Just read your thread Mr D and as I write the hound of the baskervilles across the back has just started his 3.30pm howl!! He knows the kids of the house will be back soon! Thank heavens it's only occasional & he's stopped now. Hope some of the remedies mentioned get the result your hoping for.
Am in the throes of a similar problem but not quite so bad, Neighbours are unapproachable (according to all others around) and I don't fancy a reaction of verbal or physical abuse which I think would be the case.
Contacted Environmental Health who wrote back with form and time/occurance sheet. We have 1 month to complete and if they feel it is warrented further action can be taken. They also contacted neighbour with complaint (anonomous). Very quiet today!! We'll see if peace continues.
Why should peace and tranquillity if a neighbourhood be ruined by one selfish, thoughtless individual. RSPCA if animals are suffering. Good luck
Must just respond to you Catbee. The neighbours I complained to have lived there for 27 years. We were friendly, I have watched their girls grow from babies to teenagers, was even invited to wife's 50th birthday party. However, following my most polite letter which started with me apologising for having to broach the dog issue, I encountered absolute hostility! Had to tell neighbour, after he had nigh on knocked the door down, to change the look on his face and to tone his voice down. Totally lost control. He's a teacher too!! I have lost all respect for them but will not ignore them or let them ignore me - just out of spite!!
So, in your circumstances, I truly think you took the right course of action.
1. Get some photocopies of your blank time/occurrence sheet (or create your own on computer) so you can continue when the first one runs out, or your month runs out.
I would hope you would still be able to get Environmental Health intervention even if the dog(s) didn't start up again until after the first month had finished. You might want to check this with the EH.
If you had a full record of subsequent re-occurrences of noise nuisance I can't see they could ignore it.
2. I watched a tv programme some years ago where they had found success training dogs to stop barking with an essential oil contraption on their collar that emitted its fragrance as soon as the dog started to bark. Apparently, the dog becomes distracted and intrigued by the new odour it immediately detects and stops barking to search out its origin.
No idea what it's called, though, and I'm not sure if you can get the same sort of thing for the shouty owners!
diddy.. yeah they work.. the dogs just run other way.. only way know battteries need changing is the dogs dotn run off...
hubb says the ones that can be fixedinto trees. etc can be run on both battery and electric.. and they have a larger range... we are getting one so that the dogs wont wanna come along the footpath outside ours.. and hopefully it will stop the dog mess..
what made us do it was we were laying concrete base for our new path.. we hd the front gate open to do this.. (the main front bit is in a recess off the council footpath) and we had spent 3 hours mixing and laying this stuff and were doing final levelling.. when a bloody pitbull came running in trying ti get in the gate over me.. and of course ran on the wet concrete and then back out.. so the whole lot had paw prints.. my hubby went bolistic.. really did.. the owner said sorry and said it was our fault for not putting up signs.. so i asked if the dog could read.. she said dont be stupid... i said i am not.. you were too far away to have read the signs to stop the dog in the first place.. then she said well.. you.. you.. you should have fenced it off.. i said what the council public footpath.. or our own private path we were working on when your dog tried to jump in over me..
so told her signs state dogs to be on leads at all times on public footpaths.. she went off.. hubby shouting at her all the way "Put your bloody dog on the lead then" but she didnt.. and everyone dog owner who passed us after that passed snide comment.. callin us evil and nasty and twats and our own fault for not having signs up and fencin to stop people..
well i really couldnt believe it.. we cant block of public footpath and when we had finished it we fenced it off across our path..were so fed up had two peoples dogs do it.. the first one didnt even say sorry.. andthe concrete that had already half set has been ruined.. as we couldnt do anything about it after the dog had ran on it..
dog owners round my way think they own the place.. they throw the balls infront of walkers and happily watch their dogs nearly take people out who dont know they coming up behind them at speed,they dont clean up the mess and they moan at eveyone else using the path.
this all makes me so sad to read. why cant we all get on?
i have a problem with my neighbour, we dont talk now . she has 2 dogs that she thinks her son walks whilst she is out at her new job, he doesnt.so they bark, and are getting fat! my dog goes mad when they are outside, but as soon as she barks,she is told off,and knows she has to go inside,and she does!!
dogs cant talk so bark. people shout instead of barking.
would having a dog license help?probably not as the police/council dont have the manpower to go and check everyone who has a dog.
Sorry claire your right in what you say,it is the owners that are to fault.My dog does not even make a noise when she is outside while they are barking.they are all out from the early hours,and the poor dog's are left to their own devices.I bet it is different when he is out at the weekend with his shooting buddies.I walk my dog three times a day without fail come rain sleet snow or sunshine.You do not have pets as a garden ornament,thats what gnomes are for.
Thanks Birdy13 - had planned to take copies. I'm sure that it will start up again after a week or two. Think the complaint is working for now. We have kept dogs in the past and never had a problem with them . so right, it is the owners who need to be brought to task
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Just read your thread Mr D and as I write the hound of the baskervilles across the back has just started his 3.30pm howl!! He knows the kids of the house will be back soon! Thank heavens it's only occasional & he's stopped now. Hope some of the remedies mentioned get the result your hoping for.
