To not want to be woken by barking dogs every day?

[dameofdilemma]

Neighbours two houses away take their three dogs out every week day by 6-6.15am and weekends by 7.15am. They’ve had two of them only a few months.
The dogs bark like crazy. It’s an hour before we have to get up for work (and no we don’t particularly want to get up at 7am on a Sunday).

Do I just accept that I have to now start my days earlier? I’m not hopeful they’ll do much about it if I complain (the dogs are young and not trained, jump and bark at passers by, can’t be let off lead etc).

Was out with a friend recently and found myself going home early as basically have a 6am alarm clock now!

I've got two, and they do bark, usually back at other dogs tbh, and they're brought straight in when they do, but I wouldn't let a pattern like this develop with barking so early in the morning because they're going out for a walk.
Even as a dog owner (and I know I'm supposed to be irresponsible and not care about anything but my dogs - sorry about that) I can see that's pretty unreasonable.
But, if no one has complained, they might be under the illusion it's not bothering anyone else, so definitely say something to them if it's bothering you because then they will know and they have the option to do something about it, and hopefully they will and it'll be more than just shouting at them to shut up when they start barking early in the morning and making even more noise 🤣 looking at you neighbour two doors down!
If they don't then probably speak to the council about it, but I do think you need to let them know it's disturbing you before you do that.

Who on earth thinks YABU??
I have two dogs. One was a very barky puppy. So she went out on a lead. Could tell if she was about to bark and distract her or bring her in. Why should my neighbours be disturbed by my dogs??
They sound pretty crap and ineffectual though. Why can’t they control the dogs when they open the door?? A stairgate would sort that. Good luck OP.

Then their dogs are out of control which is an entirely different situation, although I love when peoples dogs jump up me

What about instead if she acts like a grown up and goes and has a word with them. Adult to adult.

Id personally be a bit wary of this approach if you’re thinking of selling anytime soon…..don’t official complaints have to be disclosed to the buyer? “Dogs barking nonstop” will not go down well….

So unless you’re living there longterm I would talk to them first, it could help. If not, problem get some ear plugs.

My house is next to a heavily used dog-walking area. We have barking dogs from 6 in the morning till after midnight. And it’s often not even the dog barking that is awakening me, but it is the shouting of the owners! Really annoying and pointless : dogowners shouting at their dog to keep quiet😑

My neighbour, on the corner, across the road have two dogs that they let out at between 4am/7am, depending on what shifts they are on, which go mental, barking , scrabbling up the fence, and just generally running amok every day. Then we have the owners shouting at the tops if their voices at them to shut up. Don’t know what’s worse, I have in the summer when the window is open been know to shout ‘shut the fuck up’ from my bed! It then goes really quiet. The bloke has the loudest talking voice known to man so I know all their personal business, even their landlords details, who has now been informed about the dogs!

Are they noisy at the beginning of a walk, and the neighbour takes them for a run, away from your house, leaving you to go back to sleep? Or do they just turn them out in the garden and leave them to bark?

If the first, hopefully they will train them or they will get past that puppy yappy stage and calm down soon.

If the second, I'd have a polite word with the neighbour, and if it doesn't get any better, I'd talk the council noise nuisance number and complain.

You have to put up with it or move.

My neighbours trap their dogs in the garden. Hardly ever take them out.
They bark and whine all day its soul destroying.

I plucked up the courage to call animal welfare, turns out the welfare person knew the family...told them I'd reported them(even though I said I lived in a different location to where I do, welfare person worked out where my window would be situated based off what I told them I couid see of neigbours garden) and they made my life hell for quite a long time.

You can complain but im not sure people's animals just get taken off them for barking.
And as we learned here, it's not always anonymous

I'm a dog owner and I don't let our dog out in the garden after 10pm or before 7:30 am and even the. If she does bark she gets brought straight back in. She knows not to bark I. The morning and tell her wee wee only which she does, silently then comes in.
It's not acceptable that they wake you every morning and you should ask them to try to teach their dogs to be quiet as it's very disturbing. I'd be mortified if I thought it was upsetting somebody

The council environmental health team can help you with a statutory nuisance complaint linked to noise. You could record the dogs on your phone and attach to an email as an MP3. I have dogs and they bark occasionally, but I don't let them in the yard late evening or early morning. I might not mind the noise, but appreciate it is not for everyone!

@Pugdogmom the exponential rise of dog ownership has brought with it the exponential rise of unreasonable dog owners sadly. And the problem is what a dog owner thinks is unreasonable is often worlds away from what a non dog owner thinks is unreasonable 🤷‍♀️.

We used to live next door to dog owners who let their dog out at 6:30am every fucking morning for them to run around their garden barking. Thankfully they moved away 🤬.

I hear ya. I have a neighbour, as I posted earlier who lets her dog out at dark o'clock and leaves it to bark in the garden. She isn't a reasonable dog owner. I wouldn't allow my dogs to behave like that, because I have consideration for my neighbours. Lots of dogs around my area. None of them are allowed to bark like this. Apart from hers. 🙄

I feel your pain. There’s a nearby couple who walk their extremely reactive beagle at 5.45am every morning and they often bump into a lady who walks her equally reactive Westie at the same time. Problem is their meeting point is the zebra crossing right outside my bedroom window. The noise is unbelievable.

Bearing in mind this happens pretty much every morning you would have thought they could come to an agreement about one party changing either their route or walking time. There are at least half a dozen different walks where they wouldn’t bump into each other.

dameofdilemma · Today 09:45

Really don’t want to knock on their door as the dogs come flying out and jump up (they do try to stop them but as there are three don’t manage it!)

Ah. I'd suggest a written message.

"Shut your fucking dogs up, arseholes!" Wrapped round a brick and delivered through the window.

😄

If they are retired then reasonable for them to take their dogs out later for a walk. Even 8am would be an improvement.

Speak to them first.

Whether its reasonable to complain depends on what exactly is happening.

You say they 'take their dogs out' at those times presumably meaning they leave the house for a walk so the noise is actually momentary (i.e. less than a couple of minutes)? In which case I think YABU because unfortunately the reality of living with close neighbours is sometimes there will be a little noise at times.

If, however, they are just letting them in the garden or hanging around at their house barking for 10+ minutes then yeah YANBU and should complain.

I have the same.

Soft earplugs and closed windows work.

But I am resentful.

But it's too late then

Yes, if it's a toddler making a noise though, everyone will be full on about it.
If their dog barks it's always because 'someone else's dog set them off'🙄

Don't see how that applies to my post, but more worryingly your threshold for annoyance seems exceptionally low.

So you are say 1 bark is too much 🙄

That’s a nuisance
I mean legally
do they own or rent?
id write threatening to sue for nuisance
to them or their landlord

In my experience, go and talk to them is no good at all, as, if they behave like this, they will be inconsiderate people with an unshakeable sense of entitlement in every aspect of their lives. Our neighbours have a dog who, for some reason, they let out to bark and howl around 10.30 at night, and often again, later. They let it bark deliberately. I'm retired now, but before when I had a stressful job dealing with very abusive people, I could never get back to sleep again. They never put the dog on a lead in the village, so you know it's going to rush at you. They are currently building a bonkers extension which everyone opposed, but went to the Sec of State to get it approved. So, it's diggers by day, dogs by night. They are just arseholes, and a barking dog is a symptom that they have no empathy with anyone. Many councils (ours included), now no longer deal with dog noise, and instead, give a list of suggestions to tackle the situation. Speak to the dog owner is top of the list. Yeah, right!

Surely you train them not to do that?? Not all dogs bark like this. Vert selfish owners. Plus often once you've been woken up it's a bit late