Hello World! Successfully, I have recorded the noises from my disrespectful neighbor’s neglected pet dogs, and am now making it available for everyone to hear!
Starting off, the Philippine Animal Welfare Society has a website that explains what “animal abuse” & “pet neglect” are in The Philippines, however, my local government unit (LGU or barangay) REFUSES to allow my household from filing a written affidavit, as required. My LGU says “they’re only pet dogs” while ignoring our complaints of dog barking noises. These pet dogs have been consistently barking, often barking too loud, since late August 2019. In fact, those pet dogs are close enough to trigger Amazon Alexa, proving the dogs I am hearing are not the ones located far away, as the LGU claims. Based on my own supersensitive binaural hearing capability as a BLIND human, I am estimating those “pet dogs” are located within 10ft or 3m from my “man cave”.
This MP3 audio file contains the actual barking noises that I recorded using my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone with Hi-Q MP3 Voice Recorder Pro in stereo. The first part of the recording has the blowing noises of my air conditioner, as I had just risen from my bed to make the recording. The second half of the recording has the barking dogs noises. I held my smartphone in landscape position, above my chair & air conditioner. Also, the creaking sounds of my air conditioner’s air swing was also recorded.
Despite my blindness, I’m teaching myself to keep Hi-Q active in the background, so I can quickly switch to it when necessary. I was listening to an audio podcast when the pet dogs began barking excessively. My idea is to “record at will”, as the barking sequence can vary between 10 seconds & 10 minutes per barking session. Also to note, the barking sessions are consistent & predictable. ☺️
The suspects are unskilled animal handlers, located in House 29 besides my peaceful home. As of Thursday, February 17, 2022, I have sent an eMail to my local barangay (LGU), requesting affidavits to file multiple complaints of annimal noise pollution, and that our Constitutional Rights to Complain has been DENIED. So far, as of Saturday, February 19, 2022, the dysfunctionalLGU has not yet responded, and the untrained dogs are intermittently barking between 10 seconds & 35 minutes, as if the disrespectful animal handlers are forcing their animals to make loud noises.
Hopefully, after posting this blog post of an actual recording of barking noises, will convince my LGU that I am not talking about the dogs across the street, etc. I highly suspect a politician is involved in preventing my family from filing a written affidavit. So, I figure, my audio recordings, as I continue making more of them, will soon be used as evidence. Typically, the pet dogs often sound neglected, as if locked in a room, and often being used as a tool of intimidation against me & my household. Long ago, in the USA, I used to be a dog obedience trainer, so I know the barking dogs I’m recording are “untrained”, therefore fits in the category of “animal abuse”.
Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!
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Update (June 11, 2022): LOUD barking noises continue as previously logged for over two years. Noise-cancelling BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones remain very effective against such noise torture by means of an animal.
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Very frustrating for you to have their noise at all hours. And obviously cruel for the animals. Is there any way you can play a control noise inside your own household (& state its dB level or what it is) as a comparison during the recording so that your evidence shows just how loud & noticeable the dogs are while you are just sitting in your room?
(We had years of similar issues with a hall next door to our block of flats that did Saturday night party bookings which broke the rules of hire: the party-goers would bring in their own DJ equipment, open all the windows & continue well past the agreed finish time, sometimes into the early hours of the morning etc etc. We couldn’t hear our own TV in the living room, even with all windows closed in the height of Summer & being the flat diagonally furthest from the noise source. The owners refused to have a caretaker on site to enforce their rules &, as it was a different group of people every time, even if we managed the police round, the sound would be turned down temporarily as they didn’t care.]
Good luck with getting this resolved.
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Because I’m totally BLIND, I have to use my hearing to comprehend spoken content from my talking screen-readers in addition to conversing with my wife & family members.
In my case, dog bark noises interrupt my focus in hearing spoken content from audiobooks & talking screenreaders, especially when I’m trying to debug a computer program. Though my expensive Bose headphones work in eliminating the dog barks, I live with family that I enjoy conversing with.
My latest experiment of my comprehension of spoken English words vary from 140wpm (excessive dog barking noises) to 600wpm (pure noise-cancellation silence). WPM means “words per minute”.
I had to stop using my Bluetooth 25w stereo speakers with center-positioned subwoofer, mounted on my wall, because the dogs are often barking louder than my music.
My last neighborhood is still karaoke central, which was why my family moved me here. Unfortunately, the pandemic quarantines are preventing animal welfare activists from visiting me, as I’m trying to get those neglected pet dogs extracted, delivered to the nearest animal shelter.
During Martial Law years in The Philippines, law enforcement officers shot & killed barking dogs & punished those playing loud music. Neighborhoods were quiet back then! ☺️
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