How much dog barking do you overhear at home?

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Not from your own dog obviously!

All the dog barking around me is driving me crazy but before I go round and say something to the neighbours I need to know if I’m just being very intolerant as even though it seems like a lot to me, really I think being able to hear any barking in my house is intrusive and antisocial. I don’t remember dog barking at all growing up as a child so I’m not used to it, but we lived in a large detached house.

My current house (been here since 2021) is end of terrace in a squishy ex-newbuild development so very different.

Thankfully we are going to try and move next year anyway…to somewhere with fewer neighbours!

Wouldn’t even know my neighbor had 3 dogs. She walks them multiple times a day though and keeps quiet (doesn’t seem to allow them to yap all day)

Couldn’t care less about dogs around, much more annoying the kids screeching and the neighbours smoking weed daily!

Yes @crumpetswithcheeze I sthink it’s really odd when people claim to “love” dogs but never walk them! I know someone like this IRL and can’t understand it. Surely walks are part of dog ownership.

Semi detached. Neighbour has a dog. Probably hear their dog bark less than 5 times a year at most, usually in summer when doors and windows open. Our walls aren’t especially thick. Otherwise we don’t hear much barking other than occasional dog walkers’ dogs going past each other. Very fortunate I realise

We've several neighbours with dogs. I only hear 1 bark every so often. It's literally just for a few seconds in the morning when I think the excitement of going out into the garden for the first time that day makes him go a bit hyper.

Occasionally I hear the odd extra bark, again just for a few seconds, but that tends to be when my cat goes and sits on the fence and stares at him so I can't really complain!

I do worry about annoying our neighbours and we do try very hard to stop any barking. That said, mine barks when someone comes to the door and when we leave but he stops as soon as we get to the car. We have a dog cam and check randomly and have never caught him barking when he’s alone. Once past the boundary of the house on a walk he does not make a sound and if he goes into our garden and barks we get him straight back in so that only lasts a few seconds.

Our attached neighbour used to have a dog who whined constantly when she was left alone including overnight sometimes although we rarely heard barking. There is a dog locally who is left out at night and barks and howls but I’ve never been able to track down where it is. Someone local also has chickens with a VERY vocal cockerel…

I had neighbours with dogs before - a chihuahua for one, and then a couple more for another. I occasionally heard them in the garden or similar. I'm not opposed to dogs but I'm not massively pro them either.

Then I had new neighbours and they had 4 spaniels. They just used to howl and bark all day every day. It sent my utterly bonkers. I live in a little terraced house in a town and it is much too small to house 4 spaniels. I was so glad when they moved house.

My next door neighbour has a dog but he's not very barky. I can go days without hearing a peep out of him.

Every house round me has a dog, they set each other off in the summer sometimes, say if a cat is spotted and they are all outside. There’s also, genuinely, an evening bark…. Hate to say it ours is probably the worst, we bring her in if she’s set on a session. But we don’t just leave her barking outside all day.

None, I live in a small village with only a few neighbours, no dogs, we all have cats, so I get frequent visits from them.