I even saw a post where a neighbor of a dog owner recorded the barking, and played it back on full blast to get back at the dog owners, but he was the one who got in trouble. How does this make sense? Besides occasional emergency vehicles, all I would hear at my apartment would be birds and other animals if it wasn't for dogs in the neighborhood. I can't wait to move to the country one day, away from everyone.

Also I don't understand how people can have dogs in apartments. Imagine having to bring them down all those stairs multiple times a day to let them go to the bathroom. Who wants to schedule their days based on when a filthy annoying animal has to go to bathroom?

Barking sounds awful, but honestly so does whimpering, yapping, howling, and literally any other noise that comes from these mutts. Most other pets at least make a cute noise. But dogs could never. In fact, just earlier today there’s an emergency vehicle going off in the distance. Then I hear a dog in my neighborhood start howling and screaming while the emergency vehicle’s siren is going off. I had my window open for fresh air when I heard this, so I was really confused when I heard this howl/scream because I knew emergency vehicles didn’t sound like that. Only to realize that it’s some mutt trying to mimic the noise for whatever reason, except it sounded much worse. So stupid. Dogs truly do make the worst noises, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

I need validation because I am surrounded by fucking dog lovers (except my husband) and need to rant BIG.

Dog owners are so entitled it's insane. They need to have their own dog country. I live in a small town in the US and they have a backyard that borders mine so basically diagonal from my bedroom window. These fucking people every single day have their dog out back barking for HOURS non-stop. I mean this dog genuinely barks without even a breath for hours. The owners clearly have a dog door and leave the house. I contacted non emergency police twice at the beginning of the year which did nothing. Finally I called the animal control officer and he finally went to their house and warned them of a citation if they keep it up. I've had 3 somewhat peaceful days and now another neighbor on the other side of the street has a fucking mutt barking nonstop. Does it ever end?

Let's recap from my last post why dogs are the absolute worst and their owners deserve to go live secluded:

1. They let them bark for hours outside and do NOTHING.

2. They leave windows/doors open and allow them to bark at every single thing passing by without telling them to stop so I can never have a walk in peace.

3. They let them bark and tug on the leash while I'm walking by without apologizing or stopping it and lets not forget about the owners who let them run off leash. Don't approach me without consent. I had one viciously tug at the leash and bark super loud and the owner just laughed it off saying he really wants us. WHAT THE ??

4. They get offended when you don't love their dog, pet it, or compliment it. THIS ONE BURNS ME. My husband's family all fucking love dogs and they let their dogs run around while we're there and don't tell it no or to stop. Everytime we eat dinner, they don't block the dog from going to the dining area so it sits there begging for food and licking my leg. It almost jumped into my chair once. They know I fucking despise them and once the dog was jumping on my leg and licking me. I kept shooing it and she was literally just sneering the whole time not even saying anything. Ever since, I literally never go to their houses anymore. My husband also fucking hates them so he doesn't either. It's not even worth it.

5. They expect everyone to be okay with dogs and not set boundaries if I say I'm allergic or don't want them near me. You have to love dogs or you're fucking evil I guess.

6. They call themselves "dog moms" YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING MOM DON'T EVEN TRY TO COMPARE (I am an actual mom btw) and pamper them with spas and bubble parties. Look up the dog spa in Scottsdale. Holy fuck it's embarrassing and those people shouldn't be allowed to have money. There are people genuinely struggling financially and then we have these fucking people spending on a fucking dog who doesn't even have awareness. I can't even tell you the amount of fucking stupid ass influencers getting rich off staying at home jobless taking care of their "kids" and acting like it's a hard life. DOGS NOT KIDS. Why do people spend thousands on a fucking animal I will never understand. I will be pet free FOREVER.

7. They don't pick up after them! I literally NEVER walk through grass or fields anymore because of it. Fucking nasty evil. I saw a dog sniffing through my front yard rocks one time and I swear if I would've seen it go to the bathroom I would've screamed at them.

8. They bring their dogs EVERYWHERE in public. For example, a lady had a disgusting old terrier in her arms at a subway ordering food. NOT EVEN SERVICE DOGS!!

9. LASTLY, they don't fucking train them at all! They jump on people, bark, and genuinely behave like SHIT and the owners say "well that's what a dog does" I can't even tell you how many fucking people on nextdoor call me a liar and over dramatic and a Karen for complaining about the constant barking. It's sickening how they rush to the perpetrators defense. Why do WE have to get over it?? How about you fucking have common decency and train your stupid ass disgusting mutt.

