7am dog barking

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We live along a quiet road with a couple of houses behind us. The house immediately behind got a dog about 6 months ago. It's not a puppy, if that's relevant.

Every morning before 7 the dog is let out for a wee. It barks loudly whilst it's out there and the lady shouts its name at it until it's quiet. It's only barking for a minute or two.

I wouldn't be annoyed about this noise at any other time if the day, but it wakes up DH and I, and 2 year old DS1. 8 month old DS2, whose room is on the other side of the house, is then often woken up because someone has to get up with DS1.

It's not the biggest of deals I know, it's not like the dog is out barking at 5am and DS1 will sometimes be awake around 7am anyway. Often though they would sleep in until 8am and it's just annoying that we can never sleep beyond 7am because of the dog. It's literally every single day.

They are otherwise very nice neighbours, although we don't have a lot to do with them. Definitely don't want to fall out or cause the dog any distress, but just interested to know - AIBU to wish I didn't get woken up by barking every single day?

Not unreasonable to wish but 7am is perfectly normal time to let a dog out and dogs bark!

YANBU. Have you tried having a friendly chat with neighbour?

Our dog barks with the sheer joy of being alive and outside and because he loves the sound of his own voice. We always shush him and bring him in when he does so, but dogs bark and whilst its annoying, there's not really that much you can do to stop them.

I’d hate that, but it’s not very unreasonable.

YABVU 7 am is not that early and if it's only barking for a couple of minutes it's really not an issue.

The dog next door barks once, setting off a volley of barks from mine. As soon as I've managed to shush mine, next door dog barks once again. And so on. This is about 5am. Dogs are a pain in the arse, but I wouldn't be without.

You're not going to win this- you can't ask her not to shout at her dog to get it to hush, though shouting doesn't help. And 7am is a reasonable time for a dog to go out for a wee.

I don’t suppose there’s much she can do about it really, some dogs do just bark when they are let out and 7am isn’t that early.
From the sounds of it she is trying to keep it quiet and only has it out the shortest time possible.

Fair enough, thanks for your opinions. I won't mention it as they are nice neighbours in every other way, but it's useful to have other people's thoughts.

Merry Christmas

Mine barks when I let him out - for absolutely no reason whatsoever

I bring him in but it doesn't stop the behaviour. Even if I go out with him he barks!