Can I buy something to stop my neighbour's dog barking?

[ChallengingFigureANDUnrulyFlaps]

Hello all

It's driving me up the wall. It's only a stupid yappy wee thing, not an XL bully or the like.

They laughed in my face when I asked them nicely to train the thing (they've only had it 8 months or so)

Do any of these devices work? Like a whistle or machine that emits pulses or something? Ideally something humans can't hear.

They also have a crying baby!

Please help before I end myself!

Thanks

Keep a diary of every time it barks and duration , record if possible and then report them to the noise people at the council .

They are the flat below me btw so very close range.

No, not your dog. Collars that shock the dog are abusive and hopefully now illegal in England.

Do as above.

Well obviously I'm not going to put a collar on someone else's dog FFS!

A large python? 😉

A bone?

I feel sorry for the baby, no wonder it's crying

@blossomismyfriend I normally like dogs but I have fantasised about drowning this rat in a bucket of water!

Is the dog in the flat or in the garden ?

Anyway, Environmental Health at your local authority.

Be prepared if they do not witness a noise nuisance, then you will be required to take your own legal proceedings.

So start making diaries of the frequency of the noise and how long for.

OMG OP I could have written this myself 😂 I am currently listening to a very loud yappy little dog, it just does not stop!! I can feel my braincells dying off 😭 their owners also do NOTHING to stop it

The dog barks in the flat, in the stair (echoes like mad!!!!) and in the garden/street.

Anytime any of us in the block get a delivery the fucking dog goes mental.

Get a dog dazer.

You are aware if you use any unkind action/s against the dog, it will be you that is dealt with by the RSPCA

It's only for say 10 seconds at a time about 10 times a day but it's so high-pitched it's like nails down a blackboard.

Plus the baby crying, plus his DIY and his annoying man-performance sneezes.

I messaged him about it and he just sent me a load of links to self-help books implying I was a sad old cat lady.

SSPCA! I would have expected better from a Scot ;-)

Do you have a link?

depends where you live...

Btw though small children including babies can hear higher pitches of sound than adults, including some dog whistle apps. So don't use a dog whistle or you might inadvertently be torturing the baby.

The poor baby, growing up in a household like that. The parents clearly have no empathy or consideration for others. Even the dog is probably not happy or it wouldn't yap so much. Horrific.

It's like Chinese water torture in that anticipating the next round of noise is just as bad as the noise itself. Like I can see the Royal Mail van arriving so I know my ears are about to be assaulted.

I actually started wearing ear defenders all day in my flat but my audiologist said that is what is causing a painful build up of fluid and impacted wax!

Ooh, I know your pain, it is horrendous. We bought a whistle, didn't work. If you find something please let me know.
The 2 dogs next door to me have horrendous separation anxiety and are never walked, their life is just kitchen and tiny back yard. At one point I was so close to poisoning the horrible feckers. But it's not their fault they've got shitty owners, so I have refrained from my murderous intentions...........for now😜

10 bouts of 10 seconds barking? Is that all?
Baby crying?

You live in flats right?
You knew other people would be living in the other flats?

I could totally sympathise if it was all day, every day or for hours at a time but you're talking about 100 seconds out of your day.

You can get an app which my local council asked me to install. It recorded the decibels of the nuisance noise and when the noise occured.

Phone your council and ask them to help. We have a yappy dog across the road. I think it must be medicated or lobotomised or something because it seems to have calmed down lately. It was even doing its nut when it saw me watering the plants in my front garden 🙄

10 seconds roughly every hour is not that much.

I've lived in this flat for 18 years and never had an issue until this lot moved in.

I explain above that anticipating the noise is as bad as the noise itself. Noise IS used as a sort of torture.

Anyway, part of what bothers me is the fact that the dog is clearly unhappy/untrained/neglected.

If the dog is barking 10 times a day for 10 seconds each time, that is less than 2 mins a day.

If you live in a flat you have to accept there is going to be some noise. The dog barking for very short periods, baby crying and a bit of DIY all seems pretty normal to me.