daughters dilemma

[dot.hawkes]

not sure if anyone remembers the incident the other month with my daughter's neighbour ringiong the law at 7.30 on a sunday evening about loud music, the neighbour being a policeofficer herself.

anyway, my daughter is unwell and the neighbours dog has been howling like a wolf for 4 hours now whilst the policeofficer is at work, this happens all day everyday and i have told my daughter to tell the said neighbour it is annoying on a day to day basis but my daughter is scared cos the woman is the old bill.

shall i do it myself or just tell the local animal welfare at the council? i might actually pop a polite signed note thru her door and tell her if she can't look after her dogs maybe she should get rid eh? i never do anything annonymously

[daffy654]

I sympathise with your daughter on this Dot,my neighbours have a dog that barks whenever they are out.....it barks at anything and everything!!! When I approached the neighbour about it she went ballistic at me and started shouting that her dog doesn't bark when she is out and that I was lying as none of the other neighbours had complained. :-I She lives in and end terraced house and there are no other neighbours,also how the hell would she know what her dog does when she is out??? In the end I just let it go as I had no idea who I should complain to about it.

[dot.hawkes]

hi daffy, i have the details of the local authority's animal welfare officer and i am goinjg to ring and explain the situation, i think the woman concerned would be unlikely to give two hoots about it at all

[daffy654]

She will probably just say that her dog is howling and barking to protect her property,that seems to be the usual excuse of people who own dogs that are a noise nuisance.Dogs can be trained not to bark incessantly but only at real intruders,most dog owners are just too lazy to bother though. I have nothing against dogs btw, I just can't stand dog owners with no consideration for others. Let me know if you get anywhere with the local authority and I might contact them about my neighbour!

[Stormrush]

record the dog, ring up RSPCA, let them listen to the tape...??

[dot.hawkes]

i have actually just emailed the animal welfare officer at the council on my daughters behalf, i think it is unfiar that because the woman is a police officer the neighbours feel intimidated into not complaining

[dot.hawkes]

my daughter has recorded it loads of times but did not think the rspca would be interested as the dog is not being harmed, though i think there is a lot of distress there

[Stormrush]

I agree, it isnt fair..

Do what you think is right..

personally I would report her after telling heer first though, like a warning if you wish.. Good luck

[Stormrush]

They would be Dot hun..... a neighbour of ours dog was howling all hours for hours on edn and RSPCA came out to her because if a dog is behaving loudly like that it is classed as neglect.. you wouldnt leave a child crying so why a dog?? That's her exact words repeated ...

[natalie_1982]

Have you tried contacting Environmental Health? They can install noise recording equipment. Just because the dog is barking doesn't mean it's welfare is at risk and so I would be surprised if animal welfare / RSPCA are able to help, unless the dog is left so long it doesn't have food, water, exercise and is surrounded by it's own faeces.

[natalie_1982]

Failing that, ring the police and tell them you think someone is trying to get into the property because the dog is barking like mad. I'd love to see her face when her address comes through on the radio LOL

[natalie_1982]

If you have a recording of it you could play it back to your neighbour, and make out you are concerned for the dog in a nicey-nicey way so she can't get sh*tty. Play on it a bit, "Oh, we didn't know if you knew as it happens when you are out but he sounds so distrssed...." etc etc. That way she has to recognise there is a problem but can't comeback at you for being difficult or not speaking to her first.

[dot.hawkes]

that is actually quite a good ides there nat, because then she couldn't imply that my daughter or the neighbours were romancing, i'll see if my daughter would do that, it is really wrong that as she is in the police force neighbours are bothered !!!

[cassa333]

Actually police officers have to be 'nice' so to speak.

If for example you were to phone her station and ask them to have a word with her about it she might take notice as they don't like their dirty laundry aired at the station and she will be told to sort it.