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Yeah, I know, I know. They already massively broke rule #1 a long time ago. There is less than zero chance of any useful solution.
Bought as Christmas present for the twin daughters. Should tell you everything you need to know.
Walked about two or three times. I say walked, it was put in the car and taken somewhere, it may or may not have ever actually had a walk.
A week later they were bored with actually looking after a dog.
So it's bored. Never walked.
It's left in the garden.
All the time.
Barks constantly.
It's out there now. Barking.
Irritating the urine out of everyone.
What's the deal with reporting? Anyone successfully got a resolution with this kind of thing?
Bombers, sausages, airgun at satellite dish, wee in shoes, a pre-emptive thank you but no.
Following this.
Our neighbors lockdown Dashound just barks at everything. Me walking up the drive, in the garage, in the garden, in the conservatory, the neighbors dogs, everything.
This is on top of the Mother in Law who is either deaf or just plain rude so shouts everything at full volume, the daughter who is taking after the mother in law, the baby, the side business cleaning out oil drums and making BBQ's in the back yard, and the tone deaf man of the house who's taken up singing loudly.
The worst bit is, they moved here from London because apparently it's quiet 🤣
No idea about from a nuisance point of view but maybe a call to the rspca with a ‘concern for welfare’ about a dog left outside unattended? May need to lay it on a bit thick, but a visit from them might buck the owner’s ideas up a bit…
Theres one near me that barks constantly from about 4pm until 9pm, presumably out outside once owner gets home until they go to bed. Really annoys me for the simple reason that my 2 are absolutely fine when left to the garden (with the back door open as we only do it when we are in) apart from that dog setting mine off, and the odd cat or bird that obviously hasn’t got the memo about the garden being out of bounds from the dogs!
I assumed this is more common than not.
Next door has a hateful yappy thing that wakes me up at 6am every morning. And at our old house the opposite neighbour had a huge dog that was always barking too.
No idea about from a nuisance point of view but maybe a call to the rspca with a ‘concern for welfare’ about a dog left outside unattended?
I am not sure RSPCA could do a thing if it is well looked after (lack of walking wouldn't count as mistreatment and I think they have much more important concerns). Report it to the local authority and back it up with some proof (ie, recordings of the barking and a record of the days/hours of barking).
So, to be a statutory nuisance, the barking would have to be excessive and unreasonable in the circumstances and interfere significantly with how someone uses and enjoys their home
Whether you choose the council route, RSPCA or some other organisation, just to state the obvious, its likely to ruin your relationship with your neighbour (if you have one/value it).
https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council
Offer to walk it and then train it not to bark.
Council noise officer?
You'd need to prepare a detailed log - like an excel sheet - of days and times where the dog is out barking. Pretty easy to do, but don't bullsh*t it.
That gives them something to go on.
So, to be a statutory nuisance, the
barking
would have to be excessive and unreasonable in the circumstances and interfere significantly with how someone uses and enjoys their home
Does it work for angle grinders too? Because we have them in stereo and have for weeks. I dislike barking dogs and am careful with our own dog. Next door's barks early in the morning but it is not excessive. High density of dogs probably does not help, but they must be familiar with the local dogs by smell.
its likely to ruin your relationship with your neighbour
Literally my opening sentence.
I'd detail some of the shoot they've flung at us, but life's too short and it'll make me angry to dredge any of it up.
Sounds like diary of annoyance and sound recordings might be needed then?
its likely to ruin your relationship with your neighbour
It would also count as a declarable 'neighbour dispute' in the event you get so pissed off you want to move.
We've got one by us. I can't pin point it though. It barks from 8pm until midnight then it will bark randomly throughout the night.
It's a few hundred metres away but it's driving me potty. Just not sure whose garden it's in.
Local authority dog warden should come and investigate. Inherently they like dogs so might have more tolerance than you, or they might be aghast at the care / response of the owner. Its almost unavoidable that this escalates that situation with the neighbours though - and it will ultimately only resolve properly when one of you moves out (dies/goes to jail for hitting the other)! If the dog warden can't act directly they will be able to tell you how to formally go about treating as a noise nuisance.
Do you like the dog?
Could a sensible, polite, civil conversation go like this:
"Hi, I notice your dogs getting a bit bigger and probably needs a bit more exercise and you don't have the time to do it. I was thinking about needing to get away from my desk during the day a bit more and get a little bit active. I just wondered if we could both help each other out here - if I took your dog out at lunchtimes?
“Hi, I notice your dogs getting a bit bigger and probably needs a bit more exercise and you don’t have the time to do it. I was thinking about needing to get away from my desk during the day a bit more and get a little bit active. I just wondered if we could both help each other out here – if I took your dog out at lunchtimes?
