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Originally Posted by melanie daley  You bring up great points.. God I love your advice!!!! They don't bark on Animal planet, but I will try something else.. And I'm going to switch to the cans, and try that bark machine thing... I'm also going to start closing the drapes, and windows... The bottom line is that I LOVE my new house, and the LAST thing I want is problems... You bring up an excellent point about the spray bottle, and honeslty doesn't even seem to bother her that she's getting squirted in the face anymore!! I'm doing the cans starting today!!
They also bark for different reasons ya know?? Roxi barks for attention, and Rocco barks at passers by or noises.. Rocco has a very quiet bark, but Roxi's is pretty piercing...But NONE of it is excessive at all.. I am going to make all these changes and see what happens...
Thanks for your help again Nancy... your my fave YT'r!!!!! XXX |
I agree with Nancy too. And with MilesDavis too! Luckily, we don't live in an apt. but I know my two bark at anything they hear at the front door (and any doorbell or knocking they hear on television too
).....not sure if they do it when we're gone and they're alone, but I know they do it when we're home. That would annoy me if they weren't my dogs. And what "isn't excessive" to YOU, may be incredibly ANNOYING to someone who is used to complete silence most of the time.
I used to live in an apt though, with neighbors above and next to me; I had 2 Moluccan cocktoos, and one of them could scream loud enough to be heard almost a mile away (that's not an exaggeration
), and screaming was his most FAVORITE thing to do; if he wasn't screaming, it meant he was probably chewing the sheetrock on the walls or the carpeting or the doors
. But whenever anybody moved in in the set of apartments I lived in, I tried to introduce myself to them and explain about Valentino and that if it bothered them to please let me know. I had a few other issues with some of the neighbors over the years, but in the 14 yrs we rented there, I had not one complaint about the birds being noisy.
I think letting people know that you're willing to do anything to make them happy and comfortable (within reason of course) from the get-go really helps to avoid problems. I used to have an answering machine that had a "listen in" feature on it, so I could hear what was going on in my apt, when I called it (that was pretty cool, now that I think about it), so I did call during different times of day to check to see if they were being noisy. Better to be armed with valid information just in case. I think Nancy's idea of recording them during the times you're gone would help. A video cam would be good too; like maybe one of those baby cams and if they ARE barking, you could ascertain what it is that's making them bark.
Good luck, it's so hard living in close quarters, and I'd be upset over someone doing that anonymously too, but then, I think the people who say that these days, you never know what strangers are really like, and it's just safer. I personally wouldn't do it, b/c I'd think that whoever it was, would KNOW it was ME, LOL.