To have gone round to neighbours about their dog?

I feel your pain OP. In exactly the same position. Constant from 5am, for days on end some weeks as they work away. It doesn’t take a break, and goes mental everytime there is the slightest noise. It has free rein of the garden so you can’t even escape. Go to the bins and he smashes the window whilst barking viciously at you. You can hear it over everything.

We had 3 bereavement last her and each time came home to a barking fucking dog.

Currently awaiting Big Progress op.

I commented on hiring initial post to keep going. After the log keeping it's recording equipment...
They have powers to enforce get dog being rehomed.
Your life isn't less important than theirs just because they have health issues. Ime you will soon too.

Can people please STOP with the 'Boomer' thing?
I've had dogs all my life & am quite capable of training & walking them, despite my VAST age..

PS Sorry @Chefpig it must be driving you crazy.

Noise pollution does drive you to the edge. Can you get some AirPods or noise cancelling headphones in the short term? My DH bought me a pair a year or so ago and I was initially meh. Then I used them (often without music playing) and they’re the best creation known to man. I live in a tourist town and street buskers with amps drive me insane. AirPods have been so good. Not a longterm solution I know, but it might provide some relief in the short term

How did you train her not to bark? Or attempt to train her not to bark? And what breed is she?

From what you have said, it is highly likely that you have taught her that barking gets her attention, which in turn makes her bark more. Especially as she doesn't bark when you are not there. QED you are the environmental change that is causing the barking.

My preferred method is that barking always leads to all fun stopping.

They bark in the garden? They come in, immediately.
They bark at the doorbell? They are removed from the room until they stop barking (better to teach a place cue, and reward them for going to it when the doorbell goes, but it isn't easy to do that with other people's dogs).

There are many other techniques, but timing is essential (as it is with all dog training). Also, the handler needs to be calm, and make no noise while engaging with the dog until it is quiet. Then heap loads of praise / reward.

Most owners shout at the dog to be quiet, which the dog interprets as 'wahay, let's bark more'.

Obviously, this is very general, each dog is different, but the above works quite well in most instances.

The ones that I have regularly all know my rules, and while they bark and go nuts at the door in their own homes, they generally don't do it in mine.

I’d be disturbing them. I’d book into a hotel for a night, put speakers to the wall and play music all night.

Elderly and ill or not, I’d make their lives a living hell.

I’ve done the speaker thing before with a noisy neighbour and it did the trick.

Sounds like where I live, every other dog owner is an older person, and their dogs, there are usually two, are walking the owners. taking up whole pavements. If it wasn't so annoying it would be funny,

How do you teach them not to bark?
Mine is calm when I’m out but barks like a demon when I’m home. Training her to not bark has only taught her to bark more - the trainer we’ve worked with has never met a dog like her!
I know not the point of the thread, but I’m always open to learning new techniques!

She has multiple times!

@Chefpig what happened to the old dead / not dead dog?

YANBU in the slightest. I can't stand selfish neighbours who impose their noise on other people. If the dog is distressed enough to be barking that much, he/she should be rehomed with someone who can provide exercise and a less stressful environment.

It is also bad when owners have them off leads when they have no recall at all.

As a massive dog owner and lover this would annoy me no end.

My dogs bark to alert me to someone near the front door or back door but quickly stop when told, it’s what I’ve trained them to do.

It’s a horrible situation to be in my neighbours dogs bark when they are left alone and sometimes it’s for hours - they’d been the first to complain if mine did it yet when I’ve spoken to them just been dismissed (they are not nice people) so I’ve given up I generally wear noise cancelling headphones for works calls as I can’t be bothered to deal with the fall out and general distress from it all.

It makes me so angry to see dogs kept in captivity like this and not stimulated. My Mum and stepdad got a yorkiepoo about 7 years ago, neither of them are remotely mobile (both nearly 80) and this poor dog gets a run round my garden at the weekend as the only break from being housebound with them. The dog is riddled with arthritis/anxiety, rotten teeth and also has epilepsy (that neither of them will acknowledge) and say the Vet is just trying to make money out of them. They've also had letters from the council and both get very angry saying "well we can't stop her barking, what's the point in reporting us"....

I have threatened them both that when this one dies (and I don't think it'll make old bones at all), they're not to get another as it's cruel. I think we need much stricter laws on dog ownership in this country and that def includes older people who keep pets in captivity for company.

I guess another possible option is to offer to walk the dog yourself?

Ah sorry. Skin reading!

Can't you report to RSPCA?

Or do a vigilante style dog-theft, rehome it somewhere it can be loved and have all the exercise and attention it needs.

For the sake of your own mental health I think you need to stop dwelling on it OP. It's clearly not doing you much good. Focus on what you can control and do that for now.

They clearly believe they are trying, however ineffectual that might be, if you get the same response every time you ask it's clearly not going to change. They may eventually decide they can't handle the dog due to their health, fingers crossed.

Keep completing your log and hopefully the council will do their thing eventually.

I wouldn't get involved in retribution or it will become a two sided neighbour dispute that goes nowhere.

A PP has said its easy to train a dog not to bark. She's right!

I rehomed a 10yr staff 18m ago who barked at everything. So, got a trainer and behaviourist plus a vet who come alternate weeks. Now she will bark at anyone knocking the door so I've installed a parcel box outside so couriers don't set her off. I've also trained her by saying enough after a bark, raise my finger and send her to the kitchen. Plus window film so she can't see out.

She goes days and days without barking but I think I drove my neighbours mad the first couple of months!

It's not fair and plain rude to let an animal ruin the one safe haven you have, your home. Keep up with the council. Not far from where I live, it was reported in the local news that the owner of a parrot had been prosecuted for noise nuisance.

many years ago my p-i-l lived next a barking mad dog.
F-i-l got a piece of steak and laced it heavily with mogadon..
Silence for 3days

Have you other neighbours who may also be fed up of the barking and would be willing to add their complaints?

Really the poor dog ought to be rehomed so it can get the attention and training it needs

Pensioner dog syndrome is exactly what it is. Boomers make barkers.

Old people get dogs they physically can't manage. They neglect the needs of the dog. Poor dog ends up ruling the house and is reactive to other dogs because it never sees one, rarely sees the outside world unless it's on a ridiculously slow walk to the shop. Never off lead because said old person can't catch it and has never taught recall. I could go on and on...