This response is from City of Rio Rancho administration.

To learn about what actions the city has taken regarding reports of barking dogs based
on previously reported instances, please contact Animal Control directly at 505-891-5075.

To report issues such as these please contact the city’s Animal Control Division directly at 505-891-5075, or visit the city’s Web site at http://www.ci.rio-rancho.nm.us and click on the “Citizen Question Forms” link located on the left side of the main home page (there is an Animal Control Division form available).

If the issue is occurring outside the division’s normal hours of operation (Monday - Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), please call the non-emergency dispatch number at 505-891-7226.

Please note that the Observer’s See Click Fix system does not provide/require that any contact information is listed/provided so that city staff can follow-up with you directly if they need to or have questions. Furthermore, posting concerns about a barking dog to the system on the weekend night will not get this information to city staff in a timely manner. That is why it is advised you call the non-emergency dispatch number at 505-891-7226 if the issue is occurring outside the Animal Control Division’s normal hours.

City of RR has responded to this complaint with their standard response-report it to Animal Control. Animal control has received numerous compliants about these dogs for more than a year and will do nothing about it. Animal control tells the complainant to call us and we will tell you what YOU can do about fixing the problem. They are too effiing lazy to do their job which is a typical city employee response. There is an ordinance against this barking and if the city wants to increase their revenue they need to get off their @#$% and issue citations to the owner. FIX THE GODDAM PROBLEM.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are dogs near Peaceful Meadows on neighboring streets that bark like crazy all day and night as well. Even the ones that look like Pete from Little Rascals. It's very annoying. Extreme majors like shooting and poisoning meat will occur if the problem continues.

It is unfortunate that some dog owners are inconsiderate.

This city has absolutely NO response to barking dogs even when they arrive at the home and the dogs are still barking. These people need to get other jobs and we need to get people willing to work for their paycheck which we the people of Rio Rancho pay for with out taxes!

The "City Of Vision" continues to fail the residents.. They continue to ignore many issues...... Barking Dogs, Trash Throughout The City, Refuses To Pave Dirt Roads, Fails At Weed Control, and many other issues continue to be unresolved and ignored. I agree, Rio Rancho is in need of city leaders that truly care in which direction this city is heading in and with the current city officials it is heading downhill and off a cliff !!!!!!

Every time I have reported barking dogs to Animal Control, it's been dealt with, Sometimes it takes several calls and some time but the barking dog problems have always been stopped.

we live in a NMPOA and I remember when I moved here, you couldn't have broken down vehicles on property and on tranquil meadows dr you have lots of cars that are broken down. Do something re this

Please clean and sweeps streets on tranquil meadows lots of oil on streets

Lots of broken down vehicles and expired plates on the streets of tranquil meadows dr please check it and some thistle are broken down and haven't moved in driveways for months. Please make the city beautiful

I've dealt with barking dogs for over 20 years. When I first moved here a neighbor worked nights and their dog barked from 10 PM to 7 AM every night. Call animal control and they say we aren't open at night, police say we aren't animal control. We took them to court, they didn't show and the judge wouldn't issue a warrant for not showing. I said I thought it was a bunch of bull that I took a day from work and they wouldn't do anything and he threatened to put me in jail for contempt.
The police will actually harrass you if you call. We've called at 5 or 6 PM and had officers ring our doorbell between 1 and 3 AM and sarcasitally tell us the nieghbors dog isn't barking. Last year the neighbors dog woke me up at 1:30 AM, I called police. They never came but the next day my wife gets a ticket at work for "parking to far from the curb". Even the judge said he'd never seen anyone ticketed for that and threw it out but she still had to pay court costs and lost a day of work. I've had animal control officers tell me when I've complained that I'm a dog hater and I should just move. Where to? I actually like dogs, I just hate negectful dog owners.
I'm of the opinion that the only way to get them to actually do their jobs is to sue the city. I currently have a new neighbor with a dog that barks for hours on end. I've been recording it on video. I've called animal control and the police 4 times in the last 2 days, of course no one has come by. I'm going to continue to call and video for a little while longer to build my case and then I'm going to get a lawyer and sue the city. We should all get together and make it a class action suit.

