Neighbours dog!!!!

[leavingthispoohole]

Moved here 2 years ago. Have been having issues with neighbours yappy dog since day 1. The dog has awful separation anxiety, barks whenever left alone...his owner works out of the house during the day!
After a few months of living here ( was also pregnant) we let her know it was causing us a lot of stress, even before covid we worked from home a few days a week (now full time) she said she will try a few things and was semi reasonable. She even gave me her mobile number and said to let her know if any issues, I took her up on that and she's since blocked me!
Ever since he still barks. Hubby and I decided to put the house on the market due to other factors but in a small part the dog too.
I now have the 'I don't give a shit' attitude and also don't want the future owners to feel like I have so I posted a note through her door this morning telling her its cruel to leave her dog alone. Not telling hubby as he is a people pleaser and thinks I should let sleeping dogs lie, excuse the pun!
But I think she is a bellend and should start thinking about her poor miserable dog even if she doesn't give a shit about her neighbours. Not really asking for anything here, just to get off my chest really as I cant tell hubby. Any other bellend neighbours with dogs out there????

I know first hand the anxiety and stress that can be bought on by a neighbour's dog barking. If I could put my house on the market and move I would, in a heartbeat.
I've reported my neighbours to the council three or four times. Luckily they have calmed their dog down a lot but it still gives me massive anxiety. I live with the anticipation of it barking again.
At least you're moving. Just try and keep positive

It does sound as though the dog is distressed, however, if you are moving, I think I would probably agree with your DH. You probably want to avoid this escalating into a neighbour dispute which you have to declare on selling. I wouldn't want to buy a house knowing that there had been problems with the NDN over a barking dog.

My neighbour has 2 very yappy dogs. It's not that they bark as they are left she is in the house the majority of the time, it's just that they are so barky.

They bark if any immediate neighbours are in their gardens, bark when people walk down the street, when people knock on their door or our door, if cars go down the street... Basically they just bark for everything. I don't really know what the solution is, I hear her trying shush them, but they soon start again.

I try and be patient as we are a young family, whereas she is a single adult so I imagine we are annoying and noisy at times for her but I do feel frustrated at times.

Our neighbours (now moved) had a yappy dog that they seemed to leave in the garden all day, every day. I seldom saw it being walked. Every time we went into the garden, their poor dog would start up. We had a dog (now passed away) and theirs would go mad when we let ours out into the garden. Ours rarely barked at all but I guess theirs could smell him. After our old fella passed away, we considered offering to walk theirs for them because we missed the walks, and we thought it might calm him down, but then a 'For Sale' sign went up so we decided to leave them to it.

Thanks all. so sorry HomerSimpsonsDonut I feel so lucky to be able to get away, but I am already feeling so guilty towards our buyers who happen to be lovely. Yes and the anticipation is actually the worst bit, more so than the barking!
Honestly some times I feel like I'm the only person in the world that thinks you should only have a dog if you can be at home the majority of the time to look after it, if it barks when your out its part and parcel of having a dog, you will need to find a way of that not happening.
Incidentally I did try and pull the note out of the letter box but it had gone all the way through so its done now

@leavingthispoohole I'd love a dog but I'm back in the office 3 - 4 days a week now and this will probably increase. It would be unfair to leave a dog home alone for all that time.
I wish you all the luck with the house move. Try not to feel guilty about the buyers - people are different and their tolerance levels might be higher. If they do get pissed off they will most likely contact the council.

You are obliged to tell your buyers about noise and disputes with neighbours. Your situation sounds a bit borderline but I certainly wouldn’t be escalating things.

We have three dogs in our neighbourhood like this. Im convinced one of the owners is deaf, her dog barked just about non-stop from 10.30am one morning till 1pm when I assume she took the dog in. I am thankful she is not my NDN. How the folk on either side can stand it I don't know. It is most inconsiderate. This dog also sets everybody else's dogs off. By the way the owner IS home all day too. On another note, I do not understand people who buy dogs then go out to work all day and leave them. Dogs are a massive responsibilty, hence why I don't have one.

You are not wrong, it IS very cruel to leave the dog subjected to a situation that causes it distress each day.

Unfortunately the way to address separation anxiety is in the first place, to not leave the dog alone to experience it, whilst you work on behaviour modification and desensitization..

Many people, by the time they realise the dog has a problem, have commitments outside the home such as work, and don't see how they can avoid leaving the dog alone... and for those who do work it out, its expensive as hell.. daycares, sitters, walkers, professional support to address the anxiety.. it adds up to a lot, beyond the means of many..

And so they bury their heads in the sand - it's wrong, it's cruel, but I can absolutely see why it happens.

Fixing separation anxiety properly will typically take six months or more (if it was separation related problems in the first place, some cases actually aren't and are resolved faster) - that can be very daunting for some people, particularly if the annoyed neighbours expect a fix to occur in a matter of days!

Thanks for everyone's replies, its really helpful to read.
I have been pretty careful not to let this get in to declaring territory its only ever been the odd text or note, nothing formal like council etc and as mentioned earlier perhaps the new owner just won't care as much as me or have a higher tolerance.
I know the sensible thing is to let it go (hence me trying to pull the note back from the letterbox) just makes me SO angry that people like this exist and she dictates how happy/relaxed/at peace I can be in my own home.
New beginnings eh.