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Reply #15 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 9:00am
 
You can get noise loggers to record nuisance noise. I think many councils even have guidelines that cover barking dogs. So you may have a legal recourse.

It's always best to talk things through first. Chances are the neighbour hates the barking too.
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Reply #16 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 9:41am
 
Too many people have dogs locked up in small yards all day. This is cruelty, the dogs are so bored and lonely that they show neurotic behaviour, it`s not the dog`s fault. If you can`t give a pet a good life, don`t get it in the first place.
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Reply #17 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 10:04am
 
Very true Aussie, I have a very low tolerance when it comes to loud barking dogs but I also recognise that it is all about the owner and not the animal.
To often the problem is due to small yards, total lack of exercise, interaction, socialising of the dogs and ignorance and laziness by the owners.
If I have ever had any issues with barking dogs I simply politely let the owners know and that always ends up with the problem being solved and quite often an apology  Smiley
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Reply #18 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 8:39pm
 
By Googling "Quiet Tasmania News" you can read how trading noise for noise can force the owner of barking dogs to move out. Just click on the REPORTS tab. You will find this true tale quite interesting.

My neighbour had two large backyard dogs that barked very loudly. He defiantly declared "All dogs bark!"

My council was useless so I screwed a car horn half way up a forking gum tree at our common fenceline and by connecting a car battery I gave him more horn than he'd ever had before in his life.

I dropped a note into the local police station telling them what I was doing and why, and that if trading one honk per woof didn't end the problem I'd increase the dose to two honks per woof.

When the offender realised that his complaints to the police were futile he moved out.

Quite rightly, the police refused to endorse his lawbreaking.


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Reply #19 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 8:42pm
 
Legal industry as any other industry aim for maximum benefits at minimal effort!


In their best interest is to maintain social problems. Same is everywhere. Here in Adelaide :
The only sure way to silence nuisance barking dog is to kill one in anger!

This is also a clear case of corruption that two ministers, RSPCA, dog and cat management board and local council consume large amount of public money... to effectively maintain this problem. It is dog negligence and cruelty but also it is health hazard to us all. We get irritated, have problem to sleep and have a decent rest, to study and enjoy peace.

Why we have this wide spread corruption?
I saw a film clip where on public protest against corrupt government, one of the leaders explain to the crowd: you complain on bad government? but government is only as bad as you (crowd) allow one to be.

It is waste of time to complain to council. It is sensible to report to legislators and complain in all forms of media including internet. No, it is not us to prove a dog is causing problem but it is up to us to demand that politicians require all owners to:
1 choose right dog
2. train one properly
3. care for one well including daily walk, visit to specialists, stimulation and so on an on.

Unless government make sure all owners do at least the three, the government not owners is guilty of negligence and cruelty to dogs and health hazard to society. It is called negligence and lawlessness.

Another matter is the antisocial stand of modern courts.

http://systemcorruption.wordpress.com/about/dog-negligence-cruelty-mismanagement-corruption/

Take as an example the blind people guide dog. Neglect any one of the three above duties. It would be useless, dangerous and owner have liability. Ensure all three duties and it is an asset and a pleasure to own such a dog.

I started my website, you can join or set your own site/record. It is record of government negligence and mismanagement. YOu note when the particular problem stops if ever. Than after a time period you have an evidence that it is mismanagement and ignorance, corruption.

Thanks for sharing this story.
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Reply #20 - Aug 29th, 2010 at 10:04am
 
There is a major social problem, apparently extant throughout Australia, in that councils characteristically refuse to enforce their state's legislation to control barking. They don't want the bother of it.

This means that every owner knows that his dog can bark night and day and that his aggrieved neighbours can do nothing effective about it, and so distressed persons are forced to either (a) endure (b) re-locate, or (c) kill.

This monstrous situation continues because there is no legal compulsion on councils to effect order within their area, although legislation authorises and empowers them to do so. Councils receive all the money paid in fines. In Tasmania the penalty for excessive barking is $240. They could make a mint by doing their job.

Until councils are compelled, under threat of punishment, to do what's necessary for neighbourhood peace and quiet then they will continue to thumb their noses at barking victims as they have done for decades past.

Two extensive and informative anti-Noise, anti-barking websites are accessible by Googling "Quiet Tasmania News"



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Reply #21 - Sep 1st, 2010 at 10:36pm
 
People are at fault.
You should always buy 2 dogs so that they keep each other company.
They will seldom bark then.
They just got lonely & bored.
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Reply #22 - Sep 2nd, 2010 at 2:50pm
 
It's when dogs gets lonely and bored that they bark.

Keeping dogs confined is animal cruelty.
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Reply #23 - Sep 5th, 2010 at 4:47pm
 
Australian councils are empowered by state legislation (for example, Tasmania's Dog Control Act 2000) to write infringement notices for barking offences. In Tasmania the penalty ticket is currently $260.

That's the theory. In practice, councils everywhere don't want to be bothered enforcing the noise and barking laws - so they don't.

How can they get away with this? Councils ignore their legislated duties because although a state's various Acts of Parliament empower them to write tickets and benefit from the fines, they do not compel them to do anything.

Councils everywhere know this. They know they are immune from prosecution. They exploit this legal loophole mercilessly.

Until councils are compelled under threat of direct penalty they will continue to leave distressed persons so tormented that they move out or kill the dog. A dead dog is usually then replaced by one or two living ones and the cycle often repeats.

It is no use complaining to the police. The police always declare that barking is a council matter. They also see barking as trivial. The police do not want to be bothered by trivial problems.

Barking victims are on their own.
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