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Our next door neighbours dog barks and howls constantly if they leave it in the house on its own. I had to have words after it kept happening daily. Still does it occasionally. Does my head in.
och a wee doggy barking for 5 minutes when its let out is hardly endless barking!
My adjoined neighbour lets their dog out at 6am every day. It’s barks while it’s shitting in their garden and wakes my son up every day. They then stand in the garden at 6:30 shouting and clapping for it to come back in
My neighbour two doors down lets their out at 7am till 12 noon while they’re at work. It randomly barks throughout this time as it can’t get back in. This is annoying when you’re trying to work.
Another who backs onto us lets theirs out to do it’s last shit of the day at 11pm every day. It barks nonstop for 30 minutes.
And finally, the neighbour four doors down just lets their little rat out onto the street every morning to do it’s business on the pavement. Unsurprisingly they never pick it up.
All of these dogs were acquired in the last 18 months.
All of these owners are scum.
Some great responses, thank you. Re the barking, yes, he is excited to go out the back to sniff for squirrels and the like so when the door opens he runs round his territory a few times barking at all and nothing, it’s probably nowhere near 5 mins, probably not much more than a minute all in.
The irony is that the noise from the sound devices make him bark more, rather than less. I don’t really want it to escalate as the idea of a tasty steak over the fence is not outwith the guys capability IMO 😟
Move?
There’s a cat that sometimes comes in the garden over the same bit of fence, our dog had taken to preemptively running at the fence & barking when we let him out, whether the car was there or not. It was about 50/50 whether he would do it or not, presumably he could smell it and had seen it a few times. He’d bark For maybe 30 seconds if that.
Because I don’t want to annoy our neighbours and be “that” dog owner, we now take him out in to the garden on the lead with a pocket full of treats and do some training. Once he’s lost interest in the exciting bit of fence he gets let off the lead to do his thing. It’s taken a few weeks of effort but he’s quiet nearly every time now.
Barking dogs are annoying, especially if it’s a routine thing and not everyone is awake between your sociable hours.
Re the barking, yes, he is excited to go out the back to sniff for squirrels and the like so when the door opens he runs round his territory a few times barking at all and nothing, it’s probably nowhere near 5 mins, probably not much more than a minute all in.
That should be fixable with some training. I'd get on it sooner rather than later.
Quite possibly the dog barks once at the door to be let back in the house, thats what our dog does.
We have a neighbour with a dog that constantly barks, drives me up the wall. When our neighbour has a social gathering, it quite often gets locked in the garden. This then turns into 30 minutes of barking/howling/crying at the door to get back in. Once caught the brother locking the poor thing in the Wendy house. People are arseholes.
You are my alternate personality and I want my tenner.
We fell out with them when they tried to blame us for their dog scratching and breaking through their fence panel. Which was rotten. The panel that is. Surprisingly that was not the first disagreement between us.
Have you told him that the ultrasonics are making the dog bark more?
There must be some kind of rule about aiming them at your property?
I'd be tempted to wait until he was out and just go round and remove the batteries.
Bet it'd take a good while before he realised.
Walk the dog instead of letting it out in the garden?
^^^ that would be ideal, but the guy wont speak to me, or any of the other neighbours any more. He was always a bit odd, but through WFH for a few years and stuff he has become very strange, most likely suffering some mental health issues. His wife seems oblivious to it, and his teenage sons are good pals with ours.
As I mentioned earlier, my wife dropped one of their boys at the station the other day as he was walking in the rain, and until recently we regularly gave their elder son a lift to a cafe where he and our eldest both worked.
The guy has turned into mr unreasonable..
I do think we will try and train the dog out of barking in the garden tho
Phi5556 is a god amongst men. Good on you 🙂
Walk the dog instead of letting it out in the garden?
we do, see earlier, he gets at least 3 decent walks a day. I don't see why he shouldn't get out in our garden though..
. I don’t see why he shouldn’t get out in our garden though..
Because he makes a nasty noise and disturbs people. ( from what you said)
I experienced the same thing but the neighbours used to let the dogs out into the garden at 6am and midnight, as well as all the times in between. They were completely unbothered by the barking themselves - it's like they had a mental block - but it drove me around the bend. They never walked the dogs which made them worse.
In the end I moved and only wish I'd done it earlier. Didn't lose money but now I know why I got the house for a bargain price in the first place.
You have to declare disputes with your neighbours when you sell if you complained to the council or dog warden, so think carefully before doing either.
