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RE: Barking Dogs - HADave - 12-01-2006
If you have a problem like right next door one or twenty, heavy barkers, check this little humane controlling device.
http://www.smarthome.com/61392.html
Amazingly though it seems to me most dogs barks excessively when chained, once unchained they seem to be less stressed or at least more in control. We have similar issues here with neighbors and their dogs recently our closest neighbor unchained them and put them in chain link kennels, they still seem to have the same amount of space to move in but they bark very little now. Too bad too these poor animals stay in this confined space 24-7-365 no matter the weather. We don't tie ours or confine them to enclosures but have trained them to stay on our property. they are still pups at 2yrs and under and are perfectly happy to stay within 300 ft of the house. I guess though untill you have experience a nuisance dog/s constantly barking, after a couple of hours straight it tends to rank right up there with things like coqui frogs
and subwoofers 
). I'm sure though like most laws of ordinance enforcement is a whole other issue, probably more frustrating than the problem itself....Good Luck to those with issues)Aloha HADave
RE: Barking Dogs - Brad W - 12-01-2006
I don't know that it's exactly the "Hawaiian way" to go next door and complain about their barking dogs. My neighbors have all mentioned to me about another neighbor's dogs, but none have gone down there and tried to resolve the problem. The situation with this particular neighbor is that she neglects to feed them, so they all bark from about two in the afternoon until dark. I finally couldn't stand it any longer and paid them a visit with my mad face on. Five dogs chained to trees and ineffective shelters with no water. I will admit that I lost my aloha and explained to her that I was an inch away from calling the Humane Society and the Police. I'm sure she hates me, but I notice the dogs now have water buckets and they only bark for an hour or so in the afternoon until they get fed. Now I mow the street strip in front of her house as a peace offering.
RE: Barking Dogs - rbbyrd - 12-01-2006
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Just another step in the gentrification of BI - IMHO
I think it would be interesting to see who really wants this law and it consequences.
I have a neighbor's dog that barks when left alone at home - I'd never call the cops though. My own 2 dogs think they have morphed into watchdogs since moving to BI - alerting at every vehicle that enters our property.
There are times the cows moo incessantly, should I call HPD? Oh wait, my neighbor, the HPD officer, is their owner.
(Some people ought not leave the city from whence they bolted IMHO.
David
Ninole Resident
REVRUN!
Gabby Johnson
"Blazing Saddles"
RB Byrd
http://www.dejavuduband.com
Flower Mound, TX
RE: Barking Dogs - loffelkopffl - 12-02-2006
barking dogs are second only to the helecoptors as far as noise pollution in upper puna
RE: Barking Dogs - JL - 12-03-2006
I have 6 dogs and live on a small 8000 sq foot lot in an old subdivision and YES my dogs bark but they bark only when they hear another dog passing on the road or when some human makes noise like YELLING, etc. When the incident stops my dogs stop barking. Real simple. My dogs are not chained. They live on my large porch with a fenced in yard enclosure. They get one-mile walks at least 4 times per week. Good exercise for them and for me. I like the new animal control law that was recently passed because my dogs aren't the only ones that make noise in my neighborhood. Most of the noise in my neighborhood is generated from humans (passing cars, people laughing, babies crying, etc.) "Reasonable noise" will have to take into consideration the REAL noise that caused my dogs to bark in the first place. Yay!
RE: Barking Dogs - toucano - 12-03-2006
I'm not sure that a law is going to fix the problem with barking dogs. For starters, I'm pretty sure that enforcement will be very low on the list of police priorities. Should it be? I don't know. Thank God the local dogs here seldom go on barking binges. If they barked more, it would be a pain. But not one I see a law easily solving.
I've learned to just go with the flow and not get a headache asking questions like "why is this the only place I've ever lived where 2 uniformed police are used as flagmen for highway mowing crews?". Seems like a lot of manpower taken away from things like ice, drugs, and potentially dog barking interdiction. But maybe that answers part of the question... if so many drivers here don't quite understand what their responsibility is when there are workers on a road and need a uniform to act responsibly, chances are pretty good that these same people don't worry much about what their dogs are doing.
RE: Barking Dogs - Kelena - 12-03-2006
Yes, it's a contradiction its the "lawlessness" of Puna that I find so attractive, and yet, I don't wanna live next to animal cruelty or dogs that bark all night. I'm just a walking contradiction. Pay no attention to me.
RE: Barking Dogs - JL - 12-04-2006
Just wondering but with Puna so inundated with coquis frogs, doesn't singing coquis drown out the sound of barking dogs? I would love to have a family of singing coquis masking over the noise from my noisy neighborhood.
RE: Barking Dogs - Carolann R - 12-04-2006
Nope. Coquis are loud...funny thing though, I don't really hear 'em anymore. I guess I just don't focus on them. I hear dogs barking on the next street, roosters crowing too...just the sounds of the neighborhood. Glad I don't live next to 'em though for sure. Chuy barks at the cat across the street, but mostly he's a little indoor guy...
Carrie
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
http://www.hellophoenix.com/art/dreamhawaii.Cfm
RE: Barking Dogs - Kelena - 12-05-2006
It's a funny think about Coquis....unless they are right outside your window, the sound is a heck of a lot less than that of a barking dog. In fact, on some level ---I hate to admit this-- it is somewhat pleasant, provided they are far enough away. If they are right outside your window, forget -- you start thinking frogicide, death to all amphibians. You go mad in other words. I, too, will take coquis over barking dogs that are right next door.
I think the barking dog issue is like any other: due diligence! I may ask for a one night stay as part of my inspection of any property.