Barking dog at 11:30 PM-who to call?

[ead79]

We have a neighbor who likes to let their dog bark in at least half hour long spans of time BOTH around 11:30 at night and again around 5:30 in the morning. It drives me nuts! But I haven't called anyone about it--I try to tune it out.

 

[agnes!]

and when they forget it's out?
and when they forget to latch the doggy-door?
and when their house-sitter falls asleep and the dog is barking at midnight?
and every time you walk by?


We have neighbors who have a dog I call "DumbDumbBarksALot". If the dog is out? Day or night?...it barks. They never ever take their dogs (DogS as in they have another one who seems mute) for a walk. NEVER. Oh, but they DO have a doggy-door and when they leave for the day they don't always latch it...so DumbDumbBarksALot barks.

All Day Long.

He barks at people walking by, he barks at leaves, he barks at other animals, he barks at me when I'm out in my yard (DDBAL can't see too well out of their yard since it's fenced like Fort Knox).

Yeah, can you tell they didn't latch the doggy-door today?

agnes!

 

[sbell111]

If it was just occasional random nights of barking, I wouldn't do anything. If it happened all the time and I didn't know the owner, I would probably just complain to my neighbors until word got around to the dog owner and he took care of it.

Peer pressure works, even on adults.

 

[JanaNs]

My next door neighbor at my old address was a single lady who had a beagle and they had only lived there a couple of months and I noticed the dog howled/cried when she left him alone. She worked backshifts and one warm night in June she went to work and left the dog in the back yard all night! About 4am it woke me up with this howling....I had to work in the morning and my kids had school. I lay there for about an hour absolutely seething with anger and then got up, scribbled a note, and stomped (in my pj's) over to her door and put it on the door. The note said "OBVIOUSLY you can not leave your dog in the back yard all night when you're not at home as there are people in the neighborhood that work and go to school. He has been howling since 4am." I never signed the note. It was the last time I heard the dog through the night. I spoke to other neighbors after that night who were also kept awake by the dog. In casual conversation after that my new neighbor mentioned the note but didn't seem to think it was me! I should have worded the note a bit nicer but sleep deprivation does terrible things to me!

 

[KristineN]

When we were kids....it was drilled into our heads that you ALWAYS treat your neighbors with kindness and respect. I would never think of letting my dogs continuously bark in the day or night. BUT...would you beleive that I now have neighbors who do this??!! Day and night these two dogs are barking away. I still can't bring myself to call the police...it seems sad to call the police on your neighbors. I did talk to them....and for a while it was better. Maybe I need to do this quarterly