Can I do anything about the yapping dog behind my house EVERY night?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Backyard neighbors have a yappy dog. They put him out for 10 mins at 9 and 10:30 every night, and he yaps pretty much for 10 mins straight. I try to go to sleep at 10 and as often as not am woken up by the 10:30 outing. They may not realize how the sound echos off the houses around us and right into my bedroom windows, but they obviously know he is yappy. Any recommendations? Can I ask that they not let him out so late, or take him for a walk instead of just putting him in the yard? Can I make a noise complaint? Help - I’m tempted to throw chocolate bars over the fence 
|
Anonymous
| Look up your local noise ordinance. It's 10pm where I live. |
Anonymous
|
Don't poison the dog, they'll know it's you, and this is not the dog's fault. Noise ordinance where I live is 9pm, so I would talk to them about the 10:30pm yaps. It's yapping because it's alone, so if they could just walk it, there wouldn't be any noise. |
Anonymous
| Yes, talk to your neighbor. |
Anonymous
| Good luck. Three bark across the street. Complaining has not helped. |
Anonymous
| Purchase a bark collar, and drop it off or have it delivered to their address. |
Anonymous
| Record it and blare it back at them |
Anonymous
| Our neighbors talked to us about our barking dog. We were upset we’d bothered them and fixed the problem. Could be as simple as that. |
Anonymous
^^^ |
Anonymous
This. In our neck of the woods, you have a right to call Animal Control and complain about a dog barking at off-hours. They then have to come over and talk to the owners. See if you can pull off something like that. I'd also be pretty pissed if I had to deal with that dog every single night. Ugh. My sympathy, OP! |
Anonymous
| look at 22:43's product. We had one that looked like a birdhouse and we put it in our hedge. It worked! |
Anonymous
|
Call the county animal control and complain. They will stop by their house and give a warning without telling them who called. Next time they get called out the owners get a fine. Dogs are not allowed to bark continuously for over 10-15 minutes.
|
Anonymous
|
Our neighbors put out their dog every morning at 5:30am, and instead of waiting while he does his business and quickly letting him back in they simply let him bark for 10-15 mins every.damn.day.at.5:30am.
Jerks. |
Anonymous
| The first thing to do is talk to your neighbor. |