What would you do?

I would be really careful about preparing and managing the sale of your neighbor's house. I would had talked to my lawyer first to see if I would be liable if anything when wrong. I really do not think TCS should being talking to the neighbor about their dog. The owner of the house should do that, she is moving and will not have to being seeing them anymore. I guess it depend on how much you like the neighbor with the yappy dog, if you like talk to them a lot I would not get involved with the dog.
 
Reba said:
Sometimes it escapes under the fence, roams the neighborhood, then sneaks back in before they arrive home, so I don't think that will work. :giggle:


You want me to get arrested?! :shock:


I looked up the HOA covenants. There is nothing about barking dogs. I haven't found the animal control regs yet. They are closed for the weekend, so we can't contact them until Monday.
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Good luck! That is a tough one.
 
The only time I know for a fact that something worked was a guy I worked with had bought a place like that. Mole poison packed in hamburger. Nice little swallow size ball. The first time it just made the dog sick. Darn so he had to use more the next time. End of yapper.

Apologies to dog lovers I am one too. I was not pleased to hear this but it did work. I have looked straight into the eyes of many of these yappers they are disconnected and their brain is just going yap so they yap. I personally would rather the owner got the bad burger.

It is really not right to hide the fact there is a yap machine next door. It is a shame you cannot pick the place up for a reasonable price and payment and rent it for a while for a buffer zone and get control of the situation by way of being a pissed off owner/landlord and sell the place for a higher price later owner finance.
 
Whoa I remember something I did myself once. It worked. The next door neighbor staked out a brand new beagle near grown pup right by where I worked on the cars all the time. Ever had a beagle hollering at you? Oh the pain. I thrashed around for an evening with the beagle just a few feet away barking as hard as he could. I am sorry to say I snapped and stood by the fence and started bellowing hey owner come out The dog barking its head off all the while.
Mean while all these moony looking pale people that all looked kind of alike were coming out of all the nooks and crannies of the trailer slum there. They were hollering at me too. Saying all kinds of bad things I think. Finally out comes the king of the pile. A big bull of a guy with his big ugly wife. Gets right in my face on the other side of the fence. I hold my ground saying the beagles gotta go. He is telling me what a low life so and so I am. The moony looking mob that actually looks kind of like him, they are getting in their words too. I stayed on task. "The beagles gotta go". I thought the big guys head was going to explode. He continued on telling me all the things he could do to me. I kept repeating myself.
I heard that beagle from over on the other side of his house every once in a while with my hearing aids on. Then it went silent and no more beagle.
whew bad story I am sorry I remembered this and I bet you all are too. I think I will make like that beagle and go silent..
 
Use garden hose, shoot him/her each time he/she barked. That what I did before. This former dog hate water. If neighbor found out that the dog is wet, I just say...I'm giving you and him (the dog) a free training to learn not to bark!!
 
Check to see if other neighbors have complained about dog barking. Maybe that will make the owner do something about dog.
 
rockin'robin said:
...Perhaps the people in the house work long hours? and the dog is left alone a lot....Maybe a "pet sitter" would solve the problem...even dog training...It's a touchy situation...and some people will get angry, so I can see the reluctance to talking to them about it....
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That was a hard situation with your dog. :(

The family situation there is confusing. Sometimes there is a husband, sometimes not. The wife says he has "issues." Once I saw an ambulance take him away, and once we saw him drive off with all his personal belongings. Then they seemed to be back together. The wife doesn't want to talk about it, and the husband is a sorehead, especially about HOA rules. Ouch!

The wife is a school teacher; not sure what the husband does. They have three young kids.
 
Bottesini said:
Maybe you could ask them if you could have a key to the yard and give the dog a snack and some attention when the house is being shown.
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Maybe. I just don't know when to expect people to show up. I'm not sure if it's the kind of dog that will be satisfied with a snack and attention but it might be possible. I'll discuss that with TCS (he's going to be the one talking to them).
 
sonocativo said:
Buy an ultra sound anti bark device and plug it in outside before the buyers come or you leave the house, it will be an annoyance to the dog and it wont bark. I have used one myself when selling my house in the city... then its up to the new owners to deal with it.
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Interesting. Do you have a link or name for the product? Does it work thru fencing?
 
deafbirk said:
Most places have laws about dog barking. Supposed to bark for no more than 10 minutes or so. A neighbor of my brother tape recorded my brothers dogs barking more than 10 minutes and took it to the town council.
I have had a prospective buyer scared off 1 house I sold in the past. I just asked them to please take the dog in if they saw people in the backyard. They readily complied. You can tell the dog owner that their dog is scaring off prospective buyers and you would keep a record of loss sales due to their dog. It may worry them enough. Tell the dog owner you know a philadelphia lawyer
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I don't know a Philadelphia lawyer ( :giggle: ) but I do know a few Charleston lawyers.

