It's 1 a.m., and the dogs next door are barking again. Actually, 7:27 p.m. on the white-noise-machine clock, which never says the right time because I unplug it and carry it from room to room to hit "rain" or "crickets" or "ocean" to drown out the barking dogs next door. Sometimes I turn up music. I blast the fan in the winter, keep the windows closed in the summer. The dogs bark the split second I open a book in bed. They bark while the coffee is brewing at the crack of dawn. My dreams in between are filled with the timbre of snarling dogs. Let it first be said that I love dogs. Our messy house is a menagerie of children and animals – we have three kids, two dogs, two cats, two finches and a low-maintenance hermit crab. But the dogs next door bark and bark and bark -- Kerry Madden/L.A. Times.

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DFO: This one hits close to home today b/c I was awakened at 4 o'clock this morning by the high-pitch bay of the yappy Beagle next door. The mutt starts baying the minute her owners' let her out the door. Fortunately, the owners seem to realize this and usually are pretty careful when they let the dog out.

Question: How do you deal with barking dogs in your 'hood?

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