ONE apartment resident has figured out how to keep their neighbor's dog occupied while it's home alone.
Someone wrote to "Dear Prudence" for advice on how to handle a noisy dog and an angry neighbor.
Titled "I Barked Back," the writer explains they were the only tenant in their apartment building for a while until a new neighbor moved in.
With this neighbor came a dog that would often bark and howl whenever it was home alone.
The writer grew up with pets and never found the noise to be aggravating until it came to their days off from work.
While trying to relax in their living room they realized the dog's barking was even louder than they thought.
In a snap decision, they decided to bark back, and it worked.
After a minute or two of silence, the dog barked back but it was a "curious and unsure bark."
The barking conversations seemed to cheer the dog up while its owner was away, resulting in it barking and howling less throughout the day.
Once while they were going back and forth, the neighbor came home and was furious.
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"He knocked aggressively at my door and told me to stop “teasing” his dog."
The writer apologized to the owner and tried to explain, even offering to watch the dog rather than it be home alone.
Rather, the dog's owner asked for the back and forth barking to stop, and the writer agreed.
Unfortunately, the barking and howling started up again, and the writer was left at a crossroads of what to do. Make the dog happy, or make the owner happy?
The advice offered up by R. Eric Thomas was to give the situation some time and then maybe slip a note – with a gift card to a pet store – under the door and try to talk things out.
John DeMaria was also being terrorized by non-stop barking, so he made the "Dog Zapper 2000."
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Each time his neighbor's dog barks, he hits a switch that set off an airhorn right back at the dog.
It's controlled with a remote so he was able to keep pressing it as he walked around his house.
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