Animals threw a brick at my dog (she tiny 6lb) from over a garden wall.
Caught her front paw and grazed her face. Its all bandaged up and she's limping but she will be all right, but she is very shaken up!
They knew she was there because she and another another dog were yapping at each other along the path because they wanted to greet each other.
Called police. They visited the house from where the brick came from. Can't do anything as they can't prove who threw the brick. Retired couple looking after grandkids and denied all knowledge! Supposedly a nice middle class area as well.
Fuming. Evil Scum!
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Yapping dogs can drive people insane if it's a constant racket, but I've never wanted to throw a brick at one - the owners are responsible.
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Electric shock collars work well.
When placed on the owners.
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Exactly why I prefer animals to people.
I would be more than fuming Zippy.
Pat
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>>Exactly why I prefer animals to people.
I was thinking along those lines too yesterday funnily enough. Tis great to have my two boys around me.
I've even thought about marrying Cody the English Pointer.
I've brung 'em up from 8 week-old balls of fur, and they are now c2.5 years old.
I feeds 'em www.millieswolfheart.co.uk/peak-performance and they are both in peak condition.
Thems is lucky too having access to the wide-open spaces 'up here', where I let them run orf-lead at least 4 times a week. Dogs need that IMO, knowlmean.
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Tell all your neighbours. Repeatedly. Tell the lady in the corner shop. Tell everybody.
Gossip can be a wonderful weapon.
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>> Tell all your neighbours. Repeatedly. Tell the lady in the corner shop. Tell everybody.
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>> Gossip can be a wonderful weapon.
Yeah ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That.
But it needs to be juiced up a bit. "Caught her front paw and grazed her face.....but she will be all right, but she is very shaken up!" needs to be she nearly died and will never be the same dog again
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My neighbours have two small dogs that howl and yap continuously. I timed them at over an hour without a break last week.
A few months back one of the dogs ran out in front of my car. For a split second I thought about not breaking. Still not sure I made the right decision.
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 8 Aug 17 at 08:43
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It would be enough to break you if you didn't brake!
Pat
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>> My neighbours have two small dogs that howl and yap continuously. I timed them at
>> over an hour without a break last week.
We've one similar, although I can only hear it when it's out in the garden which, thankfully for me, is quite rare.
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Before taking any action over barking dogs weigh up possible long-term revenge effects, such as rubbish being thrown over your wall, death threats etc. If you decide to go ahead take up the problem with the owners. If that doesn't work complain to the local authority, who will probably consult other neighbours and may take recordings, then prosecute if necessary.
There are electronic, ultrasonic devices which are supposed to stop the noise but the two I tried didn't work. A dog-training whistle stopped it temporarily but as this involved going put into the garden every time I soon gave up. I complained to the owners of the offending animal but it turned out it was only there temporarily and it was taken away shortly after.
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>>A dog-training whistle
Nothing amuses me more than an owner frantically whistling & trying to recall an errant pooch. They never understand the whistle is only a training tool, useless to an untrained dog.
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>> My neighbours have two small dogs that howl and yap continuously. I timed them at
>> over an hour without a break last week.
If you don't want to confront your neighbour, which I can understand, I would report them to the local authority and/or the RSPCA.
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>> I would report them to the local authority and/or the RSPCA.
RSPCA are useless for things like this. You need to keep a diary of when the dog barks, and then take it to the local council.
www.gov.uk/how-to-resolve-neighbour-disputes/complain-about-noise-to-the-council
Also, print the following leaflet off and shove it through their letterbox.
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69221/pb10561-bark-dog-110621.pdf
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My three Muttleys bark quite often, our neighbor (single, and a "Pot-Head") often complains by shouting expletives loudly over the wall, especially if they've woken him up before 10am! We usually ignore him, but i sometimes tell him that he doesn't go all day without speaking so why should they?. The dogs don't like him either! ;-)
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>> A few months back one of the dogs ran out in front of my car.
>> For a split second I thought about not breaking. Still not sure I made the
>> right decision.
Several years ago I ran over the local nuisance dog in our village. Stupid thing was laying in the road in an avenue of trees and I failed to see it. It survived much to the annoyance of the other villagers. The owner said it was cruel to keep it on a lead and shut in a garden. Surely less cruel than letting it roam the village letting the thing get run over.
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>> Surely less cruel than letting it roam the village letting the thing get run over.
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A dog is not a "thing"
But yes, in general, there are far more bad dog owners than bad dogs.
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>> But yes, in general, there are far more bad dog owners than bad dogs.
Agreed. Just as kids are a product of their parents, dogs are a product of their owners.
Dogs that are spoiled, ill-treated or neglected will generally have unpleasant traits. Dogs that are well socialised, well cared for and well trained (brought up) generally do no harm to anyone.
Breed, aside from general tendencies and traits, is pretty much irrelevant.
You can substitute the word dogs for kids freely in the second paragraph.
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>> You can substitute the word dogs for kids freely in the paragraph above.
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If you are talking about little kids, you are largely correct
Once they get past, day 9-12 years old, other factors and influences come into play, life outside home, school, friends etc have more and more influence, by mid teens all bets are off although decent parenting will produce a proportion of youngsters ready to face the world as reasonable pleasant human beings,
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Damn yapping dogs to eternal fire, I say ;-)
We have two neighbours whose pooches do this.
