Has anyone made a complaint to their council about a dog barking? If so, how did it go? Reason I ask is there is a young couple who live next door have one of those little yappy handbag dogs. They clearly have never done obedience with him, so he barks morning, noon and night. They clearly chuck him in the garden when he's making noise (they have a 1 year old child too) and he just ****ing barks all day long. After about 2 years of this **** (and I WFH permanently now) I'm fed up. I've always been reticent to do anything official, because I don't want it coming back on me and causing issues with the neighbours - we get on "OK" with them, but they are young, chavvy kids who don't really care about others (they had parties in covid, they occasionally sit in their garden at 2am playing music but it's reasonably rare so I'm not overly bothered) but I haven't got the energy to get into an ongoing fight with the people next door, Any thoughts or advice? Am I just being a moany bastard?
I'd personally have a word with them about it first nothing nasty just a case if can you not chuck the dog in the garden when it's barking for hours. State you work from home and are finding it is interrupting teams chats/calls. If they choose to do nothing about it then make a formal complaint to the council. Will probably be noise pollution or something like that. Whether the council would act on it is another matter mind. For what it's worth I'm a dog lover but I would happily strangle the type of dog you are describing probably after the owners though.
We had a problem with a neighbour's dog until they ****ed off last year, but it wasn't as bad as yours seems to be, TC. The bastards used to let it out to bark, and it didn't stop until they let it back in, they never once tried to tame it, and they used to say to kids that 'he likes talking' . . . . stupid bastards Someone reported it to the council and they had to keep a record of when it barked for a month before showing the results. Unfortunately, he used to work so he could only record it when he was at home, and it didn't bark for long enough to be a problem to the council, but your neighbour's dog seems to definitely fit the criteria where they'd take it seriously . . . . so report it The council sent them a letter about our concerns (even neighbours who had dogs themselves), but they still didn't try to tame the wild animal and simply had no control. Maybe it did work in a way 'cos they've gone, and it's so much more peaceful now . . . . it's like a pressure cooker that's been released p.s. As said above, I would definitely not have word with them because if they do now't and you report them, they'll know who did it, which could make things worse ! Most dog owners are responsible, but some just don't give a toss about anybody else, and shouldn't be allowed to have them.
It puts the onus on you but can’t you get those things that respond to barking by emitting a high pitched tone ( that humans can’t hear) but is really irritating, but harmless , to the dog , so it learns that barking will result in its discomfort and thus hopef give it up ?
Councils will address those types of complaints, so yeah if the owners are unreasonable nuggets worth doing.
I have a similar problem it does my head in when ive been on nights. Next door but 1 to me owns 4 dogs and does dog grooming during the day in her back garden shed, so ontop of the noise her dogs make theres a constant drop off of other peoples dogs aswell wanting to be groomed
Thanks all. As stated I WFH, so can certainly record it, but there's always that danger that some knob at the council tells my neighbour who complained and that just leads to ill feeling etc. Might look into one of those anti-bark devices
Hmm you could always toss some dodgy dog food into next doors garden and see what happens. The General Sec of the UN says we have to do more to get to net zero quicker to prevent global warming rising over 1.5 dec C a lot fewer dogs will help this... I think I read this in VIZ?
Never happened to me this luckily. If and when it ever does I might try the "interesting treats" tactic deployed by a mate a few years back. Mind, he was already at open loggerheads with them!
Hoying some of this into their garden might work, too (as a last resort, of course) please log in to view this image
You have to be careful, but that's what my mate meant by "interesting treats". He was never caught and the dog survived, but I don't know how he did it. He moved later anyway.
Nah, wouldn't do it really. Was only joshing. It's not the poor dog's fault that his owners never bothered training him
Anyone that sits out till 2am, playing music, shouting and balling with no consideration for others surely doesn't gibe a ****e about the dog barking. I bet they're the kind where they would have a party for the opening of a pair of curtains? 7 or 8 of them getting louder as the night goes on, then about midnight the lasses start singing the songs from frozen loud as out? People put people in tough predicaments. hope you get sorted mate.
Sounds familiar, but thankfully these occurrences were very rare. Mainly during lockdown where she had her Hen night in the back garden, he had everyone round for his 30th, and they had visitors at the house every day without fail when we were supposed to be staying away from people. They've calmed down since having a bairn thankfully
The council will often want you to have spoken with them, before they do anything. they’ll then want evidence, which it sounds like you can record & provide. Some councils will install noise monitoring equipment the council are then obliged to write to them & tell them to sort it out. If that fails, they then step in as a last resort with an ‘ASBO’. Not sure happens then….
I used to live in an old terraced house and had excellent neighbours, the old couple on one side were perfect neighbours, really helpful and never heard a word from their side of the house. After about 10 years the old couple moved closer to their grand kids and we got some new neighbours, a couple who were slightly younger than us but with no kids. We got on well and all was fine for a few years until she started her dog sitting / walking business from the house. Initially she mainly looked after people's dogs during the day while we were out but things gradually got worse as time went on. Sometimes they would have 5 or 6 dogs there and once one dog started yapping they would all join in. We had a nice long garden but almost every time I went out there I'd hear a pack of dogs barking at me or the kids. It all came to a head when she met a new man and started going out on Saturday evenings - leaving the dogs on their own to bark and whine from about 8-11pm. One Sunday morning I complained to her about the noise and she had the cheek to say that she didn't realise it was a problem I looked into making a formal complaint about the noise - the council are also responsible for the dog carer licences for her business, but I didn't report it in the end. As already stated you have to keep a record and have evidence of noise. I moved house instead - definitely the best thing I ever did my new neighbours have a very well behaved Golden Retriever not a spot of bother.