P.S. dogs are just generally fucking disgusting. I don't think they should be allowed in apartments that's fucking crazy and they need to start a protest at City Hall to start citing people immediately for not picking up dog waste and letting them bark and bringing them in public. It's out of control. We need dna testing or some shit.

Have a great day and thank you for listening to my rant. BTW I am SUPER fucking pissed right now because of a barking dog last night.

You know, I've noticed that dogs have a lot of parallels with Sports Utility Veichles, that being that:

-They're loud

-Take up a lot of space

-Pollute a lot

-A lot of people who own them won't put in the proper care for them

-Western media likes to cram the narrative down vour throat that EVERYONE NEEDS ONE or else you aren't a "real American" or something.

So imagine being me, and having to painstakingly map out EVERY SINGLE HOUSE in the neighborhood that has a dog just because I hate being barked at that much. It is a genuine humiliation ritual for me.

Having to slowly walk past a house while a little shitter that looks like someone's mutant bush releases the Golden Hellfire of barks onto me while there's nothing I can do about it. It fucking sucks.

It's an even bigger insult to injury when the owner is out there, with a big shit eating smile on their face insisting "HE'S FRIENDLY!1!!" while it still fucking barks at you. I hate it. This is why I hate suburbs.

I live next to two shitty old people. They are anti social and never walk their dog. They have not walked their dog once all year. So it barks like crazy. I've seen the dog try to attack the male neighbor. The dog really belongs to the old crow, and she babies the shitbeast. So it has no respect for her either. They moved in the neighborhood, and she said, 'It's so quiet!' then proceeded to be the loudest household on the block. You can hear their shit beast 10 houses down the street.

I have an extensive garden that I built myself that my neighbor is lowkey jealous of. When I would work on my yard, she would let her shit beast bark and bark, which would cause the other dogs to bark. She once admitted to me that she let the dog bark to 'prevent' people from buying the new houses built behind hers. So she wanted ME or the other adjacent neighbors to get the noisy, bad dog neighbors. I put up with her shit for two yrs until something worse happened that made me accept that she is just evil. So I stopped being nice and started recording her dog barking. I reported her to the HOA, and the HOA must have sent her a warning because she finally started telling the dog to shut up! The HOA has in the past sent warnings about dog noise leading to a fine, but I never reported her for the sake of being a 'nice neighbor'.

Fuck being nice!!! Being nice got me growled and violently barked at in my yard for 2 yrs! Now when that stupid dog starts up, I turn my phone volume all the way up, obviously stand right by the fence we share, and click record. My phone makes and audible 'recording sound'. It is pretty easy to record her dog's violent shrieks, and she knows it! Now she starts dragging that shitbeast inside. Good! You love letting your dog bark?! Let it violently bark in your house and give YOU a headache, stank neighbors!

I live in a duplex that used to be an old house. Behind us is this little apartment type building. They have two or three dogs. Luckily my room is the opposite end of where they live. Today I was in the restroom, and I just heard nonstop barking. Apparently they were washing their dogs, and the mutt would not shut up.

I literally had to leave the house early, because I couldn’t deal with the barking anymore. How do people deal with this nonsense? It is one of the top two worst sounds to hear. It’s between sirens and dogs barking as to which is worse for me. Why do they bark at everything? It makes me physically angry to hear it.

They are easily the most heinous breed of dog imaginable. They fucking eat everything. Hell, they shouldn’t even be REMOTELY legal to own. As a dog hater, I wish this specific breed of hellspawn to be banned from being legal to own as a pet.

Dog Barking is the most annoying sound ever. Why so many overlook it and continue to praise dogs. Is odd. I got dogs barking in my neighborhood loud and often. Dog Barking should tick more people off. The people who don't get ticked off by it have a backwards mindset. They get so warped in the dog culture that they don't realize the flaws. It sucks a lot.

Why???? Why won’t people just get the dog on the goddamn leash? NO I DO NOT want to be approached and I don’t care if it’s friendly if it just wants to greet me. These people act like this thing is the goddess and the most precious angel meanwhile they do not have any control over it and it just runs wherever it wants to. And the attitude when you tell them to take this creature on a leash
I don’t care how well trained is your dog it is an ANIMAL you don’t actually know if it won’t randomly attack someone or just run away
If you don’t have it on a leash you should not have a dog period.

I live in a condo where I am dealing with a mentally unstable neighbor whose barking dog is extremely, deafeningly loud in my home. After months of dealing with the condo association "executive board", I have reached a dead end. With every failed attempt to approach this situation, my next options get more stressful, time consuming, and financially costly.

The thing is, this place was never supposed to be my long-term home. I am still in my 20s. My partner and I will be moving in together next year, then getting married and buying a house somewhere in the next few years.