Today the Rio Rancho Police sink to a new low. The neighbors dog was barking non stop again this morning. I set up my camcorder. 10 minutes later I went out to take the trash cans to the curb and saw a an officer writting a speeding ticket right in front of my house. After he finished I asked him to please go next door and write them a citation. I told him they'd had multiple warnings, I had hours of video evidence and that he could put me down as a witness and I'd go to court and he didn't have to. He refused. He even went as far as to tell me he didn't have authority to ticket them and I'd have to call animal control (at 7:30 AM when he knows they aren't open). I've read the ordinance, they can issue a citation and list me as the witness but they lie and say they cannot ticket someone unless they withness it and then even when they withness it they refuse to do anything about it. It must be nice to be able to pick and choose which laws they want to enforce. They're starting again, time to turn on the camcorder.

I feel your pain Patrick!

I've got one by me that was reported, frequently, on police reports. Animal control finally went over, shook their finger at the owner and told the her who filed the complaints. It then became her yelling whenever she saw us and even blocked the road with her vehicle when my wife was coming home. This wonderful civic mindedness and mature behavior from a dead cops wife. I'd be willing to bet he had a heart attack just to get away from her.

I hear you. After my first call about our lovely neighbors they got the standard warning letter from animal control. A couple days later I'm sitting on my front porch and a friend of theirs pulls in their driveway, blasts the horn 4 or 5 times then gets out of the car and yells "I better not honk or the A-hole neighbor will turn you in for that". This idiot still blasts the horn everytime she comes over to their house.
I did finally get the dogs quiet. Luckily I had a good view of it from our bathroom window and set up a camcorder. After recording about 10 hours of video (in just four days) I called animal control. I showed them the video and asked them to tell the neighbor I had more than enough to take them to court and I would if I heard it bark one more time. Been two weeks and it's quiet so far, knock on wood.

Days of the "barking wars" from the backyard breeders in my neighborhood. Not my place to judge someone for bringing MORE large breed dogs (who have large litters of pups) into this world, while so many are put to sleep. Just wish it didn't sound like a kennel all night. ALL NIGHT. Then there is the flies, they are their own slice of hell.

RioRanch-ohno, call animal control and ask them to do a welfare check. About 10 years ago I had a neighbor breeding Irish wolfhounds. He had an area about 15' by 15' fenced off and had as many as 8 of them in there. He never cleaned up after them and the smell was so bad we couldn't turn the swamp cooler on. They were filthy and they barked alot. We called at least 6 times about the barking, of course with no responce. Then we called and asked them to do a welfare check and told them the conditions they were living in and within 15 minutes there were two animal control officers at his door. Within a couple weeks he got rid of all the dogs.
Most of these backyard breeders don't have the proper permits. Also I'd bet their animals aren't licensed or have their shots. The last two neighbors that I had that let their dogs bark instead of calling about the barking I called in a welfare check and it turns out they didn't have their dogs licensed or vacinated and they had to pay quite a bit for shots and tags. One even got rid of the dog instead of spending the money (such wonderful animal lovers).
Good luck.

PS: The humorous facet is that these people asked us about the safety of the neighborhood when they moved in. Who knew THEY would be the issue in our neighborhood.

