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To think that if you KNOW your dog is going to bark you don't put it outside for 20 mins+ after 11pm

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CoolaSchmoola · 30/08/2012 22:31

My neighbours have two small yappy type dogs. One of which barks constantly when it is in the garden.

I have dogs myself (who are trained not to bark but hey ho) and I appreciate that they need to go out to toilet last thing at night.

But do they REALLY need to be out there for 20 mins plus? Barking bloody constantly? My pooch is five times their size and manages to do her late night visit in under two minutes.

Tonight they have been particularly loud - angry volleys of barking as opposed to the usual yappy type barking. It has woken DD up twice, and the second time she was really distressed (she's 11 months) and I think the neighbours heard her full on screaming as I could hear them trying to get the dogs in. Took a while as they aren't the most obedient. But surely by the time the neighbours baby is awake it's a bit too late? They left them to bark for 20 mins before that.

It's better than the time they left them out there at 1am for an hour and a half. I was feeling murderous that night. DH was away though so I couldn't leave DD to go hammer on the door (good job).

They also bark at me every time I go in my garden, and at my dog - who just looks at them and walks away.

Am I being unreasonable to think that leaving the dogs out and barking for so long at this time of night REALLY takes the piss?

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cazzybabs · 30/08/2012 22:35

oh god we have one of those too - it is soo rude! Plus they leave it alone in the garden during the day and it yaps consistently... I love animals I have seriously thought about poison and once it escaped in to the street as I driving past - I was so tempted to put my foot down

you have my sympathies

lovebunny · 30/08/2012 22:37

depends how much i dislike the neighbours.

bubalou · 30/08/2012 22:42

Oh my god do you live next to me?

I have 2 jack Russell's, yes they bark very occasionally if they hear a car maybe but we are always out there straight away to stop them.

We had new neighbours move in a few months back with 2 westies & they just let them bark! All day! They share the fence at the bottom of our garden with us & their dogs scratch at it & try to get to our 2 through it - they have made 5-6 big holes in it we keep having to repair!!!

It annoys me so much I shout at the dogs to shut the fuck up & I hope the owners hear it!
Arrrrrrrrrrr Angry

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CoolaSchmoola · 30/08/2012 22:42

I don't know them (lived here over two years) - the only time we have spoken is when the small yappy dog decided to dig under my fence into my garden and started having a go at my pooch.

Luckily my pooch wasn't impressed with his midget bravado and just walked away looking slightly bored lol!

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CoolaSchmoola · 30/08/2012 22:44

These are fluffy rug type dogs. I was very close to shouting abuse out the window tonight, but I didn't want to upset DD more. I had a whole selection of insults running through my mind though lol!

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bubalou · 30/08/2012 22:52

I actually wish these would get through the fence, both our dogs are similar sizes to the westies but they'd rip them to shreds.

Not that I want that at all - just want the owners to fucking realise!!!!

CaliforniaLeaving · 30/08/2012 23:03

I'd go all New York on them. You know in the films, how some fat sweaty guy in a vest leans out the window and and yells, "shut the fuck up" Only you don't need to be fat and sweaty or wear a vest.

WineGoggles · 31/08/2012 16:34

YANBU. The neighbour in my last house used to drive me insane. She was elderly and judging by the volume of her TV (I could hear it word for word and it would stop me geting to sleep!) slightly deaf, and used to wake me up at 7am on a Sunday morning (the only time I got a chance to sleep in) by letting her Westie out to run around the garden barking like a nutter. It was made worse because she then used to shout its name repeatedly which just added to the noise. One day I lost it and shouted "SHUUUUTTTT UUUUPPPPP" from my bedroom window. It didn't make any difference but I felt better for it. People who let their dogs bark incessantly, especially at unsocial hours, are so annoying...and that's coming from a dog lover, so I feel really sorry for anyone who doesn't like dogs having to put up with it.

Bellyjaby · 31/08/2012 16:51

We have one too, except it's not a yappy breed - its just under exercised and gets no attention so barks all the time. It's just left out all day in the garden. It goes nuts if you so much as switch the bathroom light on.

