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to want this dog to SHUT UP

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hatwoman · 01/03/2010 20:09

he he. a dog thread with a difference. started by a dog lover/owner. no mention of poo, leads, jumping up or children. there's a dog, somewhere in my village, (don't know where, wish I did) that's been waking me up, most mornings, for the last 2 months, between 6 and 7 am. I've been known, in a fit of rage, to get myself out of bed, pull my jeans and a coat on (with nightie still on) and venture out to try and find the thing, but it shut up before I could track it down. What am I meant to do? I can't go round the village accusing asking other dog owners if they've heard it...and, tbh, I know very few non-dog owners who I could ask without seeming to accuse.

I really don't understand why it's happening. I'm 99 per cent certain it's the bark of a dog who's been let out into the garden, on its own, and is barking to be let in. ie it's a situation that can be avoided by taking the thing for a walk/not leaving it alone.

what's a girl to do? I'm hoping it will be a bit like my grandfather clock, and my body will just acclimatise to it and not wake up. that would be nice.

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bernadetteoflourdes · 02/03/2010 01:57

AK47 and night vision goggles, I found it worked a treat with the poodle in Earls Court many years ago who would howl to the moon under my flat, I think she was called Bubbles RIP. Failing that you could try a Flame-Thrower. Homebase have them on special offer this week.

hatwoman · 02/03/2010 09:42

. I like dogs. It's the owner I'm after. same story this morning. as soon as it starts I wonder whether to leap out of bed and try to find it. but generally decide not to. went on for ages this morning and I reckon, had i got up straight away I might have had time to find the thing.

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sunnyshine · 02/03/2010 09:45

basically you need to find where it livse then phone your local council and ask for a noise form and each time you here it you fill in the form, over 2 weeks then send it back to them,they will then write a letter to owner asking them to stop noise and if contnues they will ask if you want listening equipment installed and they will record it for you. the letter did the trick for us.

SpicedGerkin · 02/03/2010 09:50

sunnyshine - You didn't bother to ask them to tone it down first?

OP - YANBU i'd go with bernadettes suggestion...

runnybottom · 02/03/2010 09:55

She doesn't know the owner, thats the point of the post!

sunnyshine · 02/03/2010 10:00

yes we did ask twice but was ignored! but in this case theop only needs to know where it lives and can pass details on to council

Lucyellensmumma · 02/03/2010 10:18

i feel your pain - there are two dogs that do this around here, at 6am!! it doesn't wake me and DP it wakes DD at 6am who then doesn't want to go back to sleep and its the same every day, even when we put her to bed late, its still 6am, i didnt know why until one night when she sneaked into our bed, i decamped to hers - i was woken at 6 but the fecking dog and DD slept il 8.30!!!

Im sure the owner puts it out for a wee then it wants back in.

not entirely sure where the dog lives but its getting to the point where a polite note might have to be posted through their door

hatwoman · 07/03/2010 17:24

oh gawd. I've idenitified the dog. and now I don't know what to do. turns out the owner is the guy who, when my dog looked like he was going to jump up at him(note - looked like) rather charmingly said that he'd knee him in the chest if he did. (on a subsequent occasion his dog jumped up at me, and he didn't even apologise). Also our garden backs on to his and I have, in the past, spoken to him over the wall. I hadn't realised that man-over-the-wall and threatening-to-knee-man were the same. and now he's barking-dog-owner too. If I complain it just has the makings of some awful neighbour dispute, which I'm so not interested in.

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Onlyaphase · 07/03/2010 17:29

Can you get someone else to complain instead?

elmofan · 07/03/2010 17:36

mmmm i can see your point he sounds like a charmer i would ask him to shut the dog up though .

hatwoman · 07/03/2010 17:38

I had wondered that - can't think of anyone I know well enough though.

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MamaVoo · 07/03/2010 17:56

Will the council let him know who has complained? I wonder about this as our neighbours, who are otherwise lovely, let their dogs out at all hours and seem oblivious to the barking. They will happily take them back in again if we knock and let them know that it's disturbing us, but I don't want to be at their door all the time.

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