Phi5556 is a god amongst men. Good on you 🙂
I wouldn’t go that far, I’m sure I’ve got plenty of other flaws 😁
To the point that they will not have friends and relatives around who have dogs and it has lead to a fair few arguments.
I don’t want dogs in my house either, why is that such a bad thing? Why take a dog round to someone’s house when you know they can’t stand them?
They were completely unbothered by the barking themselves – it’s like they had a mental block
People who don’t seem to be bothered are the weirdest. I can ignore various types of noise but dog barking is very intrusive in its nature. People like that just don’t care about their animals which is the saddest part.
I don’t want dogs in my house either, why is that such a bad thing? Why take a dog round to someone’s house when you know they can’t stand them?
I read that as won’t have dog owning relatives around, even without the dogs - which does seem unreasonable!
Fair enough not to want the dogs in his house though.
I was thinking this was some kind of Ukraine thread so I was going to suggest invading his house and pretend to rescue him.
However it seems escalation is required and if noise is the chosen weapon I would start to learn the drums, badly, when he is in.
training the dog is always a good idea, but not because - unreasonable neighbor, because - responsible owner. it'll help when out and about walking.
i think the only sensible response is - get a bigger dog! thats how these things are resolved, right? Retaliation.
Because I don’t want to annoy our neighbours and be “that” dog owner, we now take him out in to the garden on the lead with a pocket full of treats and do some training. Once he’s lost interest in the exciting bit of fence he gets let off the lead to do his thing. It’s taken a few weeks of effort but he’s quiet nearly every time now.
Barking dogs are annoying, especially if it’s a routine thing and not everyone is awake between your sociable hours.
Same here, I find barking dogs quite irritating so we trained it out of ours so he doesn't bark at anything when he's out in the garden or on walks. The only time he barks now is when someone knocks at the door, he's getting better with that, he forgets himself initially and goes nuts then remembers and calms it down to a few yips and a general rumbling, then realises whoever is at the door isn't very interesting and goes back to sleep 😀
Buy a noisier pet? Cockerels? He'll soon forget about the barking dog.
OP ... if you can't talk to the guy, why not his wife or teenage son, if they're more reasonable?
His wife seems oblivious to it, and his teenage sons are good pals with ours.
She won't be - she's probably sick of hearing him moan about your dug and doesn't want to make a fuss.
The guy has turned into mr unreasonable..
To what extent have you considered that your wee cute dug and your behaviour are actually part of the problem? If he's having issues generally, isn't a good communicator and finds the barking irritating I can see how he's now faced with neighbours who bought a dog that barks and when he's tried (badly) to fix this with the ultrasonics have gone for the fence reinforcements approach instead of training the dog... It may not be rational to be so infuriated with a cute wee dog just being a cute wee excitable dog, but that doesn't mean this is not the source of the issue.
People love their dogs and like their children they can't see that their behaviour is not always to be admired or just the way they are.
I do think we will try and train the dog out of barking in the garden tho
that does seem like the obvious solution, and reducing the amount of time he gets in the garden until he can go out there with minimum fuss. In your shoes I would drop a note through his door, or talk to his wife, saying "look this could get silly with you buying more dog scarers and me building walls to block them. We are going to try and train the dug, but can you turn the scarers off for a while as they make him worse." If that doesn't work and they are not human audible then he might find the batteries don't last very long in the scarers!
^^^ his teenage sons don't talk to him either !
I will try speaking to his wife, though suspect she has no idea he has installed these things. This is the same woman who came to our door just after we moved in, 20 yrs ago, estate was still a building site and we had lots of power cuts - she said her power was off so what should she do with her freezer - open the door on it until power came back on... ? I said that wasn't the best plan. She is a head teacher, poor kids !
poly - all good points, thank you. We have only had the dog for 15 months, the chap stopped speaking to all neighbours and started reporting some of them to Env health for other things way before that. None of his complaints were upheld - things like the guy across the road washing his car with a pressure washer at 8 am on a Saturday - not a particularly considerate thing to do mind you !
Get a bigger dog. Start with a beagle then see what he does. If he responds upgrade to a border collie. Continue this until you have a St. Bernard. That will learn him.
A dog barking a couple of times a day for a short period really isn't a nuisance - and the council would probably laugh at him if he complained.
A dog left outside for hours on end barking constantly would piss anyone off.
OP - I'd get some chickens as well if you have the space! 🙂
^^^ haha, chickens 🙂
some great points, and whilst I don't see how his limited barking should be an issue I can now see it may be contributory to the man's issues. That said more houses have dogs than not in our road now, and none of them are silent. Will def try and train him to be a bit less barky, and will try find a way to get the noise machines willingly removed.
