Will my neighbour ring the police on me for this

[YourZanyFox]

I know I know i'm terrible and deserve 25 to life, I'm an awful person, morally bankrupt. The heat has forced me to open all windows and all I have heard is people's shitty little dogs yapping all evening on and off. I just lost my temper, couldn't take it anymore and yelled out the window:

'take your dog inside before I take my rifle outside' and sure enough, the little shit stopped immediately.

Spare me the moral rant, I know I'm a bad person and I don't care, just wondering if I should expect a visit from the bobbies. And I have no rifle or any sort of criminal or even traffic background.

Please come and shout to Teddy next door.

Didn't your ndn notice?

I have dogs either side of me. They bark. One was having a howl yesterday for a bit. It doesn't bother me for some reason. Better than the little git that used to play the drums very badly at all hours of the day. In a terraced house.

I think we have the same neighbour..
Fucking hate yappy dogs

If yoy live in an expensive city I'd expect noise tbh. Threatening to use a rifle should result in a police visit.

By who?

Do you live in London @YourZanyFox ? Because I find the police helicopters and various sirens often drown out the sound of yapping.

I think there’s a difference between a dog reacting to something it’s heard and barking for 1/2 mins until their owner has managed to get off the toilet/out of bath/downstairs etc and get the dog back inside, and those selfish gits who just leave their dog outside to bark continuously.
We have a puppy who has just learnt how to bark and is currently discovering what is & isn’t his ‘kingdom’ to defend with his little woofs ie: he is barking whenever he hears another bark and any loud noises from the neighbour. HOWEVER I do not ignore it and he gets told no very firmly every time he does it and if that doesn’t stop him, he comes straight back in.

We were out in the garden picking fruit and next doors dogs were going raggo in their back garden, one of them was digging at the fence so i went over to have a look and tell it to sort it's act out. Then the neighbour came and shouted at me for winding her dogs up, i explained they were being annoying and digging at the fence and she said she'd encourage them to keep on barking.

And there was me without my rifle

I’m sure they won’t laugh at the idea of someone threatening to use a rifle

Trust me that would not make their evening in any way shape or form
not will they be laughing uproariously at this

My parents tell a story as gospel, that I am not convinced actually happened tbh, that involved another neighbour yelling at a dog owning male neighbour that they would tell his wife who he was shagging if he didnt shut the dog up. Dog was silenced, but wife was gone within the week!

This is hilarious, OP, and completely understandable. For a while when I was young our neighbours owned around ten Alsatians and kept them in their back garden in kennels. The noise! To this day I don't know how my mum wasn't arrested for murder (human or dog).

I have to say I laughed out loud when I read this. And the trifle idea came to mind for me too.
I feel your frustration. I have a dog and would not let him bark and disturb people in the early hours.

I live next door to both a sodding cockerel (actually I'm not sure I've heard him for a while, perhaps he fell off his perch?) AND a very barky dachshund. If I didn't myself have an occasionally extremely noisy, bangy child (ASD) I'd have a quiet word, but as it is, I mutter 'live and let live' through gritted teeth while their unwalked dog screams at passers-by, pigeons, people in gardens two fences along, etc.

We’re scared of you, you have a rifle 😂

No, good for you OP. That noise drives me insane too.

How very zany of you. I doubt you'll be visited by the police, but your neighbours will dislike you. As apparently the feeling is mutual, I suspect you don't care.

They shouldn't leave their dog outside to bark, but YAstillBU.

No. They won't call the police!

Not a stupid question though. I'm on MN and I have two rifles and a rifle range in the garden. Stop stereotyping!
Bloody stupid to use a firearm as a threat though.

I cant stand dogs.

Both my neighbours have dogs, I'm in the middle. Every single evening without fail, all the dogs are in their gardens at about 10pm. One barks, setting the other two off. This goes on for up to 30 minutes and then one side brings them in.

I can't complain, my sons autistic and can have some very loud outbursts at bedtime🤣. I do my kids bedtime, finally sit to relax and the dogs are barking 😂😂

I expect 6 police cars,2 police vans and 15 coppers will be round shortly. 😂

Dog owner here. When my dog is in the garden the moment I hear one bark I bring him inside, I refuse to be that neighbour who lets their dog bark in the garden! To be fair my dog has clicked onto this and so now very rarely barks in the garden as he know it will mean coming inside. He does like a bark at the front window when another dog has the audacity to walk past. Fortunately we live in a cul-de-sac so it’s not too often!

I have a park behind me, luckily most yapping dogs move on quickly. However my two pet hates are people who have untrained dogs who I have to listen to ‘Fido, Fido, come here Fido, no Fido, Fido, Fido… ad infinitum’ and the parents of kids playing football ‘go on jack, jack yes yes, get on, play left jack, left, left jack, go on, no, no, ref, get on, jack play right, get the ball….again ad finitum’.

If threatening with rifles was legal, I actually have a great spot with the right angle to erm. Alas. I only have a nerf gun.

Mumsnet needs a laughing emoji reaction. Loving your responses.

Have you tried tying a rope across the road - about 2ft off the ground?