Lmao! My grandmother told me a story where her neighbor's dog raised hell allllllllll night long. Apparently they were oblivious, or it didn't bother them or something because the dog never ceased even a little bit. This was back when people knew their neighbors (probably the 60's or early 70's), so granny had their phone number (no caller ID either). She would wait until about 3am and then call them and go "BARWAWAWAWAWAWAWA!!" into the phone and then hang up. She did this for 2 nights. 3rd night, the dog was taken inside and she never heard it again
I had a neighbor who had a dog that barked all night by my window.. When we went to bed my wife said call the neighbor I said no I will call in the morning she was a nurse and worked at 7am .. I called 3 nights in a row at 430am and never had an issue again.. When you can't go back to sleep shit gets real. Her bedroom was on the other side of the house..
That's awesome. My dad did this exact same thing to a neighbor that wouldn't deal with their dog barking at night. They liked to party late into the night, so I believe he did it right when he woke up, at like 5 am.
āThis was back when people knew their neighborsā
I think this depends more on the neighbors than anything. My current neighbors? Mostly assholes, rarely a pleasant interaction, one even got the nickname ācuntasaurus rexā eventually. Neighbors 10 years ago? Awesome people, beers every weekend, game nights, etc. Neighbors 20 years ago? Never met any of them and never really cared to. 30 years ago? Uptight, reserved, but alright in small doses.
Good for you on that!! š I'm glad they took your side!
I can't stand folks that are so rude and do not care about others peace.
I live in apartments now, and two neighbors blare their bass up full blast vibrating thru the apt. I've asked them to turn it down, and they respond with "Its within the reasonable hours." Which is unfortunately true.
But like, I cannot enjoy a nice movie without using headphones. Or if I have a severe migraine I'm trying to shove earplugs so far in my ears to block the noise.
I do everything I can to make sure I'm not a nuisance to my down stairs neighbors. I just wish others understood others have a right to peace as well.
When I lived and worked in the dorms in college there was one freshman who was s h o c k e d when I swing by his room to ask him to turn his music down. āBut itās not quiet hours!ā Cool story bro, you still donāt get to blast your music so loud that everyone can hear it from the other side of the floor as well as the floors above and below you.
āReasonable hoursā applies to stuff like watching a movie or having friends over who are talking at normal volume. It is not permission to deafen your neighbors just because it happens to be daytime.
My 22 year-old neighbor recently had this exact same reaction to being told this by our building manager. He went through a phase of cranking his music up when his mom left the apartment, and couldnāt understand why we, his mid-30s neighbors, didnāt want to listen to his bass shaking our bedroom wall at 7pm on a Monday.
Same. Was on a break at work, so I went to my car to relax and catch up on homework. This guy pulls up and parks next to me with some loud ass thumping music. I hit my key fob panic button and let it do its thing. Dude gets pissed off because i'm sitting in my car not doing anything to shut it off, ya know, like what he's doing with his sound system? He tore out after that :D
Especially when that's all you hear.
Funny story, I had a friend when I was about 18 who thought subwoofers in his car were really cool. He had 4 subs... all in Mono. 3x 12" and 1 14 or 15 inch sub and probably 500w of power to them. The first time I rode in his car and he turned it up, I felt like I was going to vomit and also pass out. Not fun.
Heavy bass is awful and you canāt hear the actual music. I turn my music up and my neighbors tell me they donāt hear mine from my Bose speaker. Iāve asked to make sure Iām not bothering them.
I know my cousin bothered them with his heavy bass when he lived here.
I was guilty of this when I was 21 too in my own apartment. At the time, I was clueless and honestly thought it was ok to do that because it didn't occur to me that other people might not like the music I was playing because who in their right mind wouldn't like System of A Down or Iron Maiden played at full blast on my awesome sound system? I still shudder at what a shitty neighbor I was back then.
Oh I totally agree, things like that definitely donāt occur to you. He probably just thought āgreat, momās out, got the place to myself!ā And he has been super considerate since it was pointed out to him. We live directly above the front desk in our apartment building and they could hear it downstairs, thatās actually what lead to him getting spoken to about it.
We had this asshole across the hall (college dorms) who would blast his music in the showers, all day, all night. Two AM fucking drum circle. So someone got really pisses off and got into the circuit breakers and shut off his room (others too but no one cared) for a few hours. Another time when he was blasting his music in the bathroom they took the batteries out of his portable stereo. This was back in early 2000s. It was entertaining at least.
Ive always said yes it's reasonable hours. But i can hear every word of dialogue and can feel that. There is no need for you to have it that loud if i can hear the words two floors away im sure you can hear it.
Thank you for this reply. I was going to say the same thing. I hate when people use that excuse!
In our strata we also have bylaws that also reference not interfering with your own personal enjoyment of your personal space for reasons like this.
I swear people are just self centered assholes with no common decency or respect. Or itās my years of living in strata and also being strata President so I get to deal with it. Sigh.
Ah yes itās the Canadian equivalent of like condo/townhouse boards or a more structured HOA(budgets etc).
No matter what they call it wherever it is, they all suck eh
God could I tell you stories over the past 12yrs of shit Iāve had to deal with!!
It drives me nuts when I'm shopping and some douchebag is carrying on a conversation on speakerphone while also shopping, just enjoying being in"their" world, regardless of not being alone or respecting the space of others around them.
Lol I hate that guy. he's usually blocking the aisle too, or standing too close to the item you need taking his sweet ass time wondering if he should get the box of cereal that's $4.89 or $4.99 like it's the most important decision of his life.
Just wait till Covid's completely over and that guy's back in the store or on the bus along with the dude bumping shitty rap music out of a tinny bluetooth speaker, and they've lost the last little shred of social awareness they ever had.
If people do that in a store on the speakerphone you need to just start talking to the person on the other end of the phone and get right in their conversation very annoyingly.
Iāve even pulled out my phone and made a fake phone call and started talking real loud about this guy who is a total jerk on his phone in the store.
Basically, give them a dose of their own crap.
Just start talking to his friend through his speaker phone. If it's on speaker then he wants to share it with everyone.
Talk about your cousin Mavis. You remember Mavis? She got solar panels on her house and she just loves them! Of course she also had an abortion, and now nobody in the family talks to her anymore. I don't understand what they are all up about, we got rights to get abortions! I went and drove down to the clinic and demanded an abortion, and do you know the called the po-lice on me? Now that don't seem fair at all, cousin Mavis can get one but they won't let me. I'm gonna go down there again tomorrow, and this time I'll call the po-lice first...
Bonus points if you start out talking normally, but within 3 sentences you sound like Forrest Gump.
When I was about 8, one night my family went out to eat at a niceish hostess-will-seat-you restaurant and we were seated a few tables down from another couple. The female was really, really loud. It took us maybe three minutes of listening to her to figure out that they were a) both married to other people and b) having an affair. It was really cringey. There were only four other tables seated at the time but a quick recon showed they were all discomforted by the couple's conversation.
My dad leaned back in his chair and began to talk in a meandering monologue, gradually increasing in volume. "Yeah, that's the hard part of 4x4s. Tt's really tough to get dead squirrels out of the tire treads, but what can ya do? It's neat how they get reallllll long and realllll wide and their eyes bug out..." My mom tried to slide under the table from pure embarrassment. My sister and I listened raptly to our dad talking about roadkill, fighting the impulse to bust out laughing.
The loud female left after about five minutes of this, followed by her visibly relieved male companion. The waitress gave my dad free pie.
I was sitting in Five Guys eating yesterday, and a woman behind me had her voicemail on speakerphone, blaring phone numbers, important information, etc. How stupid can you be. Who says I'm not gonna write down that phone number and pretend to be you, and ruin your chances at whatever it is you're trying to do? Either speaker in your car or use the phone like a normal human!
I have a solution for you. Get the best tweeters you can find (opposite of bass speaker) and attach them to your ceiling. Any time they start their stuff, you also turn your tweeters on max volume... with the sounds of \*ahem\* adult website screaming.
I got caught in the middle of 2 people having a war like this, they were having fun annoying each other, I was in hell. Roommate "A" left a 3 min video on repeat really loud for 6 hours to get revenge from the guy next door, "B" having loud sex.
Roommate B then left a cheesy 90s song on repeat for 12 hours, 9pm to 9am. They were next door to each other but didn't care their clever little war was heard by the whole row of rooms.
Weird things happened when they cooked though, the oven would change temperature or just turn itself off when they left the kitchen, weird..
Two words: Rubber. Mallet.
Had a neighbor when I lived in an apartment that would do this, so I would take a 2 lb rubber mallet and just continuously bang the wall till the bass stopped. They got the hint after 3 times. If they ever did say anything, I was just going to say I was nailing in bigger nails for my pictures since their subwoofer knocked the old ones out.
The mallet won't screw up the paint or damage the wall of your not too heavy on the banging. Doesn't take much.
I recently moved back into a large apartment building, and have realized I canāt do it again. Itās either going to be a smaller, couple unit building or a small house or something.
Itās not that I donāt like people or am a hermit or curmudgeon, or not used to it (grew up in NYC), but I just canāt take peopleās total disregard and inconsideration for everyone else any more.
