If your neighbours dog was incessantly barking, what would help?

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Obviously it’s annoying, and a total pain for everyone involved, but our 10 month old dog will not shut up at night!

She’s doing it for attention and everything we’ve read basically says ignore it, which we’re trying, but we’re really worried about the neighbours! We only moved in a few months ago and although they’re all friendly etc, they’re all a lot older than us.

We have spoken to them a few times apologising but last night, the dog was on another level!

Is there anything that might help/pacify them a little?

(Please don’t lecture me about the dog by the way, we’re trying our best, and usually if it gets really bad my partner will go downstairs and sleep on the sofa with her but we need to get her back in the habit of sleeping in her crate by herself!)

I despise 'crate training' which is a euphemism for locking a dog in a cage.
It's cruel and how can you blame a dog for hating it?

Are you going to have her spayed after this season? (You should)

Either have her upstairs with your or one of you sleep downstairs with her.

My neighbours dog barks all day, any time anyone or anything is in its sight. Its given full access to all windows and sits all day waiting to go nuts. It's a screaming manic loud bark . I have a dog, I love dogs. But I can say, hand on heart, I truly hate this dog. Terrible thing to say, it's not the dogs fault (and all that) but if it disappeared into thin air, I'd rejoice.
The neighbours are incapable of training the dog and have even given up their occasional token efforts.

Just ditch the crate, sounds like she's a long way away from your room.

Ditch the crate, they’re awful, have her sleep somewhere for the moment where she doesn’t make a noise and get a trainer in this week.

Jesus wept just have her in your bedroom! We have ours in a crate next to the bed.
Living next to a barking dog is HELL and very very unfair.

The odd night here and there where neighbours are disturbed...fair enough, it happens. When it is repeated due to a dog barking, dodgy house alarm going off in the middle of the night, car alarm going off at 3am repeatedly....peoples sleepiest disturbed...no one likes that! Saying sorry, buying them flowers...yh nicer than saying nothing...bottom line....if peoples sleep are getting disturbed...no one likes that! Good luck with the dog :)

We also have a large 10 month old dog and scrapped the crate within a couple of weeks as he hated it. We tried upstairs without a crate but he wanted to be downstairs and he’s sleeps in the safest room downstairs with a large baby gate. He also prefers a towel/blanket or the floor to his bed! He settled so well after we scrapped it. He usually wakes around 7 am and barks once to let us know he’s up but if he wakes earlier (not middle of the night - we ignored him when he did this as going down reinforced the behaviour but this hasn’t happened for months now and wasn’t a regular occurrence) we just let him up with us. It’s taken time but he now likes a little nap on the bed and we get an extra hour or twos sleep. He can go 10 pm - 8 am without needing to go out for the toilet so yours shouldn’t be barking for the loo… Also go off your vets advice around spaying we were told our male should not be done until closer to 2 due to his size. I imagine it’s similar for large female.

oops...peoples sleep gets disturbed I meant

Put a dog bed in your room. You won’t hear a peep out of her.

Keep the crate and buy a dog bed to see what they prefer. We built in the command 'enough' when ours got barky. Reward the behaviour you want
and don't ever send him to his bed/crate for being naughty or not getting it right. He is a baby. It's hard work but very rewarding
You'll get there honestly

Something has obviously happened to make your dog suddenly bark at night sometimes it can be something that’s happened on a walk or something that’s frightened it or similar and now he’s getting lots of attention.

Have you tried him out of his crate at night? My pup has a crate but it is never locked he goes in happily it’s in the kitchen and he has free reign of downstairs. He is loose in the house in the day and goes to ‘bed’ in the kitchen at night (17 months) I think you probably need to go back to basics with him. Boundary train?

Give the crate tonnes of value so lovely treats and games and fun so he associates it with being a good Place to be, there’s more to it but I’m sure a Google will give you more info. Works for our dog and he has a ‘boundary’ everywhere we go it gives him his own place to be. Why does he get let out at 2am? I would not do this, dogs need quite a lot of sleep so you’re disturbing him for no real reason except habit mine have never gone out at 2am or overnight so I would let out before bed - on lead so there’s so messing about (my pup would just want to play) and first thing. You could cover the crate? Does work for my boy he likes it dark but flap at front is always open. Use a baby gate to stop roaming the house if you’d prefer. I don’t have dogs upstairs and I don’t want mine in my room he’s quite happy in his bed downstairs but if it works for you. Id find a dog trainer if I were you someone who trains positively and reward based and can do 1:1 for you to give you methods to try because the barking can get worse and worse

We had to bring our dog up into our bedroom when our old cat started to have eyesight issues and we had to shut him in the living room. Our dog sleeps on our bed whilst we read but when we turn the lights out she goes in her bed. When the sun starts to come up, she jumps onto our bed and sleeps with us until the alarm.
I think with your dog, as it's such a recent thing, it seems to be connected to her coming into season and she is calling for a mate. Seasons only last a few weeks, so you could be near the end of this and hopefully it won't happen again.