"Vox Humana" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Well done.

Since I was simply addressing a blanket and rather ignorant statement
"
It
is never the animal's fault. Never. It is always the fault of the
people who leave animals out to bark incessantly" .......The statement
had
no qualifier for time, duration or circumstance.....one could surmise
a
barking dog for 10 minutes as easily as 10 hours (both can be rather
irritating)....as it is dogs bark...its what they do...and just
because
a
dog barks the owner does not inherently deserve the subsequently
proffered
penalties.

I think assigning "fault" to a dog for barking is at best pointless.
Under
the right circumstances a dog will bark. If your only point is to
place
blame and not come to a resolution, then blaming a dog for baking would
meet
your goal. On the other hand, if you goal is to resolve the noise
problem,
then the only rational conclusion is to find fault with the owner for
not
managing the problem. A barking dog will seldom, if ever, take steps
to
make the neighborhood quite. The dog has other goals. Gun owner will
quickly point out that guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Blaming
a gun for making noise or killing people is exactly the same as blaming
a
dog for barking. We could argue into eternity about whether guns kill
people and not change the fact that tens of thousands of people are
killed
by guns each year, just as you could blame a dog for barking and not
make
things even a tiny bit quieter.



Please post the number for the telephone that rings closest to your bed.
We'll wake YOU up at odd hours for a week or two and see if it changes
your
tune. :-)

Why? You would be better off calling the police or your attorney to deal
with noise problems rather than throw fule on the fire by duplicating the
irresponsible behavior of the pet owner.

Try that sometime and let me know how it goes, OK?

Quite a few animal control employees don't know how to read the riot act to
an irresponsible dog owner. So, they issue warnings instead of following the
letter of the law. In many municipalities, the law says that the dog owner
gets three "tickets" or whatever they're called, with steadily increasing
fines, and then the dog is removed permanently. This process can often be
completed within a week, if the animal control person cooperates. Instead,
it can take months, even if the violation is occurring every night.

Good luck.