Neighbours barking dog

[ILoveAndrew]

Next door neighbours have a Chihuahua. It barks every time it's out in the garden and sometimes this can go on for a good 15/20 minutes without the owners stopping it. It has always been like this for the past year I have lived here, but I am seriously fucked off now it's getting warmer and my door is open. The dog also barks regularly indoors even when one of the neighbours are home with it. Even if the door is open for the dog to go back in, it still barks, just staring at the back door.

The dog has a very loud, high pitched bark and it's regularly waking me up too when I sleep through the day because of work.

I have just lost my patience and shouted for them to shut the fucking dog up.

I was working from home on a call the other day actually and had the back door open to enjoy the lovely weather, but the dog started barking and ten minutes later it was still barking. Again, I lost my patience, slammed the back door shut and the neighbours must have told the dog to be quiet as it shut up but why aren't they doing anything? They are decent neighbours apart from this.

Maybe it's just me though? Perhaps dogs bark and as it's not all day then should I be more tolerant?

Log it now with the environmental health via the website, they'll get a letter within days. You'll be asked for a log of the noise, which you're already doing. EH will ask for it after the initial letter has gone out, to give them chance to do something about it/sto the noise etc. No point proving a log before they've been officially warned. If it's still happening they will come and put a recording f device on your house.

If it's now and again between certain hours you might not get anywhere, however at times such as 11.30 on they can do something

We lived nextdoor to people who had 4 working breed dogs which were only walked on average once a year. No joke, in the 6 years we lived at the property we only witnessed them being walked no more than 5 times. They weren't walking them at unsociable hours either. We know this because everytime the dogs were let outside they went mad...whining and barking. We basically didn't need an alarm clock as sometimes they were let out at 5am. During the day there were sporadic fits of barking and then the owners shouting at the dogs to "shut up!!!"...which added to the noise.

We never complained (you have to declare it) and just planned our housemove asap. Their adjoined neighbour complained and things briefly improved as the owners bought antibark collars. Then they got used to it and it was back to barking again.

As far as we know...all dogs still alive and kicking, but the owners have been through 7 sets of neighbours since the dogs were on the scene. Can you plan to move OP?

A neighbour of mine has a small yappy dog which they allow to run in and out of the house as it wants as their door is always open.
All you can hear is yap, yap bloody yap for hours.
Others have complained but to no effect.
I feel like throwing its owner off a bloody cliff.

Please don’t listen to ppl who say noise has to be at night to be considered a nuisance and for environmental health to do something. This is a common misconception but in fact noise at any time of day or night can be a statutory nuisance and the noise maker can be subjected to penalties.

There are many ignorant dog owners like this sadly, have lived next to some of them, and in my experience speaking to them will be a waste of time. As every fecking house now seems to have at least one dog, we're now looking for a house with no neighbours. What twats people can be. There should be dog-free areas where people like us can live, and others where dog owners can live together in harmony, enjoying each others' barking, whining, livestock being mauled, children attacked, and shit everywhere. Then we could all be happy.

Thank you for all your replies.

One of the dogs owners takes it out for the day (to work?) with her. Not so long back there was a time when the dog was left home alone all day long and would be barking non-stop for eight hours. Sad for it but a nightmare when I was working from home.

One of the people that live there has just got home from work, let the dog in the back and shut the door on it and gone upstairs. The dog was barking for 14 minutes. I very nearly went round and asked what the fuck they were playing at. I remained calm and just logged it.