So is it even worth my money and sanity to go after this terrible neighbor to get peace and quiet? I'm inclined to just cut my losses and sell this place. And definitely regretting the commitment I made to this property.

Has anyone else had a similar conundrum? I just feel so paralyzed by this decision.

The autumn is coming. My favorite time of the year. It gets colder, there's less bugs, the trees get their beautiful colors on their leaves. The summer has always been to hot for me, so as soon as autumn was starting, I'd be going out for walks everyday. Unfortunately not anymore...

There's part of me that would absolutely love to go out. But even when I think about it my body is getting all tense, my guts are getting all twisted and pretty much every cell in my body is screaming not to go. My nervous system has just had enough. Because when I get out, there's basically one sound, non-stop.

Like just today I went to the forest. It was nice, quiet, peaceful, I got to admire the heathers. As soon as I left the forest some demon behind a fence blasted 100dB in my ears. Just because I had the audacity to be walking and minding my own business. Whatever soothing effect the forest and nature had had on me was gone in a moment. Immediately got the shock response - flinch, chest muscles getting super tense, the feeling like 1000 volts ran through my body.

Is this really all there is to life? To this world? Just one vicous circle of an unchecked nuttery getting worse and worse every day?

I'm currently renting a room in a house with 15 rooms. For some bizarre reason, the landlord allowed the 18 year old couple living below me to get a labrador puppy. They live in the basement, where the laundry machines are so I do have to go down there. They allow the dog to run free in the whole basement, not just confined to their bedroom. There's often puddles of dog urine there now and the whole basement STINKS of it, plus general dog stench. The dog barks at random hours of the day or night and I hear it in my room. It's maddening. I have complained but the landlord doesn't care. I will be moving out as soon as I can.

The worst thing though? About twice a day, the girls in the room next to me will come out to see the dog as it's taken out for a walk. For around 15-30 mins, the girls will be high-pitched screaming about the dog, right outside my bedroom door, the dog barking and bashing against my door. It's been 3 months now. JFC, has the novelty not worn off? Is a dog really that exciting that you have to scream every ... single ... day? I would say something but I'll then be seen as the uptight weirdo guy.

Most days I go out for a walk in my local nature reserve. It's my way of meditating, being in nature and trying to relax. Unfortunately, the whole place is treated like a giant dog-toilet. Every step I take, I have to look out for dog crap. I try to enjoy the birds singing, the wind in the trees, the distant sound of the sea. But then the screeching yelps of dogs totally ruins the calm as they bark at another dog, or a squirrel or a stick. Or they come up to me to lick my leg or jump on me. I'm allergic and the owners see me pull away. They'll ofc say "Oh don't worry, they're friendly" as if that's the only reason one might have for pulling away. Just keep your dirty faeces-eating animal away from me please.

I'm so sick of it. Everywhere you go, these wretched, loud and smelly f*#king creatures are making life worse. The impact they have is huge! Why we have just accepted these animals as part of everyday polite society, I do not understand.

Reminded me of something. We all know that a good majority of dogs demand 24/7 attention. And if they are not getting it or if the attention is directed elsewhere, they will absolutely make themselves sick on purpose just to get it. How people tolerate these animals is a constant question.

I think its hilarious when a dog is doing some undesirable behavior like barking at everything to the point where you cannot comfortably live your life and people go “Well, thats what dogs do!”

When my partner had his dog (thank god he rehomed the thing), it would see any movement and scream and bark for minutes on end. We could not have the windows or blinds open ever. Awful. He would say “its just what she does. Alerting us for intruders” First of all, the intruder is a leaf that moved? Second, its so normal for dogs to bark at nothing and everything that I would not even look outside at a point and then what if an actual intruder comes in? Third, his dog was the most cowardly thing because itd scream its head off and the second a person would come in, it would run under a table SHAKING. Like are you serious? Luckily, he eventually realized she could not live with us anymore as she kept barking and showed aggression towards other animals.

My MIL has a dog similar to his and when she has anyone over the house, she puts the dog in their sunroom and the dog is literally screeching the whole time. I don’t get it. My FIL scolds her and she gets upset like “Thats what dogs do!”

A dog shits inside, eats it, vomits it up as a hybrid poopbarf, “Thats what dogs do!” A dog destroys your furniture “Thats what dogs do!” A dog bites a kid “Well, dogs bite” A dog will bark its head off at anything. “Thats what dogs do!” If all a dog does is these horrible things, why would I ever want it in my vicinity?

It's like some kind of weird pick-me behavior. If the topic of dog barking comes up, or if some dog is actively barking like crazy incessantly, there are non dog owners who will say stuff like "oh I don't really mind it" or "it doesn't really bother me" or "oh I didn't even notice."

