BarkingDogs.net
| This website is divided into fourteen sections: |
Section One: Quieting Your Own Barking Dog
This section tells you everything there is to know about bark training or otherwise quieting your barking dog.
Section Two: Silencing Your Neighbor's Dog Through Personal Intervention
This section tells you how you can maximize the possibility that you will be able to persuade your neighbors to take responsibility for their barking dogs, and also describes a type of electronic device that you may or may not be able to use to quiet the dog next door.
Section Three: Turning to the Law for Help with Your Neighbor's Barking Dog
This section tells you what help you can expect from the cops and the courts, and also provides information on how to get the legal ball rolling, as well as how to prove your case in court.
Section Four: The Cause of the World's Chronic Barking and Biting Epidemics
This section explains that, like the biting epidemic and all of our other major dog-related problems, our blight of chronic barking was created by, as is now perpetuated by, the animal control system.
Section Five: The Cure for the Barking Epidemic and All of Our Dog Related Problems
This section describes how, by restructuring the laws and reforming the animal control system, we can bring an immediate end to the chronic barking crisis and, in the process, transform the biting epidemic and a tidal wave of other dog-related problems into a trickle of difficulties.
Section Six: More Information About Chronic Barking
This section contains information that is likely to be of interest to those who keep barking dogs themselves as well those who don't and wish their neighbors didn't either.
Section Seven: The Deleterious Impact of Exposing People to Noise
This section provides a delineation of the harm done to the human health and psyche by prolonged exposure to chronic barking and other sources of intrusive noise.
Section Eight: The Noise Activist's Guide
This section outlines strategies and interventions you can use to force your negligent local politicians to afford you the legal right to live in a home undefiled by intrusive noise force-fed in from the outside. It also serves as a feedback loop for anti-noise activists who want to report back what does and does not work as they participate in our research effort to determine the same. In addition, the Activist's Guide serves as a clearinghouse for such information.
Section Nine: The YouTube Barking Dog Video Group
Our Barking Dogs YouTube site will allow you to post digital internet footage of your neighbor's barking dog, so that his vocalizations can stand as proof positive of his owner's failure to live up to their responsibilities. Also, once your video is posted, you can include a link in any electronic correspondence you choose, so that public officials and others who receive the selected email need only click on the link to watch your neighbor's dog barking and see what you are up against.
Section Ten: The Barking Dogs Forum
The Barking Dogs forum features stories of intractable barking problems written by readers of this website, and also provides a way for you to comment on those entries. In addition the forum will provide you with an online platform from which you can tell your own barking dog horror story.
Section Eleven: Barking Dogs Yahoo
Barking Dogs Yahoo has evolved as a less formal, chattier version of the Forum. The focus here is on issues of noise in general as well as on the ordeal of barking dog abuse. This link will take you to the home page of BD Yahoo. If you would like to receive emails from the group and/or put in your two cents worth, just click on the blue box that says join this group. Then, follow the directions and add a one line sentence as to why you want to join. If you'd like, you can just say: "I was referred by Barkingdogs.net." Thereafter, you will be all set to read and participate in the discussion.
Section Twelve: The Barking Dog News
Drawn from the mass media, this section offers news accounts that cover the chronic barking scourge from seven angles.
Section Thirteen: About This Website and What You Can Do to Help
This section describes the history and purpose of barkingdogs.net, and tells you how you can help to put a lid on the chronic barking problem.
Section Fourteen: The Kitchen Sink
This section contains additional information about this website and the activities it promotes, and also provides links out to other worthy sites. In addition, on this page you will find special announcements and other important information pertaining to the battle against chronic barking.
This page is the index of barkingdogs.net