Barking dog makes life hell
09-May-2008
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I am fed up with barking dogs.  Why is it that some people just don't care about others and in particular they don't give a second thought to how their pets may affect their neighbours?  Some of us just want a bit of peace and quiet and I don't think that it's too much to ask for.

I live in a fairly small town, on the edges of it really. In the winter, it is pretty much bliss for me.  Quiet, peaceful, and very little noise.  It is exactly what I want and the reason I moved here in the first place.  Three of the neighbours immediately surrounding us have large dogs. One family has two of them.  The guy with the two dogs has well trained animals and obviously cares that they don't annoy other people.  If they are out in the garden, with a word, he can have them stop barking.

Dog shut outside all day just barks constantly...

The other two folk, as soon as the better weather comes around their dogs get shut outside in the garden.  One of the guys has his dog shut outside all day while he is at work.  This dog just barks constantly, and I do mean CONSTANTLY!  As he sometimes heads off to work at weekends, that means the barking can start as early as 6.45am.  No long lie in on a Saturday morning for me then...  No quiet Sunday afternoons either.  If you're ill or have a headache, too bad; the barking just goes on and on and there's no let up.

Dog barking makes life hell

He knows his dog barks all day because he has been told about it.  He's too selfish to do anything about it though and that dog is just left out there to make my life a misery.  I am actually getting quite depressed that I cannot have a lazy Sunday morning or sit outside and enjoy my garden.  I have been denied these simple pleasures I'm almost longing for winter again, just so that I can have some peace and quiet!

I would say to any dog owners out there, for goodness sake if yours starts barking it's head off, please think about other people and DO something.  Don't just leave your pet out there.


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There is only one thing to do with dogs that are neglected and bark all the time and that is to report them. Report it to all and sundry. I have had hell with one of my neighbours that has a dog that barks, not just during the day but all night too. I reported them to the RSPCA, the Police and environmental health. All 3 gave me vauge and "so what" responses. So I informed them that I would take matters to the press. The police turned up in no short time and the wheels got set in motion to do something about the neanderthal and his feral pack.

Make your case long and loud. If the authorities don't do something about it, tell the local papers. They love a "my life is hell" story and local councils try to avoid them when ever possible.

Oh and George you are a sick person and need help.
*khainestar  17-Apr-2008 13:28

 
George,
I strongly suggest you seek some psychiatric help. Clearly, you have sociopathic tendencies and, in destroying those 2 innocent dogs, you have travelled way further down the path toward this frightening disorder. I certainly wouldn't like to be your next-door neighbour. Many of the world's infamous serial killers began their "careers" with the torture and/or slaughter of innocent animals.
*aer  10-Apr-2008 18:51

 
It's a tough situation, because on one hand you feel sorry for the dog being left out there and on the other hand you could quite happily sling it in the nearest canal! Yes I know, it's the owner that is at fault, but it when that red mist comes down...
*Rob  10-Apr-2008 11:34

 
Know the feeling, a neighbour over the back from me had a spaniel dog that used to bark non-stop at the garden shed, she would through out a roll onto the grass, the birds would come down, the dog would start barking again then she would come out and shout for the dog to eat its roll, it got to the point that even sitting in our livingroom we could hear it and it was very irritating, in the end my husband told her to shut her dog up or put a muzzle on it to which she replied that he should be muzzled, in the end we had to get envirnonmental health out to visit her as she obviously couldnt give a jot about the noise, she actually had the cheek to tell a pack of lies to the warden and said that her dog never barked, then a few months later, when getting on the local bus, spotted her with a friend and overheard her saying thats my neighbour from hell from over the back, I sat on the bus but my anger got the better of me and I asked her to repeat what she had just said to her friend, again she told lies, but I put her straight about her dog and why the council were called, then she said that her dog had died, to which I said well at least we will get a bit of peace, anyway, she now has a toy poodle, guess what, soon as she puts it outside its bark, bark, bark, these owners are just thick, inconsiderate and ignorant!
*exasperated  09-Apr-2008 22:51

 
shammy: the little snake is probably lying, but you can always contact Site Admin. He would be able to report this person's IP address to the police, who may be able to trace him through that.
*Nikki  09-Apr-2008 13:36

 
Poor you ... and poor dog. It sounds like he had a miserable life, left Home Alone all day. Dogs are a social species and need to be with their human pack, failing that, their own kind.
*Nikki  09-Apr-2008 13:34

 
Barking dogs can be a bit of a nuisance. I know from experience as our neighbour had one that yapped all day long from early hours until late at night and it just wouldn't pipe down. He did nothing about it of course!
*Lost sleep  08-Apr-2008 20:34

 
George...what sort of sicko are you? You cant do that to someone elses dog, actually you shouldn't be doing that to any living breathing thing. Would you do that to an ruly child? Actually dont answer that please. I have to say though, it's a pity you haven't left more info about yourself otherwise I would have reported you, you sick wierdo.
Yes its very very annoying to have a dog bark all day long, but its the owners fault, not the dogs. Why didnt you report him or something? Why did you feel it was necessary to do that?
Maybe you were at your wits end, but still do you really feel that was a justifiable action? What if the dog had been allergic to one of the ingredients, and it had died a long miserable death? At the end of the day it doesnt matter, what you done is absolutely disgusting.... I hope the big tattoed man with his 2 rotties reads this and gives you exactly what youy deserve.....you sick sick pathetic man.
*shammy  07-Apr-2008 14:35

 
Tell your neigbour if he doesn`t do anything about his barking dog/dogs,you will report him to your local dog warden with a view of getting an ASBO taken out on him....... It worked for me.
If a dog barks for more than 15 minutes, it can be classed as noise pollution.
*WRIGHTY  05-Apr-2008 11:06

 
Mistypoos what on gods good earth has dogs barking got to do with date rape drugs?
*Jue  31-Mar-2008 23:34

 
Do you do the same thing to your partner because it seems to me that you may well of used the date rape drug then pretended to be a simperthetic the body brakes this drug down to
*misty  31-Mar-2008 22:47

 
Barking dogs are an unnecessary modern luxury, but take my advice and you won't need to suffer any longer. My newest young lady and I had been blighted by two Rottweilers which had moved in next door, both of which barked in their inimitable way day and night. After a week of disturbed sleep I confronted the tattooed and shaven-headen accountant who also lived there but I was met by a wall of vituperative and threatening abuse. The next day I managed to distil some Curare from the plant Chondrodendron tomentosum and dosed a couple of small pieces of prime beef. Within ten minutes of me throwing the meat over the fence both dogs had stopped barking and the beauty of this is that it breaks down in the body so even if there is an investigation they won't find a thing.
*George  31-Mar-2008 14:14


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