Have a street party,invite him,his family and everyone on the street. Get him really drunk and then convince him to go MTBing with you at Mugdock. Once he sees your skilz on display he will want to be your new best friend and everything will be forgiven.#mightjustwork. 😉 🙂
If you really want ramp up the noise though get a rubber basketball - our Jack Russell is beside himself with excitement when that comes out. He can push it around the lawn then try and hump it.
#livinghisbestlife
That said more houses have dogs than not in our road now, and none of them are silent.
How loud/frequent are the other dogs. If there are a whole bunch going off from time at random times then it could be rather irritating and he may just be taking it out on the one he has access to.
You can't stop a dog occasionally barking, like you can't stop the kid across the road revving his motorbike for no good reason, like you can't stop the kids over the fence from squealing while playing outside (which causes the dog to bark), like you can't stop next doors cats shitting in your garden, like you can't stop the bloke a few doors up playing with a different powertool all weekend every weekend.
If a dog is barking excessively (which is doesn't sound like this one is) then my attention would turn to what's wrong with the dog.
If you really want ramp up the noise though get a rubber basketball
we have a hoop and ball, he asked us a few years back to stop our kids using it as the noise was stressing out his elderly mother who comes round a lot.. We complied..
How loud/frequent are the other dogs.
random, probs not dissimilar to ours, you can't really hear any of them much inside - modern double glazed detached houses. None of them bark early am or into evening - folks nearby are generally all pretty decent and considerate
I’d be tempted to wait until he was out and just go round and remove the batteries.
Bet it’d take a good while before he realised.
Beat me to it, I was going to say the same thing. They're ultrasonic, how would he know? (Mind you, he sounds like the type to have CCTV pointing at his garden and at all the neighbours.)
I'm a bit confused though. You know he's installed these things and suspect his wife doesn't? How do you know more about the contents of his back yard than those living there, especially if they're right up against the wall as you say?
I appreciate that like the 'about to become a parent' thread this discussion is likely to divide into haters vs apologists (we already have several "it's only a dog" posts) but the uncomfortable truth is that a barking dog is bloody annoying. You're thinking "it's only for a couple of minutes" and honestly it sounds like you're being relatively reasonable, but he's next door thinking "that $%^&ing thing is off again, that's the third time today!" I don't have the first clue how you might train a dog not to bark, but if it were me I'd be looking into it.
we have a hoop and ball, he asked us a few years back to stop our kids using it as the noise was stressing out his elderly mother who comes round a lot.. We complied..
"is your mum in? No? Great!" boing boing boing swish boing
Get a bigger dog. Start with a beagle then see what he does. If he responds upgrade to a border collie. Continue this until you have a St. Bernard. That will learn him
I see one (St. Bernard) local to me quite regularly taking its owner for a drag 😀
They're massive!
You know he’s installed these things and suspect his wife doesn’t?
they never use their garden, and the locations of the units are not particularly visible from their windows IMO. plus they are green and grass coloured !
you can’t really hear any of them much inside – modern double glazed detached houses
Unless you like having the windows open when working from home.
Near me dogwise:
One in the house behind which is fine. Occasionally if it is ignored for too long when waiting at the backdoor it will bark but only once or twice.
One next door which doesnt normally bark much but does manically when it sees a squirrel normally followed by a bang as it nuts the fence. Again fine and to be honest amusing waiting for the BANG! Not the brightest thing.
There is one a street or so away (not quite sure where) which does bark consistently for 5-10mins at a time before taking a break and kicking off again. Really not fine. Even the breaks can be annoying since you know its going to start off again.
Smash up the gizmos with a crowbar in the middle of the night then creep in and bum his hamster.
they never use their garden, and the locations of the units are not particularly visible from their windows IMO. plus they are green and grass coloured !
So how are they visible to you?
From what you have posted so far I think he might be right…
Umm, ok. Care to elaborate? Not read anything from the OP that sounds unreasonable.
we have a hoop and ball, he asked us a few years back to stop our kids using it as the noise was stressing out his elderly mother who comes round a lot.. We complied..
Ok, so was a blanket ban on playing ball or just when his mother was there ?
I still think my drunken street party suggestion could work.
Failing that ,a well placed sign may be enough to make him stop.
Umm, ok. Care to elaborate? Not read anything from the OP that sounds unreasonable.
Not understanding that having barking dog as a neighbour is really really annoying?