Seriously though, I'm trying to keep on good terms with neighbors but be a good steward of my friend's house at the same time. I hate the idea of getting into a legal fight.
 
dereksbicycles said:
Check to see if other neighbors have complained about dog barking. Maybe that will make the owner do something about dog.
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They have mentioned it to the dog owner. The widow lady who owns the house for sale even mentioned it directly to the family. It didn't change anything. They didn't even seem embarrassed.
 
SneakerNet said:
Use garden hose, shoot him/her each time he/she barked. That what I did before. This former dog hate water. If neighbor found out that the dog is wet, I just say...I'm giving you and him (the dog) a free training to learn not to bark!!
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:lol: Wish I could! I can't see where the dog is exactly, and I'd have to climb a ladder to see and reach over the fence, so it might not be easy to be discrete about this.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I would be really careful about preparing and managing the sale of your neighbor's house. I would had talked to my lawyer first to see if I would be liable if anything when wrong. I really do not think TCS should being talking to the neighbor about their dog. The owner of the house should do that, she is moving and will not have to being seeing them anymore. I guess it depend on how much you like the neighbor with the yappy dog, if you like talk to them a lot I would not get involved with the dog.
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The owner moved out of state a few weeks ago. She has a realtor handling the actual sale. We did the remodeling, landscaping, staging, etc., for the house.

We hardly know the other neighbor. I don't see them around much.
 
sonocativo said:
I had a BB gun once.... just saying...lol
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Reba said:
Um, no. It's illegal. Besides, I don't want to hurt the dog (not really his fault).
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With it being sonocativo that posted it I am not sure this is what he intended . . . but could it be a matter of scaring the dog with the noise of the gun but not shooting at the dog? With the idea being that he would associate the noise from the gun with his barking and quit to avoid the gun noise. If you could think of what to use, another type of noise maker could also possibly work also. I know it would be an additional noise but only for a short time hopefully.
 
goodonya said:
The only time I know for a fact that something worked was a guy I worked with had bought a place like that. Mole poison packed in hamburger. Nice little swallow size ball. The first time it just made the dog sick. Darn so he had to use more the next time. End of yapper.

Apologies to dog lovers I am one too. I was not pleased to hear this but it did work. I have looked straight into the eyes of many of these yappers they are disconnected and their brain is just going yap so they yap. I personally would rather the owner got the bad burger.
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Um, no, that won't work. (You are all trying to get me in trouble!)

It is really not right to hide the fact there is a yap machine next door.
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Honestly, I would like the yapping to be solved, not hidden. It's a small dog, and I think the owners need to keep it inside more.

It is a shame you cannot pick the place up for a reasonable price and payment and rent it for a while for a buffer zone and get control of the situation by way of being a pissed off owner/landlord and sell the place for a higher price later owner finance.
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That's a different way of looking at the situation. :hmm:
 
Jane B. said:
With it being sonocativo that posted it I am not sure this is what he intended . . . but could it be a matter of scaring the dog with the noise of the gun but not shooting at the dog? With the idea being that he would associate the noise from the gun with his barking and quit to avoid the gun noise. If you could think of what to use, another type of noise maker could also possibly work also. I know it would be an additional noise but only for a short time hopefully.
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I see what you mean. I don't have a BB gun, and the guns that I do have would do more than scare the dog--they would bring the police!

I like your idea of some other noisemaker. Maybe TCS can sit at the end of their driveway with his motorcycle and rev it up each time the dog barks. It might not stop the dog but it could demonstrate to the owners how annoying it is.
 
goodonya said:
Whoa I remember something I did myself once. It worked. The next door neighbor staked out a brand new beagle near grown pup right by where I worked on the cars all the time. Ever had a beagle hollering at you? Oh the pain. I thrashed around for an evening with the beagle just a few feet away barking as hard as he could. I am sorry to say I snapped and stood by the fence and started bellowing hey owner come out The dog barking its head off all the while.
Mean while all these moony looking pale people that all looked kind of alike were coming out of all the nooks and crannies of the trailer slum there. They were hollering at me too. Saying all kinds of bad things I think. Finally out comes the king of the pile. A big bull of a guy with his big ugly wife. Gets right in my face on the other side of the fence. I hold my ground saying the beagles gotta go. He is telling me what a low life so and so I am. The moony looking mob that actually looks kind of like him, they are getting in their words too. I stayed on task. "The beagles gotta go". I thought the big guys head was going to explode. He continued on telling me all the things he could do to me. I kept repeating myself.
I heard that beagle from over on the other side of his house every once in a while with my hearing aids on. Then it went silent and no more beagle.
whew bad story I am sorry I remembered this and I bet you all are too. I think I will make like that beagle and go silent..
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Yikes! :eek3:
 
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