Neighbour dog barking

[Tintagel]

You must all be living on the edge, dogs bark, kids scream, traffic makes a noise, people make a noise, that's normal life, no one complains around here. In fact I asked my neighbours if the dog bothers him and his answer was no

Traffic passes by. Children play in their gardens during the summer months. Allowing your dog to bark non stop for half an hour is completely different. Must you allow it?

 

[roker]

Traffic passes by. Children play in their gardens during the summer months. Allowing your dog to bark non stop for half an hour is completely different. Must you allow it?

There's a neighbours dog comes to our door every morning and barks continuesley until she gets a treat, we think it's funny and say she's asking our dog out to play

 

[Tintagel]

I alway check that the neighbours curtains are open first that indicates that there is no baby asleep or people on shifts.

Great tip. I must tell my son who works from home and my grand daughter who was studying for her Leaving Certificate to close their curtains to let our neighbour know that they are at home.

 

[galway_blow_in]

Don't envy anyone dealing with this, dog warden in Ireland is just about thee most impotent of all local authority entities

 

[Kimmagegirl]

But it's OK for my neighbour to kick the ball around next door, which last more than half hour.

Absolutely OK. It's the non stop barking of a dog that upsets people and I am amazed you think it's acceptable.

 

[roker]

Absolutely OK. It's the non stop barking of a dog that upsets people and I am amazed you think it's acceptable.

A dog bark does no damage, have you seen the damage that a ball does to the paint work when a ball glances off the car, it leaves multiple scratches

 

[WaterWater]

A dog bark does no damage, have you seen the damage that a ball does to the paint work when a ball glances off the car, it leaves multiple scratches

So you have gone from children playing football in their garden to doing damage to a car now, to justify you allowing your dog to bark incessantly.

In a few years time these children might even steal your car at this rate.

 

[roker]

So you have gone from children playing football in their garden to doing damage to a car now, to justify you allowing your dog to bark incessantly.

In a few years time these children might even steal your car at this rate.

I never said my dog barks incesantly, did say "why pick on dogs" when there are other noises around

 

[lff12]

Trying to enjoy the day in my garden and my neigbours dog hasn't stopped barking. Doing my head in. Of course they are gone off for the day and are blissfully unaware.

Which is why it is barking. We had a dog like this, a kind of a rescue who was never properly socialised. There was issues with antisocial behaviour that particularly affected us that the rest of the neighbourhood turned a blind eye to. So the dog would bark half the night in response to people moving and talking on the other side of the door. Neighbours stopped complaining when we said it was the result of same antisocial behaviour. Eventually it annoyed the kids on the other side of the wall to get fed up at the incessant barking and the anti social behaviour went away too, and so, quickly enough, did the barking.

I do sympathise. I lived in the upper floor mews once to a ground floor apartment where the ar**hole who brought back a dog from a pound would go to work and leave the dog tied to a pipe outside, where it howled and cried all day. We complained to the pound she got it from.
So she responded by leaving the day outside to wander around when she went to work. Eventually it bit someone, they too complained to the pound again, and to the county council's dog warden who came and investigated. The dog eventually went. There's a special place in hell for people who get dogs and live in apartment blocks with no outdoor private space.

 

[KC1981]

We’ve had this issue and we are moving because of it. 8 dogs in a garden next to us, kept outside and never walked and they howl all day long, all 8 of them.

We contacted everyone and the process is that you have to fill in a form from the court to notify the dog owner of your intent to lodge a complaint. They can respond or demonstrate that they have rectified the issue or you bring them to court. Best case scenario is the court puts restrictions on their dog ownership rights but in reality this isn’t a priority for compliance checking.

It’s unfortunate but unless you have considerate neighbours that care about the impact the barking is having on you, even the legal route doesn’t do much to fix things. The dog warden can’t do anything, neither can the police.
Only solution after failed communication is to move

 

[roker]

All I was pointing out was that it looked as if you were justifying your dog's half hour of barking because of the ball hitting your wall for more than half an hour.

I'm not living on any edge here. As it happens, I have 3 dogs and I'm always acutely aware of them barking excessively.

Dogs bark. A fact of life. But execessive barking even drives me mad. My dogs bark but I must be doing something right as I've never had a complaint about it.

I have a big hedge around my property and on occasion the next's door's football arrives into my garden or lands on top of my hedge. I've never been asked for the ball back. They don't enter my property to get it. When I see the ball I lob it back over their front gate and they are free to have their kick around again.

More important than barking, do you use a poop bag when you are out with the dogs?

 

[PaddyBloggit]

More important than barking, do you use a poop bag when you are out with the dogs?

Yup... and I have a little pooper scooper to match.

I'm well used to scooping the poop.... lots of scooping to be done on a daily basis at home.... thankfully I have a big drive etc.

They are excluded from the lawn... Poor George (the auto mower) was not a happy camper when they had free reign to use it as an extended WC.

I'm only hoping that I'm won't be asked to reduce their emissions' output as part of my sector's contribution to the emissions' target.

.... and before you ask... they are microchipped, are licenced and I do take them out on leads.

A good citizen I am.

 

[IsleOfMan]

More important than barking, do you use a poop bag when you are out with the dogs?

You have moved on to poop bags now. Just as you moved on to balls hitting against cars. You should not be allowing your dog to non stop bark for half an hour.......I can't get over your justification of this.