Barking dogs (driving me mad!)

[themidimit]

Had a busy morning out and about in the countryside. Back at home, windows open, taking a 'moment' and all I can hear is a dog barking non-stop! Is this normal? Surely a dog shouldn't be barking non-stop, it must want something. How do the owners put up with this? Wouldn't it drive you mad?! Do you just get used to it? AIBU to think it's really anti-social?

Owners probably out and blissfully unaware.

Isn't that a bit cruel? It's like the animal is in distress. It's throat must be hoarse!

No you do not get used to the sound of a dog barking. I can confirm as a loving dog owner that it is an awful noise. I agree with previous poster that the owners must be out and must have locked the dogs out.

Indeed. Meanwhile, on the "Should I get a dog and leave it for 6 hours twice a week?" thread, "Install a dog door!" is one of the popular suggestions.

We have 2 houses around us (new estate, can see into their gardens) and both dump their dogs in the garden multiple times per day and they just sit and bark for 20 minutes or so while you can see the humans sitting in the house or even in the garden ignoring them not even flinching at the noise.

I always think - if I hate the noise next door, surely you'd hate living with it? But clearly not my neighbours.

@VickyEadieofThigh I suggested not getting a dog at all to those posters who said how could they possibly afford the upkeep of the dog If they couldn’t go out to work and leave the dog all day, I was treated like I’d lost my mind just because I don’t have a dog 🧐

I have a neighbour who leaves their door open constantly when they are home and their dog is out there barking all. The. Time. Including 6am and 10pm.

Other people nearby have very barky dogs and shut them outside when they're doing it, to inflict it on the rest of us and stress their dogs even more.

There's another dog up the road who had constant access to his garde through the summer holidays and would barm at lots of things, his bark is loud, carries, and most dogs in the neighbourhood are scared of him so would badk in response to his bark.

It is very antisocial and really annoys me. Personally if my dog is barking outside, I bring him inside. He only barks for a reason (usually if he wants to play or if we've missed dinner time by 20 minutes) and will stop when we acknowledge him. He doesn't bark when we are out.

It's one of my biggest pet peeves about living near other people.

Excuse my many typos.

Luckily our next door neighbours are good dog owners. I hear their boy - but it's literally a bark and they let him out and a bark and he comes in.

I’m surprised no-one had popped up yet with “dogs do bark, it’s how the communicate!”. Dogs barking is one of the worst noises and I can’t stand it 😫 my own dog likes the sound of his own voice and is never left on the garden on his own as I don’t want to subject our neighbours to it. It’s not hard to train ‘quiet’ but ime most people who own dogs haven’t got a clue about training them 🤷🏽‍♀️

It is how they communicate but there's a difference between normal communicational barking, and excessive barking levels. Excessive barking is usually because the dog is stressed, and everyone listening to it is then stressed too. I'm not sure how or why people turn a blind eye to it.