Annoying Dog!!!
This dog that is behind my house just barks and barks all day and night and I am fed up with it. If you go in the yard for an hour, he will bark for an hour. This has to be the most stupid dog on the face of the Earth. His outrageousness is only eclipsed by his owner who allows this to go on. Every neighbor I talk to hates this dog. Last weekend I was working on the house and heard some shouting behind our house. It was the teenage kid next door to him screaming at this dog to SHUT UP! This teenager was trying to mow his lawn and the dog barked at him the whole time he was out there. I know this feeling well because I go through the same thing. He lunges at me over the fence as I get close to the corner.
This photo was taken from my back porch. As you can see even though he is sitting on the air conditioner he is barking. To make it worse, when one dog starts barking, all the others join in. Since this stupid dog barks for hours on end, it gets all the other dogs going for hours on end. I am no expert on what kind of dog this is but it looks sort of like a ‘coon’ hunting dog. I have been ‘coon’ hunting one time in my life and if I remember correctly, these dog’s entire mission in life is to bark. That is fine if you are out in a rural area where you do not have bedroom windows nearby.
I took these pictures with a zoom lens so I could not be seen as provoking the dog. This intelligence challenged mutt does not require any provocation to start barking. My next door neighbor told me she wish she had a pellet gun when referring to this waste of oxygen. I will not go so far as to make threats but I will say that it annoys our whole neighborhood. There are times that a person would like to just go out in the back yard and sit in a chair and relax. This is impossible in my back yard because every time this stupid dog starts barking, all the neighbors start to peek outside to see what all the excitement is about. Of course they are always disappointed to find a person calmly sitting in a chair while some stupid dog barks at the fence.
I think I have ranted long enough on the subject but I just needed to get this off my chest. Every time I go out into the yard I am immediately in a bad mood. How dare I go get something out of the garage. I must do this with all the neighbors peeking out the window at me. I can hardly wait to move from this house.
UPDATE: 12 September 2009
I was given some advice on my Flickr page from someone saying that this dog is likely neglected. She mentioned getting some buscuits for the dog and eventually he will come around. I think I will take her advice because she has a good point. I have never seen anyone out there with that dog even one time. That dog is left out in the rain as we speak and probably just needs some attention.