ive had a complaint from a neighbour across the street about my dog barking in my house while where out at work 4 hrs tops.i live in a detached house my dog is well looked after gets plenty of love attention he just does not like his cage i have to put him in there becouse he would eat the house when where not there can i get in trouble from the rspca or council

No you will definitely not get into trouble with anyone. Was the neighbour just trying to be helpful and worried about your dog do you think? I have an an indoor kennel and when I go out one of my dogs is in there (coz she chews wires otherwise!!!) In my mind you are being a responsible dog owner - try not to worry about it. If the neighbour was being hurtful just ignore her/him. It's not as though your house is attached to anyone is it.

No you will definitely not get into trouble with anyone. Was the neighbour just trying to be helpful and worried about your dog do you think? I have an an indoor kennel and when I go out one of my dogs is in there (coz she chews wires otherwise!!!) In my mind you are being a responsible dog owner - try not to worry about it. If the neighbour was being hurtful just ignore her/him. It's not as though your house is attached to anyone is it.

the neigbour in question we have not seen eye to eye for a long time also i think there having a problem selling there house.off topic a bit do you think i could get them in trouble for playing load music every sunday morning out of there car while cleaning it out

Is the dog barking for 4 hours?

What's likely to happen if they want to take it further, is that they'll be asked to keep a diary of the occurrances, and possibly an official will bring a noise meter to check on the decibels. If it's found to be excessive in either level or duration, you'll be informed and advised what measures you'll be expected to take to prevent the nuisance.

Maybe you should start keeping a diary yourself, if they're indulging in anti-social behaviour as well?

It's difficult to stop dogs from barking when they're bored or lonely and you're not there to reinforce their training or provide amusement, but if he's barking constantly for four hours on a daily basis, most people would be fed up with it, imo.

It's also difficult to keep a dog quiet if people strangers are hanging around in front of your house, or trespassing on your land.

If people are hanging about in front of your place, it's guaranteed to wind up the dog, who, let's be fair, has a purpose to fulfil, part of which which is to guard your home, and warn his "pack" if there is a threat of intruders...

Is the dog barking for 4 hours?

no its just for the first 10 15 mins till he settles down just to let you know he's a 3 yr old staffie

It's also difficult to keep a dog quiet if people strangers are hanging around in front of your house, or trespassing on your land.

If people are hanging about in front of your place, it's guaranteed to wind up the dog, who, let's be fair, has a purpose to fulfil, part of which which is to guard your home, and warn his "pack" if there is a threat of intruders...
that's what i thought

It's also difficult to keep a dog quiet if people strangers are hanging around in front of your house, or trespassing on your land.

If people are hanging about in front of your place, it's guaranteed to wind up the dog, who, let's be fair, has a purpose to fulfil, part of which which is to guard your home, and warn his "pack" if there is a threat of intruders...

the dog is just doing his job, protecting you and your property.

It's also difficult to keep a dog quiet if people strangers are hanging around in front of your house, or trespassing on your land.

If people are hanging about in front of your place, it's guaranteed to wind up the dog, who, let's be fair, has a purpose to fulfil, part of which which is to guard your home, and warn his "pack" if there is a threat of intruders...The op didn't say it was caused by people hanging about in front of his house, though. He said it was the neighbours across the street.

This is the simplicity of dogs though, isn't it, theres no pack at home to warn and they still keep barking .... like the postman saga. "You've lived here 5 years, the postman comes nearly everyday ... and you've still not learned, he's not a danger to us" :D Madness! Ya gotta love em.

the dog does see people passing horses passing and dogs what am i suppose to doDon't put his cage in the window?

Don't put his cage in the window?
he can't see threw the window it's to high he can here them

the dog is just doing his job, protecting you and your property.

Quite.

I was darn grateful for my noisy little "Yapster" about 15 months ago, when I suffered an attempted burglary at my place.

It was stupid-o'-clock in the morning, (about 0130/ 0200) and madam started barking. I thought it was just that she needed to go outside for a tiddle. Nope, she was warning off the scroate(s) who had pried my living-room window open.

Bless her, it worked!

Quite.

I was darn grateful for my noisy little "Yapster" about 15 months ago, when I suffered an attempted burglary at my place.

