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Neighbours dogs barking in garden all day

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purplerain3 · 05/07/2022 10:05

I've posted about this before under a different username last year, for one of those electronic device things that was recommended but didn't have any difference at all. Living here continues to be a nightmare. 2 doors down lives a couple with 3 small dogs who quite clearly run the household and are left to do as they please all day. From what I know the woman works from home and I can see that she leaves the back door open all day from 7am and these dogs literally do not stop on and off talking away all day long. The door doesn't close until late evening. I went round last year and she was very rude, told me they are dogs that what they do, asked me if I wanted to come in and train them and then slammed the door in my face.

Never ever have I heard her try and settle them down or bring them in when they're going mad, she just leaves them to yap as much as they please. The man goes out to work a few days but even when he is home the situation is exactly the same.

I'm on maternity leave so obviously home a bit more although I try my best best to be out as much as possible as being gone fills me with anxiety and dread, I'm literally at the end of my tether with it and can't take much more.

We're both home owners. I would absolutely love to move but we just don't have the funds right now. I can't see the situation improving ever so I would like to think we can move in the next few years which is why I've hesitated complaining to the council as I know you have to declare this. Does anyone have any experience of complaining about something like this and selling, what happened? No one will buy it knowing the situation and I'll be trapped here, but on the other hand I can't put up with much more.

I just don't know what to do. I feel like i just needed a place to rant also as I feel like I can't take anymore of this.

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Tiani4 · 05/07/2022 10:11

You aren't moving right now and find her dogs barking unbearable. So

  • start recording them
  • write a diary of how long and how often

Send in noise complaint to council
Explain it had been going in for years but become worse and is unbearable, the lady refuses to keep her dogs in nor train them.

This is the only way something will change.

The council may ultimately put a noise order on her for her dogs. Grin

purplerain3 · 05/07/2022 10:13

Sorry for the spelling errors, typed it quickly while baby is napping and didn't read it back!

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purplerain3 · 05/07/2022 12:46

Bump

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SavoirFlair · 05/07/2022 13:09

purplerain3 · 05/07/2022 12:46

Bump

YABU. You don't need to 'bump' this thread when @Tiani4 has given you all of the answers you could possibly need for this 'dilemna'

purplerain3 · 05/07/2022 13:15

@SavoirFlair I was bumping to see if anyone had submitted a complaint and then sold their house, to see how the process went. I don't know why you have put dilemma in quotation marks, do you have yapping dogs yourself? Or maybe you've just never experienced this on d daily basis before.

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PipeScatter · 05/07/2022 13:50

We had this with a new neighbourhood dog that moved in but it was barking all night and all day as it doesn't live in the house.

We contacted the Environmental Health team at our council who advised to keep a diary, but, crucially, were happy to send a letter there and then to the owners to advise them that a complaint had been made.

The letter must have arrived the next day as they kept the dog much quieter after that, and we never felt the need to keep the diary.

The dog still occasionally barks now, but thankfully much, much less.

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