Neighbours gone away and left their barking dog alone at home

Mark A

Mark A

Mark A

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Our next door neighbour (in a semi detached property with paper thin walls) has decided to go away and has left their dog home alone and it is continually barking from 5am onward till the early hours. It started on Friday and it's still happening tonight, so I have a feeling they might be gone for the rest of the week. I think someone must be turning up to feed it, but have been leaving the house as much as possible over the weekend to get some peace and quiet.

We have had issues before when they used to leave it home alone while at work, but this is taking the **** now. I'm going to have strong words when they get back and if it continues i'll have to go the noise complaint route.

If I manage to catch the person that's feeding it and they can't do anything about the barking, is there anyone I can call that will come and take the dog away? I'm guessing not and I'll just have to put up with it :(. It's currently 10pm and I want to go to sleep, but all I can hear is barking :mad:.
 
They got the dog a few years back when she was off work with anxiety, so it always had company. Then she went back to work and started leaving the dog alone during the day and it was just like now with constant barking for 10 hours every day. The walls are paper thin, so it sounds just like theres a dog in our house. You can't even escape the noise outside as it follows you around and runs into their conservatory. We let them know about the barking, but it still continued and we were on the verge of making a noise complaint, but then it stopped and hasn't been too bad. They still let it out every night around 10pm and it barks outside for ages, but it's not too much of an issue.

This is the worst its ever been and I'm really annoyed they have done this when they know the dog barks when they're not in. I guess theres not really much I can do as it's not like the dogs lifes in danger or anything. I'll just have to try and catch the dog walker and see if they can do anything. At least i'll know how long we are going to have to put up with it, which I'm hoping isn't going to be all week or i'll go crazy.

Also I'm concerned about my budgie as they need 10-12 hours of undisturbed sleep and I bet he's getting hardly any at the moment :(. I hope it wont affect his health.
 
Thankfully the last two days have been totally quiet, so i'm guessing another neighbour must have complained to the dog feeder and they have taken the dog with them. I was talking with a neighbour across the road and they said someone turned up the day before and dropped their dog off, so there were two dogs barking. I'm hoping they did that in the hope that company for the dog would quieten it down and not so they could get rid of their own dog for a day...

Thanks for the replies, i'll look into the councils dog warden and RSPCA for next time, or if it starts again in the next few days. I have lived here for over 20 years, so I don't really want to make enemies of my next door neighbour as that can end up being even worse than a barking dog judging by a recent thread on here. But if the civil route doesn't work this time then I'll have to. Reading some of your stories and those online it seems to be a common problem and some have it much worse than me. I feel really bad for anyone that has to put up with this all the time as it must start to affect your mental health after a while.
 
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