How can people sit in their houses and listen to their own dog bark outside?

[BandeauSally]

I don't get it. Growing up we had a neighbour with two labradors who competed with each other for volume. They barked constantly. Neighbours never went near them. Now I have a neighbour with a small dog that barks every time the wind blows. It's a high pitched yelpy yap that goes right through you. I can hear it from the front rooms of my house with all the windows and doors closed so there is no doubt the owners can hear it too but they do nothing. It is left outside 24/7 and ignored except for when it gets locked into its kennel at night (which only muffles the barking slightly) and released in the morning. How can they sit in their house, hearing their dog barking and not think "that's quite annoying, I should get him to stop" how is it not driving them to distraction like it does to me?

beggars belief
My dog barks when she hears other dogs or a pigeon dares to sit on the fence ..but I always bring her in when th barking starts ..as it drives me nuts
My neighbours who have a new dog let theirs bark for ages ..especially last thing at night .

Your neighbours sounds like they're neglecting that dog ..do you think rpca is appropriate?

We are in NI so we have to go through the council which I have already done but as the dog has shelter and water and it is being fed they said it didn't sound like a neglect issue. I asked about the noise and they said they would send someone round but haven't, not as far as I know anyway. Perhaps time for another phone call.

Poor dog and poor you..what shits your neighbours are.
Have you spoken to them about it?

Oh I can't speak to them. We've had words before and he is terrifying. I've had to have the police round to him after he tried to get in my house to have a go at me.

I just don't know how it isn't annoying them enough to do something about it.

I really don't get it. I have similar - neighbours have a lab who spends her life in a run at the front of the house and in the cold weather barked all night. Poor dog was presumably trying to tell them she was freezing. This is going on outside their bedroom window, so I don't need to go an tell them * - they know*.
(Also in NI where this is socially acceptable )