you ppl are all sick in the head you talk about killing these poor animal like its a every day thing. far out its not the animals fault have a look at the owner maybe they havent done what is needed for there pet. If a child behaviour like one of these animal woudl you feed it anitfreeze or rat poison etc... no you would blame the parents....
I'm probably wasting my time responding to this as the point's been made very well in precious posts, but here goes.
1. A constantly barking dog that can be heard in someone else's home is not just a minor annoyance. It is noise pollution in the same way as inconsiderate use of stereos or power tools is noise pollution. Every individual has the right not to have to suffer from it.
2. Unlike loud music and drilling, constant barking is unpredictable. You know you'll get quiet once the construction workers have gone home. With a dog, you can't relax even in the quiet periods because you never know when the dog's going to start again. This causes high stress levels, severe sleep deprivation and high blood pressure. These all lead to a deterioration of health.
3. In an ideal world, noise pollution from dogs would be dealt with in the same efficient way as other forms of noise pollution. In some places this happens. In most it does not. The police are usually not interested, environmental health (or the equivalent) take forever to do anything if indeed they act at all, and unless you've got money to throw away, going to court is an expensive gamble.
4. Complain to the owner, the dog-lovers bleat. Yeah, right. Many people have dogs and we never hear them. That's because they are decent, considerate people. The people who let their dogs annoy others don't care about others and almost always will get defensive or hostile when the problem is mentioned to them.
5. The victim of barking has four legal options: (a) Put up with it. Sometimes you get lucky and the dog will die or the owner will move. Or maybe the owner will get rid of the dog. More likely as not though you will have years of constant noise intrusion ahead of you. (b) Wear earplugs or headphones when you want quiet in your house. Yes, there is always some moron who suggests this on discussions like these. Why should anyone have to wear earplugs in their own home? (c) Spend lots of money on ultrasonic devices that have a very poor record of success. (d) Move. OK if you're living in temporary rented accommodation, but what if you've invested a lot of time and money in buying your own home? You probably wouldn't be able to sell it anyway if the barking is really bad.
6. So we're left with the only practical option: Kill the dog. Sure, anyone who gets pleasure out of doing this beyond enjoying the subsequent quiet really is sick and probably needs help. It is not a nice thing to do and so sane person would suggest otherwise. It is simply THE ONLY PRACTICAL MEASURE that many people can take to get back to leading a normal life.
That's enough - as I say, I've probably wasted my time and for all I know I'm replying to a troll. These do points need to be made from time to time, though, and I simply have two closing words to those dog-lovers who think that a dog's life is more important than a person’s:
GROW UP.
