@tiggywink92 wrote:
well i wish you were my neighbour:-) That is what owners should be like plus your dog isnt really left alone hardly at all. This puppy is left for 8-9 hours or more a day and its been freezing here lately so maybe its cold:-( Our golden is fantastic but..... when he was a puppy we trained him the same he hardly barked and now hes soooo quiet the guy next door asked if we still have him lol.
It's the same here, both with the dog next door and the one on the corner. Neither are allowed inside, neither have a coat and most nights are below 0 with heavy frost. A lot of days don't get to double figures. The people on the corner work and she even said to me "I don't know what he does when we're not home". Well, you DO know because I've told you and council has told you numerous times.
Next door, she has been on maternity leave for 3 years and IS home a lot of the time, but still does nothing. The only time she says anything to it is if she spots one of us outside. Most of the time it's up to us to tell her to stop, which is achieved just by calling her name. When she starts to bark at nothing, it's like she goes into a trance. You'll see her when you call her name, she gets a look on her face that looks like she's been snapped back into reality.
Wearing ear plugs is not an option and I don't see why we should have to. I shouldn't have to be disturbed while I'm sleeping to the point where I need earplugs. On the occasion where I need to sleep during the day, I've never needed ear plugs. Even when I worked permanent night shift years ago, I never needed them. Back then, I had to deal with cars, trucks, buses, trains (I backed onto the train line), kids playing next door, my flatmates child playing in the house and I NEVER got woken up by any of it. It's no different now. A few weeks back the neighbours had the angle grinder going, and electric planer, plus music thumping and I slept through the lot. Yet, the dogs start and I instantly wake up.
I shouldn't have to sit here during the day when I'm not at work with all the doors and windows closed just for a bit of peace. Most of the time at this time of year it's took cold to have them open, but we do get the occasional day over 10C where we DO like to have the doors and windows open to let a bit of fresh air in. It's impossible to do that without feeling homocidial.
If I had the leaf blower going at 8am on a Sunday, I'd have people knocking on my door real quick. Yet, dogs can bark for hours and hours on end, day and night, and very little, if anything is done about it. I honestly don't know how that dog on the corner can even make noise any more. It barks more than it's quiet, how has it not got a raging dose of laryngitis?
I don't understand why people need to have a working dog in a 500m2 back yard when they have no intention of ever walking it, or even spending much time with it. Next door is 1200m2, but since the kids came along, the dog has never been taken for a walk. Previously, she'd get walked every day, rain hail or shine.
We do our utmost to be good neighbours and make little noise. Most of the other neighbours do too. Yes, there are times when you need to make noise, like cutting the grass or some other outside stuff. You still have to live. However, some people just don't give a stuff about anyone around them. They expect you to put up with their noise and be happy with it. Well, guess what? I'm NOT. Until you have lived in this situation, where you are living in utter misery, then you have no right to judge.
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