Neighbour barking dog

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?

My neighbours have dogs, from time to time they bark a bit. Its not annoying.

Do people not read the threads before posting ??

82.5 psi and 2 tokens.

iainc doesn’t sound like a dick to me.

The woman who used to live up the road from me who’s dog used to run down my drive barking and showing its teeth at me was a dick.
Someone who stops their own kids playing in their own garden to keep the peace definitely doesn’t sound like a dick.

That said more houses have dogs than not in our road now, and none of them are silent.

Dog choir? Train them all to bark out a couple of show tunes. That’ll cheer him right up. Everyone loves a show tune. On a serious note, if that’s your dog in the photo on page one, it needs to come and live with me.

All else fails something, something, shoes, sausages, bombers, frozen, wee, hammer, bum

Ok, so was a blanket ban on playing ball or just when his mother was there ?

he didn’t elaborate as to when his mother was there or not so we felt easiest route to avoid friction was a blanket ban

Oh well, I’m not quite sure how I have conveyed that view, but I guess that’s what forums are all about..

I don’t think you realise how annoying a barking dog can be.

I don’t think you realise how annoying a barking dog can be

My favourite post ever!

You have my sympathies. We have to be out in the garden and supervise ours, as we have dogs both sides and she runs from fence to fence barking at them. She doesn’t do it if I’m out there with her.

I don’t think you realise how annoying a barking dog can be.

I think he does. Surely that’s evident by him coming on here and talking about it, rather than just letting the dog get on with it.

The dog is barking for a couple of minutes per day. If anybody is offended or annoyed by that then I don’t even know what to say. I’m more annoyed by cars going passed the house or dickheads stopping under the bedroom window for a catch up at 11:00 at night than I am about my neighbours dog barking occasionally. Constant barking or barking at unsociable hours for ages would irk me but what the OP is describing, not one bit

Smash up the gizmos with a crowbar in the middle of the night then creep in and bum his hamster.

Hamster 🐹?!

I’m guessing @iainc’s nickname isn’t tripod then…

he didn’t elaborate as to when his mother was there or not so we felt easiest route to avoid friction was a blanket ban

Knock on and see if grandma wants to come out and play?

🙂

I do appreciate that a barking dog can be annoying, and that’s why we attempt to minimise it, give him lots of long walks, but I am surprised that by having my dog barking for a few minutes here or there, in my own garden I am labelled a dick TJ

Sometimes dogs bark, if it’s just for a few mins per day it doesn’t sound like a problem to me.

My neighbours dog is old and has speration anxiety and when they leave him home alone he will literally bark for hours on end. That’s not OK and irresponsible if you ask me.

But that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Being labelled a dick is more than a a bit harsh but to me your posts came over as ” it only barks a bit, no big issue” whereas it clearly is  a big issue to your neighbour and would be to me as well.  a barking dog is like fingernails on a blackboard to me and also the unpredictability of it is irritating to say the lest.  It might seem reasonable to you but other views are availavble

Also dogs don’t bark in the wild, it’s not a thing.

If it’s barking it’s to seek attention for some reason, lonely, hungry, stressed etc.

Mine will yap a little if he wants to go out for a wee or if his water bowl is empty, for example.

I dont understand this concept of ‘letting the dogs out for a shit’. I have 2 dogs. In a 4 person family we take turns walking them (Me twice a day). They get 4 walks per day.

They are not silent dogs but neither are they noisy. Neighbours have yappy little mutts and my two kinda just look at them annoyed. Every so often they will bark at them to tell them to shut up.

Every couple of weeks the window cleaner comes around and then all bets are off. My two go mental. I guess thats their noisy time and the neighbours will have to lump it.

Looking forward to the summer. Our neighbours kids are extra noisy on their trampolines and i will have music, dogs and chat going every available second.

I class it all as life. If we let it get to us we will soon end up like your neighbour

I think to only way you are going to get it sorted, one way or another, is to have a chat to him. At least that way you can’t say you haven’t tried everything.

We can hire out ours to do a bit of dog garden training next time we are up north. 😉

now there’s a plan ! 🙂

I dont understand this concept of ‘letting the dogs out for a shit’

Well it’s as simple as this, do you only go to the toilet when you’re out for a walk? Do you prevent your dog going to the toilet when it asks to get out?

If either of those answers are yes I’m really not sure what to say.

I do appreciate that a barking dog can be annoying, and that’s why we attempt to minimise it, give him lots of long walks

Have you tried giving your neighbour lots of long walks?
Chances are he’d be tired enough not to notice the odd bit of barking then.

Also dogs don’t bark in the wild, it’s not a thing

Which wild dogs are these of which you speak? African Hunting Dogs? Wolves? or all those wild Bedlington Terriers wandering the plains?

I’ve been a bit short with him and other neighbours through lockdown

Stressed owner = stressed dog

I’m trying to suss out the why around the neighbour putting in these machines

Maybe he has a rodent problem, maybe nothing to do with you and you are reading things into it that are not there. You’ll need to talk to him, maybe start with ‘I’ve been a little stressed with lockdown and I’d like to apologise’ might go a long way towards defusing situation for both of you.