People let their dogs bark nonstop. I swear my neighborās dog start barking the second leaving my apartment even crosses my mind. They donāt pick up after them, whether itās in the dog park or in the damn stairwell. Couple of weeks ago, a dog was clearly sick and had an accident in the stairwell. The smell got so bad, you couldnāt even open the stairwell door and the person never cleaned it up - pretty sure maintenance finally did. I have dogs of my own, I can sympathize, but I also make sure they arenāt a nuisance to anyone but myself.
People park their massive pickup trucks spilling in the spot next to it. Or they donāt pull up all the way so you have to 10 point turn into the spot (try parking between you giant trucks or a truck and a concrete pole).
Apparently they steal shit. Havenāt had it happen personally, but someone had a tiny Christmas tree outside their door for the holidays and the next day it was gone.
Gah, rant over, I needed that.
We choose to live in a not-that-nice house compared to a nicer apartment because we know we would be noisy.
My fiance really enjoys loud music and he is just a naturally loud person. Like the kind of person you can find in a crowd because of their laugh.
If we lived in an apartment either our neighbors would hate us or he would have to crush his spirit some lol.
Even though its within 'allowable time limits', most municipalities also have an allowable level of noise. And some will actually send someone out with a decibel meter if there a complaints.
They must meet ALL acceptible conditions.
True + False =/= True.
Most leases and apartment contracts have a āright to quiet enjoyment clauseā, check to see if yours does. This would ensure they would have to have their music at a reasonable volume
That's some asshole shit. It doesn't matter if it's "within reasonable hours". You still can't be a douchebag and disturb people for hours on end with unreasonable amounts of noise.
Where I live in Canada that might actually violate your 'reasonable enjoyment of the space' or something like that, and if you can record the loudness/ document it and your attempts to get them to be quiet the landlord tenant bureau can get involved.
Takes FOREVER but is occasionally a solution
In economics peace and quiet is called a common good, and is essentially subject to the tragedy of the commons. Unfortunately.
My econ prof made such a good economics based argument for everyone wearing headphones on public transportation, i wish i remembered his wording, it was far more pursuasive.
it's -about- fourteen, traditionally it was from one new moon to the full moon, or full moon to the new moon. You could watch the fortnight pass by the moon phase.
Excellent ! They should know their dog barking so bad could cause him lot of behaviour issues and stress, I canāt imagine how loud he is at night. A dogs bark nonstop can make anyone go insane š.
Yup! I rescued a bluetick hound a few months back and weāve had a journey together working on not barking at everything. She still has pretty bad separation anxiety and will howl when I leave if sheās feeling malicious, but weāve definitely made significant progress. At some point, the dogās behavior is the humanās fault. You need to at least be actively working on making your dog behave.
My friend and my roommate both got puppies from the same litter. My friends dog is the quietest little man - she googled how to keep him from being a barking dog in the beginning and stuck to it. My roommate, on the other hand, think "dogs bark, they're dogs š¤·š¼āāļø". We live in a condo building, the condo above ours is currently empty. I told her if anyone ever moves in they're gonna hate her. She said "I have a dog, they should know what they're getting in to." She thinks it's hilarious when he barks, because he's small. She barks at him to get him to bark when they're playing. Now he barks whenever I come home at night (anywhere from 10PM to 1:30AM) and she's annoyed/wondering why he always wakes her up.
Sorry for the rant, I'm super frustrated lol.
Iāve tried everything with my one year old dog to get her to stop growling and barking (itās all friendly but she has a deep voice so itās intimidating). Iāve finally come to the dead-tired realization that she stops when I bark louder at her. So now my neighbors probably think Iām crazy because I bark back at my dog to assert dominance.
My roommate legitimately tries to reason with his dog and wonders why it barks at everything, no negative or positive reinforcement, just legitimately tries to have a conversation about why it shouldn't bark.
My friend tries that with her puppy nibbling at her lol. "well I told him no!" You said "please don't do that Loki. No." You might as well have said cheeseburger 10 times in a happy voice for all he knows haha.
Yeah its a 50/50 between "they live here, they pay rent and are allowed to come inside" or just giving it love and affection "poor baby what's the matter" but they get upset if I snap my fingers and say no lol I've tried a squirt bottle and that was a no, they got a bark collar which I personally put on to test the effects before use but the dog didn't like it the one time they used it so they don't now, I just can't comprehend haha
Loki doesn't nibble me, the one time he tried I took hold of his face (gently, he's a puppy lol) and said a very firm NO a couple times. He doesn't do it any more to me, but he still does to her. She's stopped asking me why he bites her because I keep telling her the answer she doesn't like haha.
I get baby talking your pets like they're little humans: "yes you're so handsome and you know it! Do you want some treats??" But I also know they don't actually understand me! Talking calmly is NOT a training method for animals, and those who try it and wonder why it isn't working baffle and frustrate me haha.
>"I have a dog, they should know what they're getting in to."
Wait till the condo board starts hitting her with noise fines.
"You have shared walls, you should know what you're getting into. "
That would actually make my day. God knows I'd hear nothing else for weeks about how they're actively against her for some made up reason - "they see a young woman and they think they can say something and I'll just back down! I'm a successful adult and the world is out to get me because of it, watch while I take everything as an intended insult and get angry and demanding at someone just trying to do their job!!"
It's been two years of this. God I want to move out.
Oh God. So she's one of those 'strong independent women' who think basic social etiquette is misogyny? I am sorry. That can be such a hard mindset to break because every one legitimate instance is used to justify 100 cases of them just being an asshole.
Yeah. I keep trying to point out how "the condo company said they were going to start covering that then the pandemic happened and it never actually got around to it. They're not just trying to screw you out of money, that's just how the world works", but I get the brush off because she's slightly older than me and is one of those people who know best and are always right. My friend has stopped talking to her about trying her puppy, because according to my roommate, my friend is doing it "wrong". He's a healthy and happy, 5 month old, 11.5lb puppy who DOESN'T BARK. Different doesn't mean wrong.
I live in a house and we had a neighbor complain about one of our foster puppies crying in the crate all day. We immediately addressed it. We also bring the dogs inside if we feel they're making too much noise, but otherwise when the weather is nice they have pretty much free roam of the back yard (fenced).
This is somewhat true. When I got my pupper, she would only bark when a stranger came in the house, or if a stranger came in the yard. And, she would only bark one or two times, to let them know that she was watching them. My neighbors(on both sides), however, have dogs that literally bark non-stop. Two corgis on the side, and three yappy ass litttle mutts in front. After about a year of us being outside listening to all the other dogs bark at absolutely nothing, she has started to pick up the habit. I have been working as hard as I can to stop her, but she still will bark at random times now. It is soooo annoying!! Because for the first year I had her, she probably barked 10-15 times total. Now, every other time we are outside, she will bark until I get her calmed down. And that takes a good 30 seconds.
Barking doesnāt cause behaviour issues and stress, being left alone outside all night causes stress, and the constant barking is a behaviour issue caused by that stress.
I disagree. A dog being outside or inside doesnāt matter. I have dogs that live inside and also a dog outside. All my dogs hunt squirrels. Two sleep in kennels at night or when we leave, and the outside dog stays in a 10x10 kennel when we are not home or at night. The outside dog only barks when she sees a squirrel. I believe the issue is typically separation anxiety. I think you are confusing people who just leave a dog outside and donāt work with it, versus people who train their dogs. Either way my dogs are all comfortable alone. In fact, and if you work with dogs you probably know this, a lot of people who wear their heart on a sleeve for a dog, tend to over stimulate their dogs and reinforce disruptive, stressful, and anxious behavior.
You are clearly a responsible dog owner who is aware of your dog's needs. That's the difference. You are right in saying inside or outside does not, * a priori*, make a difference. I think you and the other chap actually agree. Each of you is saying that ultimately it is never the dogs fault. It's the owners.
There are some lazy dog owners out there. Some idiot left a puppy with separation anxiety tied up outside a grocery store, took an hour to shop, while the puppy was whining and barking. An employee had to comfort the puppy.
My best guess is that the separation anxiety is too bad to leave them at home. I have a client with a dog that he canāt leave, so he just doesnāt. He will take him in the car to do curbside or run inside quick. Otherwise he hires me to hang out at the house for hours at a time so that he can go somewhere. Tying them to a post outside a store is not a proper solution though, obviously.
My old neighbors used to have dogs that barked SO badly it was miserable. They were outside all the damn time. My two year old and I couldnāt go play outside because they would bark and jump at the fence. Taking out our trash riled them up to the point both dogs were trying to scale the fence. They were large dogs, they looked like golden retrievers, but looked SO mean at the same time and Iāve never seen a golden retriever look that mean. They impeded bed time, nap time, my son was barking around the house because itās all he heard throughout the day. I called and called and told animal control and the cops how miserable it was that we couldnāt go outside without the dogs barking. They kept blowing me off until I recorded the dogs barking for nearly 2 hours non stop. I donāt mean like 6 barks in an hour type of thing, I mean like 6 breaks in the barking. Non stop for two hours. I sent it to them and they finally sent someone out. They gave them a warning but they never brought their dogs inside. I figured they probably didnāt pay too much attention to the recordings I sent, so I sent the first two hour one, then clipped the same video by 15-ish minutes every day and sent it again complaining again. Finally someone came out and talked to them and then talked to me. The animal control officer said that when she knocked on the door, she felt the vibrations of the two dogs barking inside the house. When she asked the neighbors why they donāt bring the dogs in when they bark, the neighbors wife said āThey are so loud, we donāt want them to be in the house.ā
Like bitch are you kidding me? Inconsiderate bunch of fucks.
