Advice on neighbour's howling dog.

Retikulan said:
So you believe that I should be taking responsibility for his dog simply because I had a free 10 minutes to make an internet post? Perhaps I should do his housework while I'm there, you know, just in case he's not responsible enough to take care of that as well:rolleyes:
I have my own responsibilities such as work, home, 2 cats, private life, car etc to take care of without adding the responsibilities of someone that seems to be shirking theirs...
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Maybe that's why you are miserable. I get on with my neighbours. If we go on holiday they will pop round and feed the cat. If I am going to the tip etc I will take some of their rubbish for them. Will always take their missed delivery etc etc. It seems to be a lost art in this country. Everyone is just angry at each other.
 
adam cool dude said:
Maybe that's why you are miserable. I get on with my neighbours. If we go on holiday they will pop round and feed the cat. If I am going to the tip etc I will take some of their rubbish for them. Will always take their missed delivery etc etc. It seems to be a lost art in this country. Everyone is just angry at each other.
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bit different to walking a dog every day because the chav concerned is too tight to pay for a dog walker...the odd favour like popping round when they're on holiday is one thing and easily reciprocated too but if you're happy to do unpaid work for your neighbour on a regular basis then more fool you as that is what taking the dog for a walk every day would be
 
Thekwango said:
that's because it's not an equal to a human being. I get that some people get very emotionally attached to their pets and I would never, ever, condone cruelty to any animal but your pet dog is not equal to a human.
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Why isn't it. If I want to treat him as both friend and an equal then that would be up to me wouldn't it?
 
adam cool dude said:
Maybe that's why you are miserable. I get on with my neighbours. If we go on holiday they will pop round and feed the cat. If I am going to the tip etc I will take some of their rubbish for them. Will always take their missed delivery etc etc. It seems to be a lost art in this country. Everyone is just angry at each other.
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No Adam, I'm currently 'miserable' because my new neighbours dog howls...a lot. My 'misery' has got nothing to do with the rest of my neighbours as I get on quite well with them and they with me, just not this new one. I do the same with missed parcel deliveries for my other neighbours as you do, and they do the same for me. If they forget to take their bin out to the street on refuse collection day then I do it for them and they do likewise. Quite how you reached that conclusion based on my complaint about one new neighbour and his howling dog escapes me.

As Dowie pointed out there's a big difference in doing the odd favour for your neighbour now and again, which I imagine almost all of us do, and doing what (as Dowie correctly stated) would be unpaid work on a very very regular basis.


GuruJockStrap said:
Firstly, I wouldn't have bothered going to speak to your neighbour. As soon as you do that, it becomes personal in the dog owners eyes. You also don't know how they will react.
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I'm wishing that I did as you suggested and not bothered speaking to him about it as every time I complain to him about the howling it stops but only for a few days then it begins again.
 
Slam62 said:
Suggest he gives you a key and take the dog for a walk.
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This is not really a bad idea! If it's just in the garden, you could offer to pop in every now and then and take it for a walk.

I'd love to take a dog for a walk - it gives you a bit of exercise, you get out a bit, you'll probably get on with your neighbour better and the dog may stop howling so much because it's getting some attention.
 
Thekwango said:
Treat it however you want a dog isn't equal to a human.
Maybe when your dog can make me my dinner, drive a car, or write his own name I'll agree with you :p
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What the? I never said they were the same
Thekwango said:
Treat it however you want a dog isn't equal to a human.
Maybe when your dog can make me my dinner, drive a car, or write his own name I'll agree with you :p
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You are, of course, right. I forget sometimes that "people" can be much worse. ;)
 
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dowie said:
bit different to walking a dog every day because the chav concerned is too tight to pay for a dog walker...the odd favour like popping round when they're on holiday is one thing and easily reciprocated too but if you're happy to do unpaid work for your neighbour on a regular basis then more fool you as that is what taking the dog for a walk every day would be
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People see things differently ways and everything has a cost associated with it. I run quite a lot with my border collie and if I was in the OP's situation I wouldn't mind. I quite happily let my daughter have friends round sometimes for several days at a time. I do not charge the parents baby sitting duties. I enjoy it because it makes my daughter happy.
 
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