Neighbour and our dog :(

babysonia

pinkladyvenus wrote: »

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?

I havent really thought of that- we have been letting him do what he wants as i really do not want o confrontations but now it has really become more than i can handle. I dont know what the council can do but i will surf the net and see what i can find.

I need this issue addressed asap as i cant deal with it anymore.

Missli

Why not put a video camera on him, that would shut him up.

Tropez

freezspirit wrote: »

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

It's a legal grey area.

Technically, you can record a neighbour's property if you can provide justification for doing so. You are, however, subject to the Data Protection Act when filming property or land that is not your own and the DPA lists the potential justifications for doing so and in this case I would say he would fail to justify recording outside of his own property under the DPA.

He should also have supplied notification that he is filming, which I doubt he has done so, but if the capture of an image is "accidental" then there is a loophole (ie. if he "unknowingly" left a camera recording from his kitchen).

There is also an untested argument that the right to privacy under the Human Rights Act makes it an offence to continuously record the property of somebody else due to infringing upon their privacy rights.

All guidelines to CCTV use do state that they should only film the property in question. My employer had CCTV evidence of a crime taking place thrown out because it recorded 3 inches of somebody else's property.

babysonia

gettingready wrote: »

Sorry - what do you mean to tie him up?

He has a long leash/chain. He will not stay inside his kennel and will happily freeze outside in the rain near the garden door (His fav spot) He wont stay inside either so we have resorted to chaining him up so he has enough room to go out but not as far as his fav place and will stay inside his kennel.

faerie~spangles

babysonia wrote: »

The thing is he doesnt bark anymore and definatly not constantly, worst comes to worst he will bark once or twice and we will be out there in a shot to quieten him down. He is never left on his own and there is always someone to go out to see if he barks.

I thought i made that clear in my post.

Are you there 24/7 and know for a fact that your dog does not bark?

miamoo

To be honest (and I am a dog lover myself, I have a doberman) I think keeping a dog outside all the time is unfair. Not to the dog as it sounds very well looked after, but to the neighbours.
When your own dog barks, you can go out and call it to be quiet, when its someone elses dog it can be very frustrating even just a couple of barks every know and then can drive you mad(I know as a neighbour had a dog that was left outside all the time).

He does sound like a complete idiot though, and I am not justifying his behaviour at all. But you have to live there, so if you can sort this out amicably then its better for you, him and the dog.

Could you bring the dog inside for periods of the day, and when it goes dark at night. My dog is a guard dog, but she lives inside, and sleeps in our bedroom. She will still bark if she hears noises, but she doesn't disturb anyone that way (accept for us!)

babysonia

con1888 wrote: »

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.

He only barks at this particular neighbour and i had no idea why but now i have realised the neighbour growls at him and taunts him so the dog has taken a dislike to him and rightly so.

Yes thats what i think i should be doing now. From tomorrow i will personally keep a log of everything thay happens.

gettingready

babysonia wrote: »

He has a long leash/chain. He will not stay inside his kennel and will happily freeze outside in the rain near the garden door (His fav spot) He wont stay inside either so we have resorted to chaining him up so he has enough room to go out but not as far as his fav place and will stay inside his kennel.

I am sorry but I am personally tottaly against chaining a dog in any shape or form.

In your situation, additionally you are putting the dog in danger with a neighbour who so obviously wants to harm the dog.

To keep the dpog safe - you need to keep him indoors. He is only 6 months old, he will get used to it.

babysonia

faerie~spangles wrote: »

Are you there 24/7 and know for a fact that your dog does not bark?

There is someone in the house 24/7 - We never leave the house empty due to prior robbery's taht took place.

Im not saying he does not bark, he does but once or twice not endless barking and we will always go out to see what the problem is with him.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

babysonia wrote: »

I havent really thought of that- we have been letting him do what he wants as i really do not want o confrontations but now it has really become more than i can handle. I dont know what the council can do but i will surf the net and see what i can find.

I need this issue addressed asap as i cant deal with it anymore.

Well, for a start, there will be at least 4-6 clauses in his tenancy agreement stating that he can be evicted for antisocial behaviour, vandalism, threats of violence, use of intoxicants, etc.

The council housing officer will ask you to keep records of each incident, each police report, every single thing he ever does that's wrong - so note when he doesn't put his bottles or cans in the recycling, has his telly on a bit loud, slams his front door, absolutely everything he does. It all counts.


But I'd get the dog in NOW and put up with noise, as the next step could be a lump of meat laced with rat poison over the fence.