To sleep or not to sleep, bark is the question...um..ya

 When you've been sleep deprived from night shift, and then the dam dog next door, decides to bark just as you're drifting off into a wonderful oblivion, after a hot bath, and snuggling under the duvet, what do you do???

Well naturally you shout out the window for the bluddy thing to SHUT UPPP! it works for a mere minute..but then it starts again. Shutting the window, even though the room is hot and stuffy, you put the fan on full blast, and shove earplugs into both ears. But now you're annoyed...and start tossing around in bed. AAhh a sleeping pill...noo, noo that'll just make you groggy, you know how it knocks you out for a good ten hours, not the answer. 

A vow to write a nasty complaint to the owners of the puppy, and making a mental note to buy a good dog whistle, I resign myself to nibble gently on a tiny portion of Temazepan, and then drift off finally to sleep.

Next days off. Bunnings and $180 on Afterpay later...

That will solve the fly infestation that's begun since the barking thing arrived next door.

Online order of a very interesting anti-barking sensor device...$129...expedited shipping.

2 days later..unwrapping the thing gleefully I imagine noiseless nights, and sleep-ins of utterly serene bliss, devoid of any barking at all. I scour though the 'everything' drawer for some type of string to attach this little box ( batteries purchased that very morning) onto our patio pole.

Then I turn it on to number 2, and wait. I deliberately make a bit of a scuffling sound near the fence to entice the dear dog to bark. Nothing. Ha!

I go inside to put the kettle on, and wallah, it barks! So I run outside to look at the sensor, my sweet expensive new friend, sure enough the red light is on as the dog is barking, which means..its emitting the painful noise to the dog. The dog stops barking! Oh joy!!!

For 3 solid days I felt I had overcome the dog and its bark. But then...

Suddenly it seemed the dog was barking again, it would bark further down along the front of the yard, so it had discovered that the noise only affected it when it was closer to our fence. 

The range of this sensor on 3 is apparently 15 metres. 

Sometimes in life..you've got to say WTF!!!!

Perhaps there will be another solution, I'm damned yet if I'm ready to try the sleeping pills in sausages thing..but I'm getting seriously close.