^^^ no, that when I was him in the early part of the thread. I have always been polite to the man, despite his ways.

I actually went to his door to talk to him last summer around some work we were getting done in the garden and he slammed the door in my face, saying he didn’t have time to talk to me.

3 weeks later he had a go at my wife for us getting work done in the garden and letting him know in advance…

Dog numbers have massively increased over the last few years (even more since lockdown) and it’s got to the stage where I personally think the UK needs to bring in some robust regulations such as enforceable licences and mandatory training (registered and reviewable by authorities) to try and mitigate nuisance and control numbers.
We have two dogs (wife’s choice not mine….but I was too weak willed to stand my ground) and like someone mentioned earlier in some streets almost every other house has a dog. I can entirely see how this is a source of anguish and annoyance to many both while at home and when out and encountering dogs. My mum is not a big fan of dogs and has recently retired and has nuisance dogs on all sides of her barking away night and day when all she wants is to watch QVC or read a book in peace. Our dogs are intermittent barker’s (mostly centred around people walking past the house or at the door) and it annoys me and most probably the neighbours but I’m in 95% of the time so nip it in the bud. The woman across the street (very narrow Victorian terrace) leaves her jack Russell at 5.45am when she goes to work and the freekin thing barks in her bedroom window directly across from ours for at least 2 hours. I was at the point of going round and then I saw the Sold sign so I’ve left it.
Anyway, surly we must be not far off the point where some kind of regulation is now required with a cost levied at keeping and owning dogs (and cats!) Which would ward off alot of the fair weather (lockdown buyers) pet owners and get things back to a manageable level?

I can’t see any form of regulation working.
I had to contact the dog warden some months ago about a woman and her dog.
The dog was under a control order after it killed a cat and had to be muzzled and on lead at all times. Except she took little notice of the order. One time it suddenly appeared opposite my little dog, muzzle hanging at the side of its mouth. They stared at each other, I debated picking her up but wondered if it would make it react. It just ran off in the end but I have never been so scared in my life and I can’t imagine how my poor dog felt.
The order has now been lifted and little one is no longer with me and I have a larger dog now who the dog doesn’t scare.
It is still a massive pita though. We were walking up my street the other day when this woman, her pal and the dog turned into the street coming the other way. Mine was on a lead, hers not. It’s not a busy street but there’s still plenty of traffic. It ran from one side of the street to the other, into people’s driveways, up to my dog. The dog is very stressed and stresses mine out. She tried to take off like a greyhound out of the traps and had been walking quietly and calmly until we encountered the dog.
The woman did and said nothing and seeing as she’s just lost her son, I felt I couldn’t say anything either.
I understand the dog must be even more important to her now but there are cats living on my street and if it kills another one, then she’ll lose it as well.

She’s not the only one who refuses to use a lead. I’d say half the people on my street (it’s next to a field) and the neighbouring streets refuse to do so. You see drivers despair as a dog almost goes under their wheels for the third time that week.

With regards the noise of barking dogs, it is annoying I agree but people make a terrible noise too. The people two doors up from me have two spaniels who are never let off the lead and marched round on a walk without even being given time to sniff. Their owner, who was at one time constantly out in his garden doing ‘stuff’, got a job and we all got some peace. He’s lost it now though and spent much of the day Wednesday drilling and hammering and generally making a dreadful noise in the garden.

Anyway, long post. Just to say it’s people who are the problem, not dogs and the kind of people who need regulating simply can’t be regulated effectively.
I agree something needs to be done though but I have no idea what.

Just to say it’s people who are the problem, not dogs and the kind of people who need regulating simply can’t be regulated effectively

Hmm..not sure I agree. We manage to enforce licencing for lots of other things well enough. I’m not saying that people won’t circumvent the systems as they do with car licences etc but it would keep alot of animal ownership in check. I’m sure it would also lead to the removal and destruction of quite a few animals that were kept without licences where the owner just shrugs and says “they have no money for a licence or a fine” but it might make you think twice before dropping a grand or more on a dog to then have it removed?
People are a problem…your right, but that’s why authorities have regulations in place to limit the amount who are not willing to act responsibly. It might be easier to bring in restrictions than change the mindset of millions.

Not sure I used the quote function correctly there!

The pilot – I would still report her for that.  A dog must be on a led roadside IIRC and its clearly still a “dangerously out of control ” dog

I refuse to use the quote function. For whatever reason, it never works for me!
If regulation was to work, it would need a whole lot of money thrown at it. The dog warden I contacted had a whole county to look after. The police won’t get involved. You’d have to put money into the already hugely over-stretched court system, you’d have to fund a licensing system, you’d have to set up dog euthanising centres and so on…
The dog in my example would have not cost a grand. It’s a staffie and quite possibly a rehome. And if you took it off her, she’d just go out and get another. It’s not a lockdown dog either.
I realise I’m not coming up with any solutions! I’m just really not sure what can be done.