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Loud Neighbors & Their Perfect Pet

Hello everyone! Sorry if this post is a bit long...

My husband and I moved into our first house about a year ago and soon realized we had obnoxiously loud neighbors. We said something to them about the noise twice. The first time we were nice about it and the noise got worse. The second time we basically told them to keep it down or we would start filing noise complaints. The noise didn't stop, but did go down to a more reasonable volume that we could live with so we let it go.

Now they have a new dog, who never shuts up. He wakes us up in the morning and we will hear him through out the day, whether he is inside or outside or if they are home or not. And we haven't heard them try to quiet him once.

So my question is... Do we talk to them and risk things getting worse like before? Or should we call the local dog warden or police? We are expecting our first baby this December and I know if he wakes up our new born I will probably lose my cool with them.

Re: Loud Neighbors & Their Perfect Pet

  • I would talk to them again.  Some people are so used to the noise they don't even notice it anymore.  Unfortunately, if they don't train the dog, the dog will never know to stop.  If it's allowed to, it will.  As for the dog warden, if they aren't mistreating it, and it's not actually hurting anyone I'm not really sure what you're expecting them to do.  You could always go about it by saying, you're dog is really cute, but I noticed it's been barking a lot.  My friend (make something up) had the same problem and they took it to a trainer and it really helped.

    Sorry you're neighbors are clueless!
  • Depending on where you live, there are rules for barking. Where I live a dog isn't allowed to bark constantly for 10 minutes or more. If it does, it's considered loud noise and the police can get involved. 

    I would talk to them one last time and give them a warning, if they don't, then I would get the officials involved to deal with the situation.
  • Thanks guys! I'll have to have one more talk with them and look up what the laws are on dogs barking.
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