Friend getting sent to court for dogs barking.

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Can someone help me please?

My friend has been in an on going battle with her housing association for 2.5 years over her dogs.

She has two- a German shepherd who is actually as good as gold (you honestly wouldn't even know it lived there until you saw it) and a small cross breed that she rescued last year.

This dog suffers from separation anxiety and will bark continuously while left alone. Friend had to work and care for her terminally ill mother so the dog can be left for a couple of hours at a time. I will stress the point that she knows this isn't ideal but is very attached to it.

Friend suffers from MH issues and has been signed off sick from work it is that severe. Me and DH have had to call the police twice in the past 2 months to send someone to check on her as we have been unable to leave work and do so.

She is totally skint, been sent a £2k bill from a solicitors who are representing her HA and can't even afford legal representation for herself.

They are seeking an injunction against her keeping her dogs.

She has left her smaller dog at her mum's for a week until she goes to court and the other dog hasn't made a squeak.

The dog needs to be rehomed. It's horrible that it has separation anxiety and is barking that much. That's unhealthy for the dog. And, as a person who's previously lived next to neighbours with barking dogs, nothing incenses me more than barking dogs, and I say that as an owner of two dogs who mean the world to me.

I know what it's like to live next to a dog excessively barking. It doesn't go to court straight away. There's other necessary steps prior to it getting that far. I completely sympathise with the neighbours and the dog who's needs aren't clearly been met.

As someone who lives in an area surrounded by barking dogs and inconsiderate owners, I'm afraid I have no sympathy. For it to get to court, it's obviously been going on a long while and your friend is just ignoring the issue and burying her head in the sand. Don't have dogs if you can't care for them and be respectful and considerate to neighbours.

As OP hasn't come back, I'm wondering if this is a reverse?

As someone who lived next door to do a dog that was left for 12 hours a day & barked nearly all of that time, that dog needs to be rehomed.

She is stressing out the dog & her neighbour's, it's not fair.
Plus now she will lose her other dog because she is not thinking straight.

She is having a tough time, yes, but she needs to get rid of the barking dog

I'm sorry but your friend should have rehired her dog. I am driven insane by neighbours dog and its one of the reasons I left shift work in the NHS. I was getting no sleep and after months of it I was going insane.

Its is awful listening to a dog so distressed it barks continually.

Are you sure it is to do with the barking though and not just that the terms of her tenancy do not allow dogs to be kept there?

Who cares? The animal is driving the neighbours nuts with the extended barking. People matter more.

If she cares for the dog and wants it to be happy then she will rehome it. If she wants to be selfish then she should pay the bill and comp to her neighbours.

I'm with the nieghbours. It's awful to live beside

Hopefully someone will come on and give advice on the legal situation, I don't know if she can argue that the other dog is quiet. And that she has dealt with the problem.