Noisy dog in new area

longwalks1

phill99 wrote: »

OP: Urban living isn't for you. You don't like cats and now you don't like dogs. You would be better off. By a house in the middle of nowhere. You have an intolerance that would make you the neighbour from hell.

If I was the dog owner and you moved in and started complaining with knowledge that the dog was already there, I would be mightily pi55ed off with you.

Congratulations on being wrong twice, in a single post. I couldnt give a monkeys about cats, I said 'following on from the cats thread', as in 'another thread about animal issues', i didnt write that cat post. And the house in question is in an otherwise quiet, rural village. Certainly not an urban area.

So i shouldnt buy a house in a street, in a village that I love because someones dog barks possibly a lot?
We had new neighbours move in to our current street a year ago, things started going missing, police would regularly visit their house and they'd often stagger around the road drunk at 3pm making a noise and they began being abusive towards the elderly people in our road, we ended up speaking to them and no one has heard a peep from them since.

Thanks for your input, but I dont feel we shouldnt buy a place we want because of a noisy dog.

honey_badger_3

speak to the owner. The training of the dog should be left to the owner who I'm sure will know the dogs motivation to bark. Without knowing a motivation the issue will be difficult to work on as the owner will just be treating the symptom and not the cause.

If its barking when you move in and you've talked to the owner, keep a diary and contact the council.

p.s Nuts and chocolate are poisonous to dogs

Kicker

Whatever you decide to do, don't move out to the countryside! There might be sexually offensive rabbits that eat up your lawn and multiply in unwanted numbers, or swarms of birds occupying that precious tree... not to mention the deer that will ruin the flower bed out of pure viciousness.

Instead of keeping a diary, I recommend a) dialogue or b) growing some.

Lily-Rose_3

No point in letting a fab property go just because there is a pooch next door. Chances are that when you get to know muttley, he will be fine.

Also, you could move ANywhere where there is no dog, and someone could get a dog/move in with a dog, a few months after you move. So to base where you move on whether or not there is a dog, seems silly.

Paully232000

If i knew a noisy dog lives near a house I was thinking about buying would not even consider the house no matter how nice it was.
One of the last houses I lived in there was a noisy dog nearby when the owners went out and left it alone (to be fair this wasn't very often). I have lived near busy roads, train lines, and none of the noises from these bothered me as much as the dog for some reason.

jules888

Dog next door to us barks sometimes when i put washing out or do some gardening.Not keen on it but normally stops after a while and we arent ones for sitting much in the garden anyway.

longwalks1

Kicker wrote: »

Whatever you decide to do, don't move out to the countryside! There might be sexually offensive rabbits that eat up your lawn and multiply in unwanted numbers, or swarms of birds occupying that precious tree... not to mention the deer that will ruin the flower bed out of pure viciousness.

Instead of keeping a diary, I recommend a) dialogue or b) growing some.

Not a case of growing some, as my previous post on here regarding quietening down a known trouble family in our current area, just don't wish to use that approach in a new area

longwalks1

Paully232000 wrote: »

If i knew a noisy dog lives near a house I was thinking about buying would not even consider the house no matter how nice it was.
One of the last houses I lived in there was a noisy dog nearby when the owners went out and left it alone (to be fair this wasn't very often). I have lived near busy roads, train lines, and none of the noises from these bothered me as much as the dog for some reason.

I get what you are saying, and others, but surely if the house is perfect in every way, you shouldnt be put off by a noisy dog/inconsiderate neighbour?

ruggedtoast

It depends much more on the owners than the dog.

When growing up our neighbours bought an Alsatian that they left on it's own for most of the day as they both worked. Small two up two down terrace, dog left in the garden.

It went ballistic when we went in our garden and hurled itself repeatedly against the fence, to the point that the fence started listing.

The neighbours then spent quite a lot of money on a dog trainer, which involved us having to meet the dog to make friends with it on and off over a period of time.

This solved the problem at least for us. I imagine the dog was still pretty miserable on its own.

Plenty of people wouldnt have bothered with that though. Having a dog barking all day is already pretty anti social in its own right so I would be having second thoughts.

Lord_Baltimore

Didn't some report identify a dog barking as singularly the most stress inducing noise in urban life?

Apparently the randomness of barking can drive lots of people nuts and dog lovers are upset because an animal is sounding stressed.

What seems fairly harmless for short periods can drive you mad if incessant viz Chinese water torture in which a drip of water on the head feels like a sledgehammer after a while.

Beware of Fido.