To report next doors dogs?

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I've posted before about this. I'm sorry to revist it.

I reported neighbours in August for their dogs barking pretty much with only a few minutes in between each barking spree, then bark for another few minutes and then repeat all day. I'd tried to speak to them numerous times but nothing changed until I reported them and then silence.

Around five weeks ago they started leaving the dogs again while they went out and one Sunday after a five hour barkathon, I posted a polite note. When the neighbour got home there was a short silence before neighbours boyfriend shouted fuck off through the wall, presumably at my note.

Anyway, each weekend there's been barking, sometimes for a few hours. I understand that she needs to go out but these dogs and their welfare are her responsibility.

Today they have been left again and there's more barking for the past hour. I'm trying to concentrate on something and just want to cry to be honest.

This Christmas week that I've been off I've not really heard the dogs. I don't know if she's been away but as the dogs are barking again today I'm really in a mind to report them to the council again. WIBU to do so seeing as they've been quite since Sunday 24th December?

So every time they go quiet after you report them, it then starts again then you report again. How many times are you going to report them???

@vodkaredbullgirl the only other option is to put up with it though. It will drive me insane if it goes on.

I hate barky dogs too, so feel for you. When I was growing up we had a neighbour several doors down who bred Alsatian’s and they were always kept outdoors and were annoyingly noisy.

I think you need to keep logging it every time the noise becomes a nuisance and report them again as speaking to them directly doesn’t seem to be solving the problem. Having dogs isn’t a right and they need to take responsibility for them when their dogs are causing distress to others.

It sounds like the dogs have separation anxiety when left alone, or they need stimulation - that’s why they are barking.

The owner shouldn’t be leaving them for 5 hours on their own - that’s too long & irresponsible. I would be absolutely mortified if my dog was incessantly barking & disturbing the neighbours.

I’m a dog owner BTW.

If they won’t address it (they just sound like they are ignoring the situation) then I would take this to the council (the fact that they’ve sounded ‘f$ck off’ through the wall makes me think they aren’t polite human beings and chatting to them directly won’t make a difference.

Don’t waste time speaking to them again, report them. Meanwhile keep a diary of events, even the kid shouting fuck off through the wall. Your local council could send someone round with recording equipment. After that they’ll be given a warning & possibly if the dog continues to bark, it will be removed from the property. I went through this a few years ago.

The dogs do have separation anxiety. They've had the oldest dog around 12 years now and it's always been like that. She used to laugh over the garden wall that the dog would bark if it wasn't curled up in her dressing gown. She was being serious too! When she got the youngest dog in the summer, I heard her saying to the other neighbour that she had no time to train the pup out of the incessant barking it did.

I put up with the barking for 1.5 years until I felt I had no choice but to go to the council.

This would drive me bonkers. You've tried to be nice and put a note through and that hasn't worked, so I would report to the council. Make a diary of every time it happens so you have evidence for the council.

Keep reporting. They deserve it.

The dogs obviously have separation anxiety and this will need specialist help x

Yes I would report them to the council. Eventually the council will send you recording equipment to record it and take them to court.

I ended up having to report dogs over the road as they were howling all the time including the early hours waking us all up. . Took 3 reports for them to get a letter saying that I was taking them to court. The howling stopped. A

Thank you for your replies.

I will report them again. She had a behavioural trainer in just before I reported them to the council. She knows how to make them quiet but often doesn't give a shit. Whilst I don't expect her to take them everywhere with her, I do expect expect her to get help with their separation anxiety so they can be left in the knowledge they won't be stressing and barking and howling non stop whilst she's gone.

I ended up shouting shut the fuck up yesterday after one of the dogs was barking non stop. It almost has a scream for a bark. It turned out she was actually in the house as it went quiet and I heard her walking around after that. She's done that before were she left the dog for hours barking non stop and she and her sister were both upstairs. It's a fucking nightmare!

What point are you trying to make? That people should just put up or shut up?

In answer your question. She should keep on reporting it until something is done about it.

If they haven’t barked since the 24th and she’s had a trainer in it does sound like she is working on it.
by all means report it, but just decide on what outcome you will be happy with. If she is working on it (which will take time) it seems like you are pushing that she get rid of the dogs- which whilst you are well within your rights to do just remember that you do need to keep living next door to these people

I just think that she's reaching the point of not giving a fuck again. Before Christmas also the dogs were barking every weekend which is when I'm off and I like to be boring and read or watch TV in peace. She had a trainer in a while ago now and the dogs still barked after that. It was only when I went to the council and they sent a letter that she shut the dogs up.

She is absolutely beyond unreasonable and I would do anything and everything that would help to stop the noise. I would find that so unbearable I would have been crying long since! You are fully entitled to report her, what a horrible woman. Totally inconsiderate to you and to her dogs.

My friend has a dog that barks consistently at absolutely nothing. Nothing she does will make this dog stop and honestly I don’t like it at all but friend thinks because it’s only her in the house it’s ok….. I even explained re neighbours especially with 3am one hour barking sessions! Sometimes it is the owner that doesn’t care. My old dog barked at anything and if I was in the house he’d be corrected. In the end we crate trained him and he became a much easier dog. My neighbours dog never barked so whenever she did, I’d always check in on her if neighbours were out. Usually it was she wanted some attention 🤣

Even as someone who is a lover of dogs I couldn’t and wouldn’t tolerate a dog barking with the owner sat doing absolutely nothing! Keep a log and report before it drives you insane!

Have you tried ear plugs?