Neighbours dogs barking

LisaW123

Contact your local council about the matter. Most councils have noise control functions (usually within Environmental health). They might write to the owners to ask them to do something about the disturbance their pets are creating.

wannabemrs

I would definitely have a word with your neighbour. In your case, it sounds unlikely that they are unaware this is going on, but they might not realise how bad it is for you.

In my previous flat, I didn't know my dog would bark if I was out in the evening, it was only when my neighbour mentioned it that I found out about the problem (after the second occurance). After that, I was able to tackle the issue with training.

I fully agree that the problem is with the owner, not the dog, I took full responibility for the barking, totally my fault and I was grateful that my neighbour mentioned it, or I may not have known my dog was distressed.

evoke

Thanks for all the invaluable advice. I think I will have to pluck up the courage and mention it to my immediate neighbours. The barking only happens when both dogs are in their back gardens.

I can tolerate it during the day but, for example, I was woken up at 7.00am this morning due to the barking. I am working evenings this week so hadn't had much sleep.

The thing is that this barking must be affecting at least eight families and it was fine last year but this year the two dogs seem to have a compeition on who can bark the loudest and longest!

somethingcorporate

If you are friends with one of the families you have to go down the informal route and be friendly about it.

If that doesn't work then you can step up the formal action via the local council but it may risk your relationship with the family.

HB58

We have an intermittant problem with dogs barking. The house one down at the back of ours has 2 dogs, they will be quiet for weeks on end then start barking for several hours at a time. I did download the forms from Environmental Health once but, typically, the barking stopped for weeks afterwards! We don't know what is different to precipitate the problem - it can be early morning, daytime, late evening, weekday and weekend, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it.

One of our neighbours tried to speak to the owner about it once - he threatened to run her over in his car :eek:

I am glad that we didn't get as far as a formal complaint as we are hoping to put the house on the market next year ...

harrup

st999 wrote: »

This happened every day for a week and eventually one day he couldn't find it and it was never seen or heard off again.

He could never figure out how it got out.

Sweet Jesus you are one vile human being.

Getting a little dog killed because you weren't man enough to address it differently.

You better hope that there is no such thing as "Karma"....

Davesnave

HB58 wrote: »

One of our neighbours tried to speak to the owner about it once - he threatened to run her over in his car :eek:

I am glad that we didn't get as far as a formal complaint as we are hoping to put the house on the market next year ...

This is what I meant when I said that the owner will frequently see themselves as a victim and may respond irrationally.

It's likely that the owner has no idea how what to do, or how to train his dogs. Subconsciously, he knows the dog is in control, making him feel inadequate. What the dog owner will not wish to be told is: "No one else's dog is out of control around here." Sadly, that's not quite true in the OP's case.

Our council keep complainants' identities secret, so I'd find out what the policy is in your area. We complained, and the dog owner thinks it was us, but he has no proof. We don't wish to sell, but if we did, it wouldn't be mentioned.

SuzieSue

evoke wrote: »

Thanks for all the invaluable advice. I think I will have to pluck up the courage and mention it to my immediate neighbours. The barking only happens when both dogs are in their back gardens.

I can tolerate it during the day but, for example, I was woken up at 7.00am this morning due to the barking. I am working evenings this week so hadn't had much sleep.

The thing is that this barking must be affecting at least eight families and it was fine last year but this year the two dogs seem to have a compeition on who can bark the loudest and longest!

The problem with dog owners is that you don't know how they are going to react. I would personally see if you can make an annoymous complaint to your council and let them sort it out. If it affects 8 properties then the owners of the dogs won't know who has complained.

vein

harrup wrote: »

Sweet Jesus you are one vile human being.

Getting a little dog killed because you weren't man enough to address it differently.

You better hope that there is no such thing as "Karma"....

How do you know it was killed? Possibly it was found and re-homed to someone that might give it attention throughout the day.

If anyone should worry about karma it should be st999's neighbour

spugzbunny

Our neighbours terrier yaps like the world is ending every now and again. Neighbours are deaf as posts. I just yell SHUT UP TOBY - the dog, not the neighbour.