Shoot a barking dog with a camcorder, not a gun.
Nothing like a constantly barking dog to drive you berserko. The solution for one Oakland Park 23-year-old guy? He's in jail, without bond, on charges that he shot and killed his neighbor's mixed-breed Boxer because the dog's constant baking interfered with his studying. Click here for the full story.
But BarkingDogs.net, an extensive online resource dedicated to what it calls "the barking epidemic," has its own suggestion:
Shame 'em on YouTube. Use a camcorder, not a gun.
The advantages of this method?
You can vividly show your neighbor's dog in all his full, barking glory -- and send it to everyone you know. Like your city council members, law enforcement, other neighbors and, of course, the dog's owner.
Not to mention you avoid jail time.
Here's an example. Think this would work?
Here's the link to YouTube's Barking Dog Video Group.
Yes, this problem is annoying so many of us, it has its own group.
By the way: Turns out dogs taking a bullet for sounding off isn't that uncommon. Just a quick search turned up three stories of people, driven over the brink by incessant barking, who went gunning for their neighbor's pets.
Isn't this the owner's fault? Yet BarkingDogs.net claims that people who try to deal with the barking issue by going through the legal system rarely get satisfaction.
Here's: "Barking dog shot, killed outside its home." (Staten Island, NY. July 2007)
And here's: "Dog shot dead by neighbor because of barking." (Atlantic Beach, NY. March 2006)
And: "Man arrested for allegedly shooting barking dog." (Albuquerque, NM. January 2005)
Feel free to share your own tales of "barking hell."
ANGIE BRENNAN, a Sun-Sentinel page designer,
lives with four dogs and one boyfriend. And has a lifetime of animal stories to share.
DIANE LADE, a reporter on the Sun-Sentinel's Help Team, has lived with cats, dogs, reptiles, fish, an iguana, and an armadillo.
CYNDI METZGER, editor of the Sun-Sentinel's Outlook section, is smitten with Bella, her poodle who regularly ignores requests to sit, stay and get off the ivory-colored sofa. 
JOHN TANASYCHUK, a Sun-Sentinel lifestyle writer, has lived with cats as long as he can remember. He and his partner currently share their home with three.
Comments
Actually, the thing that amazes me is the fact that dogs seem to be able to bark continuously 24/7 for weeks at a time without their barking mechanism breaking down :-). You'd think they'd eventually get a sore throat or something.
Posted by: Tom Horsley | May 19, 2008 9:08 PM
Of course, what we really need is a bark-activated consumer version of the LRAD sonic weapon from American Technology Corp
http://www.atcsd.com/site/content/view/37/50/
(but don't tell PETA :-)
Posted by: Tom Horsley | May 19, 2008 9:24 PM
The comment about the legal system is accurate. It is a dog's world and the rest of us have to deal with it. I liken it to the times when it was a smokers world. Smokers could smoke on airplanes, in offices, in restaurants, and everyone else has to deal with it. Here in South Florida, land of the zero lot line, you have a one in 5 chance that one of your neighbors has a barking dog that will potentially disturb you (day or night). There isn't much you can do. The burden is on the "annoyed" neighbor to document the instances of barking, contact the authorities, etc. If there was bail for that guy, I'd post it. I understand why he did it. It was wrong, but maybe he didn't want to spend 6 months documenting how much the dog bothered him before he could have any hope that it would stop.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2008 9:33 AM
We have three dogs that love to play in our back yard. The only time they bark is when someone they don't know gets too close to our house or they want to come in. My neighbor however has 2 poodles. At 6am and continuing through the entire day those dogs do nothing but yap. Very irritating but, I blame the owners not the dogs
Posted by: fl native | May 20, 2008 2:36 PM
It was wrong to shoot the dog however i have lived in an area where my neighbours dog barked almost 16 hrs daily whether someone came close by or not. He never got tired of barking especially at night.
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