Logan Meadows Drive is a nightmare since the new neighbors moved in a few months ago. There are at least 2-3 dogs, one of them a german shepherd. They leave these dogs outside in the heat all day, every day, and leave early and arrive home late on the weekends, leaving the dogs free to bark the entire time. These dogs never stop, at most taking 2-5 minute breaks every once in awhile. They have been called on by several neighbors. My husband and I have nicely spoken to them about it and they do nothing. So I'm sure they think WE are a-holes. We've got many retirees/elderly on our street that feel the need to walk to the mailboxes from the OTHER side of the road because they feel unsafe with a big dog looking over the fence and barking at them. I know the german shepherd is friendly, it's probably just lonely, so I don't blame the animals, I blame the irresponsible pet owners. Dogs can be trained, but these people apparently can't be bothered. Animal control AND local police have left messages on their door. We now know you can fill out paperwork and turn it in to animal control, which will then cite these people fines for repeat violations. We really don't like the fact that these pet owners are imposing their issues onto their neighbors. As a work from home professional, the level of barking over the last 3+ months has affected my sanity. I can EASILY see why some neighbors want to resort to extreme measures to correct the problem. When you get that rare 5 minutes of peace and quiet, it affects you so profoundly that you sigh with relief and realize your muscles were tensed up for hours without you even knowing. It's bad when you have to research ways to stop the barking. It's even worse when you have to consider spending your OWN money to buy potentially useless but HUMANE sonic dog deterrent boxes to fix the problem. I don't want to be the a-hole neighbor, but when they do nothing about it, they MAKE it my problem. So I'm left with few options. I can spend money on a recorder and video the hours every day of barking and take them to small claims court. I can continue to report them to animal control (daytime)/police (after hours) and generally give them enough legal harassment that they choose to NOT resign their rental contract when the lease is up. I can contact the property owners management company (yes, it's so bad I found out who manages the home) and report them there. All of these choices are HUMANE, while my sanity continues to dwindle. I can't speak for my husband though. We're both CCW holders and he's a LOT less tolerant than I am. And he only gets the barking jollies in the evenings and on weekends. Bottom line: don't blame the dogs. Blame the negligent pet owners. Dogs can be trained, but some pet owners are douchebags who don't give F*** about their animals or their neighbors. Ahhh first world problems...

We had the same problem in 3 of our last homes. Researched options since animal control did NOTHING. We visited YapMap.org and BarkMap.com and they fixed the barking within MINUTES and journaled all barking and sent Legal letters to the violator, while putting their home on the Map for the world to see WHILE they helped the Violators clear their dogs good name and finally remove it from the Map. Best $20 I have ever spent. Highly recommended.

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Aaron, try having three children that you have to put back to sleep because the dogs owners are too stupid to care about their neighbors. Get a clue. Excessive barking is against the law in every zipcode in the United States for a reason. It's the second most called complaint to law Enforcement.

I have kids as well. They are just being raised to not be overly sensitive citizens that feel the need to involve themselves in their neighbors lives. As I stated previously, anyone that complains about dogs that bark is a pathetic human being. I will "get a clue" when you get a life. Birds fly. Frogs hop. Dogs bark. And overly sensitive middle class narcissists complain about literally everything.

Got a life. 3 homes, three kids, 3 million dollars a year. One more reply from you, you're banned from this site. By bye now dummy

Thanks for fixing this issue!

You have obviously never experienced 8 hours a day of large dogs continuously barking every day for literally months. I'd not experienced the relentless, unending sound before, and I liken it to bamboo stalks under the fingernails. It's a surprising torture you don't expect. At first it's "meh, dogs barking, whatever". After a few months of ceaseless, constant sound, it affects the atmosphere around you and creates a tension in your shoulders you are at first unaware of. After months, you realize the stress levels are increased to the point of a mild madness and an inability to think. When you realize the source, it will grate on your nerves, your mood and your general well being. And when the dogs bark all day/night because the neighbors go out of town, you start to hate those neighbors, even though they are relatively nice people otherwise. If you live in a subdivision, you have a responsibility to treat your neighbors with respect and keep your family business and noise to yourselves. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone who doesn't understand this point has never endured this particular issue, and probably should respect the phenomenon for what it is and have some consideration. I am an animal lover, but a responsible one. On a grander scale, remember who you want on your side in a state of emergency. People you mistreat will leave you to your own devices.

I wonder if Aaron is the same Aaron who owns a constantly barking dog on Peaceful Meadows? Also the same Aaron who with his children lights fireworks off until 11 at night. Talk about narcissism. If that is the same Aaron your neighbors hate you.