HELP - Neighbours noisy dogs ruining my sex life!

livEwirE

sorry 'bout the subject, just wanted some help on this and didn't know where else to post:D

Hi guys,

My girlfriend and I have a major problem with our neighbours noisey dogs. We moved into a new housing estate 1 year ago and have suffered from noise pollution ever since. The neighbour, a lady, around 35 years old lives alone and does shift work(12hour shifts). When she goes to work she leaves her two small dogs in the back garden until she returns.

The dogs bark almost constantly at absolutely nothing! There is never anyone around to bark at because its a new area. Unfortunately due to the proximity of our house we suffer from this barking on a daily basis. This also goes on at the weekend and is extremely annoying at 7am on a Sunday morning after a heavy night out! The dogs are never taken out on walks or anything so I think they are frustrated at being couped up all of the time, this is whay I think they bark so much.


I would like to know who I can complain to about this noise. Is there an 'environmental health' dept or someone like that could send out a letter to the neighbour advising them that a complaint has been recieved?


The neighbour went on holiday during the summer and left the dogs in the back garden, they were barking continuously at 4am at nothing!!! They have a shed with a dog door in the side of it which they go in and out of. I was forced to call the neoghbours father at one stage to take the doges to his house!!!


Any help is greatly appreciated!

~livEwirE~

Dave

How is it ruining your sex life though?

BoozyBabe

I thought about doing something like this a few years ago.

I contacted the dog warden from the local co co.

He said there was nothing he could do, but he could come out & see if they had licenses etc, & if not he could then take the dogs away, but for noise alone he couldn't.

I didn't go any further with it & don't know how much truth there is is what he said.

you'd imagine there'd have to be something that could be done.


P.S. Did you just mention Sex in the title to get our attention!!!!

You didn't mention it at all in the post. Seems your whole life is being affected

delly

This seems like a clear case of neglect to me and should be reported to the relevent agencies. Thread may be better suited to the Pet forum where other people should be able to give you names and numbers etc.

el tel

The dogs sound demented all right. If she lives alone, is out at work for 12 hours daily and the dogs are little then you have a number of options. I'm thinking of two in particular... but just don't get caught should you decide to *hint* 'feed them' or 'take them for a walk'. And don't tell your girlfreind either.

Miss Fluff

el tel wrote:

The dogs sound demented all right. If she lives alone, is out at work for 12 hours daily and the dogs are little then you have a number of options. I'm thinking of two in particular... but just don't get caught should you decide to *hint* 'feed them' or 'take them for a walk'. And don't tell your girlfreind either.

You can't say that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It constitutes as community noise pollution.
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/pollution/noise.htm
Doesn't sound like the poor things are being treated properly either, phone the ISPCA and see what they have to say

Angels

Ya definitely contact the ISPCA, sounds like them dogs are being neglected & the ISPCA won't take it lightly. If shes goes off on holidays & leaves them that to me is neglect i mean the OP had to call her dad how annoying is that. CALL THE ISPCA NOW!!!!

is the noise ruining your sex life is that it???

Fighting Irish

throw them in a huge bone each that'll keep them quiet, and hope ther choke on the bone

replytohere2004

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1370911

Dec. 4, 2005 — Researchers at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service in Washington state say sometimes a bark is just a bark — but a long, loud panting sound has real meaning.
They say the long, loud pant is the sound of a dog laughing, and it has a direct impact on the behavior of other dogs.





"What we found is that it had a calming or soothing effect on the dogs," said Patricia Simonet, an animal behaviorist in Spokane who has studied everything from hamster culture to elephant self-recognition. "Now, we actually really weren't expecting that."
Nancy Hill, director of Spokane County Animal Protection, admits she was skeptical at first that this noise would affect the other dogs.
"I thought: Laughing dogs?" Hill said. "A sound that we're gonna isolate and play in the shelter? I was a real skeptic … until we played the recording here at the shelter."


When they played the sound of a dog panting over the loudspeaker, the gaggle of dogs at the shelter kept right on barking. But when they played the dog version of laughing, all 15 barking dogs went quiet within about a minute.
"It was a night-and-day difference," Hill said. "It was absolutely phenomenal."
Officials say it works every time, and researchers across the country are taking note.
"The laughing sound that they make is something that was not even considered a vocalization until this study was done," Simonet said.


Those who study dog behavior have varying opinions about exactly what Patricia Simonet's "dog laughing" sound really is. What they do agree on, however, is that to other dogs, it is at least a sound worth keeping quiet to listen to.

Victor

Do you want to offer to take the dogs for a walk from time to time?

MadPatrick wrote:

Poison the bastards

Try to be vaguely constructive. Banned.

Khannie

livEwirE wrote:

The dogs are never taken out on walks or anything

Phone the ISPCA. Seriously.

National Cruelty Helpline: 1890 515 515

Mina Loy

poor doggies:(

tbh

I have a similar problem, but since we got double glazing it's been much reduced. A neighbour has three large dogs in a small garden, and they bark constantly. I really can't understand how someone can be happy to just let them bark, I'd be mortified if they were my dogs. I contacted the council, but they said they (wouldn't) couldn't do anything unless I talked to the neighbours myself first. I really don't want to do that, so just have to put up with it:mad:

Little-Devil

I would write a letter and post it to her anomymously and see what happens...after that if she is doing shift work why dont you put a CD player on when she is home and have it playing loudly or get a recording of dogs barking and play back to her:D Im sure she will get the hint:)

luckat

She probably doesn't know. How would she, after all - they're barking when she's not there!

You could get an ultrasonic anti-bark device like this -

http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/item--Bark-Free--barkfreei

- which is triggered by barking to give off a tone unpleasant to dogs.

But may I suggest that you also talk to your neighbour, and ask her to pay a local kid to bring the dogs for a walk once a day, so they have something to look forward to? She might also consider putting some kind of an obstacle course in the gardens for the dogs to play in - they sound bored.