Don't know what to do anymore!

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Hello

We live on a small housing estate and we have people out the front of us and the back with yappy dogs. We have tried to put up with it but eventually had enough and had to put a complaint in which resulted in us being threatened. We don't feel safe to wlak down the road anymore as we have had some bad abuse. My DH has been trying to work from home and the bakring has had quite a bad impact on him. There doesn't seem to be anywhere left in this country where people don't have these little yappy dogs anymore. He can't stand the sound of bakring anymore and feels trapped in a world of inconsiderate people. He has been under the doctor for nearly 2 years with severe depression and anxiety ans a result of it. Things took a turn for the worse over christmas and he was admitted to the crisis team twice as he was trying to comit suicide on a near daily basis. I can still hear him praying every single night not to let him wake up in the morning.

We have been trying to sell the house for nearly 2 years and it is now £20k below the price of simular houses but it still won't sell. The people have been informed how bad the barking has been making him and their reply was to tell him to hurry up and get on with it. All this and the barking continues. I know it is not going to be long before he tries again. Our 4 year old loved him dearly and will miss him like crazy. Why isn't there a law to stop people buying these yappy dogs. These dogs seem to be the latest craze, just like trampolines was a couple of years ago.

I'm sorry you live near such bastards. They sound like horrible people. Try not to focus on this as the route of your problems too much though. Your husband sounds like a very sick man. Depression is a cruel and dark illness. I don't know if he is getting all the support available to him in your area. I think it would be worth you posting on the Mental Health section so that the clever people there can advise you.

My DH suffered from severe depression last year. He was very low and I wasn't sure that I would ever get him back again. But I did. He really is himself again now and I am so pleased to have him back, so it can happen!

dont blame the poor dogs, its the crappy owners

if my OH was trying to commit suicide daily due solely to this, I think i would move, if it meant giving the house up and losing money so be it - his life is more important than money surely

Oh your poor dh. That would drive me to the brink too. I have a problem with an alarm here, every fecking night, and bad insomnia due to illness. Drives me to despair.

What happened after you put the complaint in? Do they do some sort of follow up? If not, write to your mp, write to the local paper, make a noise yourself. It's antisocial behaviour and it's not on.

Can you rent out your house and rent somewhere else in the short term?

I'd consider renting the house out too.

And/or perhaps dh should look at no longer working from home if that's possible; it can be isolating at the best of times while actually having that routine of going into a workplace and seeing other people can help regain a sense of 'normality'.

It sounds horrific, but are you the only people who have complained? If it's happening 24/7, how do the owners not notice it and manage to live with it?