call RSPCA ?

catkins

scooper,

You and your friends have been lucky with the RSPCA because I have had no joy with them and neither have friends/colleagues etc. A few years ago I and a couple of neighbours reported someone with a longhaired dog. The dog was never walked, only put in the garden to do his business and never brushed. He was made to live in the cupboard under the stairs. The RSPCA did nothing and in the end OH broke into the house and stole the dog.

Another case was 3 dogs who were living in a garden and not being fed. The RSPCA came out and did nothing. Two of the dogs died and the other one survived by eating the other two!!! I think the RSPCA are useless

scooper

wow thats terrible!

yes i and others might of been lucky,thats terrible though?why didnt they do anything?what did they say why they didnt?

i must admit they are slow to come out a dog by my house was in the garden last winter all day and night and they took a week to come out then but they did do something when they came,they no longer have the dog,weather it was took off them or they didnt want it i dont know.

candygirl

The RSPCA will ask about the shelter issue, and I doubt will come out unless you say the dog is being neglected in other ways.Although imo they shouldn't leave a young dog alone all day.
As others have said the noise will have to be dealt with through the council, who will ask you to keep a record of when it barks.However they usually need 3 neighbours to do this in order to prosecute, so you might need to ask around to see if it's bothering anybody else.
I have two dogs who i leave inside most of the time when I go out, unless it's a nice day, and have asked my neighbours who say they don't bark.If they did I would leave them inside all the time.
If i was you i'd go and talk to the family calmly first, to see if a compromise can be reached:p

Mojisola

Hi egamar - I don't understand why my post seemed to annoy you. I agree that the noise nuisance/local authority route may be the best way to deal with this situation but I feel if the RSPCA puts the point I quoted first on the list, above food and water provision, then they should take this seriously. They did in a case I was involved in and I'm disappointed to hear of the lack of response by the RSPCA in some of the examples quoted here.