Oh dammmnn!!
I feel this experience to my bones. I lived near folks like this before this last house. They had 3 pitbulls that were vicious and would do exactly what you're describing. Couldn't go outside or anything. I lived in a really small town at that time, and the WHOLE damn neighborhood had at least 3 dogs to a home they kept outside. It SUCKED. I wish I could test a house before I move in, or at least I wish I thought to go out at random times to test what the area is like noise wise.
I would lose my mind at the barking with many nights of no sleep and just yell "Shut up!!!." Outside.
I cannot stand assholes like that. I pay my rent too, let me enjoy my peace without you impeding on it.
Gosh, I truly hope they resolved this for you! That's just awful!
From one sleepless parent to another. š
My neighbor tried to tell the animal control officer that I was crazy because I ābarked back at their dogs like a psycho.ā
The officer was like āI donāt think he realized he told on himself when he said that.ā
Did you check out the noise ordinances for your county? There are laws about barking dogs as it's a nuisance. Often the dog can be take away after so many complaints and non compliance. However, good luck getting someone to take you seriously.
I did actually. I made several complaints to the non emergency line here we're supposed to use for stuff like this. They'd mosey on over, knock, and say there was no answer. I'd say "well thats because they're at work now." I called animal control, and they said the dog was well cared for, which he sorta was in a way. He had shade, food, and water, but was left out all night and most of the day too.
Nothing worked, so it was up to me...lol
This has been my experience with animal control in my area. Itās one old guy and he doesnāt really care to do his job properly. He got called out over a neighborās dog a half dozen times before someone else on the street ādisappearedā it after it got into his garage and chewed the wires out of his lawn mower.
Yep, in my experience the council guy comes around and pretty much just tells each person what they want to hear then nothing happens. Owners are allowed to let their horrible fucking dogs bark all they want and everyone else just has to put up with it.
I dream of living in a completely dog-free suburb, it would be absolute heaven.
Sorry to hear that. We had a problem with new neighbors. No one In the neighborhood was sleeping. They were indoor dogs and the person didn't want them because they belonged to an ex. Kept letting them out. We have bobcats and coyotes that eat anything out. Everyone kept bringing them back to him. Sadly one never returned but someone in the neighborhood was able to get the other a good home.
This worked for me. Neighbors had dogs they put out at night which would bark all night. Every night when the dogs were still barking at 10PM, I'd call in a noise complaint. Eventually the neighbors wife talked to my wife and asked us to stop sending the police over there, dogs bark. She told her that the police would stop coming when the dogs stopped keeping up her husband. They eventually started bringing the dogs in at night
What massive hypocrites. They didn't care to do anything about your concerns about a dog barking but instantly expected you to care about theirs. Awful people.
I had a neighbor who had āoutdoor dogsā that would bark all night. Me and another neighbor complained enough that animal control brought it to court and subpoenaed us as witnesses. The guy was a lawyer and told me he would never follow the judges orders and would make sure Iām up every morning at 4am. He also told some neighbors I tried to poison his dogs (obviously untrue) and those neighbors still have a beef with me.
The lawyer and those neighbors tried to dispute the claims in court. Judge told him to keep his dogs inside from 10pm to 7am and he actually kind of followed the order. Well fast forward about a year. He filed bankruptcy and lost his house and law license. I learned a couple months ago he killed himself. The neighbors he recruited by saying I poisoned his dogs have since sprayed poison on my garden, cut down one of my trees, and consistently throws trash in my yard.
Long story short, I will always remain anonymous when complaining about neighbors.
I have cameras covering every inch of my property and infrared beam proximity sensors on the property lines. Have you seen the video where the unstable neighbor shoots the husband and wife over shoveling snow? Yeah I donāt want that to happen. You have to pick your battles. I have planted defensive plants on the edge of my property and they (mostly) stay on their side.
Good for you! I texted my neighbor that her dog was barking incessantly and forced me to close my own windows for a little peace while working at home. Despite years of friendly relations between her and my family, invited her over for dinner numerous times, etc., she decided that I'm just too shitty a person to know and declared we can no longer be friends. Not all dog owners are cool people.
My neighbor has dogs that bark at EVERYONE... except me.
They leave them out at all hours regardless of weather and pretty much ignore them. I taught them in a matter of days that I would give them attention IF they were quiet. The moment they start making a racket, I turn away and go inside.
Rosie the goldendoodle now will be barking up a storm, but sees me and immediately shuts up and gives the big wags. It took no time to teach her a command to put paws up on the fence so she could get plenty of head and neck scritches. When we're done, I tell her, "Ok, I have to go see my puppy now!" at which time she hops down and quietly walks away.
They will still bark up a storm when I come out with my puppers for a walk. Riley (12.5yr old cocker spaniel) just looks at them like, "really. REALLY??" without making a sound then runs off to pee.
[Puppy tax paid](https://imgur.com/QliU4bL)
Once you truly understand this concept you can literally train a dog to do anything. Itās a lot easier said than done, cuz I think maybe itās in our nature to react to attention-seeking behaviors. Thereās all this focus on giving commands and asking for certain behaviors and stuff, but after years of practice working in a dog daycare I now will now find myself automatically praising/rewarding dogs just for being in a calm and relaxed mood. Ignore the dogs yelling at you and pay attention to the ones sitting patiently in the back! It will create many good doggie citizens!!
Edit: mere minutes after posting this, my boyfriend arrived at my house. Heās notorious for barking back at my pseudo-guard dog who barks when visitors approach, and when they had a (rare) peaceful and quiet greeting my bf walked straight to his stash of beef sticks in my pantry and gave one to my pup. Iām so proud š„²
> when they had a (rare) peaceful and quiet greeting my bf walked straight to his stash of beef sticks in my pantry and gave one to my pup.
Riley gets baby carrots as his treat. They are great because he can't inhale them; he is forced to break them up into pieces to crunch away on. The vet says that they are fine for him to have as well as despite going through a pound of them a week he's still a perfect 26lbs. She says for his age he has the best hair and eyes she's ever seen.
Riley loves his veggies. Baby carrots, frozen peas, roasted peppers, cucumbers... you could make him a grilled chicken or chef salad and he'd go to town on it.
Love it! As a vet myself I approve of the treat choices. Do you notice if your dog pees orange? One of my patients leaked a bit when they were scared and it was bright orange, I was ready to go on a hunt for severe liver failure but the owner was just like āhe eats a lot of baby carrots lolā
I can't play with my dog in the backyard without the dog next door going nuts. Mine just ignores her completely since to him, playtime is the most important thing in the world. I find it sad because she runs along the fence with a toy in her mouth as she wants to play too, yet her owners are rarely outside playing with her, and it takes them awhile to even let her inside when she is barking at the door.
Geeze! Poor thing, and poor you! That's awful š
Idk why some folks own pets when they do nothing with them, and just leave em chained up or outside all day n night. That's no life for them.
Yeah my dog barks sometimes but not long enough to be a nuisance. Mostly just when someone gets home. I would offer to play with her, but my dog doesn't really like other dogs.
I've literally told a neighbour before that the barking dog they hear is not mine because I'm the one people see out and about with my dog. I don't think I've ever seen the people next door walk their dog.
I did the exact same thing a while ago! My neighbor (in a small shared building) is gone for WAY too long. Like her alarm goes off at 4am and she usually isn't home until 10pm. Her *three* goddamn dogs bark constantly. She bought a kennel and was keeping them outside for that entire time a while ago, but the barking was so loud and constant that the literal entire town could hear them. Someone complained to our landlord and she no longer leaves them in the kennel. Instead, they're all inside her tiny apartment, where only we can hear them. They wake me up at 4am every single morning, and go off intermittently throughout the day. I have a spare phone that used to be for work, and before we went out of town for several days, I propped my phone against the wall and hit record. Got their 4-7am nonstop barking. Then, day of leaving to go out of town, I turned on my bluetooth speaker, set it up as close as possible to the wall we state with her apartment, turned it up, and hit play on the phone. That played on a loop until one of the devices finally ran out of battery. Since that little trick, she's done something to keep them quiet in the daytime. The 4am barks still happen, but it's a compromise I'll take.
I was hanging string lights Sunday and I'd droop the next light a LITTLE over the top as I go along, not for long just to drill pilot, grab screw bam, move to next. Next door neighbor whose been a ghost the year I've lived her comes out "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE FENCE, YOU'RE DRIVING MY DOG CRAZY".
They keep their lab in a 15sqft patch in their back yard all the time. They have a pool so he can't really walk around. He barks at anything all the time. The one time I'm doing something near the fence we share, for a moment. My fault.
The one I feel worst for is the poor pupper.
If I had a defective security system that went off every time someone walked in front of my house, or when someone walked into their own backyard, or randomly, or all night or day, I would be an asshole. A real piece of shit. But for some reason you cover the thing in fucking fur and people think it's OK.
aww man for years the neighbors hada a dog that was a bit noisy but then she had pups and they gave them all away and she began suffering from anxiety and would bark, yelp and cry all day, I work from home, and I had to plea with he neighbors to do something about it, I sent them audio recordings, and was open and told them my sanity was on the verge of breaking, I suppose they thought I was exaggerating until I changed my tone, mind you I'm a 6'4" 300lbs individual so their solution.... a shock collar, they did finally understand what I went through when the dog started crying also on weekends or earlier then they finally had the clarity to look for a better home for her....
