Would you leave your dog outside barking at 553 am?

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I couldn't sleep at all last night I am so exhausted and fed up
I've posted before about the dog but I haven't reported it because to be frank I don't want to fall out with my neighbours it will make my life very hard if I do. We are home owners and they are too.

They have a dog which they do not walk. It's always moaning at home because it's a clever and bored one. I feel so sorry for it.
It is constantly being shoved in the garden and barking so they must have had enough of it barking in the house which is also beyond me.

I want to get a bark buster but my plug outside is a bit far away I think for it to make a difference to this dogs barking.

Last night it was out several times barking

This am at 5.53 when I had finally fallen asleep they put him out again and he barked and barked and barked and they left him.
It woke me up. Woke my son up.

He is out again barking now as well.

AIBU to really want to text them now about this dog? What would you say in the text?
I get it that they need the toilet but can't they let him out watch him then take him straight back in?

I'd report them to the council for noise, the RSPCA won't do anything if the dog has access to food, water and shelter.

Poor dog I cannot understand why people get pets and don't fulfill their basic needs. When I was growing up my parents neighbours had 5 yorkshire terriers that I don't think ever left the house or the garden. They would bark constantly, eventually they all died and it was nice and peaceful outside again.

I'd report to the council for noise nuisance, OP. There are other neighbours who will be disturbed by the noise, so they won't know who made the report. Keep a diary of the times when the barking starts and stops.

You'd be doing the dog a favour, too, as they'd have to stop leaving him out like that.

Someone reported a neighbour of mine, she has 6 dogs, one of whom has dreadful separation anxiety and would cry and howl most of the day when the owner was working. The council came round and basically told her to sort it or rehome it, so she takes it to work with her now (she runs a dog walking business, so the dog has a fine old time).

Does the tree house affect any other neighbour's privacy? If so, I'd report that, too. They won't know which of you made the report.

The overhanging your drive I would address directly. Every time they did it, I'd need to pop to the shop and ask them to move so I could get my car out. Then again 5 minutes later, when I came back. But I'm a stroppy cow and I don't care who knows it!

My neighbour leaves her dog alone in the house all night when she does her night shift. Last time it barked for 4 hour hours non stop. Next day when she came home, and went to bed, I found on you tube a recording "loud dogs barking", and played it loud next to the joining wall where she would be sleeping. It ran for about an hour. I would have talked to her instead but that never works. Often she plays loud music at 8am in the morning that rattles the whole house and when I asked her to turn it off she said "Oh, I never even thought". Anyway, I did notice next time she did a night shift, she got a friend to take the dog!!!

Been through exactly the same. However one of her dogs was aggressive and would try biting through the fence when the kids or DP and I would be in the garden. It was genuinely frightening. They were ordered to put panels over the fence but it bit through them too.
The barking would also travel through the walls if not outside. Neighbour never walked them, never and left them home for hours. They were big muscular looking staffs who clearly needed exercise and attention.
I approached neighbour politely and got a load of abuse, threatened and told dogs bark deal with it.
I reported to RSPCA who did nothing.
I reported to our housing association as it started impacting on my mental health as it became 24/7 barking. I nearly moved us in with my Mum to escape it.
The HA installed a recording device in our house for evidence and had us keep a record which just read as barking all day and all night every day of the week.
She now only has the one dog which is much more placid and quiet. However poor thing still never gets a walk.