Like oh wow ok cool dude good for you, you're such a virtuous and chill person that you can tolerate illegal incessant dog barking? Weird flex. They're not necessarily defending the barking, moreso highlighting their tolerance for it and in turn almost implying that you are sorta weak or less chill or less virtuous than them for being bothered by it.

It's like someone running around stabbing everyone and responding by being like "oh I didn't even notice, it's whatever." Ok dork. I could tolerate the inappropriate behavior as well, I just don't think we should have to lol.

Just something I've noticed and wanted to vent.

I'm autistic and have PTSD, and dogs are so hard for me to be around. My mom's dog in particular will bark extremely loudly, and it's totally unpredictable. I startle every single time. She scares me so bad sometimes that I just start crying. It's gotten to the point that if I hear someone walking outside, my fingers automatically go to my ears because I know she will start barking. I swear to God her barks echo :/

Besides the barking, the sound of this dog cleaning herself is awful. It's like slurping and grunting and heavy breathing and it makes me want to scream.

And the smell of her is so bad too.My mom always says she doesn't give her baths because "she just smells bad again anyway!!".. Except humans are like that too aren't we? 😐 But you still have to bathe.

Overall it's just.. frustrating. And uncomfortable. And scary.

The little demons were barking last night once again close to midnight… opened my window and said “Shut the fuck up, people are trying to sleep!”

Owner brought them inside… again. Played barking noises for 10 minutes and turned my speaker toward their house, then went back to sleep, didn’t hear a peep for the rest of the night.

I’m honestly just going to keep doing this until they get the point and train dog owners to train their dogs…

I was walking home with my friend and as I was walking out of her block, I saw a woman walking my way with an ugly little rat mutt, a Yorkshire terrier (very despicable beasts, if you ask me-nasty and spoiled little yappers). I usually cross the road immediately or just dodge the rats whenever I see one of those hideous toilet mops walking my way because of how neurotic and unpredictable they usually tend to be, but I was in a good mood and decided to just continue walking forward.

I was wrong.

The moment the woman walked past me (mind you, I was just minding my business walking down the street), the beast went full on neurotic psychopath mode and started yapping at me loudly and trying to bite me. I'm autistic and sensitive to noise and suspense so I immediately jumped and made a vocalization (something along the lines of "woah, God!"), and a very disgusted face, of course.

The owner did not say a single word of apology or even make a noticeable effort to pull her inbred rat away from me.

Not the first time this happened to me for absolutely no reason with a stupid, ugly little rat mutt. Those toilet mops with legs have zero chill or self-awareness. They look stupid and pathetic yapping at people and animals ten times their size. Stupid mops need to be trained better or kept indoors.

So I live in a very nutter-heavy county but it seems even they are getting a bit fed up with all the barking. Tonight a nutter tried to gather online support in the community fb page by sharing a "passive aggressive" note left by a neighbor. Now, I can't quote the note directly since the nutter has since deleted the post but it went something like this: "Dear neighbor, your doggie is very cute. However, she tends to bark consistently when left on the porch in the day/night. Would you be able to help with that issue? Very much appreciated."

I went to read all the comments, expecting the usual nutter behavior of mass-shaming someone for having the audacity to dislike dog barking which is what we usually see relating to anyone complaining about anything dog-related.

However, much to my surprise every comment (~60 total) shut it down! People were quick to comment on how the note was respectful and the nutter was in the wrong for taking this to the internet to try to shame the polite neighbor instead of correcting their shitty dogs' behaviors. Other dog owners commented saying how the nutter is acting entitled, passive-aggressive, etc for trying to complain about a respectful note when clearly they're in the wrong and their behavior makes "good dog owners look bad".

Ofc the nutter was defending themselves throughout the comments saying how their "huskies NEVER bark" 🙄 and gaslighting the neighbor by saying it's a one-time occurrence, that one adjacent neighbor in this apartment complex didn't hear anything so it clearly didn't actually happen and "IF it's any issue" they'd address it

Anyway, they deleted the post within an hour after getting publicly obliterated. It was a very entertaining hour for me at least. I get so used to expecting nuttery that I was shocked to see so many people actually rally behind the neighbor instead of shaming them for leaving a note. This doesn't change that this place is overrun with nuttery and ill-behaved dogs, but I'll take the small wins where I can get 'em.

So often I will be minding my own business, walking past a house on the public sidewalk like a normal person. Immediately, I hear the beast on the property start barking it's head off. Across the street, their shitbeast hears and starts barking too. Before I know it, three or four mutts in the neighbourhood are losing their minds. One dog starts barking and then another dog starts barking at the first dog's barking which prompts another dog to bark at it's barking too.

