Sick to death of the neighbour's dog!

warehouse

Councils won't do a d*mn thing. All you're left with is an official complaint on file when you come to sell.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

i hear dogs barking all the tim ehwere i live, it just part of living on an housing estate, my neighbours dogs bark at thin air, she lets them at all stupid o clocks of the morning, they fight eachother quite violently aswell, and she stands there shouting at them and not doing anything to intervien, and sometimes she becomes more annying with her shouting than the dogs barking, she allows them to jump up on the fence aswell wich is breaking appart.

you can contact who ever you like in the coucil you can recite bylaws, obligations, but unless that dog is fouling out in public where they the council can generate a nice little bit of cash for the christmas do, youll get we will write to the address and raise the concerns you have given us (yeh go ahead and pre warn them your about to do nothing, that will stop it) and if you have any concerns get back intouch where we will sound as if we care but we really dont want to spend the money investigating this, government is pulling on our purses you see! reply as standard

System

I have two little dogs, one dog barks more than the other. She barks at birds, leaves, people, umbrellas, paper bags that fly past the window, anything really. She isnt in distress as she wags her tail when she does it. I think she is just making herself heard.

She's not allowed to bark in the house (well she gets told off anyway). She's not allowed to bark down the side of the house as it echos (and we have neighbours) but she gets a little bit more leeway down the bottom of the garden (she still gets told off if the barking goes on too long). I have to say they dont spend a lot of time down the garden, they prefer adult company.

Lieja

My partner's old dog used to bark for what appeared to be no reason, and would happily go on for hours if we didn't stop her. It was usually things that were going on down the street that she could hear but we couldn't, or because she wanted attention. When we moved in together I made it clear that as much as I loved the dog, I couldn't cope with the barking and I didn't expect my new neighbours to be cope with it either! One of the first conversations I had with the neighbours was about the dog, and they said they would tell me straight away if she ever bothered them. I agree that you should approach the owners if you haven't tried that already. They might do something? Maybe they haven't realised how bad it is for everyone else!

A friend of mine complained to the council about noisy dogs next door to him and they told him to keep a diary, and did nothing at all about it. Your council might be different but I wouldn't be holding out much hope! Good luck

picklekin

I would speak to the environmental health department, you don't need to take it as far a formal complaint, but be good to get some official advice, then I would tackle the neighbors directly.

I have a large dog and although hes a softie he sounds LARGE when he barks. He does it very rarely, at a cat in the garden or something and I run out after him to stop him or squeak and toy for him to come in, so please don't tar us all with the same brush.

Edwardia

It's extremely difficult to get the council or RSPCA to do anything about dogs which are left to bark. They don't want to know on welfare grounds unless dog isn't being fed daily and noise wise it's got to be incessant hour after hour day after day which they can witness and record. If it takes place during the day they aren't set up to deal with that.