WIBU to ask my neighbour to try and keep her dogs a bit more quiet?

[Caff2]

Our neighbour (who I like and we socialise with them occasionally, generally get on fairly well with) has lots of dogs. Well four now, as they recently got a puppy. The dogs have always gone mental barked a lot when anyone goes past (country lane so lots of bikes, walkers etc), and we've just put up with it.

Since the puppy came it is a hundred times worse. The barking started this morning at 6 am when she let them out into the garden, waking my toddler up, which is annoying as he is going through a crap sleep phase and is often up in the night.

I'm starting to really resent the noise which happens all the time, but she is quite a "doggy" person, and critical of anyone who's not crazy about dogs, and got quite huffy with a passer by who remarked on the barking.

WIBU to approach her and ask her if she could try to stop the noise before say 8 in the morning? She goes to work about half past eight.

Don't worry, I saw your second-to-most-recent reply and posted again! Since he's getting out-time all day and is with other dogs, he may well end up sweet and lovely and silent like the one at my work-place (who roams around all day with four or five other dogs).

yanbu, my next door neighbour pays a dog walker to pop in at lunchtime and take her dog out. we do have another neighbour though that has a yappy dog which seems to be shut out in the garden for most of the day barking, i heard someone yell across the gardens 'get that dog to shut up' the other day!

Maybe an approach is [to try to appear sincere grin] empathise and commiserate with her on the puppy "years"
"You must be looking forward to the day when Dog4 calms down and stops getting up at the crack of dawn and barking the place down? [Insert Caff2toddler name here] is driving me mental at the moment, he's up half the night and then is as grumpy as hell at 6am - I can't wait until he is sleeping a bit better. At least you can take [Dog4] to training classes, ha ha ha." ?

Would it work do you think? Are they barking all day or just first thing when they are let out. If all day then you should raise it, but first thing, he's probably madly excitedly chasing around new garden smells at that hour. You could compromise and ask that she doesn't let him out until 7am ?

Your post made me chuckle, Tread softly! Good ideas too. They are out and loudall day. I am coming to seriously dislike them, even the cute puppy!

OK. Other next door have just started with a chain saw. This must be some kind of conspiracy. There are four houses here. Dogs going mental in one. Chainsaw wielding neighbour in other. Third neighbour as yet peaceful but am beginning to assume she is going to take up Hip Hop DJ ing or rifle shooting any minute soon.

This is the fecking middle of nowhere!! When people ironically say about moving to the middle of nowhere on here to avoid annoying neighbours - this IS the middle of nowhere. Can I shoot them all?

Having lived next door to a pack of dogs in the past, this kind of thing really pisses me off.

Why have a dog or lots of dogs if you are at work all day?
It's not fair on the neighbours and it bloomin' well isn't fair on the dogs.
It's bloody selfish and bordering on cruel imo.

Maryz Maybe quiet other next door is plotting to shoot all of us and will go postal any minute!

We all could have sad face relatives in the Daily Mail: "Graeme (not his name!) was driven to it by the intolerable torture from his hideous neighbours, when all he wanted was to listen to the Archers in peace"

Ah well. We had a massive row in my house tonight so I expect we're even.

(for the row)

Hope it was one of those silly ones rather than a LTB level one.