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?

[TooMuchRain]

It sounds a pretty minor thing if its a couple of woofs - if it were going on for a while i can see it would be very annoying though. I think the most annoying neighbour noise is the kind that feels avoidable/done from lack of respect. I had neighbours who would leave their dogs out all day while they were at work, they were left in a little run and obv bored as hardly ever walked and drove me mad. I have a dog and the odd bark is inevitable but a normal/civil neighbour will always tell their dog to stop as quickly as possible.

[SoupDragon]

It doesn't matter how long it barks- totally irrelevant!

Of course it matters.

So, how long is the dog barking for?

Back doors open inwards as do 99% of doors

No, 99% of doors do not open inwards. What nonsense. 75% of my exterior doors open outwards.

[MothershipG]

OP I can appreciate that being woken up every morning is annoying and as you've spoken to your neighbour it's not unreasonable to hope that he'd try and address the problem.

But he is not legally obliged to and environmental health won't be interested because of the short duration of the noise.

So although it's annoying there really isn't anything that can be done to change your neighbour's behaviour, is there anything you can do differently? Move bedrooms? Use earplugs?

[SoupDragon]

As an example, when my dog is in the garden, he will bark at the bastard foxes. I call him in as soon as I can get to the back door and get him in. That would appear not to be enough for you and he should somehow not have barked in the first place.

[Wombat87]

Sounds to me that your issue, from one of your latest posts, could stretch deeper than just the dog barking.

I'm sure you've not always been a model neighbour. I'm sure your crying children have probably kept a few neighbours awake through the walls. I'm sure when your kids cried you didn't manage to get them to stop within a certain amount of time or they cried within the hours of 7am and 11pm. No children aren't dogs, but noise is noise and if it's not your own noise your listening too it'll get on your nerves. I can hear next doors kid through the wall. I can hear my other neighbours on the other side when the girls that live there all have a wine night (giggling and fun times that I want to knock the door and see if I can join).

End of the day, not a lot you can do about it other than suck it up and get on with it. Speak to your neighbour if it bothers you that much. But there isn't much he will do about it. Ask him to let the dog out 15minutes later, which is outside of the 'night hours' time 11pm-7pm.

[HoneyDragon]

I'm not putting up with thoughtless behaviour I was expressing, via the medium of sarcasm, that everyday life consists of occasional acceptable back ground noise. Like a dog barking once, twice at most to be let in, for example.

[HoneyDragon]

Basically, you don't like your neighbour do you?

You know an awful lot about him .... Including he's a manual worker. Yet you don't know him well enough to try and find a solution?

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

God you sound annoying OP.

I'm quite tempted to start a poll on whose back doors open outwards . Ours does. I cant believe I'm in a minority of 1% .

[HoneyDragon]

My old back door opened outwards, new ones inwards.

[HoneyDragon]

Oh hang on I'm not sure on one ....

[HoneyDragon]

Right four back doors open outward.

One opens inward, but technically it's a side door. So not sure if we can count it?

[HoneyDragon]

I can't work out my door percentages

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

We have two sets of back doors as well Honey, all opening outwards. Front door opening inwards. Porch door opening outwards.

[Strangeoccurence]

He cannot help the dog barking, really, can he?
Even if the dog has been trained to do this, which i doubt. It has probably been a habit the dog has started itself.
As long as he isnt leaving the dog out there to bark continuously, then i think yabu.
It is freezing to be leaving doors open. Though, when i let my dog in the garden - i stand at the door. Simply because he barks a lot, with or without me there. He still needs to do his business though.
Id like to think my neighbours would be able to understand that, and if they did happen to be woke up, id hope they would hear my very loud whispering trying to shut him up

[SoupDragon]

I have three doors that give direct access to the garden - all open outwards.
The front door opens inwards.
The double garage doors open outwards (because opening inwards would be stupid and make the garage unusable) but the single door into the garage opens inwards. I ignored these for the purpose of my earlier statistic. The door from house to garage opens out of the house into the garage so heaven knows which way that counts as...

[notarehearsal]

I've got yappy dogs, it's a constant concern of mine. I know they're irritating, they irritate me too with the barking. They're up at sometimes 5am and obviously I let them out into the garden. However I stand there at the door waiting for them to come in and give them warnings (!) not to make a sound. I do my best but if they're wandering about at around 7 outside and the back door is shut to keep the heat in very occasionally one or other will do one bark before I rush to quickly open the back door. I'm so worried about upsetting people's sleep but would honestly not know what else to do. I'm a light sleeper but don't think I'd be woken by just a yap or two, a dog would have to be barking constantly for it to disturb my sleep I think

[Oxfordblue]

Look, it's about being considerate.

If the dog next door is waking you up , you could do what my neighbour did & say "what can we do about xx barking ?" " can she wear one of those shock collars?".

Now it's REALLY not a problem for me to a) let her out earlier b) let her in front garden for emergency wee.

For the record my dog barks about 2 mins a day.

Next door neighbour likes to go to bed early...each to their own, personally I HATE being woken up, so it's about me being considerate.

Always good to have your neighbours on side.
Peace man...

[Sanchar]

we used to live in a house(semi) that had the garage under one of the bedrooms, with up and over doors that made one hell of a racket. every morning, at 6am, nextdoor would open the garage to go to work, right next to my bedroom window.

that is annoying

a single dog bark is not.

YABU and very strange tbh

[Oxfordblue]

For purpose of statistics..my French doors open outward.

And since i waved a tea towel at DDog for scratching the glass, she now gently taps it & waits. She is a good dog & I am a good owner !

[Wombat87]

Oxford I wish mine gently tapped. Scratchy scratch scratch scratch!!

[ExitPursuedByABear]

My dog is rarely shut out, but on the odd occasion he is, he simply stares, really hard, at the door.

[HoneyDragon]

I didn't think of the garage.

I'm now horrified to realise I effectively have 9 external doors.

[LaZY90]

Totally with you with most of what you're saying ! However , it near impossible to stop your dog from barking completely . I'm sure you'd like and encourage your dog to bark if he/she suspected an intruder , for example ? Or if they smelled smoke ? or just in general needed to wake you because it was desperate to get out (maybe it feels sick?) .. So, there can be times your dog barks at unsociable hours . EVERYBODY (decent) knows this . Peoples problems arise when the dog is just left to bark for prolonged periods of time . For example , my neighbour, leaves the dog outside at 9pm to bark constantly , none stop .. It seems to stop at around 1030pm (whether dog gets too sore from barking or tired or finally let in , I don't know.) .. This - is where I think people find it difficult to accept. I am a dog owner myself . I understand dogs bark. . My dog woke me at 3am the other day (very unusual). Couple of growls/barks. I heard people outside but nothing untoward. Was til the broad light of day that I noticed rubbish on my drive and footprints in my flowerbeds . My dog was trying to tell me someone was in our personal space . So I was quite happy that my dog sensed that and tried to let me know. .. Could I have stopped him making those couple of barks ?? No . And I wouldn't want to either . Can I stop him barking for 2 hours at a time? Of course.

[SissySpacekAteMyHamster]

Outwards door here.

2 dogs who never bark to come in but do go batshit crazy at the squirrels.... and there are a lot of squirrels

[oldjacksscrote]

My mums dogs do that, however when they are let out in the evening or early morning mum stands at the back door and waits for them so they don't have to bark. It doesn't take much effort to be a considerate neighbour.