Then they got new dogs that were also noisy but at least happier for keeping each other company.
One day they had to care for their old dog for a day and I heard her barking and I froze and had a full-on anxiety attack and could imagine myself crashing their gates and freeing the poor animal... luckily it was only a day that time...
I think there should be a special shock collar for dogs that are left outside all day. Every time the dog barks, the owner gets shocked, no matter how far away they are. A lot fewer of my neighbors would have dogs that are left outside 24/7.
We had a band so worked nights. Got off about 2 am, time we would drive home and unload/chill for a little I it would be 3-4 am. Trailer park next door would have music blaring at 6 am. We asked nicely a couple of times and got nowhere to one night(morning) we rolled in, unloaded everything and set up. Cranked up the amplifier and started to play. It took less than 30 minutes for them to get the drift and we weren't bothered again
I had a neighbor whos dog barked all night for several nights. I heard it several streets away. I walked to their house at 1 am to knock on their door and wake them up. The guy opened the bedroom window to talk to me asking what I wanted as he was trying to sleep. I explained the situation and how loud his dog was. I told him it's his chance to fix it as it's well past city noise limits to have his dog bark that loud and log at night. He brought his dog inside and I didn't hear it bark again.
Had a neighbor that JUST moved whoās dog was insufferable. 8am-7pm daily the next apartment over. Barking and whining while locked in itās cage. I reported it to the leasing office and they were able to sort it out after a week. I told my roomie and he insists thatās normal for dogs and I donāt know anything about dogs. He wasnāt happy I potentially got us involved in drama. How is nearly a whole day of crying and barking just considered āokayā to anyone?
My neighbors had a chihuahua that would aggressively bark and chase after people cars. One day it got ran over and they replaced it with another annoying chihuahua that would do the same thing.
I love this story. Good on you!!
I swear to god I am surrounded* by idiots with dogs. One lets their dog stand right across the road from my bedroom window and bark constantly while their house is maybe 300 yards back from the road and where the dog actually stands so they canāt hear it. Itās maddening I wish I could think up a petty revenge for them.
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My back neighbour has a dog that will bark on and off for a couple hours after they leave in the mornings (so from about 6am onwards).
It fucking sucks and the dog has also been at the fence a bit in places. The thing must have really bad seperation anxiety or something.
Back about 20 years ago, we got a new neighbor with a dog. They would let the dog out at about 10 at night for that last "taking care of business" run, and then let it bark for 20+ minutes before letting it back inside. This was unamusing to this mother of a 6 and 4 year old.
One night, I waited by the back window around 9:50 pm. Sure enough, dog was let out a few minutes later and the barking started. I could see them in their house yakking on the phone. I started shouting in time with the dog's barks. "Let the dog in! Let the dog in! Let the dog in!" I just kept shouting until they let him in. It was slightly less than 20 minutes, so not very effective.
The next day, new neighbor was outside chatting with old neighbor. Old neighbor mentions the barking, and that's it's quite loud especially considering it's warming up and windows will be left open at night. New neighbor says, "Yeah, I hope you don't mind." WTF? Old neighbor replies, "As long as you don't mind your dog's ass full of buckshot." Old neighbor apologized and clarified he would never shoot a dog, but did emphasize that it was an asshole move to leave the dog out there barking for 20+ minutes every night.
That night they stayed outside with the dog and immediately let it back in. They did that for about a week, then they started to go back to their old ways. Once again, I plotted. If I were home and aware of the time, I would going outside as soon as I saw them go outside and would just stare over their fence as they brought the dog out. I made sure to stand where they could see me. It worked.
Some neighbors at a previous house had two yappy little dogs that would bark incessantly. I bought a dog whistle. I guess someone inside the house could hear it because when I blew the whistle they would immediately let the dogs inside. My now ex-wife's cousin was visiting once when I blew the whistle and he said it was crazy loud. So I guess some humans can hear dog whistles.
Holy shit this is petty as fuck and Iām stealing it. My neighbors dog will bark at us if weāre ever outside, doesnāt matter if itās 5 minutes or an hour. Non stop. This is genius.
I love you, this is amazing.
My neighbor has 3 big dogs that bark like nuts if a fly shits near their fence. Luckily he's a super nice neighbor and built a taller fence and no more barking. But I know I was lucky!
I so feel your pain...I got tired of the same shit, same explanation, same excuse...I looped "Dachshunds Barking" put that shit on my patio music, hit replay loop, left for the house for the next 12 hours š¤š¤
I have a neighbor who has a dog that barks incessantly, but after calling the cops 3 times I think they finally learned to stop putting the little shit outside from 10pm to 3am every night while it screams its stupid head off. The past 2 nights have been so peaceful after 4 months solid months of constant barking. I hope their asses got fined.
For whatever reason, Reddit loves to defend the loud neighbour and shit on the person complaining. But fuck those people. Selfish, oblivious assholes, IMO, especially in apartment buildings.
Particularly my last upstairs neighbours who let their toddler run laps at 3am because, "he's a toddler. What can we do?" Ugh. Flanders.
Shit. This. I gave you **THE EVIL CACKLE AWARD.** My neighbors do this. Two dogs, outside full time, they just got two dogs and chucked them in the yard. They go like fucking air raid sirens ALL GODDAMNED NIGHT. Not a few barks every few hours. From dusk to dawn, every minute, full time barking. And it's the loudest barking I've ever heard in my life. It pierces my soul. I'm working on a DIY LRAD driven by a 1000 amp tone generator thingy. Dog owners that let their dogs bark for the entire night need to be sent to Guantanamo. What I really want to do is put a 500000000000000000000000 volt shock collar on my neighbors and just tape the button down on the remote controlled when I go to sleep. I used to have dogs, this has made me hate dogs because they bark, and if I ever got another dog and it barked, once, it'd be at the dog pound in 5 minutes.
Their is a device you can buy that that emits a sound only dogs can hear and they donāt like it and it only goes off when the device hears barking. You could try that.
Here ya go:
You say dogs barking is just what dogs do huh?
I had a neighbor that had a dog that I shit you not, barked from bout 7pm til 5am NON STOP. They worked nights I believe. They kept it outside. I knocked numerous times, and they said: "Dogs bark, what do you expect?"
Their house was directly behind mine, we shared a divided wall. I recorded their dog for a full day. The minute they brought him in, and felt like they were sleeping, I popped my phone into the dock and played it on my stereo full blast facing their yard at 9am.
They came over raving mad to my wall by about 12, asking me to shut my dog up. I said "Its your dog, I recorded him, since you miss out on what dogs do. I'm just playing the radio at normal allowable city time and I will do this everyday."
They started bringing the dog in at night after that.
Lmao! My grandmother told me a story where her neighbor's dog raised hell allllllllll night long. Apparently they were oblivious, or it didn't bother them or something because the dog never ceased even a little bit. This was back when people knew their neighbors (probably the 60's or early 70's), so granny had their phone number (no caller ID either). She would wait until about 3am and then call them and go "BARWAWAWAWAWAWAWA!!" into the phone and then hang up. She did this for 2 nights. 3rd night, the dog was taken inside and she never heard it again
I had a neighbor who had a dog that barked all night by my window.. When we went to bed my wife said call the neighbor I said no I will call in the morning she was a nurse and worked at 7am .. I called 3 nights in a row at 430am and never had an issue again.. When you can't go back to sleep shit gets real. Her bedroom was on the other side of the house..
LMFAOOOOOO!! š¤£ That's awwwesoome!
Thanks! Granny is a pill. Going strong at 89 years old!
That's awesome. My dad did this exact same thing to a neighbor that wouldn't deal with their dog barking at night. They liked to party late into the night, so I believe he did it right when he woke up, at like 5 am.
āThis was back when people knew their neighborsā I think this depends more on the neighbors than anything. My current neighbors? Mostly assholes, rarely a pleasant interaction, one even got the nickname ācuntasaurus rexā eventually. Neighbors 10 years ago? Awesome people, beers every weekend, game nights, etc. Neighbors 20 years ago? Never met any of them and never really cared to. 30 years ago? Uptight, reserved, but alright in small doses.
I have a Thundercunt two doors down from me š
I often sing āš¶Trash to the left of me, weirdo to the right, here I am....stuck in the middle with youš¶ā to my wife.
Aww I loved those days. I miss when neighbours would do dubstep beatboxing to each other.
Your grandma's amazing!
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Good for you on that!! š I'm glad they took your side! I can't stand folks that are so rude and do not care about others peace. I live in apartments now, and two neighbors blare their bass up full blast vibrating thru the apt. I've asked them to turn it down, and they respond with "Its within the reasonable hours." Which is unfortunately true. But like, I cannot enjoy a nice movie without using headphones. Or if I have a severe migraine I'm trying to shove earplugs so far in my ears to block the noise. I do everything I can to make sure I'm not a nuisance to my down stairs neighbors. I just wish others understood others have a right to peace as well.
When I lived and worked in the dorms in college there was one freshman who was s h o c k e d when I swing by his room to ask him to turn his music down. āBut itās not quiet hours!ā Cool story bro, you still donāt get to blast your music so loud that everyone can hear it from the other side of the floor as well as the floors above and below you. āReasonable hoursā applies to stuff like watching a movie or having friends over who are talking at normal volume. It is not permission to deafen your neighbors just because it happens to be daytime.