Then kill it when you’ve got hold of it?
Can't see anywhere mrmonkfinger saying he likes dogs or wants to help out the neighbour by walking their dog. Some people assume a lot from posts don't they.
You have to approach the owner first before the Enviro health depth will do anything - and have a log of days times etc
its likely to ruin your relationship with your neighbour
Literally my opening sentence
Well, not really 😂
Council dog warden?
Disappwared thtough austerith - and many went long before that.
The process is...you contact council to make formal complaint; they log complaint and send you their diary sheet for you to complete.
My 'neighbours' have 4 yappy things which are never exercised or socialised; trained? Doubt that very much.
They have just returned from a week away having left dogs at home with someone calling in once a day for max of 30 mins.
Dogs can move from house into secure back garden to yap.
Neighbours don't wish to discuss so I've got a dog whistle and a hornit bike horn which seem to shut them up.
Am about to call rspca about dogs' welfare.
“Hi, I notice your dogs getting a bit bigger and probably needs a bit more exercise and you don’t have the time to do it. I was thinking about needing to get away from my desk during the day a bit more and get a little bit active. I just wondered if we could both help each other out here – if I took your dog out at lunchtimes?
I love dogs, I've spent almost 6 months this year filming in shelters or with dog trainers, we've got a constant revolving door of friends leaving their dogs with us for holidays, did I mention I love dogs?
But the last thing I want to do is be free dog walking and training services for my neighbors badly behaved a******.
We had similar with a noisy neighbour whose dog played classical music loudly.
Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach, all bloody afternoon! 😡
Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach, all bloody afternoon!
Should have gone round and given him a good Haydn.
If it's not quite enough of a nuisance or neglected enough for the RSPCA/council to step in then maybe try a breed charity. We volunteer for a couple and do emergency foster cover if the dog needs to be rehomed. The charity also offers training and support to help owners keep their dog. The family might be a bit more receptive to that kind of help.
bach bach bach
Oh very good.
mrmonkfinger saying he likes dogs...
I like dogs. I have two.
but
...or wants to help out the neighbour by walking their dog
Could a sensible, polite, civil conversation
You've not met my neighbours.
I avoid talking to them completely. The last time any words were exchanged, it was because grandma had invited a 250lb pub bully to goad my wife into a fight. They didn't know I was in. She is 110lbs dripping wet.
Words from our direction were limited to "we have you recorded on camera threatening my wife, move off my property". They promptly responded by telling my OH to keep taking the pills, that she was mental, "what you going to do?" etc.
You can imagine how highly I rate them as human beings. They're vile turds with clothes on. I would not whizz on them if they were on fire.
I moved house. Best decision ever.
If you report it to the council then you'll have to declare the problem when or if you ever sell the house.
Yeah, I was wondering if that would be up there as a suggestion.
I admit I don't like the idea of having a dispute on record.
We know for certain they will never move. The occupiers part-own the house (90%) and the rest is owned by a brother that they so massively upset one time, that he never speaks to them.
It'll be us selling up first. Maybe we should just do that.
Wee in his schubert
Look, I already made a Liszt of ridiculous revenge ideas I wasn't prepared to enteratain.
Dogs barking at noises !!! Who’d have thought it 🤷♂️
Dogs barking at noises !!! Who’d have thought it 🤷♂️
You're the neighbor aren't you?
It’ll be us selling up first. Maybe we should just do that.
I think you should do – it sounds like that a barking dog isn't the cause of your concern. Life is too short etc...
The people behind have apparently got a new dog, it randomly starts up savage barking frenzies every hour or so, presumably at something but I'm not sure what. The owner is in, and just shouts at it to stop. But of course, the dog just thinks she's joining in so is encouraged to bark even more. She has no idea how to control a dog.
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The dog by me that should be the most barky - isn’t. Because he’s properly trained and exercised. Maybe you meant “badly trained and mostly ignored dog barking at noises”?
We had similar locally. The dog was being left outside all night and barking incessantly. It turned into a FB thing and then a community intervention that, from memory, ended up with a local dog rescue group approaching the owner and offering to take it off his hands. He had life issues and simply wasn't capable of caring for the dog properly. I suspect communitiy pressure is more effective and less individually confrontational if there are others who are impacted.
My mate, who lived in a semi-detached, converted barn had a similar issue with his immediate neighbour - one of many problems with them - and ended up moving out. He now lives in the back of beyond in northern Cumbria and can't even see another house from his gaff.
.50 between the eyes at 1km distance.
They would never find out! You could live in blissful smugness!
You can imagine how highly I rate them as human beings. They’re vile turds with clothes on. I would not whizz on them if they were on fire.
