I'm just disappointed it took a year to do it. Restrict outside play time to the hours of 9 to 11 a.m. Cease accepting any dogs larger than 35 pounds. The restriction on the size of dogs the shelter will take in, Sullivan said, has more to do with the animals' comfort than reducing noise. It's not because of the barking.
Some small dogs make more noise than larger dogs.
Dogs had been locked inside by 5 p.m. every day and allowed back outside at 8 the following morning, giving them up to nine hours a day to run, sleep under the shade of trees, chase butterflies, or whatever else they felt like doing in the open air. Under the new house rules, dogs will be permitted in the enclosed areas outside only while cleaning crews are mopping, sanitizing and performing other household chores inside from 9 to 11 a.m. But that doesn't mean all dogs will be locked inside the building the other 22 hours, Sullivan said. They don't bark when they're being walked. An onslaught of complaints from neighbors in the adjacent Grove Park subdivision in the past year finally came to a head at the County Commission meeting this week.