It was stupid-o'-clock in the morning, (about 0130/ 0200) and madam started barking. I thought it was just that she needed to go outside for a tiddle. Nope, she was warning off the scroate(s) who had pried my living-room window open.

Bless her, it worked!

just as i said doing his job. keep barking dogs and get rid of the intruders.

I feel a lot better now thanks for all your replys

The op didn't say it was caused by people hanging about in front of his house, though. He said it was the neighbours across the street.

This is the simplicity of dogs though, isn't it, theres no pack at home to warn and they still keep barking .... like the postman saga. "You've lived here 5 years, the postman comes nearly everyday ... and you've still not learned, he's not a danger to us" :D Madness! Ya gotta love em.

Dog logic:- postie approaches house. Dog barks, postie leaves. Dog thinks "I did my job there, I scared him off".

So dog barks, again, when postie approaches.

Postie leaves. Again.

Thus reinforcing the dog's idea that it's his barking that scared the postie off, not that dog gets the idea that postie only approaches the house for a couple of seconds, long enough to shove the letters through the door. dog barks, postie leaves.

According to doggy- logic, "I bark, postie clears off, Job Done!!"

We have yappie dogs and we always leave the tv on when we go out. That way they only hear someone coming right up to the door and don't bark every time a car goes up the road.

I have heard really good feedback for them devices u put in yr home to stop dogs barking, u plug them in.

How loud must he be barking, if he's in your house and they can hear it from within their house, over the road?

Where abouts is the cage? Could you re-locate it to the back of the house so the neighbours maybe can't hear it?

I once had trouble with a neighbour over my first dog kia.

I put Kia out at 9am one morning it was a weekend. She was on the garden and barking but with her being a pup she had made a mess of kitchen so needed to clean it with her out of the way. Got sick of neighbour threatening to report me so I made a large sign and stuck it to my shed it said.....

Please do not complain to me about my dog barking as I do not control it's voice box.
If you wish to report me feel free the sheffield city council's number is 0114.......
Regards tenants of west road....

They never complained again we never got any calls off council. The signed stayed up on the shed for all neighbours to see for a long time.

How loud must he be barking, if he's in your house and they can hear it from within their house, over the road?To be fair, that slight point hasn't been clarified, so there's a chance that they're going over there and actually disturbing the dog, then complaining that it's making a noise (and possibly because they know it's in a crate)

Annoyingly, that's happened to me. I'd just brought Brude home from hospital and had him in an oversized crate set so he could see out of the window to alleviate his boredom, without him being able to move about and hurt himself. I sat with him until he went to sleep, and snuck out to shove a microwave dinner in. 30 seconds later there's an almighty banging on the window and some drunken pair of parents and an unruly 12 year old are bawling all kinds of abuse whilst the petrified hound did his utmost to tell them to back off!

I went out to enquire as to the problem (being more interested in calming the situation down for the benefit of my poor hound), and was accused of being cruel keeping a dog in a cage, howling :loopy: Yes, he's recovering from an operation, and after you've frightened him, THAT is how beagles bark!

I was given permission to continue with what I was doing :rolleyes:

Brude was too scared to go in that room at all for months :shakes:

If he just barrks for the first 10/15 mins surely that is not to extreme.

I know that mine bark sometimes when I leave them and I have found several things to help a lot.

Firstly give him something to do in the crate a frozen stuffed kong that is only given to him in the crate so it is special will keep him busy for ages, after which he might just settle for a while to sleep.
Leave him a radio or telly on, don't turn it on specially but put it on long before you go out so that it is just there in the background, this will keep him company a little plus the added bonus of drowning out noise from outside.
Either place the crate in a place where he cannot see outside or close the curtains, don't leave him in the dark though.

As Moonbird says, if you're right and he only barks for the first 10-15 minutes I fail to see what the neighbours are complaining about to be honest.

However - due to other posts on here I don't know if this is the situation. Are you absolutely sure it's the first 10-15 minutes? Is that what they've told you? If he's barking everytime someone walks past then I can understand how it'd become a nuisance although if they're across the road it surely can't be that loud!
I suppose the other thing is, what time are you leaving? If you're leaving at 5am and he starts to bark I can see how that'd get irritating :lol: Even if it is only for 10 minutes!

