Ooh, my very own almost soap-operish thread.
Story is, our neighbour bought an Alsatian puppy about a year ago and since then we've be plagued by it barking continiously, now I'm not a miserable sod generally and if it barks up until say 11pm then I'll just accept it but this thing wakes the whole family up 4 or 5 times a night, last night for example we had to listen to it from 3am til nearly 7am.
After the first few months I went round to visit him, I was very polite but his attitude was "it's a dog, it barks, tough!", after another few months, my wife went round, still polite, he was very rude to her and told her near enough the same as he told me, after a few more months after nearly a week of no sleep I lost the rag, hammered on his door some time around 1.30am and we had a rather heated exchange.
He then called the Police and claimed I'd threatened to poison his dog (a lie), so a very amenable copper turned up at our house one night and listened to our side of the story, apparently the neighbour had told him all the resolutions he was going to put in place to stop the dog barking (basically admitting to the police officer that there was a problem), the police officer went on his merry way, happy in the knowledge that the neighbour was talking guff and probably a bit put out that he'd wasted police time.
We've had environmental health involved for months but they're worse than useless so I'm planning to make a complaint under section 82 of the Environmental Health Act in the local magistrates court, simple enough procedure but I need to set up some form of noise recording equipment (preferably cheaply) that'll time stamp recordings of the dog barking, I'm thinking some kind of Android app with a decent(ish) mic. wired up, anyone have any other suggestions? I'd be happy to hire something if I needed to, anything for a decent nights kip.
TIA.
Story is, our neighbour bought an Alsatian puppy about a year ago and since then we've be plagued by it barking continiously, now I'm not a miserable sod generally and if it barks up until say 11pm then I'll just accept it but this thing wakes the whole family up 4 or 5 times a night, last night for example we had to listen to it from 3am til nearly 7am.
After the first few months I went round to visit him, I was very polite but his attitude was "it's a dog, it barks, tough!", after another few months, my wife went round, still polite, he was very rude to her and told her near enough the same as he told me, after a few more months after nearly a week of no sleep I lost the rag, hammered on his door some time around 1.30am and we had a rather heated exchange.
He then called the Police and claimed I'd threatened to poison his dog (a lie), so a very amenable copper turned up at our house one night and listened to our side of the story, apparently the neighbour had told him all the resolutions he was going to put in place to stop the dog barking (basically admitting to the police officer that there was a problem), the police officer went on his merry way, happy in the knowledge that the neighbour was talking guff and probably a bit put out that he'd wasted police time.
We've had environmental health involved for months but they're worse than useless so I'm planning to make a complaint under section 82 of the Environmental Health Act in the local magistrates court, simple enough procedure but I need to set up some form of noise recording equipment (preferably cheaply) that'll time stamp recordings of the dog barking, I'm thinking some kind of Android app with a decent(ish) mic. wired up, anyone have any other suggestions? I'd be happy to hire something if I needed to, anything for a decent nights kip.
TIA.
