My neighbor's dog is crying it's head off...

[Archae]

My neighbor loves his dog, and cares for him well.

But the dog has severe seperation anxiety, and the dog's crying can be heard through our whole building.

Any of you have a dog living nearby that cries like that?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That has to be awful, my dear Archae...

Does your neighbor know about this, when he's gone?

There's got to be something that could help the poor dog.

I believe there's medications even...

It's heartbreaking.

[Archae]

2. Oh yes, he knows.

His vet suggested sedating the dog when he goes out, my neighbor said no way.

The dog will just have to learn, it'll probably take a couple years more.

[elleng]

6. There's a dog hugging thing I've seen advertised,

kind of like a girdle, which allegedly comforts them. Maybe that would help.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. It's the Thundershirt. I've seen it advertised, too...

http://www.thundershirt.com/?gclid=COL5zcikxbACFYFo4AodExy_YA

There's also the Tellington Touch and Comfort Zone, an artificial pheromone that comes in a diffuser that's supposed to calm dogs the way that Feliway works with cats.

http://www.ttouch.com/whatisTTouch.shtml

http://www.petcomfortzone.com/dogs.html

[GoCubsGo]

3. The dog across the street did that.

It stopped after he got a second dog. Maybe a friend would help this doggie. Or, doggie day care.

[turtlerescue1]

4. A pal helped my frenzied pup.

AND it sure helped with my guilt.

[Stuart G]

5. Very very unusual solution..but it seems to work..

The dogs next door used to howl a lot and cry. Often loud noises startled them. There are two dogs, a begal and a small dog. (yap,yap, yap)
Obviously, they are upset too.

In my dining room I have a CD player. That dining room wall, shares a wall with the people next door who have the dogs. I stay at
home a lot, and those dogs and their howling and yapping distrubed me. After writing letters, and waiting for the dogs to stop, one day I decided to out do them...but...

.The CD player always has the same CD in it, ready to go. But it isn't a loud rock and roll CD, it is quiet, soothing
music that I listen to over and over again... kinda calms me down ..clair de lune..by Debussy, Moonlight Sonata by Beetoven , and so on..the best of the quiet and soothing music..

This CD runs about an hour..so ..One day I played it loud enough for the dogs to hear it. The walls are thin in this townhouse complex,
so I knew that the dogs could hear the music and they stopped howling and yapping after 5 minutes. Now each time they start in, and
it is once in a while , I play the same music..a little loud so they can hear it. and they stop, almost always within a few minutes. It
isn't so bad listening to that music a little loud..It is ok. You may not believe it, but this works..no more letters to the people next door, and no more howling and yapping. Maybe some music like this will calm them down, if you can get it close to them so they can hear it. I heard that dogs are sensitive to loud noises, maybe this will work for you..Oh,and when the music plays, maybe they know they are not alone...

[TrogL]

9. We do that too except the dogs like TV

We leave it on the National Geographic channel all day. There's often Dog Whisperer reruns.

[TrogL]

8. I got my dog another dog for company

Now they both bark for two minutes then they're good.