Dog wagging tail too loudly against fence.

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Neighbours are complaining that dog wags his tail and as it hits our fence its too noisy. It's waking them up, they don't want him out in our garden until 8:30am abd also want us to cover the fence with something to stop the noise.... I'm at a loss as to what to reasonably say!

I agree with this. We’ve a detached house, with a timber fence attached at the end which has my neighbour’s timber gate in it. The kids were crap at shutting it and if it was even slightly windy, it felt like a sledgehammer hitting the house. If my neighbour was using his punchbag in the garage, (attached to the other side of the fence) it would also reverb around the house.

That said, I also think just the noise of the tail thwacking on wood, would really annoy me. I have a heavy tailed Labrador and it drives me nuts when her tail thumps on doors and stuff. (Also, hurts when she does it on my legs!)

Apples v Oranges.

Have you heard the racket a big dog’s tail can make?

Well, that's a pretty stupid comment.

But I'm not surprised by it

Why?

Why would you not do something that's cheap and easy to help a neighbour out, when you are the one causing the disturbance??

I would say ‘That wasn’t my dog’s tail. It was my husband pleasuring himself’.

Not all dogs have tiny little swishy tails!!

A Labrador for example can make a very loud thump against a fence or something similar, a neighbour asking for a simple fix to a problem and you want to tell them to fuck off. Charming.

8am might not be early for a lot of people, granted, but it's early for them and that's all that really matters.

They have asked for something well within the OP's control to remedy, the OP's Dog is causing a disturbance to them, for the sake of a couple of plants or pots and plants why wouldn't you just do this? Why would you allowed your dog to continually wake them with their sleep schedule is the same as yours or not?

Edited, wrong post sorry

Horrible post.

Pay some attention to the reality of what’s happening - it may be that he is making a thumping racket with regularity. In which case I’m sure you’ll do all you can to be considerate neighbours?

Is your dog a Labrador?! Sounds very like what my lab would do! She’s injured her tail before now wagging it too hard!

Why?

They have asked the OP to stop the dog making a very repetitive annoying noise. It's an easy problem for the OP to fix. Why should she tell them to fuck off? Instead of simply fixing the issue that her dog is causing??

my Neighbour had windchimes, they were metal ones, her partner couldn't cope with them so she took them down.. I didn't actually mind them 🤷🏻‍♀️. Then she put up some wooden ones that were driving me mad. I tried really hard to get used to them. I tried really hard to ignore them. I even tried putting the radio on even though I prefer to be in silence, I really did try but in the end, I had to ask her how much she would mind taking them down.

She said she didn't mind at all and would've taken them down sooner had she known. She said she may put them up while she's doing yoga if I don't mind and I said not at all.

That's what being a good neighbour looks like, have you asked your neighbours if they would mind taking them down?

think we have found the neighbour!

no actually it’s not easy to stop a dog wagging it tail! How bloody ridiculous!
And frankly 8am is not that early regardless of your god damned sleep schedule. I worked nights for flipping years and didn’t expect the rest of the world to accommodate my sleep schedule! The centre of the universe does not revolve around you! 8am is a perfectly reasonable hour for a dog to be being a dog in the garden. Ditto children in the garden or someone mowing a lawn. You want quiet to sleep use some ear plugs!

Nope, you haven't found the neighbour 🙄🙄🙄

She doesn't need to stop her dog wagging its tail, she just needs to put some plants in front of the fence to stop the tail thumping on the fence 🙄🙄

Yes, people will do random things at 8 am in the morning, that can't be helped, but what can be helped is the dog next-door doing the same thing every bloody morning, making a noise that is disturbing the neighbours whether it's waking them up or they're just finding it fucking frustrating, it's not you've given right to be a pain in the arse, why would you not do something simple to stop annoying your neighbours??

I think until the OP comes back with a diagram we're just blowing smoke here.

Oh, I know what they mean. My dog does it as well both indoors and sometimes outside and it is pretty annoying to be fair. I make her move away from whatever she’s thunking because I don’t like hearing it myself.

You said you’re inside and he’s out but the door is open, so just call him away from that spot. Or as someone else said put some plants/trellis/pots there so his tail can’t reach the fence.

I planted some bushes because my dog would stand next to one of the sheds, watching a squirrel and making an unholy racket with her tail on the side of it. Now she has to stand a few feet further away and whacks the bushes instead. Much better.

@SpringIsSpringing25if you had actually bothered to read the whole of the (fairly short) OP then you would have read and hopefully understood that the neighbours don’t want the fence covered by anything to stop the noise 🙄
Letting a dog out first thing in the morning is not something random to do in the morning. It is a necessary part of owning and looking after a dog. Dogs like many living creatures do make noise from time to time. That is perfectly normal and acceptable. Letting a dog outside to bark all day is not ok. But a dog outside for a few minutes of a morning is perfectly reasonable.

If that's the loudest noise in your street on a morning they're bloody lucky.

This! And I say that as a dog owner. Sounds like you’re too lazy to look after your dog and just chucking it outdoors unattended.

This is the most ridiculous complaint I've ever read on here, neighbours complaining about a dog wagging it's tail.

But they’re not complaining about the dog wagging its tail. They’re complaining about the noise it makes against the fence early in the morning.

Surely, OP, you could do something to stop the dog getting close to the fence?

It’s nice to be nice.

But it’s not reasonable if it’s sitting there for long periods with its tail nagging against the fence. So OP can take it for a walk instead.

abd also want us to cover the fence with something to stop the noise

Who didn't read the OP?

Possibly it's a typo and what she meant was they don't want her to cover the fence with anything, but that's not their decision whether she puts plants in front of it or not.

I don't know why you're going on at me about letting the dog out into the garden in the morning, or being so bloody patronising, as I didn't say anything about letting the dog out at all, simply planting in front of it so he wouldn't stand so close to the fence with his tail thumping on it.

Go be so aggressive, sarcastic and patronising somewhere else

Bonkers.

We try and be considerate to neighbours but I wouldn't automatically try and meet every single request.

It's not reasonable for them to request this imo so I'd simply respond that unfortunately I can't stop the dog from wagging his tail. No more.