Am in the throes of a similar problem but not quite so bad, Neighbours are unapproachable (according to all others around) and I don't fancy a reaction of verbal or physical abuse which I think would be the case.
Contacted Environmental Health who wrote back with form and time/occurance sheet. We have 1 month to complete and if they feel it is warrented further action can be taken. They also contacted neighbour with complaint (anonomous). Very quiet today!! We'll see if peace continues.
Why should peace and tranquillity if a neighbourhood be ruined by one selfish, thoughtless individual. RSPCA if animals are suffering. Good luck
Must just respond to you Catbee. The neighbours I complained to have lived there for 27 years. We were friendly, I have watched their girls grow from babies to teenagers, was even invited to wife's 50th birthday party. However, following my most polite letter which started with me apologising for having to broach the dog issue, I encountered absolute hostility! Had to tell neighbour, after he had nigh on knocked the door down, to change the look on his face and to tone his voice down. Totally lost control. He's a teacher too!! I have lost all respect for them but will not ignore them or let them ignore me - just out of spite!!
So, in your circumstances, I truly think you took the right course of action.
Does anyone have a spare grenade for sale?.
This could mean war...........
Hello Catbee
Just a couple of suggestions:
1. Get some photocopies of your blank time/occurrence sheet (or create your own on computer) so you can continue when the first one runs out, or your month runs out.
I would hope you would still be able to get Environmental Health intervention even if the dog(s) didn't start up again until after the first month had finished. You might want to check this with the EH.
If you had a full record of subsequent re-occurrences of noise nuisance I can't see they could ignore it.
2. I watched a tv programme some years ago where they had found success training dogs to stop barking with an essential oil contraption on their collar that emitted its fragrance as soon as the dog started to bark. Apparently, the dog becomes distracted and intrigued by the new odour it immediately detects and stops barking to search out its origin.
No idea what it's called, though, and I'm not sure if you can get the same sort of thing for the shouty owners!
diddy.. yeah they work.. the dogs just run other way.. only way know battteries need changing is the dogs dotn run off...
hubb says the ones that can be fixedinto trees. etc can be run on both battery and electric.. and they have a larger range... we are getting one so that the dogs wont wanna come along the footpath outside ours.. and hopefully it will stop the dog mess..
what made us do it was we were laying concrete base for our new path.. we hd the front gate open to do this.. (the main front bit is in a recess off the council footpath) and we had spent 3 hours mixing and laying this stuff and were doing final levelling.. when a bloody pitbull came running in trying ti get in the gate over me.. and of course ran on the wet concrete and then back out.. so the whole lot had paw prints.. my hubby went bolistic.. really did.. the owner said sorry and said it was our fault for not putting up signs.. so i asked if the dog could read.. she said dont be stupid... i said i am not.. you were too far away to have read the signs to stop the dog in the first place.. then she said well.. you.. you.. you should have fenced it off.. i said what the council public footpath.. or our own private path we were working on when your dog tried to jump in over me..
so told her signs state dogs to be on leads at all times on public footpaths.. she went off.. hubby shouting at her all the way "Put your bloody dog on the lead then" but she didnt.. and everyone dog owner who passed us after that passed snide comment.. callin us evil and nasty and twats and our own fault for not having signs up and fencin to stop people..
well i really couldnt believe it.. we cant block of public footpath and when we had finished it we fenced it off across our path..were so fed up had two peoples dogs do it.. the first one didnt even say sorry.. andthe concrete that had already half set has been ruined.. as we couldnt do anything about it after the dog had ran on it..
dog owners round my way think they own the place.. they throw the balls infront of walkers and happily watch their dogs nearly take people out who dont know they coming up behind them at speed,they dont clean up the mess and they moan at eveyone else using the path.
let's stamp it out now,shoot the owner's,the the dog.lol.
Wow i feel better for that,now where was i.
this all makes me so sad to read. why cant we all get on?
i have a problem with my neighbour, we dont talk now . she has 2 dogs that she thinks her son walks whilst she is out at her new job, he doesnt.so they bark, and are getting fat! my dog goes mad when they are outside, but as soon as she barks,she is told off,and knows she has to go inside,and she does!!
dogs cant talk so bark. people shout instead of barking.
would having a dog license help?probably not as the police/council dont have the manpower to go and check everyone who has a dog.
guns are not the answer tho.
smile,this irrates the hell out of them!
Sorry claire your right in what you say,it is the owners that are to fault.My dog does not even make a noise when she is outside while they are barking.they are all out from the early hours,and the poor dog's are left to their own devices.I bet it is different when he is out at the weekend with his shooting buddies.I walk my dog three times a day without fail come rain sleet snow or sunshine.You do not have pets as a garden ornament,thats what gnomes are for.
Thanks Birdy13 - had planned to take copies. I'm sure that it will start up again after a week or two. Think the complaint is working for now. We have kept dogs in the past and never had a problem with them . so right, it is the owners who need to be brought to task