Apologies if this kind of thing has been asked before. I had a quick scan of previous threads and haven’t found anything similar.
My neighbour comes to his house, which is a second home (which is side on to ours) every Tuesday evening and leaves Thursday morning. I think he has the day off on a Wednesday. He sometimes comes up on the weekend but oddly this doesn’t happen on a weekend... no idea why. When he comes he brings his enormous German Shepherd with him who my dog absolutely hates and they spend all day barking at each other through the fence, so I spend all Wednesday either yelling at my dog to shut up or having to lock him in the house all day which is unfair to him. The neighbour jokes that my (otherwise silent animal!) is very territorial and makes a lot of noise....
But that’s not really what I’m most annoyed about. Every Tuesday and Wednesday night he leaves the dog out in the garden. And when I come into the bedroom and turn my bedroom light on, the light streams out into my driveway and their back garden and dog starts barking at the light. That sets my dog on edge and he starts scampering round the house whimpering and whining to go out and protect his territory. The kids wake up then and start asking if the ‘crazy dog from next door is loose’... which is actually our greatest fear. When I turn the bedroom light off... the dog stops barking instantly. But I can’t do everything I need to do in complete darkness. I feel like a fool walking around my own bedroom in my own house with my phone light on trying to brush my teeth, get undressed etc so as not to disturb the animal. I’ve mentioned it to the dogs owner and he kind of laughed it off and made some joke about the dog obviously thinking I should be in bed at that time. I asked him if the dog always slept outside or if he could put him inside and the answer was along the lines of ‘he prefers sleeping outside... he is a guard dog’
We don’t have any other permanent neighbours who are affected. and those that are there permanently are on the other side of the road and can’t hear all of this.
AIBU to call the local council and tell them it’s a noise nuisance? Or should I just suck it up for 1 (sometimes 2) nights a week.