I own my home and live on a small street. The house opposite is a housing association house which is in close proximity and has a couple living in it who don't work so are always home during the day and they have a couple of pet dogs. As they are always home, their dogs very rarely bark, same as when they leave the house.
Now this couple have been baby sitting other peoples dogs (usually 2 of them at a time, soemtimes more) So that makes 4 dogs + that this couple regularly have in the house and this is when the bothersome behaviour starts.
They bark quite a lot whenever there is outside noise when the couple are in but as soon as the couple go out, they bark and howl non stop until they come home. As you can imagine when they bark after unsociable hours at night until the early hours, it is rather stressful when you have work the next day. We have to keep windows closed just to block it out and regarding that hot weather we recently had, it was awful. I have spoken to others on the street and they are fed up with it too. Luckily their next door neighbour works nights so isn't in when the dogs bark and howl non stop. Lucky them.
A couple of us have spoken to the couple directly but they just give a silly smirk back. Their face says it all really that they couldn't care less. Us and another resident reported them to the housing association as it says they are only allowed a dog by written permission and then it doesn't say anything about babysitting other people's dogs which I'm sure wouldn't be allowed. What do you think the outcome of the reports were? Absolutely NOTHING!
Still the non stop barking and howling when they are out of the house and have the extra dogs there, continues and it is getting on everyone's wicks! You can hear it through closed windows! What can we do other than put our house up for sale?
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Are they really allowed to get away with this?
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vyperboo · 16/08/2019 14:14
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