BarkingDogs.net
Section One:
Quieting Your Own Dog
Section Two:
Personally Silencing Your Neighbor's Dogs
Section Three:
The Barking Laws and the Courts
Section Four:
To Quiet Your Home Town
Section Five:
The Noise Activist's Guide
Section Seven:
The Harm Done
Section Eight:
The Cause of the World's Chronic Barking and Biting Epidemics
Section Nine:
The Cure for the Barking Epidemic and All of Our Dog Related Problems
Section Ten:
The Barking Dog News
Section Eleven:
Barking Dogs YouTube
Sec Twelve:
Barking Dogs Facebook
Sec Thirteen:
The Barking Dogs Bulletin Board
Sec Fourteen:
About This Website
Sec Fifteen:
The Kitchen Sink
the More Information section of barkingdogs.net
More information about chronic barking
On chronic barking as a threat to the public health and safety
How your local government created your barking dog problem three times over
The extent of the problem they created
How our unenforceable barking laws position disturbed people to use their dogs as weapons
On the innate unfairness of the system
How to alter your home and adjust your life so you suffer less from exposure to barking
An explanation of why dogs bark
Data-gathering forms suitable for documenting canine barking behavior
The five categories of chronically barking dogs
A list of the worst breeds for excessive barking
Acoustic shadows and acoustic facilitation
This page explains why it is that people living very close to a barking dog often don't hear the animal at all, while others who may live much further away
find that the noise rings out clearly throughout their home.
The relationship between dog attacks and the tolerance of belligerent barking
To a significant degree, the biting epidemic exists because the barking epidemic is allowed to continue. This section explains how the tolerance of belligerent barking facilitates the furtherance of a process called shaping, which leads to violent behavior in canines.
The Side Benefits of Barking Dog Enforcement
This page will introduce you to the concept of response clusters. Once you grasp that phenomena and how it works, it will quickly become clear to you why it is that in any given community, a crackdown on chronic barking, will always, inevitably, result in fewer people being bitten by dogs.
How to train a discriminating watchdog
How to train a watchdog that can be counted on to bark at intruders, but can be depended on to remain quiet when no threat is present.
A list of the best watchdogs
This link lists the dog breeds that are the most likely and the least likely to serve as watchdogs that can be relied upon to sound the alarm only when it is appropriate to do so.
Behavioral Science Meets the Barking Dog
The art of dog training is just one aspect of the science of conditioning behavior. This article focuses on the science of behavior modification, and tells you a little bit about the history and the development of that field.
Barking Management: The UAM 2004 report out of Australia
This link will take you to Australia's Urban Animal Management report that discusses the causes, treatment and prevention of chronic barking in an urban setting.
"Another Reason I Don't Keep A Gun In The House"
A short poem about the neighbor's barking dog by Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States.
This page is the index of Section Six:
the More Information section of barkingdogs.net