Upstairs neighbours have a young labrador, about a year old.
She is gorgeous (I love labradors) and totally quiet when they are in the flat with her BUT when the woman goes out to work 2-3 days a week, the dog goes berserk. Hours and hours and hours of almost non-stop barking, whining and sometimes quite alarming scratching (assume they have shut her up in one room and she wants to get out).
I can cope with it even though I work from home and it does drive me a bit mad sometimes.
But we are planning to put our flat on the market in the next few months and I am seriously worried this barking would put off buyers if they came on one of the days that the neighbour is out all day.
Do dogs eventually learn to live with it when their owners go out or do they do this (constantly bark/whine when alone) their entire lives? They have only lived up there for about 6 weeks (were in the countryside before) so obviously the dog may not have got used to being left yet.
Will this go on forever, is what I am asking, or do dogs eventually learn that when nobody comes for hours, they may as well stop barking?
It's a bit hard as the poor thing sounds quite distressed, the owners are nice but I think they have no idea that it hates being left alone.
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emeraldgirl1 · 23/11/2012 13:06
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