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why it it theres always one neighbour

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 10:23

Ok so I posted on here the other day about moving into a new house and loud music . The loud music has gone but now their dog barks all the time and last night this went on for ages . AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

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PomBearWithAnOFRS · 19/07/2012 10:28

Push loads of unsuitable treats through their letterbox. A few mornings listening to them cleaning up the results should make you feel better.
(I was going to just say "poison it" but I know that lots of people actually like/love dogs so would disapprove and tell me to fuck the fuck off etc, so won't say it Grin and it isn't the dog's fault it has useless owners)

SoleSource · 19/07/2012 10:44

Neighbours have the potential of ruining lives. My neighbour from hellhad to die, but the others are still oddballs. I think you need to get toiugh straight away. Don't put up with any nonsense, dogs barking is noise nuisance, contact environmental health ASAP. Buy a dog whistle and one of those sensor devices..Grin

Olympia2012 · 19/07/2012 10:45

Are they in when dog is barking?

Olympia2012 · 19/07/2012 10:45

Are they in when dog is barking?

chandellina · 19/07/2012 10:48

Get them a bark collar, though they seem pretty cruel!

OldGreyWiffleTest · 19/07/2012 10:53

We've got 2 dogs like that. 2 doors away, bark all the time, live outside. They belong to the local policeman!

BridgetBidet · 19/07/2012 10:56

As far as dogs barking goes I actually had that problem for months. Once after a few sherries I went out in the garden and shouted. 'Shut that fucking dog up'. Which amazingly enough stopped the problem.

lolaflores · 19/07/2012 10:59

Various gardens near us are inhabitated by barky yappy dogs that seem to set each other off. I have been in bed weeping with frustration but where to start? There must be 5 different dogs involved at various times from the early evening to 11pm, on rotation winding each other up. I love dogs, but ffs don't leave your wildly neurotic pooches outside to do wee wees for hours please.

Latara · 19/07/2012 11:14

A friend's neighbour has 2 noisy dogs - the neighbour never walks them so it seems the dogs are frustrated & fed up with being indoors.
My friend & her husband offered to take the dogs out; one long walk later & dogs were much more content.
Sadly the neighbour STILL doesn't walk them; & my friend can't walk them often - so the dogs still sit constantly barking at the window unhappily :(
Not sure what the answer is with dogs tbh!

BUT constant loud music would really annoy me. I've had that from past neighbours.
I've found that speaking nicely (yet assertively) to neighbours works well most of the time..
That didn't work with one set of neighbours but ended up getting their respect another way (long story) then they stopped being irritating.

Environmental Health at the town hall are meant to be good with noise issues.

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 11:24

They bark out in the garden, They bark in the house, They bark when shut in the bedroom. Ive never once seen them being walked . It only stopped last night when the daughter came home . I have a plan that when I see the mum in the garden next Im going to say I have discovered the reason the other neighbours ignored you! Its your fucking dogs so get them to shut up or I will complain to the council. I have nothing against dogs but common sense would tell you not to shut a dog
in a room on its own and at least try and get them to shut up when you live in a built up area ! GRRRRRRR

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SoleSource · 19/07/2012 11:25

Dog bark stopper

Latara · 19/07/2012 11:26

Swearing at them won't make them want to be good neighbours...

bronze · 19/07/2012 11:31

My dogs been barking. She's doing my fucking head in. She's stressed because we have builders in the roof and they're playing bloody music
I am in hell

CanISawItOff · 19/07/2012 11:32

Our neighbours are awful. I have come from a HA flat where the neighbours were a delight to a M/C suburban semi where next door are a middle aged couple who love to party and have their two adult daughters living there with them with their snitty terrier's who don't bark, they yap. Incessently.

We've had a word with next door and they are blaming us for daring to have rabbits in the garden that their dogs can smell and it sets them off.

Add this to the tv they have on the party wall both downstairs and in the bedrooms and, well, we get no peace and quiet.

Neighbours really can make life miserable.

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 11:44

CanISawItOff- It just seems to me like every bloody house Ive lived in theres a neighbour who just makes your life hell. All I want to do is work and bring my son up without any hassle. Life is too short to put up with this!! Grrr

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CanISawItOff · 19/07/2012 11:48

Isn't it just. I say my old neighbours were a delight but i've conveniently forgotten the incident with the police and the druggies and gone la la la about it!

I am beginning to think that the council/police should have powers to remove dogs that persistently bark all hours of the day.

yellowraincoat · 19/07/2012 11:50

I have upstairs neighbours who make my life hell. Kitchen above my bedroom, they get up an hour before me and crash about, no consideration for the fact I'm sleeping. Same routine on a Saturday, get up at about 7 (!!!) and start singing, making breakfast.

I'm moving in a month, thank God.

manicbmc · 19/07/2012 11:57

My neighbour is an oldish alcky who likes to watch programmes about the war (which he wasn't in due to being about 60-65). It constantly sounds like the blitz is coming through the wall.

Dd sent him a note a year ago asking him if he'd consider getting a hearing aid and turning his tv down. Grin

And don't get me started about when the world cup was on and all those vuvuzuelas!

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 12:19

CanISawItOff- I think if they walked these dogs it would help i.e wear them out .

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 12:21

latara- I was brought up not to swear or fall out with neigbours but this drives you mad and make anyone feel like coming out with a few choice words.

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PooPooInMyToes · 19/07/2012 12:22

If they are not walking the dogs then isn't that cruel? Can they be reported for cruelty (not a clue about dogs)

DanyTargaryen · 19/07/2012 12:23

Anyone else picturing BridgetBidet stumbling out into her garden with a sherry glass in hand :o

Latara · 19/07/2012 12:28

I know but if you haven't spoken to them before then it's worth trying to be nice first...
If you have made an effort & they ignored you then that's different - swear all you like!!

Good luck anyway, i have had all kinds of neighbours / flatmates - most are or were ok, some were dodgy, some just nasty... hearing one lot plan a robbery was the worst moment...

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cuteboots · 19/07/2012 12:47

LATARA-OMG that would be really scarey. Im not sure they even know the dogs barks when they are out . I have spoken to them a few times and they seem ok but Im not one for getting too involved with neighbours.

POOINMYTOES- They have a huge garden and just seem to let them out but if they are not getting enough exercise this could also be why they bark!

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PooPooInMyToes · 19/07/2012 14:45

Latara. What did you do about it?