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Neighbor's barking dog
Calling all little dog owners! I need help.
My neighbor got a little Silkie about 6 months ago. It is a very cute dog but is driving me crazy. It barks all of the time and, once started, never stops. My neighbors ignore it. It's like they don't hear it. They leave it on the back deck and it barks at nothing for extended periods of time. They are very inconsiderate about the timing too. I hate waking up at 6am to this. Part of the prob is they let it on the deck to do #1&2 instead of walking it across the street to the grassy area. They are also lazy neighbors...
I used to have a good relationship with this neighbor but it has gone south. I admit "yelling" out the window once or twice for it to hush. My patience are gone. How do I get the dog to stop barking? Do I leave a note? Do I call our homeowners assoc? do I call animal control? I don't want to be any ruder than I might have been already (embarassed) but this is seriously driving me bonkers.
Re: Neighbor's barking dog
The poor thing is probably lonely and bored silly.
You also can't leave a puppy --- OR a dog --- unattended at all for any length of time; anything can happen.
You need to talk to the neighbor.
And if nothing transpires after that, animal control.
That poor doggus can also do with some puppy obedience training, as well as some proper housebreaking training. IF they don't nip this in the bud now, that doggie will have a myriad of problems all around. GL.
The house we previously lived in, we had SEVERAL neighbors that left their dogs outside all day or all night. I Googled the city I live in and "animal", "noise", "bark" "nuisance", etc and found the city's page animal control page. It gave me the phone numbers I could call (it might've just been the policy department, I can't remember now). At least in my city, it also told me to document the dates/times I'd heard the dog barking and if I'd ever said anything to the homeowner, and they'd include all that in their report.
In my case, I never did call it in because there were so many dogs in the neighborhood barking, I never knew which dog it was at which time. But since you know exactly where it's happening, you won't have that problem. GL! I didn't get a good night's sleep the whole two years we lived there!
I think you have gotten some good advice here.
I don't have much to add except that I had a neighbor dog like that once. My inner B** really wanted to squirt the white dog with colored water. But I realize that would hardly teach the owners a lesson and the poor dog doesn't really deserve that.
He'd leave the dogs out all day -- including the puppy -- and they'd bark. He was fool enough to leave the puppy milk to drink.
Animal control would take the dogs away then return them, then take them again. Go figure.