Barking dogs at night

How to tackle this problem?

1. Call the authorities and ask them to give an ultimatum to our neighbor 2. Visit the neighbor and explain that the dog is barking at night and keeping you awake and they need to do something. 3. Start a campaign with other neighbors against pets in the neighborhood 4. Get a petition from other neighbors and then visit the neighbor 5. Visit the neighbor with a gun or Uzi. 6. Visit the neighbor with a fake gun like a water squirt gun 7. See if the neighbor with dog owns the house (versus a renter), if not contact the owner and complain to them 8. Take sleeping pills 9. Cover the windows with a special material that blocks the sound that comes from the outside (it is used in recording studios) 10. Start using earmuffs when you go to bed 11. Put some kind of sedative in the dog's food or water 12. Pay some money to the next door's housekeeper to ask her to put some sedative in the dog's food or water 13. Prepare a letter and make other neighbors sign it in order to expel the owner of the dog from the neighborhood 14. Make our neighbor's life miserable in order to force him to move out 15. Make a special arrangement with our neighbor, so that he will be responsible for the dog and he will assure that the dog won't bark after a certain hour 16. Have a neighborhood riot about the dog 17. Have someone sneak up at night and muzzle the dog

18. Shoot sleeping darts at the dog 19. Have a picket line in front of the dog's house 24 hours a day 20. Pay someone to steal the dog 21. Keep the dog in a constant supply of chew bones 22. Zap the dog everytime it barks 23. Hire a dog whisperer 24. Throw rotten food at the dog so the neighbor has to clean the dog up in the morrning 25. Put a skunk into the neighbor's yard; once again a pain to clean the smell from a pet 26. Rig some type of device that the dog chases all night long 27. Introduce a dog of the opposite sex 28. Introduce a smilar dog and a terriftorial fight will probably occur 29. Call animal control everydat till they take care of the problem 30. Offer your neighbor a free appointment with a vet so that the vet can identify what's happening with the dog 31. Try sleeping with headphones and classical music 32. Buy the dog and give it to your niece as a Christmas present 33. Sleep somewhere else, instead of your house 34. Find the quieter room in your house and try to sleep there 35. Change your work hours: work by night and sleep by the day 36. Sleep just a certain number of hours during the whole day in 3 or 4 periods instead of sleeping 8 hours in a row 37. Poison the dog 38. If the dog is just an abandoned dog, bring him to a doctor that could make a special surgery to remove his vocal cords. If the dog has an owner, try to convince him to make the surgery 39. Pay a special trainer for the dog or relaxing therapies

40. Convince the owner to put classical or new age music to the dog by night at a very low volume to make him sleep 41. Move to a different neighborhood 42. Create a DSP system (digital signal processor) that reverses the dog bark sound and creates silence. 43. Mafia approach: break a toe a day until it stops barking 44. Reward the dog for being quiet, if it's quiet give them a snack 45. Take the dog hunting and wear it out, make it tired 46. Shoot fireworks such as bottle rockets or roman candles at the dog whenever it starts barking. 47. Get a bigger, meaner dog and teach it to attack the other dog whenever it barks 48. Give the dog presents that make it choke, like plastic wrap, plastic grocery bags. Put a little meat sauce on it so the dog swallows it whole 49. Stick ear plugs in the dog ears, if it can't hear, it probably won't bark 50. Get a super soaker/water squirt gun and shoot the dog when it barks 51. See if there are neighborhood regulations such as condo association or neighborhood associations and work through them 52. Strap a walkie-talkie to the dog and whenever it barks, get on the system and tell the dog to shut up. 53. Steal the dog during the day and do training with it. 54. Blast air-horn at dog when it barks until it goes deaf 55. Maybe the dog is barking because people are walking around at night, so stop people from walking around by putting up signs or gates or something. 56. Get Spock from Star Trek to do a mind-meld with the dog 57. Put on dark sunglasses and blind person stick, then take the dog, put a "service dog" shirt on the dog, then board a city bus that goes really far away, but get off at the next stop and leave the dog on the bus. Be sure to remove the sunglasses and stick when you get off the bus so they don't recognize you. For best results, ask a kid to watch the dog for you for a second. 58. Give the dog to a Korean (I've been to Korea and they do eat dogs...sorry to bring it up). 59. Steal the dog, make a dog stew (get help from Korean friend), and invite the neighbor who had the dog over for a cook out.]

60. Advertise on craigslist for a free dog and give it away when someone responds, make sure you arrange for the person to see the dog when the dog owner is at work. Better yet, sell the dog for money. 61. Put a mean cat in the dogs yard 62. Take the dog for a run or walk with you, become its friend, then take it from the owner. 63. Play loud music whenever the dog barks 64. Create a special device that sends an alert to the owner of the dog when the pet is barking 65. Emasculate the dog 66. Keep the dog away from external noises. Isolate him in a room at night 67. Feed him in the evening to foster the sleep process 68. Hit him softly with a stick everytime he barks 69. Evict the neighbor 70. Take a Valium