Barking Dogs

[Caribeing]

Why do neighbours think it is acceptable to inflict barking dogs on us and who needs three dogs in confined spaces! hint hint for neighbours who unfortunately won't see this post!!

[woofgang]

For the same reason that neighbours think its acceptable to have noisy parties, let off fireworks at all hours, allow their children to scream in play, then yell at the children, do DIY early and late, keep cats that eat my goldfish and crap on my grass, not deal with their rubbish sensibly this encouraging rats.......shall I go on?

[Caribeing]

Hi woofgang agree!!

[Peaspeculiars]

Time for a night-cap and a fag me thinks Caribeing. Infuriating I know, I have screaming youngsters living next to me in a terrace with cardboard thin walls. They never grew out of the 'terrible twos'. Take it you don't get on with them next doors then and can't nip round for a chat about it? Y'never know, they might be ardent AB'ers who are too busy typing on their laptops to notice the dogs barking...

[sherrardk]

My neighbours have four dogs that bark at absolutely anything (they are really irritating) but then I have children. I don't complain about their dogs and they don't complain about the children but when it is raised in coversation (she might mention something about the dogs) I always manage to get her to say how lovely it is to hear children laughing, etc (makes me feel better).

[Baldric]

My dogs have a bark at my neighbours dogs, and his at mine, mainly just to get attention, we're actually talking about hingeing a dividing fence panel like a gate as we've both got secure rear gardens so they can mingle. He was the guy who kept mine exercised when I was post-op around Xmas time so no probs.

[silliemillie]

It amazes me how it doesn't annoy themselves.

I am a dog lover, and have had a few dogs in my time but have never allowed them to bark & annoy people cos I don't like it myself.

How can they just ignore it? It must send them mad surely.

[sherrardk]

My neighbour (the man of the couple) has 'issues' - I have previously posted about him as the 'parking nutter'. I'm pretty sure he has trained his dogs to bark like nutters.

[wildwood]

Why don't you shift your neighbour's dogs to your own backyard. Then see how they like it having neighbours with barking dogs.

[divegirl]

I have 5 dogs, 2 Great Danes and three Yorkshire Terriers. My neighbours on either side have one dog each, a ***-zu and Jack Russell so we all have to be tolerant I suppose.

The problem is, all 5 of mine are trained to 'be quiet' and on the rare occasion they bark the second I give that command they stop and return to the house. The neighbours on the other hand think it's fine to let theirs bark from dawn till dusk and beyond [mainly having been locked out in the garden].

I just don't get it :0/

Lisa x

[woofgang]

poor dogs divegirl, shut out, barking and ignored.

[viv38]

Yes, some people just don't deserve to have dogs.

[cazzz1975]

what annoys me is people who want dogs, then once they get them they never walk them, no wonder the poor dogs end up barking non stop, their whole world becomes the garden/dog toilet and the house.

[Daffy6543]

My next door but one neighbour has a dog that he chains in the yard from about 5am till around midnight every day regardless of weather conditions. It barks if I go out into the yard or even upstairs to my bathroom. He lets it out into the alleyway behind our houses to sh1t everywhere which makes it very difficult to manoeuvre the wheelie bins down there on dustbin day, bit of an obstacle course most weeks. I had to report him to the dog warden about the sh1t last week and they said they would write to him about it, it doesn't seem to have deterred him though :-/

The saddest thing is that when the man gets home from work he never 'greets' the dog if you know what I mean. He seems to mostly ignore it. Why have a dog and then treat it like it's a nuisance?

[viv38]

Daffy why on earth don't you report him to the RSPCA or at least talk to the poor thing when you go out? What a life for a dog, who are after all companion animals.

[Daffy6543]

I have tried reporting to the RSPCA but they said the dog is being fed and watered with no signs of abuse so they can do nothing. I have tried talking to the dog but it has had little social interaction and goes absolutely mental when you go anywhere near it. It was loose in the alley once when I was putting the bin out and I had to fend it off with a spade as I ran back into my yard being chased by it growling and snarling at me :(

[viv38]

Poor, bloody thing, the owner has reduced it to that, probably driven it mad ! I wouldn't let up with the RSPCA, I've found from experience that sometimes you just have to keep on at them. I would threaten them with going to the press if they don't act on this poor dog's treatment, that usually works ! Also, if it has no shelter, they have a duty to act as that is a requirement in law nowadays. I wish it lived near me.

[Daffy6543]

He has supplied a shelter of sorts, it is basically a piece of wood leaning against the back wall of the house at an angle, the dog can only just fit in there. The RSPCA said they spoke to him and advised him on the correct way to look after the dog and that there is nothing more they can do. They are the most useless animal welfare organisation on the planet in my opinion.

[viv38]

I know you've tried Daffy, but I simply wouldn't let it go. No wonder people call them and won't support them any more. This poor dog's life is hell.

[CatGirl4]

Couldn't you complain to your council about the noise? I agree about the rspca,you need to just keep on about the problem.