followed this story from the beginning when Meg went missing as the lady was on some of the same Border Terrier FB pages as me. They asked the man many times if he'd seen their dog, days later he finally owned up and told them that he'd drowned the poor thing. The fact that he cut the back of her neck open to try to remove her microchip is awful.

PhilE

Yes, the death of the dog wasn't warranted.

Why didn't she train her dog to fit in with first world civilization? Was the owner elderly or experiencing a mental disability?

Pollycat

PhilE wrote: »

Why didn't she train her dog to fit in with first world civilization? Was the owner elderly or experiencing a mental disability?

The photo of the dog that was put on Facebook says 'RIP Meg. 2007 - 2014'.
The owners of the dog got her in 2007:

The court heard the Boddingtons bought Meg in 2007 as a companion for their seriously-ill daughter, Lauren, who died in 2009.

but the article says

Stephen Woodhouse, 52, reached into Alison and Alan Boddington's garden, in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, to steal their 10-year-old border terrier Meg before drowning her.

So maybe she was 3 year old when this family bought her and the barking habit was already ingrained.


I've not had dogs for over 40 years so no idea how hard it is to re-train a barking dog.

elsien

Pollycat wrote: »

The photo of the dog that was put on Facebook says 'RIP Meg. 2007 - 2014'.
The owners of the dog got her in 2007:


but the article says

So maybe she was 3 year old when this family bought her and the barking habit was already ingrained.


I've not had dogs for over 40 years so no idea how hard it is to re-train a barking dog.

It depends on the reason but it can be bloody hard/near impossible. I had a foster who reacted to everything indoors and out. Every leaf falling, every noise outside, every time anyone walked past the window. Continuous all day.
It wasn't her fault - she was clearly very stressed and in the wrong environment. She needed to live somewhere very quiet not in the middle of town in a house fronting the pavement. It frustrated me as much as it p1ssed off the neighbours.
The problem was she was so dog aggressive that no-one else wanted her so I had her for nearly 6 months and never managed to get anywhere near training it out of her. The only saving grace was that with a blanket over the crate she was quiet at night. Luckily I had very understanding neighbours who knew she wouldn't be with me for ever. And a parent who'd have her sometimes to give us all a break.