Being heavily pregnant I pee loads in the night, and it barks whenever I get out of bed. And the nut job family have accused us of banging walls in the night to antagonise it, evn threatening to kill dd in retaliation. Council have found us and other neighbour innocent though and now we're pursuing them over the nuisance from the dog (4 neighbours in total - we all feel we can't use our gardens anymore).

But next time they do it, shout at them. Stuff it!!?,

Naysa · 31/08/2012 17:48

cazzybabs why would you kill the dogs and not the owners? If I hear my neighbour's baby crying and they leave I don't think about killing the baby because it's not his fault. The parents/owners on the other hand...

epeesarepointythings · 31/08/2012 18:46

We've got a small yappy type dog next door and you are so NBU! It's only in the last few weeks that the owners have started coming out and making it stop - I wonder whether they've heard us talking passive aggressively about their dog whilst we've been in the garden. I don't care though, at least it is quieter now.

And yes, it is left out alone during the day and is very very bored. When my DDs come over to the fence and talk to it, it shuts up at once. I don't mind that at all, it's the stupid o'clock (whether late or early) that drives me mad.

Anonymumous · 31/08/2012 22:33

We had a dog and we did everything we could think of to stop the bloody thing from barking. Whenever he was left alone he would bark constantly (as we found out from the neighbours). He would be up and barking every morning at 5.00 a.m. We bought a device that was supposed to make a high-pitched unpleasant noise whenever he barked, which would teach him to stop barking. He was so bloody dense that he just kept barking at it. He barked when I left him tied him to the school fence for a few minutes to take the children into school. After a year it got to the point where we hated him so intensely that it became clear that his fate was either to be rehomed or viciously murdered at 5.00 a.m. (We rehomed him, but vicious murder would probably have been more satisfying if I'm honest...)

Anyway, I now have much more sympathy with owners of barking dogs. They're not always inconsiderate bs - some of them are probably cringing with embarrassment and tearing their hair out in despair, just like we did. (In this case, however, I do think the OP's neighbours are being unreasonable to let the dogs out after 11.00 p.m.)

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CoolaSchmoola · 31/08/2012 22:40

And again tonight. This time for two hours.

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InkyBinky · 31/08/2012 22:48

YANBU. I would be really irritated by this. No really got any advice though Sad

CouvelaireHair · 31/08/2012 22:52

My neighbour does this. She has 2 dogs, a small yappy one and a larger one that woofs. She lets them out at half past midnight, every night. To add insult to injury, she then shouts at them like they are young children to come indoors,. Of course they don't, so the shouting just gets louder. Angry
I'm not happy as I have to be up at 6.

thixotropic · 31/08/2012 22:57

Grrr we have 2 here. A yappy bloody terrier and worse, a chap with a lab cross.

They have recently moved in and he seems to be diligently teaching it to bark whenever he goes out in the garden

. It has an annoying rrrowwl yap growl Grrr yelp rrrowwwllll type bark. And he only speaks to it or acknowledges it when it bloody barks. So it barks to get attention , which sets the sodding terrier off again.....

Fuckers

goldnikcname · 31/08/2012 23:39

Mine have a dog who they leave outside ALL day, yaps, barks, howls, gets upset. They open the back door when they are home but won't let dog in the house (stairgate/babygate thing).
They spend hours shouting shut up to poor dog whining to get in.
We hear it all the time, they only hear it when they are home so probably don't think its an issue.
Also they seem to have many inflatables that require generators to work.
Between the dog howling we have the lovely noise of the generator filling inflatables up...all day every day when there is sunshine. I'm starting to like the rain.

bubalou · 01/09/2012 07:44

I agree with u anonymunous - except my neighbours r so fucking dense they don't even try! They just let them bark & they only ever get them back in when I have shouted (very loudly & on purpose) to my dogs to come back in bcoz of the racket.

It's not fair though as my poor dogs can't even stay out when it's hot due to the noise. Even when I hang my washing out they bark.

Has anyone ever successfully done something in terms of complaining to council? Not sure what I have to do? It's private housing.

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