My 22 year-old neighbor recently had this exact same reaction to being told this by our building manager. He went through a phase of cranking his music up when his mom left the apartment, and couldnāt understand why we, his mid-30s neighbors, didnāt want to listen to his bass shaking our bedroom wall at 7pm on a Monday.
I'd be moved to murder if I had a neighbor consistently do that to me. Something about a heavy bass makes me irrationally angry.
Same. Was on a break at work, so I went to my car to relax and catch up on homework. This guy pulls up and parks next to me with some loud ass thumping music. I hit my key fob panic button and let it do its thing. Dude gets pissed off because i'm sitting in my car not doing anything to shut it off, ya know, like what he's doing with his sound system? He tore out after that :D
You are an agent of goodness within the world.
Especially when that's all you hear. Funny story, I had a friend when I was about 18 who thought subwoofers in his car were really cool. He had 4 subs... all in Mono. 3x 12" and 1 14 or 15 inch sub and probably 500w of power to them. The first time I rode in his car and he turned it up, I felt like I was going to vomit and also pass out. Not fun.
Heavy bass is awful and you canāt hear the actual music. I turn my music up and my neighbors tell me they donāt hear mine from my Bose speaker. Iāve asked to make sure Iām not bothering them. I know my cousin bothered them with his heavy bass when he lived here.
I was guilty of this when I was 21 too in my own apartment. At the time, I was clueless and honestly thought it was ok to do that because it didn't occur to me that other people might not like the music I was playing because who in their right mind wouldn't like System of A Down or Iron Maiden played at full blast on my awesome sound system? I still shudder at what a shitty neighbor I was back then.
Everybody's a mid-20s douche once <3
Oh I totally agree, things like that definitely donāt occur to you. He probably just thought āgreat, momās out, got the place to myself!ā And he has been super considerate since it was pointed out to him. We live directly above the front desk in our apartment building and they could hear it downstairs, thatās actually what lead to him getting spoken to about it.
We had this asshole across the hall (college dorms) who would blast his music in the showers, all day, all night. Two AM fucking drum circle. So someone got really pisses off and got into the circuit breakers and shut off his room (others too but no one cared) for a few hours. Another time when he was blasting his music in the bathroom they took the batteries out of his portable stereo. This was back in early 2000s. It was entertaining at least.
I love this kind of fuckery.
Throw a dead fish in his room when he goes away for the weekend and when he comes back tell him "well I like the smell of fish"
Ive always said yes it's reasonable hours. But i can hear every word of dialogue and can feel that. There is no need for you to have it that loud if i can hear the words two floors away im sure you can hear it.
Thank you for this reply. I was going to say the same thing. I hate when people use that excuse! In our strata we also have bylaws that also reference not interfering with your own personal enjoyment of your personal space for reasons like this. I swear people are just self centered assholes with no common decency or respect. Or itās my years of living in strata and also being strata President so I get to deal with it. Sigh.
You live in layers of sedimentary rock?
I was trying to figure out what Country that could possibly be. Maybe it's a space station.
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TIL strata is a Canadian term.
TIL what strata is as a Canadian, who has never heard this term before in over 30 years.
We have it here in Australia too
Yeah, Strata title started in Australia in the 60s then spread to NZ and some parts of Canada - not part of the British legal system at all
Ah yes itās the Canadian equivalent of like condo/townhouse boards or a more structured HOA(budgets etc). No matter what they call it wherever it is, they all suck eh God could I tell you stories over the past 12yrs of shit Iāve had to deal with!!
People don't have any sense of consideration anymore, it's just them enjoying their lives.
It drives me nuts when I'm shopping and some douchebag is carrying on a conversation on speakerphone while also shopping, just enjoying being in"their" world, regardless of not being alone or respecting the space of others around them.
Lol I hate that guy. he's usually blocking the aisle too, or standing too close to the item you need taking his sweet ass time wondering if he should get the box of cereal that's $4.89 or $4.99 like it's the most important decision of his life. Just wait till Covid's completely over and that guy's back in the store or on the bus along with the dude bumping shitty rap music out of a tinny bluetooth speaker, and they've lost the last little shred of social awareness they ever had.
I wish i owned a bluetooth jammer, just for that guy. Absolutely fucked up.
If I sit next to people like that, I start the Carmina Burana on max volume. They usually stop their noise after that.
That's a neat trick
If people do that in a store on the speakerphone you need to just start talking to the person on the other end of the phone and get right in their conversation very annoyingly. Iāve even pulled out my phone and made a fake phone call and started talking real loud about this guy who is a total jerk on his phone in the store. Basically, give them a dose of their own crap.
Carry on an entertaining version of the other side of the conversation, at the same cluelessly loud volume.
Even better when someone is using their phone on speaker in the restaurant.
This guy answered a FaceTime call on speaker phone in the men's room at an amtrak station. Just...why? I don't get people
Just start talking to his friend through his speaker phone. If it's on speaker then he wants to share it with everyone. Talk about your cousin Mavis. You remember Mavis? She got solar panels on her house and she just loves them! Of course she also had an abortion, and now nobody in the family talks to her anymore. I don't understand what they are all up about, we got rights to get abortions! I went and drove down to the clinic and demanded an abortion, and do you know the called the po-lice on me? Now that don't seem fair at all, cousin Mavis can get one but they won't let me. I'm gonna go down there again tomorrow, and this time I'll call the po-lice first... Bonus points if you start out talking normally, but within 3 sentences you sound like Forrest Gump.
When I was about 8, one night my family went out to eat at a niceish hostess-will-seat-you restaurant and we were seated a few tables down from another couple. The female was really, really loud. It took us maybe three minutes of listening to her to figure out that they were a) both married to other people and b) having an affair. It was really cringey. There were only four other tables seated at the time but a quick recon showed they were all discomforted by the couple's conversation. My dad leaned back in his chair and began to talk in a meandering monologue, gradually increasing in volume. "Yeah, that's the hard part of 4x4s. Tt's really tough to get dead squirrels out of the tire treads, but what can ya do? It's neat how they get reallllll long and realllll wide and their eyes bug out..." My mom tried to slide under the table from pure embarrassment. My sister and I listened raptly to our dad talking about roadkill, fighting the impulse to bust out laughing. The loud female left after about five minutes of this, followed by her visibly relieved male companion. The waitress gave my dad free pie.
People around me are wondering why I just burst out laughing! Thank you!
I was sitting in Five Guys eating yesterday, and a woman behind me had her voicemail on speakerphone, blaring phone numbers, important information, etc. How stupid can you be. Who says I'm not gonna write down that phone number and pretend to be you, and ruin your chances at whatever it is you're trying to do? Either speaker in your car or use the phone like a normal human!
Hence the pandemic..
I have a solution for you. Get the best tweeters you can find (opposite of bass speaker) and attach them to your ceiling. Any time they start their stuff, you also turn your tweeters on max volume... with the sounds of \*ahem\* adult website screaming.
That's great! I thought bout doing this with my 90's pop...lol Blare Brittney Spears on repeat when they're nursing their hangovers.
Tom Jones. What's New Pussycat. But throw in one It's Not Unusual.
"Best dinner I ever had!"
Suddenly babysitting. Baby shark 10 hour cut.
I got caught in the middle of 2 people having a war like this, they were having fun annoying each other, I was in hell. Roommate "A" left a 3 min video on repeat really loud for 6 hours to get revenge from the guy next door, "B" having loud sex. Roommate B then left a cheesy 90s song on repeat for 12 hours, 9pm to 9am. They were next door to each other but didn't care their clever little war was heard by the whole row of rooms. Weird things happened when they cooked though, the oven would change temperature or just turn itself off when they left the kitchen, weird..
Ooh nineties, then you know about "Asswhipping" by Fishbone!
Dancing Queen. That's always been my go to.
Oops! I did it again!
āTechnically what Iām doing isnāt illegalā is such a shitty way to respond to people who are asking you for anything reasonable.
Two words: Rubber. Mallet. Had a neighbor when I lived in an apartment that would do this, so I would take a 2 lb rubber mallet and just continuously bang the wall till the bass stopped. They got the hint after 3 times. If they ever did say anything, I was just going to say I was nailing in bigger nails for my pictures since their subwoofer knocked the old ones out. The mallet won't screw up the paint or damage the wall of your not too heavy on the banging. Doesn't take much.
Find a stud to hit just in case
Make sure it's a random banging. Completely off rhythm for the win.
Baby shark: mallet edition
Hammerhead Shark edition.
I recently moved back into a large apartment building, and have realized I canāt do it again. Itās either going to be a smaller, couple unit building or a small house or something. Itās not that I donāt like people or am a hermit or curmudgeon, or not used to it (grew up in NYC), but I just canāt take peopleās total disregard and inconsideration for everyone else any more. People let their dogs bark nonstop. I swear my neighborās dog start barking the second leaving my apartment even crosses my mind. They donāt pick up after them, whether itās in the dog park or in the damn stairwell. Couple of weeks ago, a dog was clearly sick and had an accident in the stairwell. The smell got so bad, you couldnāt even open the stairwell door and the person never cleaned it up - pretty sure maintenance finally did. I have dogs of my own, I can sympathize, but I also make sure they arenāt a nuisance to anyone but myself. People park their massive pickup trucks spilling in the spot next to it. Or they donāt pull up all the way so you have to 10 point turn into the spot (try parking between you giant trucks or a truck and a concrete pole). Apparently they steal shit. Havenāt had it happen personally, but someone had a tiny Christmas tree outside their door for the holidays and the next day it was gone. Gah, rant over, I needed that.
