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I'd just tell the landlord to be honest. If you tell your neighbour he's breaking the rules, he's not just going to go 'oh sorry I'll just put this dog elsewhere then' is he? The landlord is the man to speak to, and the only one with any real authority and power to remove the dog (or grant you your own).
i think you are right actually, although I suppose i could leave it and let the landlord find out for himself. I 'm just not sure i could put up with the howling until then. We get inspected once every 6 months and then we don't see him again.
Our agreement said no pets but we really wanted to get a cat so we rang the agent and they asked the landlord whether we could have a cat and he said as long as we pay for the professional cleaning afterwards then he would allow us to have a cat. So your next door neighbour may have already spoken to your landlord and got permission?
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I agree, this forum seems to be full of complete spineless grassers - lame!
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No. Just speak with the neighbours. Be nice and say in no uncertain terms it's becoming a real issue for you. What the landlord doesn't know will not hurt him 
How long have you lived there? If you're pretty new and "someone" suddenly starts being a narc, you're going to have some unhappy neighbours. I know I would make life difficult for you, no offence.
How long have you lived there? If you're pretty new and "someone" suddenly starts being a narc, you're going to have some unhappy neighbours. I know I would make life difficult for you, no offence.
Just a nit pick
The Czech republic isn't an eastern european country, it's actually a central european country 
Oh and tell the landlord, that or the local Korean restaurant
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No. Just speak with the neighbours. Be nice and say in no uncertain terms it's becoming a real issue for you. What the landlord doesn't know will not hurt him
How long have you lived there? If you're pretty new and "someone" suddenly starts being a narc, you're going to have some unhappy neighbours. I know I would make life difficult for you, no offence.
Your logic is flawed though, as the only way the neighbours would KNOW it was him 'being a grass' is if he tries to talk to them first. Talking to them probably won't achieve anything for the reasons I listed before.
If the landlord is told anonymously, they might suspect it's him but it won't be as obvious as complaining to them, then two weeks later of the dog still being noisy the landlord appears and says 'I'm told you've got a pet?'. It's obvious then that it's you who has told the landlord and his life WILL become difficult.
I can see exactly where you're coming from divine. It is less hassle if you just phoned the landlord. The problem is, I simply couldn't be that spineless (easy for me to say that sitting at my desk to be fair). You're assuming this neighbour is unreasonable which he may well not be. For this whole situation to end nicely, the neighbour just needs to train their dog to stop crying when they leave the house which isn't rocket science. There isn't a need to contact the landlord unless the bloke is obviously a tit and will start reprisals because of a good bit of advice. If the neighbour is unreasonable then I would have no problem contacting the landlord. Basically your problem with talking him directly would be how he would react if he was a No Swearing! and didn't take kindly to your request. You may have good reasons (personal experience) to feel like that but I find it a little spineless.
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Hahaha, do this!
I'm not a man
however I have decided to have a chat with the neighbour to tell him about the howling dog and see what develops I don't really want to tell landlord. We have all only just moved into the houses so we do have to try and get along. I'm fairly sure the landlord will find out in time.I do understand that which is why I won't involve the landlord now. I'm fairly sure that the landlord will find out anyway. our other neighbours are not the sort to keep quiet and they hate dogs, always moaning about dogs fouling the front of the houses, so much so the landlord has dug up our small gardens and put paving down. Don't get me wrong i'm happy for them to have a dog (if its not howling all day) Its just that we want one too!
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Well I would have to disagree on that one.
As for the dog comment, you sound like a Marvel character.
It's not so much an initial bad reaction but training a dog to shut up when you aren't there is a massive hassle, due to it obviously being hard to stop a dog doing something it only does when you aren't there. So the chances of them being able to resolve the problem is low, and that's besides the point it would take weeks, if not months to do anyway, all the while with the dog still being a massive pain. So in the end, something will have to be done anyway.
What you call spineless, I just view as sensible. No point letting your neighbours know you are responsible for the fact they probably have to give their dog up or move house if you don't have to, because that will cause problems, even the nicest people would probably manage to be a bit vindictive if you were the cause of them being forced into that sort of decision.
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If the dog is getting on your nerves, report it. If it doesn't bother you, i wouldn't risk the aggravation.
All that will happen is they'll have to get rid of the dog, and you'll now most likely have an enemy for a neighbour (its either going to be you or the other house, wouldn't be hard to figure it out)
All that will happen is they'll have to get rid of the dog, and you'll now most likely have an enemy for a neighbour (its either going to be you or the other house, wouldn't be hard to figure it out)
I'd just tell the neightbour straight that they need to train their dog to be quiet when they're out. My dog used to bark all the time when i was out, of cause i didn't know the extent of the problems as i wasn't there, and she saw good as gold when i was home with her.
i REALLY didn't appreciate a neighbour storming round getting in my face telling me she'd been disturbing the whole street all day for the last few months.
Once i knew, i could do something about it. Problem solved, if neighbours talked to eachother, we'd all have far less problems.
Go round there, let them know what the score is, make it clear it's causing your problems, without getting aggressive with them, if it keeps up (remember its not something they can solve over night) go round again and tell then you feel you'll have to report them too the coucil.
On the other hand, if its more a case of 'they've got a dog and we've not, its sooooo unfair' i think someone needs to grow up a little.
i REALLY didn't appreciate a neighbour storming round getting in my face telling me she'd been disturbing the whole street all day for the last few months.
Once i knew, i could do something about it. Problem solved, if neighbours talked to eachother, we'd all have far less problems.
Go round there, let them know what the score is, make it clear it's causing your problems, without getting aggressive with them, if it keeps up (remember its not something they can solve over night) go round again and tell then you feel you'll have to report them too the coucil.
On the other hand, if its more a case of 'they've got a dog and we've not, its sooooo unfair' i think someone needs to grow up a little.