WHY do people put their dog out and just let it bark, bark, bark?

[taximomfor4]

This has been happening more and more lately. The houses here are very close together. THe neighbors' gate is next to my bedroom, in fact. The past few months, they've been putting the big dogs outside and leaving them there for longer and longer after they've begun barking to come back in.

So I fell asleep at 10 last night, and was awoken at 10:20 ... the dogs barking away. Till 10:40. Then this morning, Saturday, finally get to sleep in? NOPE! The dogs barking at 8am.

They have to hear the barking. It's very, very loud. WHY don't they bring them in the house when they want in, the rest of us don't love their dogs.

 

[sunnyday123]

Sometimes when my dog is outside and she barks, I don't hear her.

But I am with you, it drives me up a wall to hear dogs barking for a long period of time. I'd be making a phone call to the neighbor. You can make it sound like you're very worried because you know they would'nt just let them stand outside and bark, and maybe someone is trying to get into their house/car/shed.... call enough times and they'll think you're nuts, but they will probably also bring the dogs in!

 

[acejka]

I don't know but my stupid neighbor does the same! At 5:30 in the morning! And that is coming from a dog lover.

I let mine out and let them have fun and bark and romp, they are dogs, that's what they do, but I'm not going to do it between certain hours, I find it disrespectful and keep them quiet during the times of the noise ordinances in our county, but really it's after 8 pm and before 9 am that I keep them settled down. They go out for a quick bathroom break and a lap or two and come on back in.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

My dogs bark. I do my best to get them in as quickly as I can. Sometimes I don't hear them as I am doing dishes, busy, in the bathroom.

My dogs are not barking to come in they are barking at people or other dogs.

Early in the morning or late at night we do keep tabs on them to go out and do their business and come back in quickly.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

That doesn't bother me so much as I sleep like a rock.

What I can't stand is the neighbor who let's his lovely dog out to do it's business--int he front yard unsupervised. B/c that means it goes in MY yard. Grrrrrrr.

Sweet golden retriever. We came home last night from a musical and the dog was many houses away from their house. I'm sure people didn't enjoy me laying on the horn--but the dog would.not.budge.

They let their littel monster chihuahuas out as well. One was in my back yard (we have one spot without a fence--but really, their dog???). It was a vicious little creature and had an evil snarl whne you approached it. That was fun to get out of my yard--NOT! Nothing against chihuahuas--that one is just a holy terror.

I'd much prefer random barking than poo bombs in my yard from unsupervised dogs.

 

[georgina]

I know! I endured a barking dog for 7 years. Neighbors even went on vacation for a week and left their dog tied outside to a tree. Someone came once or twice a day to feed it, but it barked the rest of the time. We did call the cops, but there was nothing they could do, as our township has no noise ordinance. I felt bad for the dog, but I was so glad when they moved.

 

[Mermaid02]

I'd put them on speed dial and call them when they're dog is barking, "Hi Mary- I think Rex wants to come in." over and over and over again.

 

[taximomfor4]

I'd put them on speed dial and call them when they're dog is barking, "Hi Mary- I think Rex wants to come in." over and over and over again.

LOL. DH Is friendly with the neighbors, I really keep to myself. He got on facebook last night, finally. He was practicing his electric guitar for a show he will be playing in, and the barking finally drove HIM nuts.

I guess when they first started doing it (leaving the dogs out barking), it didn't bother me. But it has been getting more and more often, and for longer and longer periods of time, over the past few months that I find myself sort of cringing as soon as the barking starts, knowing it'll be for a long time. I guess it's sort of developed into a pet peeve?

The dogs are definitely just barking to be let back inside...I go stand at my window and look right down on them. They are right at the gate, barking at nothing, until finally the neighbors open the door and the dogs RUN right inside.

 

[JerseyJanice]

My dog likes to bark when he goes outside. It's like he's one of the dogs in 101 Dalmatians and is looking to communicate with the other dogs in town.

I don't let him bark and bark, though. After a minute or two, I bring him inside. He's not allowed out by himself after dark so he never does it then. (He's dying to catch a skunk.) On the weekends, the earliest I'll let him out is 9:00 a.m. During the week, he goes out around 7:30 a.m. And yes, he is very loud. Big dogs have a big bark.

 

[Duckyiam71]

My neighbors put there dogs outside every night at 9p. They are little yipper dogs. They sound like they need help so every night my golden retriever goes out her door to "talk" to them! I swear they calm down. And every night I call her in after 5 minutes and shut the door. I understand your pain when dogs bark though it is very annoying and I have 3 of them.

