From a coonhound forum I'm on...
OMG I've got a breed that is known and bred for it's loud voice and I let them go outside during the day when no one's home but now I need an e-collar or bark-collar because our neighbors called animal control about the noise!!! HELP ME INTERNETS!!! Help me with this incredibly complicated inscrutible problem with no known solution!!!
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The dog-door stikes again! Seriously, I'd outlaw dog doors right along with flexi-leashes if I was Queen of the World. Some very nice person wrote with all sorts of great advice on what to do about barking dogs (along with some not so great advice, but coonies are working dogs and training in many working dog scenes really has not caught up with 2006 yet) and really went above and beyond, but really, all this person needs to do is NOT LET THEIR HIGH-AROUSAL BARKING DOGS OUT WHEN NO-ONE'S HOME! Because Marlowe'd be right there with their dogs baying his head off all day, if I let him. Which I don't. Because I don't want some asshole to come into my yard and harm my dogs because he feels justified by the fact that they're irritating him. Grr. Get a clue! And stop talking about e-collars! GAH!
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The dog-door stikes again! Seriously, I'd outlaw dog doors right along with flexi-leashes if I was Queen of the World. Some very nice person wrote with all sorts of great advice on what to do about barking dogs (along with some not so great advice, but coonies are working dogs and training in many working dog scenes really has not caught up with 2006 yet) and really went above and beyond, but really, all this person needs to do is NOT LET THEIR HIGH-AROUSAL BARKING DOGS OUT WHEN NO-ONE'S HOME! Because Marlowe'd be right there with their dogs baying his head off all day, if I let him. Which I don't. Because I don't want some asshole to come into my yard and harm my dogs because he feels justified by the fact that they're irritating him. Grr. Get a clue! And stop talking about e-collars! GAH!