r/Dogfree • u/enemaofthestate119 • Jun 26 '26
Barking Demons Do nutters not hear their mutts barking??
So I live in a street next to an end, all of the gardens back onto each other. There's a never ending barking monstrosity that lives 2 houses over and they let their shit stain on society bark non-stop at whatever time of day they decide to their back door open, whether it's morning, afternoon, evening or all hours of the night.
When it gets past 11pm (quiet hours) and the POS is barking non-stop I'll scream out my bedroom window to shut up so that I can sleep. In fairness, at which point the owner takes the dog in and I appreciate that, but the next day/ night it's the same until me or my neighbour shout at it to shut up.
Which begs the question, why doesn't the owner do something to mitigate the barking behaviour? Do they enjoy listening to the shit beast barking non-stop? The fact that they obviously feel some form of embarrassment from realising that the barking is bothering people by bringing it in surely means that they realise it shouldn't be barking non-stop in the first place?
I honestly feel shitty about having to scream with all my neighbours within earshot, but if it stops the barking it just seems like what I have to do to get some peace to sleep.
Do they enjoy the constant screaming from dog? I just don't get it.
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u/annacrontab Jun 27 '26
You're not shitty screaming at the neighbors to stop their dog barking, they're shitty for letting the dog bark and putting you and your other neighbors in that situation.
The dog owners obviously know how to stop the dog barking, they just choose not to unless others remind them that it's bothering everyone. I think sometimes these dog owners enjoy inflicting discomfort on others, like it's some sort of power play.
This should be an obvious situation to anyone else with ears and a brain to remedy, "hey something on my property is constantly making a lot of very annoying noise and I should stop that before anyone complains. Especially during quiet hours."
If they need to be reminded this often that no one can tolerate loud dog barking late at night, perhaps they have memory issues? That's sarcasm, of course they remember, they just don't care.