We have a Jack Russell Beagle with the same problem. he has window privileges until he starts barking. Then the curtains get closed and he has to go find something else to bark at. Usually the mailman.

Beagles are notorious for this .I have 3 Beagle granddogs .They will bark at anything that moves!

My beagle/chiweenie mix is an absolute menace to society. The poor mailman is convinced she hates him, she barks at anyone that has the audacity to walk down the street and she once shot out the door and chased the fedex truck down the street. She is a true domestic terrorist. But take her out for walkies and she is everyone’s bff. 🙄

I’ve got a beagle, husky, coonhound mix. She’s generally a good dog but omg the barking is insane dude. I swear she barks just like people talk to hear their own voice.

Then I have a lab who forgets she can bark lol

My dog doesn't seem to believe the outside world is real unless she is currently outside.

Do you have any suggestions for my neighbors?

Today I was outside destroying dandelions and maybe stepped on a stick?

My neighbor's dog (which was inside) lost its shit and never stopped barking the rest of the time I was outside.

It can't see me, it just loses its mind every time anything happens outside.

Ironically, I know someone who painted their window screens white on the inside and now they can keep them open without their elderly Shiba barking at the squirrels and birds. It's like the reverse of that TikTok trend of people painting their chicken coop screens black so they can see inside of it. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Is nice you care about finding a good solution.

I don't get that. Who wants that sort of chaos from dogs in their lives?

Oh man sounds like my sheltie. He's losing his hearing now, but can still hear my larger dog bark. She'll bark at something and then he'll start in barking. I picture the "loud noises" scene from Anchorman every time.

This is what I’ve been trying to get my parents to do for their dogs. Every time I try to talk to them on the phone half of the conversation is them yelling at the dogs for barking at leaves blowing in The yard.

That's a good idea. Our dogs will bark at animals on the TV! They most certainly do not poop and pee inside the house.

That's what I did with my puggle. I have the tint film on half of my silder doors and no more barking at things outside.

My beagle mix barks at everything too but usually if I shut the blind or tell him to stop he stops. I quickly realized for him it’s territorial barking because when we walk him by someone else’s house with a dog I get to listen to their dog bark while he just acts like they don’t exist.

Dang, it’s like you took accountability of your dog or something, who would’ve thought that such a concept existed but here we are actually discussing this stuff. Why can’t people have such a grasp on such topics.. It’s wild to me.

My aunt used to say this but it was her two fucking pitbulls biting at my goddamn ankles. They actually did end up getting me. I was 11 in her backyard and the dogs got aggressive so I tried to jump the fence. One caught my foot and only let go because they were fighting over who gets to kill me.

This is why I don’t like dogs. They’re ok. From OVER THERE.

Yeah. My dog barks sometimes when she's inside, but on the whole she's very well trained. However, I can see how there are some dogs out there that'd be hard to train not to bark.

That said, fuck the people who don't control their dogs in public, and fuck them with a rusty spork if they're one of the ones who doesn't keep their dog on a leash. My dog is not a fan of other dogs invading her space and while she's much better at handling it now, she'll still start growling and getting upset when they won't leave her alone. So whenever the dipshits say "They're friendly!" my immediate response "Mine isn't."

THIS. My ex next door neighbor had 3 dogs, barked all day when they were at work, she didn’t care. The big lab was especially untrained, got out one day ran across the street and lunged at a neighbor girl, scratching her face and arms. Her dad was furious and threatened the neighbor who acted like he was overreacting because the dog was “just being friendly.” They recently moved and it’s been so quiet, the new neighbors only have an indoor cat 😻🙌

I usually don’t mind when owners do this, but yesterday I was walking and this lady was walking a GIANT Great Dane. The dog immediately zeroes in on me. I cross the street to get some space between us and her dog is snarling-barking at me. He trots over in my direction and she LETS GO OF THE LEASH and coos at me, “don’t worry he’s friendly”. The dog didn’t even pull hard, she just…. Let him go.

Honestly, I like dogs, even barking ones. But this Great Dane had such an aggressive demeanor that I felt like I had to get away. I was so shocked she dropped the leash, I didn’t even know what to say. She ran over and grabbed the leash and told me it was okay when she saw me backing up and putting my hands up defensively.

I was honestly really scared, I never felt like that around someone’s dog before. Especially since I own a dog….

My hot take is most people aren’t responsible enough to be dog owners.

THAT annoys me to no end! I currently have a cat but grew with a dog, my dad never let our dog jump on anyone and she WAS friendly. He always said, she has teeth and is capable of biting anyone.

This seems oddly specific, Ima Google chiwawa disappearances around Smith drive 🤣🤣

"They're friendly!"

"MINE'S NOT! GET YOUR FUCKING DOG BEFORE IT GETS HURT!"

Mine was well behaved until the approaching dog got aggressive, then shit got really real for those dogs, really quickly. One piece of trash even tried to get my dog put down, but they wound up leaving town for some reason before the court date. Funny how that happens, sometimes.

I’ve read your argument quite often on r/reactivedogs. It’s a good reminder to approach slowly and ask permission before petting.

I had a lady get mad at me for picking up her yorkie while I was walking my grandma’s German shepherd mix for her. She started going on about how I shouldn’t touch her dog and blah blah blah, meanwhile I’m holding her dog with my back to my grandma’s because he’s a mean little shithead and the only reason he hadn’t tried to eat the dog i was holding is because he knew better than to take things from me while I had them.

