Fond du Lac County, WI Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Sec. ' The provision is not limited to dogs; it reaches any kept animal or bird whose noise pattern is frequent or long-continued and actually disturbs a neighbor, so a rooster, caged bird or kennel of dogs can trigger the same violation as a single barking dog. The ordinance sets no fixed number of barks or minutes before a violation exists; the standard turns on whether the noise is frequent or long-continued and whether it disturbs the comfort or repose of a person nearby, which a deputy assesses from a complaint and, where possible, from the noise itself.

This subsection sits inside the same section that opens with a general ban on unreasonably loud or disturbing noise harmful to the public peace and welfare, giving the Sheriff's Office two overlapping bases to act on a persistent animal-noise complaint. Citations issue under the county's Uniform Municipal Citation procedure at § 1-9, and, as with every other prohibited act in § 38-173, a conviction is punishable under the Code's general penalty section, § 1-8. The rule applies only outside the incorporated cities and villages, which regulate animal noise under their own codes.