AIBU about neighbours dog?

[PollyPerky]

A neighbour has a dog which he seems to let out early in the morning (poo time or whatever) in his garden near to us. Sometimes this is at 7am but sometimes it's before at 6.45am. The dog appears to be trained to bark to ask to be let in the house. We don't get up till 7.15 and sometimes are woken by the dog. We have asked him once nicely to stop and he made no comment - took no notice- anything we should do if it carries on?

[thickgit]

I would not like to be woken up at that time by barking.

[Waxlyrically]

Depends how long the dog is barking really a few barks wouldn't bother me. I'd gladly swap this for our nightmare neighbours who let their dog bark incessantly outside for lengthy periods of time day and night - 2.15am is their best so far!

[ElderlyKoreanLady]

Yes bourdic, minor disturbance. The regularity doesn't alter that. It's a couple of barks slightly earlier than OP would normally wake up.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Bastard foxes are waking me up at the moment.

And don't get me started on the jeffing Owls.

[ElderlyKoreanLady]

No choice but to physically harm an animal?! For annoying them? That's fucking disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself for justifying it.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Fish. Your cousin is a prize twat and I trust Karma gets him.

[SnuffleGruntSnorter]

People who show such vehement hostility
towards animals (there are a couple on here) make me really uncomfortable.

[HortonWho]

The environment team will tell you they need to witness it (you will need to be up early to let them in whenever they do pass by as they can't guarantee they can get to you at precisely 6.45am) If they don't hear anything, they'll come back another early morning. they don't usually hand recording equipment unless they can confirm the nuisance first and agree it is a noise nuisance. Then they will give you recording equipment so you can document the noise is a regular occurrence. You will need to wake up early to record this dog bark for months.

If they then agree with you that it is unacceptable, they start writing your neighbour warning letters.

He keeps dog in for a month or two, then the cycle begins again... Just think of it as an urban equivalent of a cockerel's morning alarm.

[tabulahrasa]

I don't understand why you'd even ask this on AIBU...if it's bothering you enough to look up environmental health and ask on here, then ask environmental health directly.

All you're going to get is the replies you have already, which you obviously don't agree with and then dog haters and people arguing with the dog haters.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I used to have a sweatshirt with the slogan

The more people I meet, the more I love my horse.

Some people were actually offended by it.

[AnthonyBlanche]

SnuffleGruntSnorter I feel the same about people who show vehement hostility to people (and there's more than a few on mumsnet). Anyway, the vehement hostility expressed on this thread is in relation to the barking of dogs, not the dogs per se.

[Lurkedforever1]

fisheyes cousin is a twat, but I assume if cousin cunt annoys their neighbours by being an animal abusing lowlife, fish eye will be equally accepting of the fact they have no choice but to seriously harm him/her. Notice the cousin took it out on the dog, not the humans, typical bully scum behavior.

You're little better condoning it fisheye.

[FlowersAndShit]

Fish That is fucking disgusting and I've reported your post.

It's almost always true that people who wish harm or hurt animals are not very nice people; they lack empathy.

[iminshock]

Your neighbour is a thoughtless arse.
Try a few high pitched screams within his earshot while he is sleeping. See if he thinks that's normal

[iminshock]

Absolutely agree, why do dog owners think it's ok to impose their nasty noisy stinky animals on other people.

[AnthonyBlanche]

It's very strange iminshock. I can just imagine the response if OP had asked if she was unreasonable to object to her neighbour waking her up every morning at 6.45 by playing drums or a bugle in his garden. Noise is noise, and a barking dog is a particularly unpleasant and penetrating noise.

[VegetablEsoup]

yanbu
if people won't care for their pets properly (i.e.walk that dog and dispose of it's excrement properly) then they shouldn't keep a pet.

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

Well I am honestly woken most mornings by my neighbour leaving for work and starting his car. Should I tell him to stop?

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

vegetable. How do you know the dog isn't walked and poo disposed of?

I walk my dog and pick up poo. The dog also goes out in our garden.

[AnthonyBlanche]

Simon I don't think that's a valid comparison as your neighbour has to leave the house and start his car in order to get to work on time, whereas no one has to have a dog.

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

He could cycle to work. He doesn't have to have such a noisy car. He could park the car in the next street. Instead he's thoughtless and inconsiderate.


It's obvious Anthony that you dislike dogs. I don't think you're been very impartial.

I would agree that a dog barking a lot is a noise nuisance and should be delt with. I don't think one or two woofs is a nuisance or any different from normal noise which everyone makes and is part of living in a street.

[ElderlyKoreanLady]

Simon's comparison is valid actually. There are reasonable things a neighbour could do to avoid having to shut a car door near his house.

Park elsewhere.
Get a bus.
Ride a bike to work.

[HoneyDragon]

Simon, I have it WORSE, I get woken up by dh's car starting at 5:45am. Sometimes he even has the audacity to chat to the fella next door who then starts his car

Between them and the fucking skip I'm considering moving out the country side and next foot town inner city train station for peace and quiet.

If it's not husbands and skips it's owls and pigeons, plus I'm on the international Canada goose flight path to the local lake.

And for 3 days every year for the Grand Prix every helicopter in the world ever likes to hang out above my house.

In fact, I'm moving in with the op, her place sounds tranquil