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

What makes you think the dog is unhappy and untrained? that level of barking is perfectly normal.

The trouble is that even if I moved to a detached house guaranteed there would be babies/dogs/man-sneezers in the garden next door. Not to mention noisy garden equipment/hot tubs. (I read such threads on here!)

I hate living in this overcrowded island. I have friends who live in Maine and their closest neighbour is about 500m away. I'd probably be eaten by a bear if I lived there but might be preferable to being packed in like sardines and subjected to high pitched noise at random intervals!

You need to train yourself not to be bothered by the dog barking as it's such a short amount of time! You're making yourself worse by the anticipatory anxiety.

If they have a baby they'll probably outgrow the flat and move on soon enough

Ten times ten seconds really doesn't sound that much.

It's left alone a lot. I don't see it being taken out much. (I wfh). They drag it around on the lead whilst it goes mental, barking and straining at the lead. It just doesn't look right. I don't normally see dogs acting like that (and there are plenty around here).