There should be a law against barking dogs

I would like to know why it is acceptable for one household with a persistently

barking dog to steal the harmony and peace from their neighbors for blocks and

sometimes miles around?

With the County Council election upcoming, I

would like to know what position each candidate has on this situation. I

personally would vote for someone who had a workable solution to this

increasing problem.

The first draft of this letter was started at 5:20 a.m.

on Sunday, the 22nd of October, when a dog started barking, which got other

dogs barking, which got another poor sleepless soul to yelling shut up, which

got other dogs barking and barking and barking, not to mention the roosters.

Sunday is my one day a week where I should have an opportunity to sleep late,

and it was stolen from me and many others by this commotion.

Why can’t we

hold the owners of these dogs accountable? Surely there could be some kind of

ordinance against perpetually barking dogs. There are laws against too-loud

music, too-loud cars and motorcycles, even against generators. Why are people

allowed to let their dogs bark incessantly?

I consider a constantly

barking dog as a health hazard. Dogs were domesticated to help protect humans.

One of the ways they do this is by warning us of danger by barking. However, if

a dog barks continually, it creates a sense of danger and anxiety that is never

realized and ends up just causing stress.

Similar to the water torture, a

single drop on the forehead is not significant, but drop after drop after drop

adds up, and bark after bark after bark can create something close to road

rage. I am surprised that there are not more poisonings or other ways in which

people who have been tortured by a barking dog in their neighborhood have taken

matters into their own hands.

I hope other quiet, peace loving people will

unit. We will no longer be tormented by perpetually barking dogs! If the

council will not help us, who will?

Dawn Cantrell

Kapa’a