 

[NikiM20]

Please make sure it is the right neighbors dogs before you call in the middle of the night ( OP I know you know for sure) We got a call once about our dogs barking, except it wasn't our dogs. We were sound asleep and our dogs were too.

 

[MIGrandma]

I hate barking dogs too. We do live in the country where houses are spread apart further but the neighbors across the road from us let their dogs (a small one and a larger one) out and they bark to be let back in too. I don't get upset at the first bark, or two, or three....but to let them out at 6:00 a.m. and just leave them barking for half an hour gets tiresome. We don't hear it in the winter, with the windows closed, but if it's not hot enough for the air conditioner in the summer and we are sleeping with windows open we do hear it.

Last summer we spent a lot of time up north at our property, and there we are not awakened by barking dogs thankfully. Just squirrels running up and down the roof of the camper, and birds singing in the trees.

 

[MichelleVW]

Why??? Because people are stupid!!! I freaking hate barking dogs. I understand dogs bark because I have 3 of them. The dogs I have now don't bark to come inside, they just stare at the door and apparently I'm just supposed to Know they want in. I live in the country now so no one can hear my dogs barking, but when we lived in neighborhoods they were brought in if they barked for more than a minute or two. It's so annoying!

 

[taximomfor4]

I don't let him bark and bark, though. After a minute or two, I bring him inside.

Won't you be my neighbor?

 

[lynxstch]

our neighbor has not 1, but 2 dogs..they put them out in the morning..and those 2 bark non stop at anything, everything and nothing..they told me they were hoping that the barking would stop once they were neutered...well guess what, it didn't make a bit of difference..I walk outside my back door..they start barking...I try to fill the bird feeders..they start barking..I yell at them to stop..if the neighbors hear me, they take the dogs in..for all of 15 min...so you can hear them barking inside too..that would drive me nuts!

 

[Nancyg56]

I had a neighbor who put his dog out and then left him there all day and most of the night. That poor thing barked all day long. He barked all night long. From the crack of dawn to way late at night he barked. I don't mind dogs barking at people, squirels, kids, other dogs. I get that they are dogs and dogs will bark. I really had a problem with ignoring the dog when he clearly wanted to be let in.

 

[dislaney]

I had a neighbor who put his dog out and then left him there all day and most of the night. That poor thing barked all day long. He barked all night long. From the crack of dawn to way late at night he barked. I don't mind dogs barking at people, squirels, kids, other dogs. I get that they are dogs and dogs will bark. I really had a problem with ignoring the dog when he clearly wanted to be let in.

We must have lived near you. We finally moved from next door to someone who let their dogs do this. It's not the only reason we moved but I was so happy to live in a house with neighbors who get their dogs and bring them inside when they are barking excessively.

 

[Nancyg56]

We must have lived near you. We finally moved from next door to someone who let their dogs do this. It's not the only reason we moved but I was so happy to live in a house with neighbors who get their dogs and bring them inside when they are barking excessively.

I don't get it. Animals are not a novelty, they are a commitment. The poor thing was miserable outside all day adn all night.

OT...just an animal vent. Last night a neighbor came by to see if Dh could help a little boy who was standing gaurd over four roosters in the woods. A car drove up to the dirt road near our home and dumped them off. We have a lot of coyotes and coydogs here and these poor things would have not lasted an hour. Thankfully our neighbor has a smnall farm adn she went down, plucked them up (they were that tame) and housed them in a box stall. People forget that cute little puppies turn into dogs, purring kittens becom cats and little chickies don't stay tiny, yellow and fluffy.

 

[DisTeach1]

I don't know, but I've noticed this too. We can hear a dog off in the distance, and it just barks and barks and barks.

Next door...they have a pit bull. Now, I don't want to start a debate, but I DO NOT LIKE pit bulls...mainly because I think they are owned by unresponsible owners as a status symbol of some sort. Anyways, our neighbors 20-something son got a pit bull, and never trained it, never had it neutured, never walked it, nothing. It was just a backyard pet. I would throw dog biscuits over the fence because I felt sorry for it. At nights, during the winter, it would cry and cry because it was cold, and pit bulls don't exactly have a thick coat. It would just break my heart...We could hear him through the walls of our house. I don't know how any human could handle it.

The neighbors finally took it to the pound, because their son wasn't taking care of it. I felt bad...I'm sure it got euthanized, another victim of irresponsilbe pet ownership!!!