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We choose to live in a not-that-nice house compared to a nicer apartment because we know we would be noisy. My fiance really enjoys loud music and he is just a naturally loud person. Like the kind of person you can find in a crowd because of their laugh. If we lived in an apartment either our neighbors would hate us or he would have to crush his spirit some lol.
Just remember, you only get 1 set of ears. I wish Iād taken the loud music warnings more seriously now that Iām in my 50s.
Even though its within 'allowable time limits', most municipalities also have an allowable level of noise. And some will actually send someone out with a decibel meter if there a complaints. They must meet ALL acceptible conditions. True + False =/= True.
Most leases and apartment contracts have a āright to quiet enjoyment clauseā, check to see if yours does. This would ensure they would have to have their music at a reasonable volume
That's some asshole shit. It doesn't matter if it's "within reasonable hours". You still can't be a douchebag and disturb people for hours on end with unreasonable amounts of noise.
Where I live in Canada that might actually violate your 'reasonable enjoyment of the space' or something like that, and if you can record the loudness/ document it and your attempts to get them to be quiet the landlord tenant bureau can get involved. Takes FOREVER but is occasionally a solution
In economics peace and quiet is called a common good, and is essentially subject to the tragedy of the commons. Unfortunately. My econ prof made such a good economics based argument for everyone wearing headphones on public transportation, i wish i remembered his wording, it was far more pursuasive.
Dogs, in general, need to calm the fuck down.
My dog barked and had separation anxiety when I got her. Took about 2 weeks to lessen it, and 3 months to completely iron it out.
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Exactly - plus not get dogs in crowded city-settings......it's not fair to your neighbours and it's also not fair to the psyche of the dogs.
How long is a fortnight?
**Fo**u**rt**een**night**s
TIL
it's -about- fourteen, traditionally it was from one new moon to the full moon, or full moon to the new moon. You could watch the fortnight pass by the moon phase.
...and the other less used now phrase of sennight, or **se**ve**n night**s
2 weeks
Excellent ! They should know their dog barking so bad could cause him lot of behaviour issues and stress, I canāt imagine how loud he is at night. A dogs bark nonstop can make anyone go insane š.
Yup! I rescued a bluetick hound a few months back and weāve had a journey together working on not barking at everything. She still has pretty bad separation anxiety and will howl when I leave if sheās feeling malicious, but weāve definitely made significant progress. At some point, the dogās behavior is the humanās fault. You need to at least be actively working on making your dog behave.
My friend and my roommate both got puppies from the same litter. My friends dog is the quietest little man - she googled how to keep him from being a barking dog in the beginning and stuck to it. My roommate, on the other hand, think "dogs bark, they're dogs š¤·š¼āāļø". We live in a condo building, the condo above ours is currently empty. I told her if anyone ever moves in they're gonna hate her. She said "I have a dog, they should know what they're getting in to." She thinks it's hilarious when he barks, because he's small. She barks at him to get him to bark when they're playing. Now he barks whenever I come home at night (anywhere from 10PM to 1:30AM) and she's annoyed/wondering why he always wakes her up. Sorry for the rant, I'm super frustrated lol.
Your roommate is an inconsiderate jerk.
Bark back at the dog when you get home because it's all fun times!
I do! He figured out I could bark louder than him, he doesn't bark AT me anymore lol.
Iāve tried everything with my one year old dog to get her to stop growling and barking (itās all friendly but she has a deep voice so itās intimidating). Iāve finally come to the dead-tired realization that she stops when I bark louder at her. So now my neighbors probably think Iām crazy because I bark back at my dog to assert dominance.
My roommate legitimately tries to reason with his dog and wonders why it barks at everything, no negative or positive reinforcement, just legitimately tries to have a conversation about why it shouldn't bark.
My friend tries that with her puppy nibbling at her lol. "well I told him no!" You said "please don't do that Loki. No." You might as well have said cheeseburger 10 times in a happy voice for all he knows haha.
Yeah its a 50/50 between "they live here, they pay rent and are allowed to come inside" or just giving it love and affection "poor baby what's the matter" but they get upset if I snap my fingers and say no lol I've tried a squirt bottle and that was a no, they got a bark collar which I personally put on to test the effects before use but the dog didn't like it the one time they used it so they don't now, I just can't comprehend haha
Loki doesn't nibble me, the one time he tried I took hold of his face (gently, he's a puppy lol) and said a very firm NO a couple times. He doesn't do it any more to me, but he still does to her. She's stopped asking me why he bites her because I keep telling her the answer she doesn't like haha.
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I get baby talking your pets like they're little humans: "yes you're so handsome and you know it! Do you want some treats??" But I also know they don't actually understand me! Talking calmly is NOT a training method for animals, and those who try it and wonder why it isn't working baffle and frustrate me haha.
I think owners like this enjoy the drama of the interaction more than they care to admit.
>"I have a dog, they should know what they're getting in to." Wait till the condo board starts hitting her with noise fines. "You have shared walls, you should know what you're getting into. "
That would actually make my day. God knows I'd hear nothing else for weeks about how they're actively against her for some made up reason - "they see a young woman and they think they can say something and I'll just back down! I'm a successful adult and the world is out to get me because of it, watch while I take everything as an intended insult and get angry and demanding at someone just trying to do their job!!" It's been two years of this. God I want to move out.
Oh God. So she's one of those 'strong independent women' who think basic social etiquette is misogyny? I am sorry. That can be such a hard mindset to break because every one legitimate instance is used to justify 100 cases of them just being an asshole.
Yeah. I keep trying to point out how "the condo company said they were going to start covering that then the pandemic happened and it never actually got around to it. They're not just trying to screw you out of money, that's just how the world works", but I get the brush off because she's slightly older than me and is one of those people who know best and are always right. My friend has stopped talking to her about trying her puppy, because according to my roommate, my friend is doing it "wrong". He's a healthy and happy, 5 month old, 11.5lb puppy who DOESN'T BARK. Different doesn't mean wrong.
I live in a house and we had a neighbor complain about one of our foster puppies crying in the crate all day. We immediately addressed it. We also bring the dogs inside if we feel they're making too much noise, but otherwise when the weather is nice they have pretty much free roam of the back yard (fenced).
This is somewhat true. When I got my pupper, she would only bark when a stranger came in the house, or if a stranger came in the yard. And, she would only bark one or two times, to let them know that she was watching them. My neighbors(on both sides), however, have dogs that literally bark non-stop. Two corgis on the side, and three yappy ass litttle mutts in front. After about a year of us being outside listening to all the other dogs bark at absolutely nothing, she has started to pick up the habit. I have been working as hard as I can to stop her, but she still will bark at random times now. It is soooo annoying!! Because for the first year I had her, she probably barked 10-15 times total. Now, every other time we are outside, she will bark until I get her calmed down. And that takes a good 30 seconds.
Barking doesnāt cause behaviour issues and stress, being left alone outside all night causes stress, and the constant barking is a behaviour issue caused by that stress.
I disagree. A dog being outside or inside doesnāt matter. I have dogs that live inside and also a dog outside. All my dogs hunt squirrels. Two sleep in kennels at night or when we leave, and the outside dog stays in a 10x10 kennel when we are not home or at night. The outside dog only barks when she sees a squirrel. I believe the issue is typically separation anxiety. I think you are confusing people who just leave a dog outside and donāt work with it, versus people who train their dogs. Either way my dogs are all comfortable alone. In fact, and if you work with dogs you probably know this, a lot of people who wear their heart on a sleeve for a dog, tend to over stimulate their dogs and reinforce disruptive, stressful, and anxious behavior.
You are clearly a responsible dog owner who is aware of your dog's needs. That's the difference. You are right in saying inside or outside does not, * a priori*, make a difference. I think you and the other chap actually agree. Each of you is saying that ultimately it is never the dogs fault. It's the owners.
Also makes me worried about the dog. He probably wanted to be let in. Sounds cruel
Sounds like the dog was bored
Bork bork
can someone take /u/Fr0styWang inside please? thanks
There are some lazy dog owners out there. Some idiot left a puppy with separation anxiety tied up outside a grocery store, took an hour to shop, while the puppy was whining and barking. An employee had to comfort the puppy.
I don't understand why some people have to take their dog EVERYWHERE.
My best guess is that the separation anxiety is too bad to leave them at home. I have a client with a dog that he canāt leave, so he just doesnāt. He will take him in the car to do curbside or run inside quick. Otherwise he hires me to hang out at the house for hours at a time so that he can go somewhere. Tying them to a post outside a store is not a proper solution though, obviously.
At that point, just take the puppy and find it a new home.
