Barking dog

[casualnamechange]

I live in a terraced flat. We have no garden access as we are on the first floor. We have lived here for about five years but in the last few weeks, most mornings a dog is out in its garden barking for at least ten minutes. It wakes me and DP up most weekends. It woke me up at 7:15 this morning.

On the weekdays it doesn’t matter because we leave for work at 7am but it’s been actually impossible to get a lie in and I’m exhausted. I’ve tried to be understanding as it’s obviously a new dog and probably a puppy but my charity has run the fuck out.

I can’t work out which fucking garden it’s coming from because I can’t see it. It must be very nearby though. It’s obviously a tiny Yorkshire terrier or something because it’s so high pitched.

I don’t have a street WhatsApp or anything. WIBU to go round and talk to every nearby neighbour until I work out who it belongs to????? What do I do if they don’t listen? I am SO TIRED.

@Rach212

Hi, can I say as annoying as this is. You’re being mildly dramatic (in my opinion)

I have a new dog. I work shifts

I finish at 3am and half to get up with him at 6am - for the full day. On my earliest shift I have to wake at 4am to walk him before I can leave the house. I haven’t had a lie in in 7 months!

7am is not you being exhausted

But, you made the decision to get a dog and all that entails. OP is being woken up because of a dog that doesn't belong to her, so annoying and frustrating.

Maybe your cat shits in their garden, and it's Karma.

@Rach212

Hi, can I say as annoying as this is. You’re being mildly dramatic (in my opinion)

I have a new dog. I work shifts

I finish at 3am and half to get up with him at 6am - for the full day. On my earliest shift I have to wake at 4am to walk him before I can leave the house. I haven’t had a lie in in 7 months!

7am is not you being exhausted

I have an auto immune condition which contributes to extreme fatigue, but thanks anyway!

@gillysSong

Maybe your cat shits in their garden, and it's Karma.

He’s an indoor cat but that would be fair karma!

@Rach212 I don't understand your response... you work shifts and got a new dog so assume you're more tired than OP? What's that got to do with an inconsiderate person leaving their dog to bark in the garden every morning?

You have my deepest sympathy. I have reclusive neighbours with x3 German spitz dogs (I think) who bark non stop all day long every day. It's that highly irritating high pitched bark. Owners couldn't give a shit, they're that ignorant I went around to have a polite word a few month back and the woman shouted at me that they're dogs that's what dogs do and slammed the door in my face. They never ever leave the house and the door is just left open for the dogs all day. Honestly I wish they'd stick all these ignorant neighbours with horrible barking dogs in a neighbourhood together out the way of everyone else.

I can understand if you make a life choice which means your sleep is hugely disrupted by your own dog then it doesn’t seem a big deal, but I deliberately haven’t made a choice like that and I work very long days, so it’s disappointing to not get the option of a lie in without having any kind of choice about it.

I definitely am more tired than the normal person due to my illness, which obviously the neighbours could never know. There’s frankly no way I could function on what you do @Rach212, my body wouldn’t let me!

If it was my own dog it would be different, but I think saying “I have a child/dog which means I never sleep so you aren’t tired” is silly.

One of the neighbours in our road gets a gardener in to use a leaf blower every Saturday from 8am for about half an hour. I've complained to the council and they've said that working in your garden is ok from 8am. It drives me mad that I can't have a lie in on a Saturday other than in the dead of winter. Ear plugs help most of the time though.
If it's a new, lockdown dog, the owners might be that inexperienced that this is their way of training their pet. You have my deepest sympathies!

I'm a dog owner and wouldn't dream of allowing my dog to bark for one minute let alone 10! I can't comprehend the selfishness of inconsiderate owners who do. I have no hesitation in complaining about dogs left to bark. The last neighbours I complained to seemed really taken aback, but at least they stopped letting their dog bark all evening. Did they honestly think all the neighbours were fine with it?! Beggars belief.