Animal control has now been called at least several times on this nuisance dog barking. As I write this, the dog is barking hysterically for over 5 minutes. Most all day Saturday the dog barked. The owners of this dog, allow it to bark whether they are home or not. They make no attempt to silence the dog or bring it in the house. The city of Oakland is neglectful as it does not enforce its own nuisance laws in a manner that the owner takes responsibility for the their actions. These people are repeat offenders. They had a previous dog that was a constant barking nuisance. They don't care.

A couple of Saturdays ago I received a call from OPD informing me of the new policies regarding the dog barking nuisance. Apparently, if the dog barks continuously for 10 minutes, the owner can now be fined. The officer informed to record the barking. I told him, since they now contacted the irresponsible owners and told them who complained, I will be retaliated against as this is the pattern. I don't understand why OPD breaks confidentiality this way thereby enabling retaliatory acts. Two days later, on Memorial Day, I went out for part of the day. When I returned a dead squirrel was placed on the front part of my lawn. It had obviously been killed very recently, laying on its back. This is retaliation. Animal control was called and it was picked up. All this just to have dog barking controlled.

And this household still has a barking dog. They leave it out while they are gone and the neurotic dog barks at anything because it's always confined to the front yard. The dog is a nuisance, a disturbance and the only dog on the block with uncontrolled barking day and night. Animal control needs to handle this situation once and for all.