Move. House.
Life is waay too short to put up with aggro from shitty neighbours.
A bloke down the road from us who I used to know had a full time barker, he used to leave hsi backdoor open so the dog could go outside and it did, and barked, all night long. It dissapeared one night, he put up signs looking for it but he never found it.
Speculation is that it was moved by his neighbours to somewhere a long way away.
Steal it and take it to a dog's home in another town.
Torch their house
Yappie mutt next door here. Its actually quite a nice animal & the neighbour is good too but I think shes no idea how to look after a dog. There'll be more of this in coming months - millions of families bought dogs during lockdown & now find they've a furry sometimes stroppy occasionally bitey teenager who doesn't understand a word they say. The ease of buying a dog & the sense of entitlement their little fur ball has to behave like a hooligan is the issue. FYI I love dogs: have buried 7 over the years & spent time volunteering at Battersea. Still love dogs now but hate the entitled retards who dont know to look after a dog or dont care how their canine behaves.
50 between the eyes at 1km distance.
They would never find out!
I think they really would, but only for a fraction of a second 😉
But then you'd still have to rehouse the dog.....
My wife does dog boarding. We use to have a dog.
Some neighbours complained to us about noise. Although most were really supportive
This thread puts it in context. If a dog barked it was brought inside in say 60 seconds max. On a bad day this maybe happened 5 or 6 times
My wife does dog boarding.
Difficult sport that. Tried it once on a whippet. Sooo difficult to stay on.
Much easier on something wider and flatter like a Bernese.
I sympathise with you OP. What breed of dog is it (or have I missed that in the thread)? As others have said, boredom, lack of mental exercise are the main reasons I’m guessing plus lack of training.
Some dog breeds are much more vocal than others too, I’ve got a dachshund who is pretty well trained but still barks at anyone coming on to our property as is massively territorial. Take him out for a walk and he’s never barked at anything, ever. My neighbour has a labrador and I’ve never heard a sound from it in four years.
Reported one last week. Online form on council website,you can do it anonymously. I gave my name and got a log to keep a record of times, length of barking etc. Council told me they had already issued a letter to dog owner because of my complaint.No dog barking at night since then ,fingers crossed so not bothered with the log. Had other issues with other barking dogs previously. RSPCA will not get involved even if a dog is outside all the time as long as it has water,food, shelter and their cage/hut/living area is cleaned up of dog poo unless there is obvious cruelty.
He now lives in the back of beyond in northern Cumbria and can’t even see another house from his gaff.
<fires up a Rightmove search for northern Cumbria>
My wife does dog boarding.
Difficult sport that. Tried it once on a whippet. Sooo difficult to stay on.
Much easier on something wider and flatter like a Bernese.
Deserves more recognition that does. 😂
What breed of dog is it (or have I missed that in the thread)? As others have said, boredom, lack of mental exercise are the main reasons I’m guessing plus lack of training.
A small one that yaps a lot.
Rest of post, pretty much nailed it, I think.
What breed of dog is it (or have I missed that in the thread)? As others have said, boredom, lack of mental exercise are the main reasons I’m guessing plus lack of training.
Usually it's the wrong training.
e.g. They bark at the postman, letters go through the door, all hell gets let loose, then the nasty postman leaves. The dogs got it's reward.
It takes time and effort to overcome that, e.g. this example below. You have to condition them into a different response. So rather than activity on the driveway = barking, you replace it with activity on the driveway = run to dad and get given cheese, then before you know it you've got a dog that's no longer stressed (because that's what it is, a stress response to strangers) by people at the door. Et Voila, happier dog, happier neighbors, happier owners. But it requires owners to engage with a dog trainer beyond teaching it to sit in puppy school, more like 1on1 for a few hours. Then committing to implementing it consistently.
Some dog breeds are much more vocal than others too, I’ve got a dachshund who is pretty well trained but still barks at anyone coming on to our property as is massively territorial.
My neighbour has 4 cats,then decided that getting two dogs was a good idea.
It's an absolute nightmare but she is oblivious to the mayhem of dogs barking and chasing the cats .
Now the cats won't comeback to her so she stands on her backstep shouting for them to return home .
Our council is ****ing useless with dog noise complaints, we've got two spaniel-looking things over the road that are shut outside for hours at a time and just bark ****ing in-****ing-cessantly at any-****ing-thing. I've given up and am now waiting for them just die of old age (the arseholes who have the dogs and the dogs themselves.) ****ers.
Play the long game......should take about 10-15yrs depending on the size of the dog
Steal it and take it to a dog’s home in another town.
Yeah, no. They all have microchips these days.