My next door neighbours have 5 dogs, we live in a medium sized terrace. The dogs are remarkably well behaved when the owners are at home (the man is a childminder so home most of the day). The trouble is that they all start aggressively barking the minute the owners go out & don't stop until they return. We complained about last Christmas when we had 13 hours of barking, as well as three weeks with a few hours a day as they'd gone to Spain. When they got home we spoke to them & explained the situation. We didn't get an apology, just the excuse that they thought the dog minder would be in all day.
Since then we've put up with a few hours barking each day, most weekends. We've been pretty tolerant of this but recently it's cranked up again & has disturbed our toddler's naps (& mine I'm 6 months pregnant!).
We wrote a letter, in an attempt to get our points across, we'd have preferred to speak to them, but can rarely catch than at home & wanted to sort it before this Christmas.
I was treated to a bang on the door just after dinner tonight. She said i should've complained before. Fine. Then said I should stop my 2 year old from waking her 15 yr old up. My dd2 has slept ttn for the last 11 months, except if I'll(twice?) & wakes up sweetly calling mum at 6.45/7 in the morning! Is that unacceptable. She basically shouted me down for ages. She three out some other bull as well. I feel like we've done nothing to be shouted at for & the comments about my dd are untrue & in any case totally unreasonable! Like I say, he's a childminder!!! We get other people's kids screaming from 7am -5pm every day. I'm fuming , Aibu?