Neighbour and our dog :(

babysonia

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faerie~spangles

If your dog is barking constantly and annoying your neighbours then deal with it. The dog's history is irrelevant.

My boy cries when I leave him at home on his own. I let my immediate neighbours know if and when I have to do so.

Our new neighbour had no notion that one of her dogs barked from when she left the house until she returned.

zaksmum

If he's only 6 months old he's still a puppy. Still trainable - and you need to address his aggression as soon as possible.

At 6 months old he's far too young to be a guard dog!

Tropez

I would start documenting every single threat and act of intimidation that your neighbour engages in. If it is in your budget, I would also install CCTV (don't direct it at his property) to monitor your garden and on the weekends set up audio recording equipment in your garden to support your document of your neighbour's behaviour. You can then present this evidence to both the council and the police.

As it stands, you would have a case under the Protection from Harrassment Act (1997) and if the camera he has set up is recording you on your privately owned property (ie. directed immediately towards your property and not for surveillance of his own) then you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office for your rights under the Data Protection Act.

freezspirit

about his camera if its directly pointing into your garden/home I would contact the police as I'm sure your only allowed camera use upto your own property

Dumbe

Hi,

Sorry for your trouble op.. Your neighbor sounds Like trouble to be honest .. I too would be intimidated.
I would suggest that each and every time this person scares you or behaves unreasonably you log it, and if you need to the police.


When you are out can you bring the dog with you? As I think this neighbor may be trying to set you up, make the dog bark video it complain etc..

I honestly don't think you can reason with people like that, but you may need to try again at traing the dog to go into the house?

pinkladyvenus

I know you said in your post your dog is not happy staying inside. But with the right training he should settle into been a house dog and that would probably help with a lot of the neighbour issues. If the neighbour is a council tenant could you not report his behavior to the local council office which deals with the rental of the properties?

Dumbe

zaksmum wrote: »

If he's only 6 months old he's still a puppy. Still trainable - and you need to address his aggression as soon as possible.

At 6 months old he's far too young to be a guard dog!

It sounds to me like the neighbor is being aggressive not the dog!

I didn't read anywhere anything the dog was doing wrong!

con1888

If the camera is facing onto your property then I *think* this is illegal.

Does the dog bark all the time or only at this neighbour? If the neighbour taunts him then he has only himself to blame, my dog as a kid used to bark at a disabled man when she saw him as the man used to bark and growl at her, the man wasn't trying to wind her up though and wasn't trying to be nasty, he just thought it was funny ( he had the mental age of an 8 year old) it's a totally different story if a sound minded person is deliberately noising your dog up.


Document everything he says or does to you/the dog.

Report him to the council yourself and also again to the police if he threats anything again.

He sounds like a scumbag.

gettingready

babysonia wrote: »

I went outside to clear away ringo’s toys and to tie him up and send him to his kennel

Sorry - what do you mean to tie him up?

Welshwoofs

Op - you have the winning hand here if he's a Council Tenant. If he threatens you, simply remind him that he's a bloody tenant and that if he continues with his stupid-a-rse moves you'll simply put in endless complaints to the council about him until you drive them to the point where they evict him.

I'd also buy a small recording device and have it on you...record him every time he talks incase he threatens to have your windows kicked in again.