Do you leave him with things to do when you go out? Perhaps if you don't, you could try giving him a kong when you put him in his crate, if you fill it with yoghurt and freeze it it'll keep him busy for a while and it may help him to settle without too much noise. On the other hand, he may finish it and then start barking!

As someone else said, they'll most likely be asked to keep a diary of the disturbances and possibly send someone to measure the decibels. I can't see it being too high for them to take action though if he's in the house, presumably with the windows closed and across the road from said neighbour...

If they're purposely retaliating with noise disturbances I would keep a diary of it yourself in case it does go any further.

I would say you can do one of two things?

1) move your dog upstairs. I read somewhere that dogs arent as concened about goings on below them as they feel safer higher up. Dont know how true this is but it certainly puts a level between your dog and anything that may or may not be distruping him during the day.

2) Record goings on while your out. Set up a tape recorder and listen to how much your dog actually is barking. If hes quiet after 10 mins its not really enough of a problem to justify them taking any further action. Also if there are noises outside you have proof of this and a good explaination of whats causing your dog to bark.

If its just 10 mins remember you have a right to have a dog just like people have a right to have a baby screaming at all hours of the night. (can you tell this a problem I have :) ) But my neighbours dont utter a word about my dogs barking when i go to work at 5.30am so i say nothing about their baby.

Id have thought if your neighbours were trying to sell their house it would be better for them to keep you on there good side till the house is sold. They would then be in a much better position to ask you when your going out and time the viewings around you being at home so the dogs quiet. Im sure people prefer to be nasty and make their own lives difficult.

As Moonbird says, if you're right and he only barks for the first 10-15 minutes I fail to see what the neighbours are complaining about to be honest.

However - due to other posts on here I don't know if this is the situation. Are you absolutely sure it's the first 10-15 minutes? Is that what they've told you? If he's barking everytime someone walks past then I can understand how it'd become a nuisance although if they're across the road it surely can't be that loud!
I suppose the other thing is, what time are you leaving? If you're leaving at 5am and he starts to bark I can see how that'd get irritating :lol: Even if it is only for 10 minutes!

Do you leave him with things to do when you go out? Perhaps if you don't, you could try giving him a kong when you put him in his crate, if you fill it with yoghurt and freeze it it'll keep him busy for a while and it may help him to settle without too much noise. On the other hand, he may finish it and then start barking!

As someone else said, they'll most likely be asked to keep a diary of the disturbances and possibly send someone to measure the decibels. I can't see it being too high for them to take action though if he's in the house, presumably with the windows closed and across the road from said neighbour...

If they're purposely retaliating with noise disturbances I would keep a diary of it yourself in case it does go any further.
they say it's annoying when there on the front while washing there car on a quiet sunday afternoon

they say it's annoying when there on the front while washing there car on a quiet sunday afternoon

Hmmm... well I'm afraid I know what my answer to that would be... :lol:

They're on their front and he's in the house? It can't be a particularly loud noise and if it's not for very long then I'm afraid should just get on with it, or do they mean he barks constantly whilst they're washing the car? As someone else said, they wouldn't be complaining if you had a crying baby but perhaps if people on the front are setting him off, moving his crate may help.

It's not like he's waking them up, or stopping them sleeping - they're just washing the car. Let's be hopes no birds sing and disturb their Sunday afternoon!

ive had a complaint from a neighbour across the street about my dog barking in my house while where out at work 4 hrs tops.
they say it's annoying when there on the front while washing there car on a quiet sunday afternoon
So first they complained that he was barking when you went to work, and then later they complained that it was only him barking at them washing their car? You also said it was when he could hear dogs and horses and people passing that set him off.

It sounds like he does a lot of barking, on different occasions. I suppose if they're at home all the time it could get annoying. Maybe you need to find out exactly when and how long he barks for? There's been a lot of good advice on this thread about it. I'm sure you can work it out so everyone's satisfied.

Our nieghbour took on a rescue dog in August, lovely dog.

They did go to work during the day, although they have other dogs and would have been company for him, he barked and whined throughout the day.

We were tempted to mention it as we felt sorry for him, and it was a tad distracting !!I'm sure they were obviously not aware it was happening.

We didn't want to jepordise his chances with them so we kept mum.

Happily to say that is has subsided over the last 2-3 weeks and he seems to have settled down in his new home, and we just hear the yelps of delight when someone comes home!!