I know very little about dogs or how to look after a dog so bear with me please. There’s a piece of land next to my house that is rented out by some young lads. They come there most nights and hang about there most of the night in a caravan. Or they come during the evenings and leave at night. I can smell weed most nights and not sure what other drugs they take. They have a dog that is tied up there and left there at all times. It’s almost always chained up. It’s a pit bull, I think but not sure.
The dog barks continuously throughout the night almost non-stop. It also barks for much of the day. Sometimes it barks so much that it seems to lose its voice and then just whimpers all the time.
We don’t ever see the dog exercised or walked. Sometimes they come to play with it and do some stupid game like throw water on it with a hose or yank at its chain and pull it close, let go, yank again and repeat. It’s obviously fed otherwise it wouldn’t survive but I don’t see much other care.
Theres no love shown to the dog and it’s just used as a status symbol as far as I can see. I never see anyone playing with it and the dogs barking has been going on for weeks now.
We tried talking to the boys themselves but they were dismissive and laughed it off. We tried calling the RSPCA and each time we rang, they listened and said they don’t do anything about domestic dogs. We’ve rang them three times now to no avail.
it’s almost midnight and the dog has been barking again for the past 6 hours and I honestly can’t sleep. But tbh, it’s not just the noise that bothered me but the inhumane way the dog is treated and left to it’s own devices. Why keep a pet if you can’t look after it!
What can I do? Is there anyone else I can call who will be able to intervene?