Dog at 1362 broadway was barking loudly again this morning at around 8 AM. It was audible half a block away through closed double pane windows.

See my comments on the original issue linked in the description which was fraudulently closed by APD for a more complete log of the various barking episodes.

I hope this gets resolved.

Peace2019 it probably never will, given the city government's very clear refusal to enforce any laws on this island. This has been going on for over a year now

This is awful. Been here only 5 years.

The dog's been barking there for 5 years? I didn't realize it has been that long. I'm assuming you live near by it too?

No / I’m Encinal and Fernside. I really hope this gets resolved. Poor pup 🐾

Yeah I feel bad for the dog, too. It's not the dogs fault he has a crappy owner.

What are the laws about dogs in backyards? I'm guessing that as long as it has food, water, and shelter it's considered acceptable?

Martha technically it is against the law for a dog to be barking loudly like that in the neighborhood. There are regulations on both daytime and nighttime noise, and dog barking like this is explicitly prohibited. Sadly, the city simply won't enforce that law

Actually I'm not asking about the barking issue. Just asking if there are laws about keeping a dog in a backyard for 24 hours a day. I suppose that's considered okay?

I mean, Alameda Animal Services doesn't seem to have a problem with my other neighbors keeping 3 dogs locked up in their apartment 24/7, so I would assume that they're also perfectly ok with leaving a german shepherd locked up in a backyard 24/7. That dog actually has it slightly better than my neighbor's dogs, who only get to see the outside world for 5 minutes a day in their carport. They've never even seen a park or a lake, have never been taken on a walk in their lives, have probably never seen another dog in their lives, etc. AAS seems perfectly fine with it so it seems clear that they don't really care about animals being neglected. Much like they don't really care about anything else it seems.

Once I reported a company on the same street as my office for keeping a cow tied up. Had no food or water. Animal control showed up in about ten minutes. (Must have been for the novelty of it all). Cow disappeared soon after.

Interesting. Maybe AAS care more about cows than dogs. I've called them on my neighbors tons of times and they never did anything

Dog at 1362 Broadway was barking loudly again around 3 AM last night. I've been hearing the barking sporadically at night during random nights throughout this month.

Dog at 1362 Broadway was barking loudly again this morning

Dog at 1362 Broadway barking again loudly today

Sunday August 11th 2019 9:57 PM. Dog at 1362 broadway barking loudly yet again.

Monday, August 12th 2019 9:12 PM. Dog at 1362 broadway barking loudly yet again. can hear it all the way from pearl and central. thats how loud it is.

Thursday, August 15th, 2019, 2:19 AM

Dog at 1362 broadway barking loudly yet again. can hear the barks reverberating through the whole block

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2019. 1:30 PM

Dog at 1362 broadway is still, to this day, barking loudly

Video here: https://youtu.be/uSav1XMNohw

I wonder how many years it takes to get a bad dog owner cited in Alameda? 20? 50? 100? Forever?

Surveillance cam footage of same incident documented above: https://youtu.be/0xAqq_rs6-w
(note youtube butchered the audio for some reason)

Sorry wrong issue, that is a different video. I didnt realize I had the wrong tab open in my web browser

I will forward this complaint to animal control services for investigation.

Friday, October 4th, 2019. The loud barking dog at 1362 Broadway started barking again early this morning, I believe around 7 AM. At 8 AM the dog was still barking sporadically and it was keeping me and my girlfriend awake and interfering with our ability to get our full 8 hours of sleep.

Here is a brief snippet of video footage recording the barking early this morning: https://youtu.be/obt3HXmOcE8

Make sure to listen with earphones and the volume turned up for best audio quality.

I called APD to file a barking dog complaint. I am confident that nothing happened to the owner and that they are still not cited to this day. They probably never will get cited and we will probably have to continue listening to the barking daily forever.

An animal control officer responded today. The officer reported the following, "Went out as first call this morning. Stayed on scene for ten minutes and it was all quiet the entire time."

I listened to the video you uploaded to Youtube. We will continue to respond to calls for service and take appropriate action.

I've already brought this up to the city before but they ignored me...

The problem is that we only have one animal control officer serving a city of 79,000 people, and the only way a bad dog owner can be cited is if that animal control officer personally witnesses the barking for 10 consecutive minutes.

By the time the officer responds to these calls the barking has usually already stopped, and they do not stay around long enough to observe the next barking episode if the dog pauses for 10 minutes or more between barking eruptions.

This is a serious loophole that can be easily exploited by any bad dog owner in alameda to get away with violating the municipal code. I know that there are currently multiple such dog owners living in Alameda exploiting this flaw.

The city government could easily solve this problem by amending the current legislation to make it possible for AAS to cite a bad dog owner if they are provided with video evidence of the nuisance and there is no reasonable doubt about the validity of the video. If the video doesn't show signs of doctoring then it should be accepted as evidence to get the owner cited.

Sadly, the city refuses to amend the legislation or even acknowledge my perfectly reasonable request to make this amendment. They won't even acknowledge what a huge problem it is to have only one animal control officer serving an entire city of 79,000, with a limited schedule and no way to cite bad dog owners unless they personally witness the barking for 10 minutes in a row.

This is a huge problem and countless Alamedans suffer because of this loophole.

My home security cam got the dog barking again at 8:30 PM today

Dog was barking again at 6 AM

Dog was barking again at 6:37 PM

Dog was barking again around midnight last night

Dog was barking again this morning around 10 AM

Dog was barking again this evening at 9:23 PM

Dog is now barking again. 9:27 PM

I would encourage you to place a call for service through our non-emergency dispatch line @ 510-337-8340 when the dog is barking.

