08-08-2024, 08:15 PM
In my experience it's futile to try negotiation with dog owners. Jamestown has dog ordinances, as does BoCo.
Calling animal control is the only solution that I've found to be effective.
Please call Sheriff's Officer Sarah Spensieri, who is the head of Animal Control - Direct Line 303 441 1360
She will have you
a) Collect photos and recordings.
b) Document times of barking incidents and keep notes
c) get neighbors to complain for verification.
After giving her a call, email her: SSpensieri@bouldercounty.org
Dog owners, dogs and the rest of us make the community sweet, so here's some info that might be edifying for Hillary.
The ordinances exist for these reasons:
* Your neighbors have the right to the quiet enjoyment of their homes at all times of the day and night.
* Barking dog conflicts can lead to violence to the dog or the owner. And as you can imagine, barking is a trigger that doesn't seem to let up.
* Dogs pack. Their behavior as a pack is different than as individuals.
* Dogs chase wildlife - maybe good in the case of bears, and anthropocentric notions aren't necessarily bad, but it's yet another predation on the wild ones.
* They knock over old folks (like me) with their friendly greetings. And I like dogs.
* In 2023, I suffered two dog bites that required visits to the doctor. In both cases the owner said "but my dog is friendly".
Imagine if I were child ...
Biting is unpredictable - more so outside the home.
In both cases, the owner called the dog and the dog was all friendly again in seconds.
* Dogs can go nuts over cyclists and cause injury
* Dogs on icy roads can cause car crashes when the driver (naturally) swerves to avoid Fido. Not at Ivydell, but close to there.
* I'm sure you can imagine more reasons.
The heat has stressed everyone out, but this situation existed before the hot spell.
Hillary, I bet you could save yourself some hassle by calling Sarah at 303 441 1360. I worked with her on a complaint,
and she cares about animals and has concrete suggestions for dog owners - that's her job.
She does NOT want to write you a summons and have to go through legal process.
I agree that shock collars are a cruelty, and that rewardian training methods are effective. I would imagine if you call her and implement her
suggestions and let folks know that you're doing so, the complaints will vanish.
Oh - when I went through this on the complaint side, she made sure that I wasn't being snarky or doing some kind of vendetta.
And these days when my neighbor's 3 dogs do have a barkfest, or leave me a little gift, it's OK - they're dogs - and I can overlook
infrequent behavior. My neighbor is part of my community, and in an emergency we might have to rely on each other.
Owning a dog used to be inexpensive. We tend to remember the goodoldays. The best parallel I can come up with is understating
real expense of car ownership. We don't want to realize pet ownership costs - and this includes training and the time it's going to take.
I just dropped $2000 on my cat Thomas Aquinas who had ashtma and pneumonia concurrently. The Veterinary Emergency Group down by Trader Joe's
looks like an emergency room for humans, and Uniquely Cats across 28th St. saved him. A regular dog-oriented
vet was ineffective. I guess where I'm going is that the "standard of care" for our pets has changed (for the better, but at a cost) over time.
In addition to pre-empting legal trouble by talking to Sarah, you could:
* keep the dogs indoors during zoom calls
* give your neighbors your phone number to call you when the dogs are disturbing them.
If Hillary is able to avert this slow-moving train wreck, I will perform a special entertainment
in the little park ramada. It will involve my Grace Jones impersonation - I'll slow-dance to a Bee Gees tune in a wetsuit
filled with warm beef stew at sunset on a misty December day.
Now which one of you little rascals hid my meds ???
Good luck!
Calling animal control is the only solution that I've found to be effective.
Please call Sheriff's Officer Sarah Spensieri, who is the head of Animal Control - Direct Line 303 441 1360
She will have you
a) Collect photos and recordings.
b) Document times of barking incidents and keep notes
c) get neighbors to complain for verification.
After giving her a call, email her: SSpensieri@bouldercounty.org
Dog owners, dogs and the rest of us make the community sweet, so here's some info that might be edifying for Hillary.
The ordinances exist for these reasons:
* Your neighbors have the right to the quiet enjoyment of their homes at all times of the day and night.
* Barking dog conflicts can lead to violence to the dog or the owner. And as you can imagine, barking is a trigger that doesn't seem to let up.
* Dogs pack. Their behavior as a pack is different than as individuals.
* Dogs chase wildlife - maybe good in the case of bears, and anthropocentric notions aren't necessarily bad, but it's yet another predation on the wild ones.
* They knock over old folks (like me) with their friendly greetings. And I like dogs.
* In 2023, I suffered two dog bites that required visits to the doctor. In both cases the owner said "but my dog is friendly".
Imagine if I were child ...
Biting is unpredictable - more so outside the home.
In both cases, the owner called the dog and the dog was all friendly again in seconds.
* Dogs can go nuts over cyclists and cause injury
* Dogs on icy roads can cause car crashes when the driver (naturally) swerves to avoid Fido. Not at Ivydell, but close to there.
* I'm sure you can imagine more reasons.
The heat has stressed everyone out, but this situation existed before the hot spell.
Hillary, I bet you could save yourself some hassle by calling Sarah at 303 441 1360. I worked with her on a complaint,
and she cares about animals and has concrete suggestions for dog owners - that's her job.
She does NOT want to write you a summons and have to go through legal process.
I agree that shock collars are a cruelty, and that rewardian training methods are effective. I would imagine if you call her and implement her
suggestions and let folks know that you're doing so, the complaints will vanish.
Oh - when I went through this on the complaint side, she made sure that I wasn't being snarky or doing some kind of vendetta.
And these days when my neighbor's 3 dogs do have a barkfest, or leave me a little gift, it's OK - they're dogs - and I can overlook
infrequent behavior. My neighbor is part of my community, and in an emergency we might have to rely on each other.
Owning a dog used to be inexpensive. We tend to remember the goodoldays. The best parallel I can come up with is understating
real expense of car ownership. We don't want to realize pet ownership costs - and this includes training and the time it's going to take.
I just dropped $2000 on my cat Thomas Aquinas who had ashtma and pneumonia concurrently. The Veterinary Emergency Group down by Trader Joe's
looks like an emergency room for humans, and Uniquely Cats across 28th St. saved him. A regular dog-oriented
vet was ineffective. I guess where I'm going is that the "standard of care" for our pets has changed (for the better, but at a cost) over time.
In addition to pre-empting legal trouble by talking to Sarah, you could:
* keep the dogs indoors during zoom calls
* give your neighbors your phone number to call you when the dogs are disturbing them.
If Hillary is able to avert this slow-moving train wreck, I will perform a special entertainment
in the little park ramada. It will involve my Grace Jones impersonation - I'll slow-dance to a Bee Gees tune in a wetsuit
filled with warm beef stew at sunset on a misty December day.
Now which one of you little rascals hid my meds ???
Good luck!