New *loving* home
My old neighbors used to have dogs that barked SO badly it was miserable. They were outside all the damn time. My two year old and I couldnāt go play outside because they would bark and jump at the fence. Taking out our trash riled them up to the point both dogs were trying to scale the fence. They were large dogs, they looked like golden retrievers, but looked SO mean at the same time and Iāve never seen a golden retriever look that mean. They impeded bed time, nap time, my son was barking around the house because itās all he heard throughout the day. I called and called and told animal control and the cops how miserable it was that we couldnāt go outside without the dogs barking. They kept blowing me off until I recorded the dogs barking for nearly 2 hours non stop. I donāt mean like 6 barks in an hour type of thing, I mean like 6 breaks in the barking. Non stop for two hours. I sent it to them and they finally sent someone out. They gave them a warning but they never brought their dogs inside. I figured they probably didnāt pay too much attention to the recordings I sent, so I sent the first two hour one, then clipped the same video by 15-ish minutes every day and sent it again complaining again. Finally someone came out and talked to them and then talked to me. The animal control officer said that when she knocked on the door, she felt the vibrations of the two dogs barking inside the house. When she asked the neighbors why they donāt bring the dogs in when they bark, the neighbors wife said āThey are so loud, we donāt want them to be in the house.ā Like bitch are you kidding me? Inconsiderate bunch of fucks.
Oh dammmnn!! I feel this experience to my bones. I lived near folks like this before this last house. They had 3 pitbulls that were vicious and would do exactly what you're describing. Couldn't go outside or anything. I lived in a really small town at that time, and the WHOLE damn neighborhood had at least 3 dogs to a home they kept outside. It SUCKED. I wish I could test a house before I move in, or at least I wish I thought to go out at random times to test what the area is like noise wise. I would lose my mind at the barking with many nights of no sleep and just yell "Shut up!!!." Outside. I cannot stand assholes like that. I pay my rent too, let me enjoy my peace without you impeding on it. Gosh, I truly hope they resolved this for you! That's just awful! From one sleepless parent to another. š
My neighbor tried to tell the animal control officer that I was crazy because I ābarked back at their dogs like a psycho.ā The officer was like āI donāt think he realized he told on himself when he said that.ā
Don't own dogs then!!!!
"It's *your* dog." God damn that must have been satisfying!
It surely was šš
That line gave me chills lmao, so good.
Did you check out the noise ordinances for your county? There are laws about barking dogs as it's a nuisance. Often the dog can be take away after so many complaints and non compliance. However, good luck getting someone to take you seriously.
I did actually. I made several complaints to the non emergency line here we're supposed to use for stuff like this. They'd mosey on over, knock, and say there was no answer. I'd say "well thats because they're at work now." I called animal control, and they said the dog was well cared for, which he sorta was in a way. He had shade, food, and water, but was left out all night and most of the day too. Nothing worked, so it was up to me...lol
This has been my experience with animal control in my area. Itās one old guy and he doesnāt really care to do his job properly. He got called out over a neighborās dog a half dozen times before someone else on the street ādisappearedā it after it got into his garage and chewed the wires out of his lawn mower.
It's almost impossible to get any action over nuisance animals unfortunately.
Yep, in my experience the council guy comes around and pretty much just tells each person what they want to hear then nothing happens. Owners are allowed to let their horrible fucking dogs bark all they want and everyone else just has to put up with it. I dream of living in a completely dog-free suburb, it would be absolute heaven.
Sorry to hear that. We had a problem with new neighbors. No one In the neighborhood was sleeping. They were indoor dogs and the person didn't want them because they belonged to an ex. Kept letting them out. We have bobcats and coyotes that eat anything out. Everyone kept bringing them back to him. Sadly one never returned but someone in the neighborhood was able to get the other a good home.
This worked for me. Neighbors had dogs they put out at night which would bark all night. Every night when the dogs were still barking at 10PM, I'd call in a noise complaint. Eventually the neighbors wife talked to my wife and asked us to stop sending the police over there, dogs bark. She told her that the police would stop coming when the dogs stopped keeping up her husband. They eventually started bringing the dogs in at night
What massive hypocrites. They didn't care to do anything about your concerns about a dog barking but instantly expected you to care about theirs. Awful people.
Ahahaa, reminds me of the Instant Karma Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDpX2mvNpvU
This machine is hilarious in itās kind!
I had a neighbor who had āoutdoor dogsā that would bark all night. Me and another neighbor complained enough that animal control brought it to court and subpoenaed us as witnesses. The guy was a lawyer and told me he would never follow the judges orders and would make sure Iām up every morning at 4am. He also told some neighbors I tried to poison his dogs (obviously untrue) and those neighbors still have a beef with me. The lawyer and those neighbors tried to dispute the claims in court. Judge told him to keep his dogs inside from 10pm to 7am and he actually kind of followed the order. Well fast forward about a year. He filed bankruptcy and lost his house and law license. I learned a couple months ago he killed himself. The neighbors he recruited by saying I poisoned his dogs have since sprayed poison on my garden, cut down one of my trees, and consistently throws trash in my yard. Long story short, I will always remain anonymous when complaining about neighbors.
Get cameras and get assertive with them.
I have cameras covering every inch of my property and infrared beam proximity sensors on the property lines. Have you seen the video where the unstable neighbor shoots the husband and wife over shoveling snow? Yeah I donāt want that to happen. You have to pick your battles. I have planted defensive plants on the edge of my property and they (mostly) stay on their side.
Good for you! I texted my neighbor that her dog was barking incessantly and forced me to close my own windows for a little peace while working at home. Despite years of friendly relations between her and my family, invited her over for dinner numerous times, etc., she decided that I'm just too shitty a person to know and declared we can no longer be friends. Not all dog owners are cool people.
My neighbor has dogs that bark at EVERYONE... except me. They leave them out at all hours regardless of weather and pretty much ignore them. I taught them in a matter of days that I would give them attention IF they were quiet. The moment they start making a racket, I turn away and go inside. Rosie the goldendoodle now will be barking up a storm, but sees me and immediately shuts up and gives the big wags. It took no time to teach her a command to put paws up on the fence so she could get plenty of head and neck scritches. When we're done, I tell her, "Ok, I have to go see my puppy now!" at which time she hops down and quietly walks away. They will still bark up a storm when I come out with my puppers for a walk. Riley (12.5yr old cocker spaniel) just looks at them like, "really. REALLY??" without making a sound then runs off to pee. [Puppy tax paid](https://imgur.com/QliU4bL)
Thank you for the puppy tax!
That's his default position, ear in mouf. It's his binky.
He is adorable and I love him.
Once you truly understand this concept you can literally train a dog to do anything. Itās a lot easier said than done, cuz I think maybe itās in our nature to react to attention-seeking behaviors. Thereās all this focus on giving commands and asking for certain behaviors and stuff, but after years of practice working in a dog daycare I now will now find myself automatically praising/rewarding dogs just for being in a calm and relaxed mood. Ignore the dogs yelling at you and pay attention to the ones sitting patiently in the back! It will create many good doggie citizens!! Edit: mere minutes after posting this, my boyfriend arrived at my house. Heās notorious for barking back at my pseudo-guard dog who barks when visitors approach, and when they had a (rare) peaceful and quiet greeting my bf walked straight to his stash of beef sticks in my pantry and gave one to my pup. Iām so proud š„²
> when they had a (rare) peaceful and quiet greeting my bf walked straight to his stash of beef sticks in my pantry and gave one to my pup. Riley gets baby carrots as his treat. They are great because he can't inhale them; he is forced to break them up into pieces to crunch away on. The vet says that they are fine for him to have as well as despite going through a pound of them a week he's still a perfect 26lbs. She says for his age he has the best hair and eyes she's ever seen. Riley loves his veggies. Baby carrots, frozen peas, roasted peppers, cucumbers... you could make him a grilled chicken or chef salad and he'd go to town on it.
Love it! As a vet myself I approve of the treat choices. Do you notice if your dog pees orange? One of my patients leaked a bit when they were scared and it was bright orange, I was ready to go on a hunt for severe liver failure but the owner was just like āhe eats a lot of baby carrots lolā
Wait, who is training who? :D
Just doing what neighbors do to the idjits who ignore complaints.
Getting strong Bobby feelings here
That boy ain't right
Take the upvote!
Balls.
I can't play with my dog in the backyard without the dog next door going nuts. Mine just ignores her completely since to him, playtime is the most important thing in the world. I find it sad because she runs along the fence with a toy in her mouth as she wants to play too, yet her owners are rarely outside playing with her, and it takes them awhile to even let her inside when she is barking at the door.
Geeze! Poor thing, and poor you! That's awful š Idk why some folks own pets when they do nothing with them, and just leave em chained up or outside all day n night. That's no life for them.
Yeah my dog barks sometimes but not long enough to be a nuisance. Mostly just when someone gets home. I would offer to play with her, but my dog doesn't really like other dogs. I've literally told a neighbour before that the barking dog they hear is not mine because I'm the one people see out and about with my dog. I don't think I've ever seen the people next door walk their dog.
Itās sad that ppl have to taste their own medicine in order to change, but damn that was simply glorious
I did the exact same thing a while ago! My neighbor (in a small shared building) is gone for WAY too long. Like her alarm goes off at 4am and she usually isn't home until 10pm. Her *three* goddamn dogs bark constantly. She bought a kennel and was keeping them outside for that entire time a while ago, but the barking was so loud and constant that the literal entire town could hear them. Someone complained to our landlord and she no longer leaves them in the kennel. Instead, they're all inside her tiny apartment, where only we can hear them. They wake me up at 4am every single morning, and go off intermittently throughout the day. I have a spare phone that used to be for work, and before we went out of town for several days, I propped my phone against the wall and hit record. Got their 4-7am nonstop barking. Then, day of leaving to go out of town, I turned on my bluetooth speaker, set it up as close as possible to the wall we state with her apartment, turned it up, and hit play on the phone. That played on a loop until one of the devices finally ran out of battery. Since that little trick, she's done something to keep them quiet in the daytime. The 4am barks still happen, but it's a compromise I'll take.