Always on a nice day when the windows and doors are open.
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Frankly anyone with a constantly barking dog and neighbours should either train the dog to be quiet, or get rid of it. It's very selfish to subject others to constant annoyance.
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My problem is that the neighbour with the yapping dogs is not some antisocial yob. He is in many ways an ideal neighbour. He waters my garden when I am away as do I when he is away and we occasinally go out for a meal or share a beer over the hedge.
The yappy dogs were bough by his wife who still works. My neighbout is retired. The dogs are in many ways as much a nusiance to him as to me. He has little interest in them. I guess it is just somthing I have to put up with.
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Dogs bark. Our does when its excited. Probably for about 20 minutes a day (and not all at the same time). Most of the rest of the time its totally content and quiet. It does bark indoors. Going up stairs and down stairs for some reason - its a breed thing.
I'm working away today but SWMBO tells me that the dog has refused to go out today. Digging her paws in at the front door and lying down not budging.
Even refused to go in to the garden for a while but did eventually when a friend turned up.
She is feeling very sorry for herself and is limping badly.
Message has been disseminated to neighbours who apparently popped round to see the little girl when they heard she has been attacked. Even the old codger a few doors up popped in with a bit of meat for her!
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My last dog once woke up my neighbour at god-o-clock. He explained he wasn't complaining, but merely saying that if my dog came noisily out of the dog-flap every once in ten years to bark at something, it must have been for something worthwhile - even it may have been a hedgehog!
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We're babysitting daughter's Havanese Terrier in a couple of days while she and her partner spend nearly 3 weeks in Cuba. Appropriate destination really.
He's a good little fella...barks when the doorbell rings, but only then. Happy to be with people and sleeps on SWM's dressing gown on the bedroom floor. Likes a walk but can't be bothered most of the time.
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>> My problem is that the neighbour with the yapping dogs is not some antisocial yob.
Mine is. He makes Victor Meldrew look happy. I kid you not. He accused me the other day of deliberately trying to make his dogs bark! Now why would I try and do that when the ruddy things get on my wick with their frequent barking as it is? Pillock.
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>the whistle is only a training tool, useless to an untrained dog.
It can however induce a period of silence, maybe because the dog is waiting for some more sound or is intrigued by its character. From experience with other animals I would not rule out its use in calling dogs home. We have used a duck call on our 5 last cats to call them in. Using a trick I picked up from my children I once summoned a herd of cows by blowing over a leaf of grass trapped between my thumbs, acting like a musician's reed.
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>> >... summoned a herd of cows by blowing over a
>> leaf of grass trapped between my thumbs, acting like a musician's reed.
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Just been out the front to test this, didn't work for me :-)
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>> Just been out the front to test this, didn't work for me :-)
Were there any cows, anywhere nearby?
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You need to produce a constant low Droning sound not a high-pitched squeal or sqeak!! ;-))
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Ahhh I didn't realise that was a pre-req Duncan...
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>> pre-req Dubcan...
Haha! - i just Googled that before i realised it was a spelling mistake!!!
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>>Just been out the front to test this, didn't work for me :-)
Wrong type of grass maybe. Mine didn't work on sheep.
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Cows are curious animals and will respond to anything new or different. I guess if you had to stand in a muddy field all day eating grass you too would be interested in anything to break the monotony.
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>> I once summoned a herd of cows by blowing over a leaf of grass trapped between my thumbs, acting like a musician's reed.
usually that has the opposite effect on Cattle! - sends them panicking and kicking around the field with their tails in the air! It's an old "Country Trick" for shifting stubborn animals when they don't want to move, it's said to imitate the Warble-Fly, which attacks them and lays it's eggs on their legs, the maggots then burrow under the skin and over a few months migrate through the body and end up pupating in a big sore lump on their backs. - Totally unpleasant things, and the cattle seem to know this! ;-))
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New neighbours moved in to the detached bungalow next door last year,
The day they moved in my wife was out weeding the garden when a cute spaniel pup appeared through a gap in the hedge .
I took it back to them and discovered the lady is a dog trainer and runs a business revolving around dogs . They own four dogs , a Rhodesian ridgeback and two border collies in addition to the spaniel. All are well behaved, the spaniel is now older and trained up.
Apologies and a swift fix to the gap and we have not had a problem since.The dogs are trained never to bark .
The lady of the house is definitely the pack leader .All four dogs obey instantly on her command.
As others have said , it is not the dogs but the owners who need training most of the time.
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>> I once summoned a herd of cows by blowing over a leaf of grass trapped between my thumbs, acting like a musician's reed.
Cows respond well to the command "come on" repeated over and over again. Trust me, my old man used to be a herdsman. Just stand at the edge of the field and try it.
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Those of you old enough to remember Jacques Cousteau on the tv will recall his underwater conversations were punctuated by the sound of breathing through his scuba apparatus.
I discovered, don't ask how, that doing an impression of that breathing sound attracted a herd of cows like nobody's business, although they didn't seem that interested in the subsequent description of a jellyfish in a French accent.
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>>... I discovered, don't ask how, that doing an impression of that breathing sound attracted a
>> herd of cows like nobody's business...
...the mind boggles as to what you were doing in the field to make that sound....
;-)
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