Hi Lieutenant McMullen, unfortunately after many, many attempts (and I'm talking hundreds, if not thousands) of actually taking that advice and calling that number to report it, and repeatedly having nothing done to address the problem, it doesn't seem to actually be a viable solution for this problem. I've already addressed this problem in one of my previous comments here but I'll post it again just to be clear:

I've already brought this up to the city before but they ignored me...

The problem is that we only have one animal control officer serving a city of 79,000 people, and the only way a bad dog owner can be cited is if that animal control officer personally witnesses the barking for 10 consecutive minutes.

By the time the officer responds to these calls the barking has usually already stopped, and they do not stay around long enough to observe the next barking episode if the dog pauses for 10 minutes or more between barking eruptions.

This is a serious loophole that can be easily exploited by any bad dog owner in alameda to get away with violating the municipal code. I know that there are currently multiple such dog owners living in Alameda exploiting this flaw.

The city government could easily solve this problem by amending the current legislation to make it possible for AAS to cite a bad dog owner if they are provided with video evidence of the nuisance and there is no reasonable doubt about the validity of the video. If the video doesn't show signs of doctoring then it should be accepted as evidence to get the owner cited.

Sadly, the city refuses to amend the legislation or even acknowledge my perfectly reasonable request to make this amendment. They won't even acknowledge what a huge problem it is to have only one animal control officer serving an entire city of 79,000, with a limited schedule and no way to cite bad dog owners unless they personally witness the barking for 10 minutes in a row.

This is a huge problem and countless Alamedans suffer because of this loophole.

Sadly because of the massive loopholes that our city government have knowingly left in place in our city government's structure and our municipal code, this dog owner is pretty much guaranteed to get away with this stuff and will likely never face any sort of consequences for the nuisance he subjects our whole neighborhood to every day. that's just the sad truth, the way this city is set up is designed to encourage and help people break laws and punish victims.

Dog is now barking again. 1:00 PM. October 26th. 2019.

Dog was barking again this morning around 7 AM. October 27th 2019

Dog is now barking again. 10:25 PM. October 27th. 2019

Dog was loudly barking again this morning at around 8 AM. Then again at around 10 AM.

Dog was barking again this morning at 10:05 AM. November 11th. 2019.

November 1st* 2019

November 2nd, 2019. Dog has been barking sporadically all of last night/this morning. It was barking at around 4 AM and continued sporadically throughout the morning. It is now 11:03 AM and I can still hear the dog at 1362 Broadway barking. It was abandoned in the back yard yet again.

November 2nd, 2019. 11:08 AM. The dog at 1362 Broadway is still loudly barking sporadically.

November 2nd, 2019. 11:15 AM. The dog at 1362 Broadway is still loudly barking sporadically. Formal complaint filed with APD at 10:59 AM

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019. 11:19 AM. The dog at 1362 Broadway is still loudly barking sporadically.

Here is a video I just recorded with my cell phone. https://youtu.be/Jp_EGMxMgSs

The dog sounds very distressed and keeps whining inbetween barks. This neglected animal is left abandoned in the back yard of this address daily all day. The owner is a complete degenerate.

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019. 7:40 PM. The dog at 1362 Broadway is still barking. Has been barking sporadically throughout the day. Extremely loud.

Monday, November 4th, 2019. The dog continues to bark sporadically at random hours throughout the day and night. It continued all through Sunday and will likely continue into this week as well. Thanks APD

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. 8:58 PM. The german shephard left abandoned in the backyard of 1362 Broadway 24/7 is barking loudly again. Has been going for the past 10 minutes. Animal sounds very distressed. Its too bad APD/Animal services continues to do nothing about this as the problem continues unabated.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. 9:25 PM. The dog at 1362 broadway is barking again

Here is a video sample of the barking tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nxcDKwdec

Be sure to use headphones and adjust volume

Saturday, November 9th, 2019. 7:02 PM. The dog is barking loudly again. Has been barking at random times all day. Thanks APD!

Monday, November 11th, 2019. 3:18 PM. Dog is barking loudly again, probably in response to the frenzy of barking unleashed by the 4 dogs my neighbors keep i.l.le.g.a.l.ly locked up in their apartment at 2614 Central Ave #B. Either way its barking loudly now and continues even after the dogs from #B stopped

Monday, November 11th, 2019. 4:35 PM. Dog is still barking

Monday, November 11th, 2019. 4:48 PM. Dog is barking even louder now. Police have been called (again)

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019. 11:34 AM. Dog is barking again

Police called again

Had to make a new account because the deranged censorship n.4.z.i.s who run this site once again randomly put yet another nonsensical automatic censor on my account for no apparent reason, so I can no longer use the site from it. Every comment I post from that account now becomes "Content blocked by rejections." This is not the first time they've done this to me; they are doing to suppress and censor me and prevent me from exposing what a corrupt and worthless city government we have on this website where the whole world can see it.

Anyway, the dog is still barking daily with no end in sight. The dog woke us up early this morning at around 6:50 AM barking loudly. I called the police to report it, but as usual nothing happened. The dog probably wasn't barking by the time they finally showed up (if they even bothered to show up at all). Even if it was, chances are that animal control officer Alaina Onesko just didn't care and didn't bother citing them, like the myriad times she arrived at 2614 Central Ave, heard my neighbors dogs barking and still refused to cite them.

At 10:45 AM the dog started barking again

Tuesday, November 19th. 12:41 PM. The dog is still barking loudly. It's been barking loudly all day every day since my last comment posted here on the 14th. There has been no change and no end to the barking.

Here is a video I just recorded with my cell phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_EYWTeNpY

Be sure to listen with the volume up and earphones.

This has been an ongoing problem since April 2018. Every single day. Our city government and police force does nothing to address the problem.

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