The Barking Next Door Never Seems to Stop. He’s Reaching a Point Where He’s Not Sure How Much Longer He Can Endure It
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Some neighbor disputes involve loud arguments, but this one just involved loud dogs.
One homeowner found himself at his wit’s end when the three rowdy dogs next door turned nearly every daylight hour into a barking marathon aimed at anything moving nearby.
Things got so bad that the homeowner’s own dog had stopped going outside altogether because of it.
Even when the neighbors tried to intervene, they could only ever get two of the three dogs inside, always leaving the loudest one still barking away.
Finally, the homeowner began to wonder how much more chaos he could tolerate.
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Constantly Barking Dog(s)
To their credit, my neighbors are perfectly nice people. Their dogs are just ridiculous.
These dogs make their presence quite known.
They have three, which seem to be outside for the majority of each and every 24-hour day/night period, or at least for 99 percent of the time between 6:30-ish AM and 10-ish PM, and they bark at EVERYTHING.
Being in close proximity to these neighbors certainly doesn’t help.
We share a fence, which also sits at the end of my house’s driveway, so the dogs can see everything in our backyard, the neighbor’s side yard, and my house’s driveway.
Every time we leave the house, they bark.
We can be pulling out of the garage, and they bark. If anyone is in our driveway, they bark on sight.
The homeowner is starting to feel like he can’t even step outside anymore.
Because they don’t stop barking until they can’t see you anymore, our backyard is effectively no longer usable due to how loud they are, and our own dog outright refuses to go outside if they’re out there, which, again, is pretty much 99 percent of the time anyone or anything in my house is awake.
To their credit, the neighbors do make somewhat of an effort to corral the dogs, but it doesn’t really work.
Oh, and whenever our neighbors notice and try to get them inside the house, which seems to only be a handful of times a month, they can only ever at most get two of the three inside by calling for them, and if calling doesn’t work, they give up.
And the one that never goes inside when called is the loudest one.
Also, they used to live in a city before they moved here (the suburbs). Could that be why they don’t really ever realize how much of a nuisance it is whenever we talk to them about it?
What a nuisance.
Redditors chime in with their thoughts.
This homeowner still has options.
This user sees right through the neighbors’ polite façade.
If it were this commenter, they’d go lethal.
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This user has another clever idea.
These neighbors may have had good intentions, but at the end of the day, it didn’t matter because the reality was so dismal.
As some redditors pointed out, these neighbors may have depended on a polite façade, but underneath was, at best, a complete indifference to making things right.
What the homeowner does next is up to him, but here’s hoping a solution comes sooner than later.
Everyone deserves a little peace and quiet in their own backyard.
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