To call neighbour and tell them to come home from work?

[Hocuspocusnonsense]

And let their sodding dog in?

Think terraced house, very small garden, one end has shade, so neighbour has sodded off to work and left their bloody yappy dog shut in the garden for the day!!! It has been barking for 2 hours now!! Aaaaaaaargh!!

Ridiculous comment, you’re just a troll after an argument and not here to actually offer practical advice.

No I certainly hope you wouldn’t leave any child on their own. However children are allowed in shops, hospitals, doctors, restaurants, other people’s homes, play centres etc, unfortunately dogs aren’t always.

Definition of Animal Cruelty. Animal Cruelty is defined as depriving an animal of food, water, shelter, and/or veterinary care. Torturing, maiming, or killing animals is also animal cruelty. I can assure you our dog is very well looked after and very loved. We are caring and responsible dog owners just trying to juggle life.

Thank goodness we have sympathetic and supportive neighbours who have never complained but only mentioned her howling on the odd occasion.

What’s ridiculous is having a dog you can’t care for properly and meet all its needs.

We rescued her from a horrible situation where she had no life, locked in a small flat all day with dozens of other animals, never walked, forced to have puppies, she was matted, smelly and uncared for. I’m proud to say we’ve given her a loving home and a happy life. In the grand scheme of things leaving her for a couple of hours here and there to go to an appointment or run errands doesn’t mean she isn’t well cared for.

I feel your pain my last neighbour did this and the council/rspca did nothing, she actually went on holiday for 2 weeks and just had the neighbour go in to feed it everyday, it barks a lot anyway but in addition we could hear it crying and whimpering in the night with no lights on for it at all

I am in a new house now and working away in my office that overlooks the back gardens and I have just watched a lady put her dog in the garden in a cage!! I can see into her kitchen and she is sorting a baby but wtf is up with these people why have dogs and just leave them

You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better about leaving a distressed dog several times a month for hours.

You need to pay for doggy daycare.

Seeing as you have no practical advice or suggestions your comments are really not very useful.
We’ll keep on caring for our dog, and helping her overcome her separation anxiety ☺️👍🏻

We both work from home full time so are home most of the time so she’s rarely left. It’s only when we go out to places they don’t allow dogs. Sadly doggy day care wouldn’t work for the few instance we pop out for a couple of hours here and there at the weekend. I don’t know of any you can just drop them off for a couple of hours on a Saturday or Sunday.
She also wouldn’t do well at daycare as she’s reactive around other dogs due to her troubled past.

You don’t help dogs overcome separation anxiety by leaving them all the time for hours on end.

You just rescued a dog you can’t care for properly. You took it from one cruel situation and put it in a slightly less cruel situation!

Can you two stop going on? I suspect you’ve both made your points enough times now.

I can reply as much as I like.
Skip it if you don’t want to read it, Jesus.

any news? I think if you frame it as a I'm concerned for your dog rather than a your dog is annoying theu might respond better

We have plenty of techniques recommended by her behaviourist that we practice with her to reduce her anxiety when we go out from time to time. We’ve had her for 4 years now and it comes and goes but is actually worse when we haven’t been out for a while.

I’d hate to think of what had happened to her if we hadn’t have rescued her.

Good god @MinionsHooray give it a rest.

Me being a dog nut I'd go and get it and bring it into my house/garden

This makes me rage, what is wrong with people?! Call the RSPCA it's too hot for the dog to be left outside in this heat.
What absolute selfish twats

That’s so unfair and inconsiderate on the neighbours and the dog. I really feel you it would send me batty.

I used to live behind a house that did this, I’m not joking they worked 7 days a week every week, and left the dogs to their own devices outside everytime they went to work. Even if I washed up in my kitchen with the doors and windows shut, when the cutlery went into the drainage tray and they clanked it set the dogs off (if they weren’t barking already).

sitting outside on the patio was a thing of the past, friends would ask to sit inside as they couldn’t cope with it and nor could we.

knocked on their door when they got home and they wouldn’t answer the door. Eventually I got in touch with the agent that let the property, landlord wasn’t aware there were dogs there.

we all work hard and want to go home to peace and relax, to have a yapping dog is really stressful. I really wish people would truly consider having a social animal when they constantly leave it home alone.

also if you live in a semi / terraced home your neighbours will hear the dog, generally the older the house the more they hear especially houses 70’s to 30’s. We have a 40-50’s house and they might aswell move in.

My entire neighborhood resounds to the interminable barking of dozens of dogs from morn till night. I’m completely frazzled by it. There are dogs both sides of me and two dogs directly opposite, plus dogs constantly being walked up and down outside front and back. They all set each other off and it’s the early morning dog walking barkers that usually wake me up before 7am. I wish to god they’d bring back dog licenses and make them extremely expensive.

I would record the dogs barking and show your neighbours what you are putting up with.

Disgusting! Why do people have dogs if they can't look after them. Do they not realise pet theft is on the rise !

Sorry, haven't RTFT but do they know the dog barks? Maybe not if no one had told them.

How does that help the poor dog?

If you did that to my dog it would run in the roads like a maniac and get itself killed as I suspect most dogs would. Not good advice.

Not on at all, put in a complaint on council site. I know someone who did this and it dealt with quickly, also anything else to help but to help poor dog. X

I take it you’ve never owned a dog if you think sending a dog to their death on busy roads is good advice. Most dogs don’t have any sense.