Dogs out barking all night

We had the same problem in our village, the Parish Council got involved and helped to sort it, with the Environmental Health people as the owners didn’t bother and many many people complained.
In fact their dog was so bad at being left on its own all day they bought a puppy to keep it company, this resulted in 2 dogs barking all day! In the end one of the owners of the dogs gave up working which sorted out the problem.
Try the note through the door though, but I doubt it will work, we just got a lot of bad language back.

My dog is currently being a blooming pest due to the fact that Nextdoor’s cats have battered down our cat flap and entering out house at all hours…

You don’t live in Derby do you op?

Do you have a local facebook? start a thread asking whose dogs they are...

I would contact the RSPCA too.

I can never understand this, letting dogs bark all night. I mean, either your neighbours possibly work shifts and aren't always home, or they're out every night. Otherwise, how can the dog owners put up with it themselves?!

We had new neighbours who left their dog outside in a little kennel during the day when they went to work. He yapped constantly from the minute they left, until they returned. Several of our neighbours moaned about it amongst themselves, but I was the one who decided to put a very polite note through their letterbox. I simply said that they were probably unaware, but I thought they should know that their little dog was constantly barking, and he possibly had separation anxiety when he was left alone. I kindly asked if it was possible for them to keep him inside, so as not to disturb the neighbours. Straight away, they kept him in the house, and arranged for a dog walker to take him out daily.

I know that your case is slightly different, Beswitched, with it being a night, but perhaps a polite note may help, if they are reasonable people ...

Are you sure that it really is dogs? Does the noise come from exactly the same direction all the time? This is the season when foxes are doing their courting, and they tend to do a lot of shouting about it. Their bark is all hoarse"'ark!!!" and no "woof", which may help you identify it.

Dogs left out all night? I’m not surprised the poor things are barking.

I’d ring the RSPCA.

You are not at all unreasonable. Have you spoken to other neighbours about this? I would try to find out where these dogs live and either put a polite note through the door or knock on the door and mention the problem to the owner. If it continued then I would contact the local Council's Environmental Health department. Noise is one of the major stressors and you shouldn't have to put up with it night after night.

No you most certainly are not being unreasonable. Barking dogs are a menace.

I feel for the dogs, as I am a doggy type, but it is so annoying. There is someone over the road from me whose dog barks through the day when on its own, and I want to shoot it sometimes. The owners don't necessarily know it happens though. If they are out when it barks, and the noise stops when they get back it will be a 'light on in the fridge' situation.

You could try environmental health, but I don't hold out much hope, to be honest. Everything these days seems to be cut to the bone and unless there is danger of imminent death you are lucky to get a response from anyone.