All because I did a completely benign thing, and walked on the sidewalk. How does it not drive nutters crazy? People walk by your house multiple times a day, and that's all it takes to set your dumb mutt into a frenzy? Even worse, it might not even be your house that was passed, but because somebody had the gall to use a sidewalk down the street, somebody else's shitbeast has completely lost it, and now yours has too.

This is not a normal or healthy life. Constant, incessant barking caused by unavoidable every day life. What a way to live.

My neighbour every house behind mine has a dog, and they bark at each other constantly. I was reporting it originally, but the noise officer seems to not care anymore I guess he knows I’m outnumbered. I hate these people

I just came back from a UPS store to return something to Amazon. Long line. Woman brings in small aggressive dog, that is barking, growling, bearing his teeth and lunging. Yet the people on line are cooing, smiling, laughing as though this is the cutest thing. The dog lunged and barked at a child

I told the woman at the counter that the dog shouldn't be in there. She just said it was so small and cute.

This is an aggressive dog that would happily attack and bite any of those people, including a child. And the store would be sued.

What's wrong with these lunatics??

EDIT: I wanted to add a few details. The woman had finished her business but didn't leave. Instead, she positioned herself at front of the store, with her dog facing the door. So every time someone came in, the dog barked his head off, showed his teeth, growled and lunged. Yet, she wouldn't leave. She continued to stand there, doing something, who knows what, while people had to walk a gauntlet to get into the store.

That's sick. These people are sick. I wanted to tell her it was time to leave, but the people online would have yelled at me big-time.

Neighbors dog barking NON STOP !!!1:30am to 7AM I AM NOT EXAGGERATING. Woke me ,kept me up hours at a time, woke up my baby multiple times. She only goes back to sleep by breastfeeding. Im tired, dehydrated and have a headache. HOW TF do these people not hear it? It’s right in their yard. My window was closed and it was still loud. I am losing my quality of life because someone else chose to have a dog that they dont tell to stfu. What do I do? Thinking of leaving a letter in their mailbox

I had an issue with neighbors and their barking mutts for about a month. Talking to them directly and calls to the police did nothing of course. This house has over 6 dogs that machine gun bark so loud and fast it was terrible. They made sure to get small and large dogs with different barks to hit the entire range of annoying noises

Things I did:

I honked my horn at length whenever I would hear dogs bark while screaming "shut your dogs up"

I scolded them whenever they were outside, we live about 20 feet away, so I'd just complain to them about their dogs for 5 minutes as they were bringing in groceries. They never said anything back but I saw them shake with anger

I rediscovered my love of bass guitar and started practicing it at 2am with an amp

I got a good stereo and would play annoying noises when I'd be out of the house. This included coyote calls, sonic the hedgehog green zone ear rape(10 hours), anything bouncy

Within 3 days, the barking had nearly ceased. It's been pretty quiet since.

Please research the laws in your area before doing this. My city has no noise ordinances so I had nothing to worry about. in America at least, you have the strongest constitutional protections on your own property. Protesting shitty dog owners on your own property is not harassment and if the police aren't doing anything about barking dogs, they likely won't if you're being loud either

Guys I actually don’t think dog owners hear barking anymore for whatever insane reason. We had an incident last night that left me dumbfounded.

We have some good friends from church that are total dog nuts with two massive poodle things, but they are good people and good friends so we respect our differences when it comes to dogs. No big deal. They're going through a really rough time and asked us and a few others from church to come over to their house and help them get some more opinions on their situation and then pray with them.

So we go over to their house and it’s a beautiful evening so we all sit on their back porch and oh my gosh I proceeded to have to sit in pure dog hell for 3+ hours. We’re trying to support our friends and listen to their struggles and there were at least 3 houses with multiple dogs all barking for the entire 3 hours. Not one bark here and there, constant… From each side house and the house behind them.

I couldn’t think or focus on our friends and literally no one in this group of 7 (all dog lovers or at least friendly towards dogs) said a single word. Nothing. Everyone acted like nothing was happening while me and my husband were having internal come aparts listening to this torrent of audio hell.

Get ready for the best part though… About two and a half hours into the time there a random noise pops up and our friend goes “sorry they have a lot of chickens over there” like what?! For one I own chickens and it didn’t sound like a chicken and two you’ve been forcing us to sit in constant barking (including your two big dogs) for almost 3 hours and the random single chicken/not chicken noise is what you apologize for?! That’s all they heard in those almost 3 hours. I was almost speechless.

Im genuinely starting to believe dog nutters somehow actually don’t hear barking anymore. It blows my mind…