It seems my neighbors have recently acquired a new puppy over Thanksgiving. One that does not know how to SHUT THE FUCK UP. Imagine the sound a puppy makes of it were to get its foot caught in something. That is the sound this devilspawn has been making. All. Goddamn. Day. I went through this a few weeks ago, when they got their last puppy. I put up with a few hours of this shit and then went outside to scream at the canine. I found it with its head caught in the fence, and I felt like a prize asshole. I helped the poor thing out of its predicament and heard nary a peep out of it from then on.
That was then. This is now. Upon awakening this morning to its screams, my first impulse was to see if it was caught in the fence. It was not. This puppy just likes to fucking make noise. I’m sure some puppy-lover will come along and tell me that it is just lonely and wants to go inside. I don’t fucking care! Make it shut up! Let it inside! Feed it! Tranquilize it! Just make the noise stop.
Why must my fucking neighbors keep getting dogs and then leave them outside on the little 10x10 back porches we are afforded in my apartment complex?? Housetrain the motherfucker! Quit getting dogs and then leaving them on your back porch all the time! What the fuck is the matter with you?
I have fucking work to do and your bloody fucking dog is giving me a headache. Its too early in the day to start drinking, but I may be forced to unless By the Grace of God a tire falls off a passing jet and flattens the hound!
In closing:
Try talking politely to the offending neighbors instead of ranting here. That might fix the problem.
If polite talking to the neighbors doesn’t work, a polite call to the local animal control office likely will. I had to go this route with a neighbor once. Animal control came out, let the offending neighbor know that her two dogs needed to be quiet, and aside from the occasional barking (which is normal for dogs, and acceptable), there’s no more constant noise.
Awww but I’m sure it’s got lovely brown and a a gorgeous waggy tail …
Yes, they have to learn they should not get a new puppy and leave the poor thing outside alone all the time, no attention for pup, not training for pup, and a bloody great pain in the arse for neighbours = not good enough.
Also would there be other neighbours who are also suffering this noise? If one person complains … but if THREE people do it, they’ll think it’s a movement.
Ay, a couple of years ago I had neighbours that let their dog yap constantly – in fact, they reacted to its barking indoors by putting it outside to bark. It barked loudly and constantly, day and night. (Most of the time it was tied up on their deck and totally ignored.)
I wrote them a polite letter informing them of their obligation to train the dog so it didn’t drive everyone batshit. No result.
I wrote them a firmer (but still polite) letter making specific reference to the relevant noise control bylaw and the stiff fines for non-compliance, said that I didn’t want to see them face any avoidable financial penalties or have to get rid of their pet, and said that I hoped they would take some steps to start training the dog within thirty days – and after that I’d call the city, if necessary.
Thirty days later – no change at all. So I called the city.
The dog was gone the next day. I guess some people just can’t be arsed to actually make any effort with their pets beyond feeding them from time to time.
I still laugh at the way the person who answered the phone at the bylaw enforcement office started the conversation, though: “I’m guessing you have an animal noise complaint.” (While the dog barked at a piercing volume and frequency in the background – Rurrrurrrurrurrurrurrurrurrurrurrur!)
I guess if I’d been a dick and called the city right away, I might have had a less aggravating summer, but you like to give people the benefit of the doubt, even if they’re clearly clueless assholes.
Nah, you should rant here AND talk to your neighbors. Maybe ranting here will help you be more calm when you talk to them, because I know I’d be livid. There’s nothing worse than that dog barking cacophony when you need to sleep, concentrate, not have homicidal impulses, stuff like that. It’s maddening and totally inconsiderate. Pity the poor dog, though, and blame the inconsiderate (and apparently deaf) neighbors.
I’d talk to them, and if that didn’t work, I’d call the police. They can be ticketed for that kind of thing. I hope it works out for you. You have my sympathies.
Oh god, I know that noise. Soon after we moved in to this house, we heard what honest to god sounded like a puppy had been hit by a car - it was an awful, high-pitched yelping. My husband and I sprinted out our front door, looked, and saw our apparently unconcerned neighbor walking his small dog, who was barking at another dog and not at all hurt. I’m just thankful these dogs rarely meet.
Have you checked with your rental office to see if that’s even allowed in the rules? When I first moved into my apartment last August, my neighbors in the building across the parking lot kept their dog on their balcony from the asscrack of dawn until nearly midnight seven days a week so it could bark at every moving thing that passed. I made an offhand comment to one of the office staff about it one day while picking up my snail mail and she immediately replied, “Oh, that’s a total violation of the rules. Residents can’t leave pets alone on their balconies or patios for any length of time at all.” They had to send two warning letters to the owners but finally the message sunk in and I’m no longer woken at six every morning by a yapping ovation for the early shift workers. And the returning 3rd shift workers. And birds shifting in their nests…deer farting in the woods…butterflies flapping their wings in Siberia…
So yeah, you may have the apartment complex on your side and can get this resolved without needing outside agencies. Good luck, I know all too well how it feels.
I’ll talk to the manager tomorrow (My neighbors are almost never home). But I’m sure they already know about the problem, as the manager and her husband live in the complex only a few apartments down. No way the yapping of Satan’s Own Puppy escaped anyone’s notice.
It happened to us too. I had to check your location just to make sure that you aren’t one of my neighbors.
They got the puppy about a week and a half ago. We didn’t realize this. We thought that a noisy waterbird had moved into the neighborhood. Honest to Og, it sounds like one of those screechy bird noises made by the sound effects guy on A Prairie Home Companion. And they leave it out on the little (yep, maybe 10x10) screened porch all day, and part of the night, which is explicitly against the rules in this complex.
Between this poor little puppy’s owners and the sick fuck that deliberately ran down a seagull in front of me today (may his balls rot), I am this far from losing my mind.
Please, someone, post after me. I am an itinerant thread-killer. Please lift the curse.
Well, I only wish that they HAD killed him, instead of leaving him crippled with a broken back and crushed sternum, but perfectly conscious, in the middle of the fucking road.
There’s enough suffering to go around without deliberate cruelty to animals.
I’ve got a dickhead behind me with a dog that was barking all through the night.
The morning after Thanksgiving I was woken at 3am by this barking dog. About 30 minutes later I get dressed and look over the back fence.
There’s the little dog in a completely fenced back yard tied to a swing set on a three-foot leash.
So, I hike around the block in the dead of night and go up to the guy’s door. First thing I notice is from the light I can see through the window that the TV is obviously on.
I ring the bell a couple times and the guy comes to the door. I inform him his dog has been barking for the last half hour, and this was my last trip to see him because in the future I’d just call the cops. He asks where I live and I tell him the other side of the block (I’m not totally stupid). Then I walk away.
These people USED to keep the dog in a cage outdoors 24/7. The only time they didn’t was when Katrina came through and I went out in the middle of the storm to swipe the dog if he actually WAS left out to the elements.
Personally, I feel sorry for the little dog. When my dogs are outside and they start barking the COME IN. It’s really not that tough of a fucking system.
Argh, I had to call the damned cops in the middle of the night a few weeks ago because my neighbor’s dogs Would. Not. Shut. Up. And then the cops actually show up and knock on the door, but they can’t do anything because the neighbors aren’t there! Well of course they aren’t, that’s why the dogs are barking - they’ve been left outside! Argh!
And every time I think to go over and knock on the door to discuss it with them, they’re not home. Which is probably a good thing because last weekend I’m pretty sure it was them I heard shooting bottles on the back porch. Hopefully with air rifles, but who knows? So maybe I’ll just let the cops deal with them. Fucking renters.