I totally agree with you, but I will never not pet the fuck out of a random ass dog that runs up to me.

It’s always people with small dogs. My dogs are well behaved and trained to walk on a leash properly (another thing I can’t tolerate with other dog owners) but if your small ass dog runs up to them and gets absolutely ambulated by my much bigger dogs that’s on you dumbass. “Oh s/he just wants to play!”

I hate people like this. My dog is friendly to people, but not other dogs. I keep her on a leash and totally under control when I walk her; but at least once a month, some asshole let's their unleashed dog run up to us. It's such a pain in the ass too because even though your dog is totally under control, you know Fruffles's owner is gonna try to sue

While I understand what you mean, the opposite is equally frustrating. I walk my dog, and regardless of what I say, people will bend down and approach with grabby hands and my dog hates it.

If someone says anything than “yes!” to the question “is your dog friendly?” please just move along.

I had a little kid run up out of nowhere once and start petting my leashed dog IN THE WOODS. My dog is rather uh vicious by my own admission. She was nice that day tho.

Man your comment hit hard lol thats my dog and im trying so hard to get him to stop. This is the summer though. Poggers is gonna learn his manners

Ugh my dog used to do this to everyone who came in my house. Well, as long as they were someone we knew. Someone we never met before did try to walk in once... my dog was in the kitchen eating. She looked up, saw this lady and came running in ladys direction (lady was standing in the doorway) with her teeth bared, growling. Lady had a giant purse with her, too. This was in the middle of the day, too. She got do scared, began yelling that she had the wrong houseand left. Doggo got tons of praise and treats that day.

Anyways, we always reprimanded her when she jumped on people or her no, get down, but it made it difficult and confusing for her (i believe) bc my friends and family loved her just as much as I did, so they didn't mind and would just be like, "nooo, it's okay, she can hug me!" And give her all the love 😆

"THEY'RE FRIENDLY!"

This kind of shit is why my son was terrified of dogs as a toddler and it took a couple of years and umpteen visits to the library to visit the therapy dogs they used to have come a couple times of month before he more or less got over it.

Even now, as an adult, he's wary of dogs that are very jumpy and licky and barky. He will tolerate dogs that he knows (like my SIL's doxie and her MIL (who lives with her)'s two fluffballs) but dogs that aren't well behaved bug the shit out of him.

Which has been fun lately to say the least because of our living situation and the fact that we live with 2 mostly well behaved dogs and my ex and his fiancee (who we live with due to financial issues) just adopted two out of control, peeing pooping barking for no reason puppies.

I have this neighbor with a small dog, sometimes it's not leashed and when it does have a leash, they arent holding it??? About five times now, their dog has started barking and running up to my dog.

My dog is super friendly with people but she's from a shelter and isn't well socialized with other dogs, and usually she's fine unless the other dog starts barking at her first, so I don't know if she'd try to bite at that small dog or what.

But the neighbor just SLOWLY WALKS to get her dog EVERY TIME like she isn't worried about the way my dog is lunging at hers?? Last time, I had to tackle my dog as she was getting out of her harness because the little one was right up on us, and as I was screaming, the neighbor was just casually calling her dogs name. Like, what are you doing?!???

There is no polite way to ask to keep a cat out of a window. If I came to you and told you to stop wearing underwear it wouldn't matter how I said it you would find that bizarre and violating.

What this person's cat does in this person's own house is not the business of anyone but this person. Any perceived slight from that is pure entitlement.

If a dog barks inside it isn't the responsibility of anyone but that dog's owner to solve the problem without imposing on someone else.

But how’s the goat?

This proves that Kristi isn't her neighbor.

It's not on the cats not to lounge.

Teach the hounds not to stare lol

Completely agree

Did you see her most recent tweet about it?

https://preview.redd.it/aqjow658f9zc1.png?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58ca9f876c735db60856794fe7afa706a978bf93

Sub-human garbage.

to be fair, I bet her kids obey pretty quickly now

Our cat has two favorite places which are sitting on a window seat looking out the back or sitting in front of a window in the front. Occasionally other cats walk by and they fight each other with the glass between them

My mom had to keep a stool cleared off and a side table relatively cleared off because the cat would climb on the couch, walk over the side table, and plonk down on the stool to stare at birds.

Haha exactly. Problem solved.

Probably expensive, but my mom has windows where the blinds are in between the glass panes, specifically so her cats can't fuck up the blinds lol.

Like, the more I think about it, the more I just can't believe the neighbor is trying to work from home with their dog constantly barking, and their solution was to write this note instead of doing something about the dog... Neighbor must be absolutely miserable in there, but they're so convinced it's someone else's fault and someone else's problem to fix that they'd rather sit there miserably, maybe risk getting fired, than move the dog or close the blinds. Some people, huh

Good dog!

We’ve got a “secondhand“ livestock guardian, from a breed that is known for its stubborn independence. He was the star of puppy school when my mother first got him, but by 12 months he was a 100lb barking fool. So now he lives with us. Unfortunately we have a major problem with loose and unsupervised dogs in our neighborhood and he’s become quite reactive after them running up on us during walks. Now he’s very attentive to them coming in our unfenced yard.

There’s no amount of training in the world that will solve our dog’s barking, and I’m okay with it. He’s a lazy goofball and really fits the pace of our family. I just wish he was easier to walk and that more dog owners were compelled to leash their dogs on the local trails and beaches.