Would a barking dog next door put you off buying a house?

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Yes

If you don't like dogs, it's annoying to have a dog barking constantly next door.
If you do like dogs, it's upsetting to have a dog barking constantly next door.
It would definitely be an issue for me, 100%

100%

Yes but not because of the dog. I think an unhappy dog and the owners may not have done anything about it may mean they wont care about other noise or issues

Yes

Nope. I have often had dogs next door, and sometimes fairly barky ones. For the most part it sort of fades into the usual background noise with pipes and the boiler, the washing machine, farm machinery & sometimes cows. They also usually become quieter when they are used to their surroundings and hearing us move around.

Current next door dog likes to let everyone know when someone walks by, and on special occasions she likes to sing me the song of her people while her owners are out. I call out to her through the wall and she stops.

Yes. Noise of any kind of would as I have previously lived next to very noisy neighbours and it really wears you down after a while... and there's nothing you can do to stop noise coming through either.

Unfortunately, probably yes. My heart sank when I saw our new neighbours had a chihuahua. Tried to give it the benefit of doubt but it yaps constantly, day and night.

Yes. Our neighbors dog barks constantly and it does my head in.

Yes, anyone or anything which is noisy. Brazen selfishness.

That said you could live somewhere lovely and noisy people move in next door.

A small holding perhaps.....?

Yes, and I own a dog.

There is a german shepherd about ten houses away from us and its bark is SO deep and loud, it can be heard clearly from their back garden no matter where in the street you are. Every so often the owner sticks his head out the back door and shouts "shut the fuck up!"

It barks for long spells every day and it sets off every other dog in the street (including mine), which is unbelievably annoying.

Yes. I have lived next to someone who had a dog. The dog barked first thing in the morning and went on for hours like that.

To be honest I would prefer a barking dog to my neighbour yelling at his partner all day long. Doing my head in today, can't wait to move

Odd barks no. All day long yes.

Attached ndn passed away recently but her daughter would visit daily. Nice, but she would bring her dog. Pre COVID they would go out and leave the dog who had horrendous separation anxiety and would howl the entire time. So many work calls were soundtracked to howling. It really hit my aniety sky high but she didn’t do anything about it after I mentioned he howled all day. I suspect she knew and brought him here so her neighbours got a break. In the summer she lets the dog in the garden all day. Which would be fine except all it does is bark at our dog through the hedge. Luckily ours isn’t a barker and doesn’t bark back, but it does unsettle him and make him run along the hedge up and down as he just wants to make friends. She said “he doesn’t like other animals” as some way of justifying it. Prick.

Yes because

1. it’s annoying

2. it would set my dog off (who isn’t one for barking usually, apart from the odd ‘alarm bark’).

Yes, definitely! During the summer my next door neighbour sits out in the garden chatting to friends while her chihuahua yaps and yaps and yaps. Yappy dogs should be banned.

Yes

Yes
100% fuck that

If neighbours have a dog I would expect to hear the occasional bark, but not long periods of barking. It’s disruptive and upsetting (because the dog is upset).

I have some sympathy though - my mum’s elderly dog is deaf, so she can’t hear herself bark or any commands to quiet. Before she lost her hearing she had been trained to “hush” on command and that worked brilliantly. She is also now more likely to be surprised by stuff and therefore bark at it. She never barks for long periods as she’ll be brought inside if barking in the garden, reassured if barking in the house, etc, which stops her, but she does bark more now than we (and no doubt our neighbours!) would like.

Yes definitely. Neighbours both sides of me have got dogs since we moved in and they yap all the time. It is driving me insane.

I have 2 dogs. They are fairly large so no yapping and rarely bark. If they do bark I look to see what they are barking at and it is always because there is someone either at the front door or in the back garden. Thankfully the dogs yapping don't start my dogs barking.

One side leaves their dog outside from about 8am until around 9pm, sometimes later and it just yaps and yaps. The other side work so their dog yaps and cries all day while they are at work. It also yaps when they put it in the garden.

Absolutely. Someone with a barking dog moved into a house several hundred meters away last year. She has absolutely no idea how to train a dog. She just shouts back at the dog “shut up please!” each time the dog barks, which is all the time. It’s like having two dogs barking at each other! Imagine being the neighbour! That sort of stress will reduce your life expectancy by a decade

Yes.

Its not just the noise, which is bad enough, but it's a good indicator of the overall type of neighbour the owner will likely be. If they are selfish enough to subject their neighbours to anti-social levels of noise from their dog, they may mirror this in other areas.

I have this with neighbours on one side who moved in a couple of years back and then bought a loud yappy dog, which is under exercised and pushed outside at all hours and left to bark and bark. I've grown to dislike them intensely because of this, and I know our other neighbours feel similarly.

Our NNN have just got a dog and we're thinking of moving. It barks non stop

SunInTheSkyYouKnowHowIfeel Love User name and Nina! Also Love Love Love all dogs.However Hate Hate Hate Barking! My own dog goes out for a wee and I wait to let her in.However sometimes she is longer than normal, or its raining and I close the door ,She will bark and I let her in straight away.

Yep! Just as I would not buy a house with screaming kids next door, for all of the same reasons!

My dog does bark, occasionally. I know he does not when we are out, next door tell me so (they like him and helped us settle him in). We all get annoyed at the forever yappy dogs at the back but nobody bats an eyelid when the evening chorus begins... it's usually over in about 10 minutes! Every dog up and down the road, both sides, seems to join in. It's amusing hearing the different tones of bark!