Finally, FINALLY found out how to SHUT the neighbors' darn dogs UP!!

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The anti-barking birdhouses:
1. are about $40 - too much to experiment with
2. must be within 6' of the barker, otherwise they don't work

The dogs have really quieted down. They were cowering on the back porch last time I went out there. I still hear an occassional woof but it has gone WAAAAY down! DBF is out with a repair man - in OUR yard - and the dogs were going nuts.

And no... the owners were doing nothing about it. They both work in restaurants in different shifts, so the kids are alone in the house (with a sleeping adult... so alone) much of the time.

Last week DBF foudn the 3 yo in the back yard playing with yard clippers.
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he was so mad that he stomped over there & told the dad, who was sleeping when she slipped out.
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Nice people trying to make ends meet, but having a hard time managing their lives in the meantime.
 
Husband's grandmother would tie, yes tie, her son either to a tree if it was warm or to the table if it was cold so she could work in the garden or tend animals. He turned out, no wait, he wasn't normal.
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i know its not funny but all I keep picturing is that Mad TV show with the kid (adult comic) eating candy tied to the playset.
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We have these potentially deadly Mutant Zombie Vamipre Squirrels that the dogs just know will enter the house and eat our brains. They can only be deterred, apparently, by serious and prolonged barking.
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We have to keep them quiet, and we are serious about that. We don't need our neighbors angry with us. The anti-barking birdhouse only worked for our dogs for about 2 weeks. Then they discovered there was nothing to it, and that was that. I will likely sell it this summer as it has no other use.

Right now, in order to keep them quiet, we don't let them out together (as they seem to encourage each other to keep barking) and if the dog starts barking I go outside and walk down the steps with a broom. That stops it too. When it snows and the steps are icy, I lop snowballs at them. But we do work with them to try to get them to quiet down as best we can. Part of the problem is that two of them were adult dogs when we adopted them and had a lot of bad habits we are trying to break. We've had a lot of successes with them, but this is proving to be a very difficult thing to break.

Mutant Zombie Vampire Squirrels are everywhere out here. And so are the Alien Overlord Deer.
 
I totally hear ya! Our next door neighbor is a very gruff, deer shooting, half-deaf (serious) beagle lover! He has 2 beagles that he lets out no later than 5:30am. They smell all those wonderful smells out there in the woods at that time of day, and go balistic. Two beagles, going balistic, while my 5 kids under the age of six, are asleep. Or, WERE asleep. It KILLS me! I've tried throwing them a rawhide to keep them occupied, and one took the bone, but the other was more interested in barking. I knew it was bad when I found myself surfing "Realtor.com" looking for a new house in this awful housing market.

No ammonia, please, no ammonia. I know the dogs are maddening, but let's not ulcerate their corneas.
 
A garden hose with high pressure nossle. Unless it is a lab then the dog just loves it at least mine does. I love my neighbors the closest one is a half mile away=)
 
The dogs haven't barked at me again. The more stand-offish one growled at me today - they're always challenging us through the fence - but didn't come near me or bark.

DBF, on the other hand, is apparently a source of much provocation.
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I cured this once with covert use of the BB gun! Inconsiderate yahoo neighbors had a pack of dogs running free terrorizing the neighborhood, but chose to stake one out right on the property line where it could watch all the others playing chase the cars. Well, of course it had to complain about the unfairness of it all day and night.

When I could stand it no longer, I brought out the BB gun. After about 2 days of this, all I had to do was make the screen door creak and he shut up. Eventually, when he heard us walking about in our house he would run for his house!

They finally moved and took the poor dog with them.....somewhere there is a very neurotic dog who cowers when a door creaks!
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Ahhhhhh, BB guns, the silent persuaders!
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They work best if you staple the collars around the owners neck and turn them up all the way! They'll shut those dogs up real quick, and with out all the screaming and yelling! I don't know what's worse, dogs barking all day or the owners screaming at the dogs to shut the !@#$ up at the top of their lungs.
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