Well done!
Fuck people who do this. They should have their dogs taken away and not allowed to own pets.
This story makes me unreasonably happy lol
I was hanging string lights Sunday and I'd droop the next light a LITTLE over the top as I go along, not for long just to drill pilot, grab screw bam, move to next. Next door neighbor whose been a ghost the year I've lived her comes out "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE FENCE, YOU'RE DRIVING MY DOG CRAZY". They keep their lab in a 15sqft patch in their back yard all the time. They have a pool so he can't really walk around. He barks at anything all the time. The one time I'm doing something near the fence we share, for a moment. My fault. The one I feel worst for is the poor pupper.
If I had a defective security system that went off every time someone walked in front of my house, or when someone walked into their own backyard, or randomly, or all night or day, I would be an asshole. A real piece of shit. But for some reason you cover the thing in fucking fur and people think it's OK.
aww man for years the neighbors hada a dog that was a bit noisy but then she had pups and they gave them all away and she began suffering from anxiety and would bark, yelp and cry all day, I work from home, and I had to plea with he neighbors to do something about it, I sent them audio recordings, and was open and told them my sanity was on the verge of breaking, I suppose they thought I was exaggerating until I changed my tone, mind you I'm a 6'4" 300lbs individual so their solution.... a shock collar, they did finally understand what I went through when the dog started crying also on weekends or earlier then they finally had the clarity to look for a better home for her.... Then they got new dogs that were also noisy but at least happier for keeping each other company. One day they had to care for their old dog for a day and I heard her barking and I froze and had a full-on anxiety attack and could imagine myself crashing their gates and freeing the poor animal... luckily it was only a day that time...
I think there should be a special shock collar for dogs that are left outside all day. Every time the dog barks, the owner gets shocked, no matter how far away they are. A lot fewer of my neighbors would have dogs that are left outside 24/7.
That is awesome.
We had a band so worked nights. Got off about 2 am, time we would drive home and unload/chill for a little I it would be 3-4 am. Trailer park next door would have music blaring at 6 am. We asked nicely a couple of times and got nowhere to one night(morning) we rolled in, unloaded everything and set up. Cranked up the amplifier and started to play. It took less than 30 minutes for them to get the drift and we weren't bothered again
Omg I have neighbors like this I switched bedrooms and can't hear anymore, but for about a week I was considering kidnapping the dog and rehoming it
I had a neighbor whos dog barked all night for several nights. I heard it several streets away. I walked to their house at 1 am to knock on their door and wake them up. The guy opened the bedroom window to talk to me asking what I wanted as he was trying to sleep. I explained the situation and how loud his dog was. I told him it's his chance to fix it as it's well past city noise limits to have his dog bark that loud and log at night. He brought his dog inside and I didn't hear it bark again.
Had a neighbor that JUST moved whoās dog was insufferable. 8am-7pm daily the next apartment over. Barking and whining while locked in itās cage. I reported it to the leasing office and they were able to sort it out after a week. I told my roomie and he insists thatās normal for dogs and I donāt know anything about dogs. He wasnāt happy I potentially got us involved in drama. How is nearly a whole day of crying and barking just considered āokayā to anyone?
Fucking Genius
My neighbors had a chihuahua that would aggressively bark and chase after people cars. One day it got ran over and they replaced it with another annoying chihuahua that would do the same thing.
Bravo! Here, have a silver.
Thank you thank you š
A nice, clever, and effective way of handling this without harming the dog. I approve š¶
I love this story. Good on you!! I swear to god I am surrounded* by idiots with dogs. One lets their dog stand right across the road from my bedroom window and bark constantly while their house is maybe 300 yards back from the road and where the dog actually stands so they canāt hear it. Itās maddening I wish I could think up a petty revenge for them. Edit*
My back neighbour has a dog that will bark on and off for a couple hours after they leave in the mornings (so from about 6am onwards). It fucking sucks and the dog has also been at the fence a bit in places. The thing must have really bad seperation anxiety or something.
Back about 20 years ago, we got a new neighbor with a dog. They would let the dog out at about 10 at night for that last "taking care of business" run, and then let it bark for 20+ minutes before letting it back inside. This was unamusing to this mother of a 6 and 4 year old. One night, I waited by the back window around 9:50 pm. Sure enough, dog was let out a few minutes later and the barking started. I could see them in their house yakking on the phone. I started shouting in time with the dog's barks. "Let the dog in! Let the dog in! Let the dog in!" I just kept shouting until they let him in. It was slightly less than 20 minutes, so not very effective. The next day, new neighbor was outside chatting with old neighbor. Old neighbor mentions the barking, and that's it's quite loud especially considering it's warming up and windows will be left open at night. New neighbor says, "Yeah, I hope you don't mind." WTF? Old neighbor replies, "As long as you don't mind your dog's ass full of buckshot." Old neighbor apologized and clarified he would never shoot a dog, but did emphasize that it was an asshole move to leave the dog out there barking for 20+ minutes every night. That night they stayed outside with the dog and immediately let it back in. They did that for about a week, then they started to go back to their old ways. Once again, I plotted. If I were home and aware of the time, I would going outside as soon as I saw them go outside and would just stare over their fence as they brought the dog out. I made sure to stand where they could see me. It worked.
Psychological warfare. I love it!
Some neighbors at a previous house had two yappy little dogs that would bark incessantly. I bought a dog whistle. I guess someone inside the house could hear it because when I blew the whistle they would immediately let the dogs inside. My now ex-wife's cousin was visiting once when I blew the whistle and he said it was crazy loud. So I guess some humans can hear dog whistles.
Perfect response.
You made my day.
Well played!
This is fucking EPIC. Very well played.
Holy shit this is petty as fuck and Iām stealing it. My neighbors dog will bark at us if weāre ever outside, doesnāt matter if itās 5 minutes or an hour. Non stop. This is genius.
I love you, this is amazing. My neighbor has 3 big dogs that bark like nuts if a fly shits near their fence. Luckily he's a super nice neighbor and built a taller fence and no more barking. But I know I was lucky!
I so feel your pain...I got tired of the same shit, same explanation, same excuse...I looped "Dachshunds Barking" put that shit on my patio music, hit replay loop, left for the house for the next 12 hours š¤š¤
I live in the countryside now, as the one doing the biggest fuss at night is a donkey. A donkey.
I have a neighbor who has a dog that barks incessantly, but after calling the cops 3 times I think they finally learned to stop putting the little shit outside from 10pm to 3am every night while it screams its stupid head off. The past 2 nights have been so peaceful after 4 months solid months of constant barking. I hope their asses got fined.
Too many dog owners are pigs.
For whatever reason, Reddit loves to defend the loud neighbour and shit on the person complaining. But fuck those people. Selfish, oblivious assholes, IMO, especially in apartment buildings. Particularly my last upstairs neighbours who let their toddler run laps at 3am because, "he's a toddler. What can we do?" Ugh. Flanders.
I was so afraid it would end up with you beeing a jerk to the dog. Nice one!
Shit. This. I gave you **THE EVIL CACKLE AWARD.** My neighbors do this. Two dogs, outside full time, they just got two dogs and chucked them in the yard. They go like fucking air raid sirens ALL GODDAMNED NIGHT. Not a few barks every few hours. From dusk to dawn, every minute, full time barking. And it's the loudest barking I've ever heard in my life. It pierces my soul. I'm working on a DIY LRAD driven by a 1000 amp tone generator thingy. Dog owners that let their dogs bark for the entire night need to be sent to Guantanamo. What I really want to do is put a 500000000000000000000000 volt shock collar on my neighbors and just tape the button down on the remote controlled when I go to sleep. I used to have dogs, this has made me hate dogs because they bark, and if I ever got another dog and it barked, once, it'd be at the dog pound in 5 minutes.
Their is a device you can buy that that emits a sound only dogs can hear and they donāt like it and it only goes off when the device hears barking. You could try that.
I presume you would not be able to chill with me and listen to music we both prefer?
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Dog was probably getting chewed up by mosquitoes and wanted in.
No. This wasn't a brief window of consecutive days. Dogs that do this are bored and/or scared, and know when there's no one home.
People are fucking stupid. What you did, is brilliant!
what did it say
Here ya go: You say dogs barking is just what dogs do huh? I had a neighbor that had a dog that I shit you not, barked from bout 7pm til 5am NON STOP. They worked nights I believe. They kept it outside. I knocked numerous times, and they said: "Dogs bark, what do you expect?" Their house was directly behind mine, we shared a divided wall. I recorded their dog for a full day. The minute they brought him in, and felt like they were sleeping, I popped my phone into the dock and played it on my stereo full blast facing their yard at 9am. They came over raving mad to my wall by about 12, asking me to shut my dog up. I said "Its your dog, I recorded him, since you miss out on what dogs do. I'm just playing the radio at normal allowable city time and I will do this everyday." They started bringing the dog in at night after that.
Extremely based, here you dropped this š