How much dog barking do you overhear at home?

None, I live in a small village with only a few neighbours, no dogs, we all have cats, so I get frequent visits from them.

Every house round me has a dog, they set each other off in the summer sometimes, say if a cat is spotted and they are all outside. There’s also, genuinely, an evening bark…. Hate to say it ours is probably the worst, we bring her in if she’s set on a session. But we don’t just leave her barking outside all day.

My next door neighbour has a dog but he's not very barky. I can go days without hearing a peep out of him.

I had neighbours with dogs before - a chihuahua for one, and then a couple more for another. I occasionally heard them in the garden or similar. I'm not opposed to dogs but I'm not massively pro them either.

Then I had new neighbours and they had 4 spaniels. They just used to howl and bark all day every day. It sent my utterly bonkers. I live in a little terraced house in a town and it is much too small to house 4 spaniels. I was so glad when they moved house.

I do worry about annoying our neighbours and we do try very hard to stop any barking. That said, mine barks when someone comes to the door and when we leave but he stops as soon as we get to the car. We have a dog cam and check randomly and have never caught him barking when he’s alone. Once past the boundary of the house on a walk he does not make a sound and if he goes into our garden and barks we get him straight back in so that only lasts a few seconds.

Our attached neighbour used to have a dog who whined constantly when she was left alone including overnight sometimes although we rarely heard barking. There is a dog locally who is left out at night and barks and howls but I’ve never been able to track down where it is. Someone local also has chickens with a VERY vocal cockerel…

We've several neighbours with dogs. I only hear 1 bark every so often. It's literally just for a few seconds in the morning when I think the excitement of going out into the garden for the first time that day makes him go a bit hyper.

Occasionally I hear the odd extra bark, again just for a few seconds, but that tends to be when my cat goes and sits on the fence and stares at him so I can't really complain!

Semi detached. Neighbour has a dog. Probably hear their dog bark less than 5 times a year at most, usually in summer when doors and windows open. Our walls aren’t especially thick. Otherwise we don’t hear much barking other than occasional dog walkers’ dogs going past each other. Very fortunate I realise

Yes @crumpetswithcheeze I sthink it’s really odd when people claim to “love” dogs but never walk them! I know someone like this IRL and can’t understand it. Surely walks are part of dog ownership.

Couldn’t care less about dogs around, much more annoying the kids screeching and the neighbours smoking weed daily!

Wouldn’t even know my neighbor had 3 dogs. She walks them multiple times a day though and keeps quiet (doesn’t seem to allow them to yap all day)

From early morning till late at night it’s unusual not to hear barking here. It’s fucking depressing. Some days I’m in tears. One family has four or five large dogs who are out for the first time between 5 and 6 in the morning. That’s the day of barking started. Big dogs, small, yappy dogs. When one starts they all join in.

People are thick, lazy and inconsiderate nowadays. It used to be the norm that if you own a dog, it gets walked twice a day at the very least. Some idiots near me chuck theirs out in the garden at all times of day and night. Sometimes it’s half past midnight, sometimes it’s 7am. Never seen them get walked in three years.

Not often and several neighbours have dogs.

So bloody many. In fact we just moved house and one of the reasons was to get away from it. I have dogs and I’d never just leave them barking in the garden, I don’t understand how people can!

I’m in the arse end of the countryside, and we have dogs barking all day.

Next door has a cocka thingie that is non stop, next door to them there are three small dogs that bark all day the owners leave them in the garden and conservatory.

across the field we have the farm dogs and can hear them when it’s food time.

I have 4 dogs of my own, 2 that will bark to alert and the rest of the time are quiet.

Thing is we are rural and all detached but the barks travel, and the dogs are outside lots.

We can even hear a couple of dogs in the village a mile+ out as when they get started they go for hours.

My parents have a Jack Russell /Chihuahua cross with a surprisingly deep bark.

To answer the OP, despite living in a suburban semi, very little. Only 2 or 3 neighbours within earshot have dogs and none of them are continually vocal.

We’re mid-terrace, we have a dog and so do many of our neighbors . Our immediate neighbors have two and they were barking yesterday because someone was doing work in the house (tradesman) and the dogs were obviously unsettled. It was slightly annoying as I was wfh but it’s not a regular occurrence.

Our dog barks for a few seconds whenever someone leaves the house. I’ve asked our neighbors on both sides whether it’s annoying, but they’ve both assured me that he stops very quickly and is otherwise quiet

If you live in a built-up area, some dog noise is acceptable, I think. Not if it’s constant though.

Almost none. Next door have a dog that never barks, as do a few doors down. We’re in a rural village very popular with walkers. Occasionally hear a visiting dog bark innthe field behind house but can go a long time without.

Next door has a dog but I rarely hear it. We are in small detached houses.

Yanbu
I’ve got 2 separate friends who let their dogs bark very loudly late at night in their gardens. They’re totally oblivious that they must seriously be fucking off their neighbours.

You don’t have to endure the noise. If the barking is excessive, complain to your neighbour. If it contains, complain to your local council (Environmental Health). If they investigate and decide it’s a ‘statutory nuisance’, a noise abatement order can be served on the dog owner. If the owner fails to comply with the noise abatement order, that’s actually a criminal offence and the council can prosecute them. Quite a few reports of people being prosecuted over the last few years and receiving big fines for their barking dogs.

I moved from a cul de sac to a busy 4 lane road, next to a school. The peace is blissful. I was living next to two border collies who barked to hear the sound of their own voices. I used to lay in bed at night dreaming of taping their mouths closed (leaving room for them to drink of course). I'm the person who picks up wandering dogs from the road and looks after them till I reach their owners. Those mongrels I would have left running and prayed they got hit. To say I despised them would be an understatement. It was a detached house, their owners were home, they did nothing to shut them up.

I'm now in units. People have dogs. We have no issues with barking 24 hrs a day

I moved from a cul de sac to a busy 4 lane road, next to a school. The peace is blissful. I was living next to two border collies who barked to hear the sound of their own voices. I used to lay in bed at night dreaming of taping their mouths closed (leaving room for them to drink of course). I'm the person who picks up wandering dogs from the road and looks after them till I reach their owners. Those mongrels I would have left running and prayed they got hit. To say I despised them would be an understatement. It was a detached house, their owners were home, they did nothing to shut them up.

I'm now in units. People have dogs. We have no issues with barking 24 hrs a day

Dog next door. It's a fairly large yorkie. I don't know if it's just big or it's a certain type or it is crossed but it is unusually big for a yorkie. Still relatively small though.

The other weird thing about it is its bark. It is really deep. You'd think the dog it came from was at least middle sized. It barks at any and everything. Sometimes for ages like during heavy rain, it will bark for the whole time. Someone has called the RSPCA and apparently they gave her training tips. Now she gives it treats when it barks...

Yes, I live next door to a couple of police, their two kids and a labrador. The barking is horrendous, extremely intrusive and my neighbours are awful. When weve brought it up ive been gaslighted then told to stop complaining! A few months ago I walked into my back garden to let myself in and as usual the dog started. I shouted 'can't you shut your fucking dog up just for once'.

A for sale sign appeared followed by a sold sign, which is hilarious because the week before we had the agents around to value ours as we'd had enough. It's a win 😂

Op you don't have a dog problem you have a cf neighbour problem.

Edited to add the barking went on all morning sometimes. Particularly wonderful was the 8.30 to 9.15 am sessions of non stop barking. People like that shouldn't be allowed to keep animals, poor thing.