Re: [pyrnet] Re: nightime woofers

["Ward Family" <ids-ddw@mindspring.com>]

And here I thought we were the only Pyr owner with a neighbor like yours.
After many months of trying everything to get Valjean to stop barking, we
finally started bringing him inside at night.  He and the dogs two doors
down would carry on conversations at night but our next door neighbor only
called animal control on us.  Now, she calls animal control during the day
because he barks at her when she comes outside.  (He knows she can't stand
dogs)  So, now we have to keep him in day and night.  (It's not so bad now
since it's summer and we live in Atlanta.)  Fortunately, animal control has
figured out that she just doesn't have enough to do as she has called three
times at night when Valjean has been inside sleeping but it is still a big
pain to have to go through the procedures of documenting when my dog is
inside and when he is out.  I love when she goes out of town!

I called a local rescue person who told me I should never use barking
collars (never worked anyway) as it went against the Pyr's instinct to
protect.  I guess she was right because after months of yelling at Valjean
to quit barking and bringing him in, we were burglarized in the middle of
the night while we slept.  The burglar broke in (kicked the wooden bar from
behind the sliding glass door) through the room that Valjean was sleeping in
(on the couch mind you).  Valjean never uttered a sound.  Pretty ironic!


Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: nancy dirocco <ndirocco@berkshire.net>
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Re: nightime woofers


>She has been taking this out on her already worn out
>> family by barking at night, which she normally does not do. Does anyone
>have
>> any shorttermm solutions to help her stop barking until the heat breaks?
>
>     Because the house quieter than during awake hours, they are more
keenly
>aware of outdoor sounds and are protecting you against them.  I found that
>leaving a radio on in the kitchen markedly cuts down on the nightime
>woofing.  Now if I could only get the neighbor to stop carpetting his lawn
>with food for all the wild critters on a daily basis, there might not be so
>much out there to get the dogs barking in the first place.  BTW this is the
>same neighbor who calls animal control after the first 10 woofs.
>Nany
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