city ordinances...

[Made in the USA]

I used to keep the Wife penned up, but she kept getting loose and trying to run off with the neighbor. I found that chaining works pretty good! ;)

[artistic-temper]

And here I always thought it was the NEIGHBOR boy that would hop the fence and cause the problems ;)

[ELehAWkeR]

:tired:

dgirl- i didn't realize i was boring you. my sincere apologies. (not that i really give a sh*t if my topic did bore you.) i don't come to the dodgeboards to entertain. i have come to believe that members can come here to post complaints, concerns, questions and even give/receive pats on the back from other members.

if you find something that doesn't seem to entertain your mind as you would like- then go read something else.

otherwise, off.

[Flying Dutchman]

All it takes from an owner is some common sense.

You hit it on the head right there. Again...chaining or tying up a dog, in my opinion, is initself not abuse in any way. NEGLECT is the abuse. Unfortunately the time and energy needed to prove that just does not exist in our community. You have to draw a line for a rule and the line drawn is the easiest to enforce. Example:
I think the "ban" on pitbulls is assinine. To "ban" a breed of dog is stupid because you then have to define to a tee what that breed is. The reason for the ban, though, is good because it is easier to enforce in a way. It has cut down on the unwanted dogs.
By all means, disagree with the law if you feel strongly against it. Just try and understand the root cause for the law in the first place. I can honestly say that the law does not affect me in any way so I do not have strong feelings against it. Kind of like the pitbull ban, because I would never own a dog of that type. It did affect me at first because our shelter tried to convince me that my boxer I owned at the time was a pit bull. Which is why I was gainst the law in the first place. After much discussion and proving that an ugly boxer is just that, an ugly boxer, it did not affect me again.

[K C Muffin]

Sonny has two boxers and both have been labeled "pit bulls" at different times. That's why this crap is so noxious. If we try to pass specific ordinances against specifics, then people are going to be able to split hairs and get around it. I agree, Dutch, that the ordinance regarding chaining dogs is stupid. It's just another wayto get pet owners to be responsible. But it's not responsible to NOT chain a dog in some circumstances. You can't legislate morality or brains. So you drive people from the community to the fringes - just outside the city limits. Now that will help the tax base, yessirree.

[OLDHAG]

I'm in no way speaking for dgirl but, ElehAWKeR, maybe you should take a better look at her post and laugh a little instead of being nasty about it. I thought it was funny. Just my opinion.

[the gingerbread man]

I believe the woman had every right to complain about barking dogs. There is nothing more irritating and blatantly rude than when people permit and condone the barking of their dogs. In the city we live in now, dog barking is not only considered a noise nuissance, which is prohibitted after 8 PM, but it's also classified as disturbing the peace, which is a viable complaint at any time of the day. I have dogs and I love them. I also know they are A$*holes when unsupervised. I would NEVER consciously allow them to disturb the comfort and privacy of someone else in his or her home. This really burns me; I can't think of many things more discrespectful than people who allow their dogs to bark, no matter what time of day.

[357 mag]

We've had a problem in our neighbor hood for about a week or so now, and I can't quite tell where it's coming from but someone's dog will bark for hours upon hours a night/day. Last night the dog started barking at 6pm and it didn't stop until after 11pm, and when I went home at noon today for lunch it was barking again. It's pretty bad when I have to turn my tv up to hear it because all I can hear is a dog barking! When my dogs start barking for no reason they get yelled at or brought in the house not left out to bark some more.

[meadmice]

When my dogs start barking for no reason they get yelled at or brought in the house not left out to bark some more.

Same here. When my dog barks more than just a couple of times she gets brought in the house... But one of our neighbors has two dogs that stay outside, in a pen, all the time, and one of them hardly EVER shuts his yapper!! It's a medium-ish like bird-dog sized dog, and it's got this god-awful squeaky bark. The second dog barks sometimes too, but only if there's someone walking by or something. The first one I swear just barks to bark... Sometimes I want to say something to them, but they're the only neighbors who have actually occasionally spoken to us and been nice. (ALL of the others around us are hispanic and have made no effort whatsoever...I'm sure they're nice, but we can't communicate.)

[ELehAWkeR]

meadmice...

i wonder if we're distant neighbors.

we also have a family (across the street) whose dogs bark incessantly! and for NO apparent/obvious reason. and it too is a high-pitched, shrill bark that is rather annoying.