• Registered: 19 July 2010
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Re: Life next to council tenants

What exactly *is* an abatement order?   I'm not really familiar with this term - I moved here from Canada 10 years ago.

  I don't expect the council to kick them out and re-house them -  my primary problem has always been to get the dogs to stop barking.  And of the 4 big dogs,  the 3 bull terriers are actually not that bad -  the worst of the dogs is an alsatian which gets the others going and will not stop.  I think they should have to either train it or get rid of it.

  I'm wondering about getting one of those hyper-sonic noise "guns" that are supposed to scare cats away from your garden.  maybe If I point loud hyper-sonic noise at the dog each time he gets going *I* can train it not to bark all day. 

  My friend thinks I should borrow an anaconda and let it loose in their garden.  but I don't think that's practical.

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  • Registered: 1 April 2010
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Re: Life next to council tenants

Possibly wouldn't go down too well with the Police and RSPCA, Stratus! There must be some sort of sonic device you could use on the dogs - explore the net and see what you can find.

As for an abatement order - it is a legal order requiring 'noise makers' to stop, or considerably reduce the noise they are making, which is causing nuisance to neighbours. To have one of these orders served, the nuisance has to be recognised by the Environmental Health Officer from your local council. This includes (for your interest, Stratus!) noise caused by dogs. Have a look at the Noise Abatement Society's website.

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  • Registered: 19 July 2010
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Re: Life next to council tenants

Thank you for the information on abatement orders.  I wonder how effective those are?   What do the police do if people break the order?

Yes.. it's the dogs primarily - but also the revving.   The sonic device  or "gun" I saw was this one at Maplin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=222505  -  so a humane and legal way to take some action into my own hands - though possibly labour intensive and not effective?

I do see what you mean regarding the rspca and the anaconda idea -  it would be cruel to the Anaconda - the dogs all have pointy collars.  But it could stop the revving as well if it kept them away from their many scooters, motorbikes, and quad bikes.

:-)

thanks!

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  • Registered: 24 December 2009
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Re: Life next to council tenants

hi again,
i bought one of these sonic devices a while ago at my old address to see if it would
work against a dog, (alsation) that lived at back of our garden and barked constantly.
did it work, well yes and no.
it did at first, but having to use it manually every time it barked was rather time consuming.
as far as the ones that are a permanent fixture facing the offending animal , im not sure about.
but must be worth a try. also for a number of dogs all barking together, they probably wouldnt
even hear it. at my new address there was a dog barking continuosly three doors down,
didnt use the device, just took me a couple of years of log sheets, recordings, until a visit to
the dogs owner from enviromental health did the trick, he shuts him up now.
so really all i can say is keep at it, and it should end eventually.
         good luck again.

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