To put anonymous letter through neighbours door about their dog

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A neighbour has a little dog that barks all day, for ages.
Starts at about 6am. Runs outside, barks for about 5 minutes solid.
Will happen throughout the day, including if anyone walks past, pulls up, if anyone has a delivery, if anyone goes to their car or bin. Usually does it's last round of barking at about 10 - 10.30pm. Barks when leaving for walks and when arriving back from walks.

It's been grinding on me for a while but is now seriously pissing me off. I'm not sure if they're blind to it. It isn't one or two barks and will go on for minutes at a time. When they first got this dog they'd occasionally say "no" or "stop" (which obviously didn't work) but I am not sure if they have made any other attempts to do anything about this.

I am dreadful with any sort of confrontation and would prefer to put an anonymous note through the door, saying I am not sure if they realise the frequency of the barking and is there anything they could do to please reduce this.

I also really feel for the dog as it must be constantly on edge.

WIBU to do this? I don't want to report to the council.

Sorry you had to deal with this but very good on you putting that note through!

My own dog is fine ,not a barker , but I did get an anonymous letter from someone in a street where I used to live demanding we cut our hedge with immediate effect .
We used a garden service for that particular job anyway and he’d said not to cut when the birds were nesting .
If I had known who had sent the note ( which had a nasty tone ) then I’d have explained that .
Hedge wasn’t causing any issues with visibility because it wasn’t at a junction or on a bend in the road so I still don’t know why these people had issues

What do you suggest they do? Have the dog put to sleep? Or move? I mean dogs bark.

And posting anonymous notes is very Karen-like.

Train the dogs not to bark every time someone goes past the house etc.

Untrained dogs bark.

My neighbours dog has been barking all day, it's still going right now. They can hear it just as much as I can. They're ignorant, un-neighbourly cunts.

our neighbour mentioned our dog barking when we went out. We moved her crate to a room where she couldn’t hear our neighbours in their garden and that worked. She phrased it as her concern for the dog being okay, but I know it must have been so annoying. The barking was annoying for us too, but I hadn’t really thought about how it affected neighbours as we were just getting used to having a puppy( and our first dog). The fact that next door mentioned it made us more aware and I was glad she hadn’t let it go on for ages before letting us know. I would approach your nice neighbours honestly and just say what you feel. If they are lovely as you’ve indicated it doesn’t need to be confrontational. Good luck.

I don’t get this, our dog barks occasionally when she is tired or over stimulated and it does my head in after two to three barks, I don’t understand how dog owners can ignore it.

YANBU, but I would just go and speak to them in person. They will eventually discover the 'anonymous' note was from you and it will make the situation 10 times worse!

Considered 'risk'? 'Escalates' 'gets fractious'?

These are nice people according to the OP, not the suburban mafia!

Some dogs, despite the very best efforts of owners, are just prone to barking more. My old dog could hear a car door shut six streets away, i used to call him chicken licken because he'd act like the sky was falling. It was in his breed nature and believe me i tried everything.

The times you describe don't sound antisocial, annoying yes, but sadly for you a you problem.

Use your words. Just tell them.

Someone put a letter through the door of the house that’s garden backs onto my parents. The lady came round banging on my parents door 2 days in a row.. then was banging on the neighbours… she was REALLY angry… wasn’t even either of them that reported her

Very upsetting for you,but I don't really know what the neighbours can do about it,apart from early morning barking and nightly barking. They could put it on a lead at those times. But dogs bark when people knock on the door. Dogs bark in the garden. Unless it is a puppy it will be too late to train.
As I write this ,I can hear my neighbour's dog barking in the garden. In built up areas noise is a fact of life.
But face the neighbours. An anonymous note will annoy and upset them.

This is exactly like my ndn’s spaniel, very loud and territorial, at anyone walking by or when in the back garden, including at us if he hears us through the fence. If they had trained him when he was a pup , like they do on the ‘dogs behaving badly’ show , surely he could have been encouraged away from the windows with treat training?

Would it be anonymous though? She could probably narrow it down to a few houses, bearing in mind how loud the dog barks to the annoyance of others.

You could tell the NSPCA that you think the dog is left alone all the time. The dog might be sick, and the owner not be able to afford vet bills.

You could tell the neighbour first, but you don't have to.

I think your being really sweet and considerate of your neighbour.
I think a letter worded as friendly as possible is a good way to go. Face to face is just awkward and if they may take a disliking against you too which might cause further problems. Some people do not like being told their pets are disruptive.
If nothing chances after a couple of weeks definitely report it to the council because it is really not on.
I'm in a similar situation, my 70 odd year old neighbour below me moved in last year, she bought two puppies who do not get walked, no training and mistreats them. Shes down right nasty to us and other neighbours.

@LouiseK93 how are your neighbours dogs being mistreated? Beyond not being walked as RSPCA won’t do anything about that unless their claws are overgrown and causing pain.
As neighbour is nasty you probably don’t want to speak to her about the dogs but if they’re being mistreated surely you should report her to the RSPCA? She may have regrets about the poor dogs and will sign them over.

I feel for you, and I appreciate what you’re saying about confrontation. I don’t like it either.

I’ve just read the whole thread, and it felt like it was about 2/3s in favour not to do it, and 1/3 saying it was ok.

I could also tell from your posts that you were looking for validation and are holding tight to your reasons why it’s not possible to speak to them such as the working at the same place.

I don’t think anything that is said could change your mind and as it wasn’t conclusive, I think it’s likely you’re going to put up with it for the foreseeable again.

for what it’s worth, I would say a polite conversation over an anonymous letter is much much preferable.

Oh they've been reported to rspca, not just be me other neighbours have too,haven't heard back. They've been reported to their housing association too for many other things this is an ongoing situation. They basically moved in and decided to harass everyone and report us all for nothing. They're nuts.

We got an anonymous letter 20 years ago about our hedge. I'm still paranoid wondering who it was. Not a nice thing to do to anyone.

You can report it to the council anonymously though. You don’t have to give your name.

WE have a barky dog and I feel for the neighbours.You don't have to be anonymous, telephone Environment Health. You don't have to be confrontational, perhaps they are not aware.

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The dog isn't in distress or on edge. They love barking for no reason. The neighbours need to sort it out. There's little else more annoying than a yapping dog and people that don't give a shit about anyone else who lives there. I'm sick to death of dog nuttery and entitled dog nutters. Attention seeking arseholes who never train their animals nor care what destruction they cause.

You feel for the neighbours? Clearly not enough to train your dog to shut the feck up. Inconsiderate arsehole dog owners.