The neighbour behind us has a dog that barks all the bloody time. I think it has a dog flap or they keep their doors open or something as it’s in and out of the garden all day/evening and they just ignore/can’t hear the barking
It seems to completely detest my dog, as soon as she goes out into our garden, it’s barking and hurling itself at the fence between our gardens.
I know that some of the other neighbours on our road and the road behind have complained about the barking to the neighbour but the neighbour just blames it on my dog winding it up. The other neighbours come and see me, every time I point out that it’s not my dog barking and that she is allowed out in our own garden, they agree with me but moan that the barking is pissing everyone off (I know, it pisses me off too!) and that I need to work with her to find a solution
Our dog usually goes to work with DH, but during lockdown I was on furlough so she was home with me, the weather was nice so we were doing stuff in the garden, had doors open and our dog was outside with us so the dog was just barking on and off all day.
Neighbour behind was working from home and kept complaining to me that I should keep my dog in as it made hers bark and she was trying to work and couldn’t concentrate.
Anyway, it came to a bit of a head this morning. I let my dog out in our garden for a wee at 7:30am, she got the zoomies (as she does every morning), and was doing laps of our garden at 100 miles an hour.
She wasn’t barking (she very rarely barks) or banging and crashing around or anything like that, but wasn’t completely silent. Neighbour’s dog starts barking its head off and hurling itself at the fence, so I called mine in.
Just as we’re leaving for work, the neighbour appears and starts complaining, that if my dog can’t stop winding hers up we need to keep it in, that she’s fed up with the other neighbours complaining at her when there’s nothing she can do if ours keeps making hers bark.
I pointed out that my dog isn’t barking or making unreasonable noise, she is simply going about her business in her own back garden, that there was no way I was going to ban my own dog from our garden so we needed to come up with a more reasonable solution.
She completely blew her top, started shouting and screaming, threatened to report us to the council and all sorts, wouldn’t even entertain the idea that our dog was allowed in its own bloody garden, so we’re no closer to finding a solution and I have no idea what to suggest.
It doesn’t matter what time we let our dog out, as theirs is always out so we can’t even let her out at certain times to avoid it - and why bloody should we anyway? It’s not our dog that’s barking. I mean I’m happy to try and work with her, but never letting my dog out is not an option
Would the council actually expect me to?