Neighbour making a racket.

Quinnaay · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:13

Ok so basically, a new fella has moved in with the next door neighbour and brought along his 2 dogs (both retired, the couple not the dogs). Now she clearly doesnt allow these dogs in the house and he built a large dog shed for them to live in pretty cruel IMO but nevertheless so to the point, on a night they sometimes growl and scratch no biggie i can get over that BUT every morning between 6:30am and 7:30am the man goes out, cleans the dog poo by hosing it down, brushing the back yard, and then he feeds them outside with a scooper in a large bag of biscuits and puts the biscuits in metal bowls. Every morning he wakes me up doing this routine. Is doing this at that time acceptable or not? last week i hung me head out of the window and told him, he said sorry but still continues to do it. Whats next council complaint? and what would they do, is the problem a big enough deal for action to be made?

TL;DR new guy moves in next door with dogs, every morning cleans poo up and feeding the dogs outside making vast amounts of noise around 6:30am - 7:30am

MooMoo444 · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:15

Whos making the balls?

bitslice · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:17

Tennis is the new football, leave him alone :mad:

MikeTheNative · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:21

I would have another word with him, this time face to face. Ask politely but if he continues I suppose you could write to the council, I have no idea how quickly they will deal with the situation though.

boxman2000 · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:21

Don't think there's much you can do. As annoying as it is at least you don't have the dogs barking all day and all night!

As with all these things the best advice is to pop over and have a word man to man

MowyTone · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:24

Leave him a polite note and if that fails boxing stance / Harry enfield (OI! YOU! NOOOOOOOO!)

Retired = In the queue for gods escalator. Just wait a bit

elmarko · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:25

Show him this.

valve90210 · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:25

Quinnaay said:
Whats next council complaint? and what would they do, is the problem a big enough deal for action to be made?

In my experience (noisy neighbour playing extremely loud music at all hours) the council won't give a damn about a bit of noise and are unlikely to do anything. Environmental health probably won't care either.

MikeTheNative said:
I would have another word with him, this time face to face. Ask politely but if he continues I suppose you could write to the council, I have no idea how quickly they will deal with the situation though.

As above they won't care and won't help or do anything if they are anything like my council!

BoonMonkey · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:28

Free alarm. Get used to your new sleeping routine.

fozzybear · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:30

I'd say you're lucky to have a neighbour like that. Thank your lucky stars you don't have chav neighbours going to bed at 4am in the morning.

MikeTheNative · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:30

Wake up earlier than him and start hosing your garden so he wakes up, that will teach him.

Craspx · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:33

Buy cats. Lots of cats

elmarko · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:37

On a more serious note, 6:30 isn't stupidly early & from the sounds of it he isn't doing anything extreme.

Have you tried closing your windows or getting ear plugs?.

Conscript · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:41

elmarko said:
On a more serious note, 6:30 isn't stupidly early & from the sounds of it he isn't doing anything extreme.

Have you tried closing your windows or getting ear plugs?.

This. Unless he's hosing the garden down using a water cannon from a riot truck, I can't really see the problem? It could be a lot worse.

wordy · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:42

TBH I reckon you'll get used to it, bloke next door but 1 to me goes into his alarmed shed gets his bike out and starts it up at about 6am on a week day. After a few weeks of us moving in we got used to it and I haven't heard him since, unless I was already awake.

dacads · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:48

Offer him a game

pingwing · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:49

Burn down your house and say he did it.

'Harry · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:49

People like you make bad neighbors.

Freddie1980 · 10 Jul 2013 at 14:10

Quinnaay said:
Ok so basically, a new fella has moved in with the next door neighbour and brought along his 2 dogs (both retired, the couple not the dogs). Now she clearly doesnt allow these dogs in the house and he built a large dog shed for them to live in pretty cruel IMO but nevertheless so to the point, on a night they sometimes growl and scratch no biggie i can get over that BUT every morning between 6:30am and 7:30am the man goes out, cleans the dog poo by hosing it down, brushing the back yard, and then he feeds them outside with a scooper in a large bag of biscuits and puts the biscuits in metal bowls. Every morning he wakes me up doing this routine. Is doing this at that time acceptable or not? last week i hung me head out of the window and told him, he said sorry but still continues to do it. Whats next council complaint? and what would they do, is the problem a big enough deal for action to be made?

TL;DR new guy moves in next door with dogs, every morning cleans poo up and feeding the dogs outside making vast amounts of noise around 6:30am - 7:30am

Sorry but IMO your neighbor isn't being unreasonable.

tom_e · 10 Jul 2013 at 14:14

He's not being unreasonable, you'll get used to it. Also having dogs live outside isn't cruel, it's what they're designed for.