Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly
(Post 4016491)
Our city has a 3 dog limit and I am thrilled. I live next door to a woman who would have had 10 dogs when she was younger and would have let them all out in the back where she wouldn't hear any of their barking, whining, carrying on for hours - but I would. She had 2 dogs who practically barked nonstop (and the 3rd dog barked normally) for 3 years and every way I tried to get her to keep the dogs quiet, letters, Animal Control, phone calls - none of it worked until one day I confronted her about the dogs' barking(they had barked that day for over 30 minutes without anything but the briefest pause) and I was trying to study. That visit to her followed by Environmental Control coming out finally did it and she began to train the dogs. Now they are well-behaved dogs who bark like regular dogs and then move on with their lives. But before training, they would sit and bark and after 3 hours of it, you could go crazy! All day long, all evening, obsessive, constant for hours with only brief pauses and back to barking. She had 3 dogs who were out a lot and kept a 4th in the house and thought rotating letting the dogs out would somehow hide the 4th, I guess. And her house was filled with several cats, too. Finally though, after that confrontation and the visit from the city official, she has cut down to only the 2 dogs who are very normal dogs now, barking at the garbage truck, postman, someone walking in the alley, but then they stop in a normal time frame. But in her heyday, I swear she would have had all the dogs she could and I fear, wouldn't have cared how much trouble they were to the neighbors before her change.
Our mayor wrote a newsletter stating the reason we could have no more than 3 dogs is that is usually all one normal person can handle without causing problems in the neighborhood. I fear he was right as some people just cannot handle a lot of dogs very well and if you are unlucky enough to live next door to someone like that, you are thankful for rules!
I know of a lady who lived next to bikers who had 4 or 5 German Shepherd Dogs and only a Cox fence. She said the dogs were constantly barking day and night in those loud, deep GSD's voices, kept all the grass from growing in their yard from their constant pacing and it was so unsightly just living next to a house with a dirt yard. She said the GSD's jumped the fence into her yard frequently and were often running free out front. She said she could barely leave her house some days because of snarling GSD's at her doors and Animal Control only visited, gave warnings and slunk off. She said when she confronted one of the bikers, a day or so later, when she was gardening, he walked over, put his hand across the back of her neck and dug in and told her what they would do to her if she EVER complained of the dogs again.
I think that is why some cities and towns have to have rules to inhibit dog ownership as it can just get so out of hand with some people.
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