But Constance could hear the faint ring of another doorbell, down the hall, which set off a barking dog.

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What else should you do with a barking dog?

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Then, she heard a crash upstairs in the hall and the sound of a dog barking.

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And there was a lack of oversight from the regulator, the Financial Services Authority: it was "thoroughly inadequate... not so much the dog that did not bark, as a dog barking up the wrong tree".

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From one of them, a big wolfish dog ran out with a great display of barking and snarling.

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Which points, in turn, to a dog-not-barking-in-the-nighttime detail that may be significant.

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An old woman in a nursing home begs for the companionship of her dog back home, which turns out to be a barking machine to ward off burglars.

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Dr. Oguss says sometimes a well-mannered mutt is egged into barking by another dog.

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The Kapus cut a plea deal with the prosecutor: He would dismiss their last four citations if they agreed to dog counseling and if their hounds avoided barking violations during a six-month probation.

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He's administering dog counseling as part of a plea deal the Kapus have made after five barking citations.

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Justice of the Peace John Logan passed the death sentence on the dog last month following a complaint from Mr Shaw's neighbour who said Sam's barking over many years was a nuisance.

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