Why the fuck do people do this?

[SudoWouldnt]

Allow their fucking dogs outside to bark excessively for ages and make no attempt to shut them up?

Next doors terrier has been barking for a good 20 minutes or so now with no let up. Owners are home and are either selectively deaf or just too bone idle to shut it up.

I like dogs, I understand they bark sometimes but I wouldn't allow my child to stand in the garden yelling non-stop without bringing him in and telling him off.

Reluctant to say anything as the man is a bit of an arsehole and we are putting house on the market soon so don't want any disputes.

[ThisIsNotMyRealName1]

I was going to suggest you could phone the neighbour, couch it around just checking you are okay as your dog has been barking non-stop... However, if you're putting the house on the market soon then maybe not in the interests of not wanting to declare neighbourly dispute or anything. Would drive me nuts and I'd have to weigh up the pros-cons fairly carefully. Where we just moved from people across the gully used to obviously let their dog out at night and all it did was yap yap yap; sometimes, on a good (?) night it was drowned out by the bulls yelling at each other (I now know where the term bullshit comes from, they are full of it! )

[lanbro]

My neighbour had a dog that barked constantly when it was left alone, and was left for at least 8hrs a day, even when it stopped I could still hear it ringing in my ears! It only stopped as she was a council tenant so opened a noise complaint through the housing association and went through mediation.

[agentdaisy]

Our neighbour has got a dog that never stops barking whether it's inside or out. It's out in the garden most of the day and barks at everything, even the trees moving in the breeze and it goes crazy everytime I open my back door.

We share a wall and next door have no carpets only wood floor/lino in the whole house so every time the damn dog barks it echoes and sounds like it's in the room with you. Two nights running next door was on nights and the bloody dog spent 7 sold hours running through the house barking at who knows what till 4am when the neighbour got home from work. I was ready to strangle the damn thing.

I love dogs but next door's drives me insane.

[expatinspain]

Thank your lucky stars you don't live in spain. In the countryside most dogs live outside and bark the whole night. It's something I will never get used to. Drives me up the wall!!

[Waxlyrically]

I have one near me too. A constantly yapping terrier that doesn’t draw breath. The house is elevated and the sound ricochets of walls and is really piercing. Its personal best is a 2am yapping session. I have been known to shout at it out of the bedroom window after several wake ups. I don’t understand how anyone can fail to understand how antisocial this is.

[kateandme]

i think its really difficult and depends on what the neighbours are like the rest of the time.
because our dog bless her was good most of the time.but sometimes she had moments where she would just go in the garden and walk round and bark at the sky(my gran said she smelt the storms coming!) and there was no way in hell we could stop her.and trying to bring her in was hell.
but the neighbours new us and the dog and so understood she was just temp.insane for a short time.
if they are just neglecting to care or look out for their dogs,not training,letting them out all hours to just howl like weve had neighbours do then it just gets ur back right up.

[ohtheholidays]

Very selfish and I say that as someone that loves Dogs and has 3 myself.

Our next door neighbours(the fucking arsehole)has always been a cat person(hates our Dogs)but has now gone and bought a puppy and she keeps shutting the poor thing out the garden and it goes mad,were really lucky that our Dogs have been brilliant and don't react to it thank God because the last thing our poor neighbours would need is 4 Dogs going mad in the gardens.

When it's outside and barking and howling to be let back in one of us goes outside and talks to it(it's a lovely little Dog)to calm it down the poor little thing and we've all had a go at it's owner and told them to stop shutting the poor puppy out.

[SudoWouldnt]

I wonder if they're on here. The dog hasn't been out this morning so far, it usually starts as early as 7.30

[AnnieMay100]

I feel your pain ndn have a yappy little dog that wakes us up at 6am every day without fail. They also let it out at 11/12pm so it barks and wakes my children. Whenever they go out it barks I’ve counted 3 hours without stopping one evening. If you talk to them or try and complain they become aggressive and threatening and think it’s perfectly acceptable and you’re being horrible for no reason Wish they brought back license and made training a legal requirement, some people just don’t deserve pets! Try a dog whistle it sometimes helps.

[LakieLady]

Terriers are notoriously barky. I have a lakeland terrier, and they're considered barky even by terrier standards.

I trained both of mine (only have one now) to stop barking in the garden by bribing them to come in and shut up by rewarding them with a biscuit. Now, when DDog fancies a biscuit, she goes out in the garden (we have a dog flap) and barks 2 or 3 times, then comes in for the ritual biscuit.

If she doesn't get the biscuit, she comes and finds one of us, gives us a nudge with her nose, then goes and stands in the kitchen, near the biscuit jar.

I sometimes wonder if I trained her or if it's the other way round.

[Elmo311]

I feel for you! Our neighbour lets their dog out (Bichon frise) overnight between 10pm-11pm and all it does is BARK COMSTANTLY! Every.fucking.night.for.an.hour.exactly

How people can be SO inconsiderate i just don't understand!

[thistimeofyear]

think my ndn are on here too! - dog has been better lately - thanks!