Dog owners again.

I think some neighbours are tolerant as they are afraid not to be. There's no way us two in our 70s are going to ask yappy's huge, tattooed owner to keep the dog quiet. He may be perfectly nice about it. However, it's not like he doesn't know. It yaps when they are in. Sometimes at night a distant werewolf or Hound of the Baskervilles joins in the chorus.

I've nothing against dogs barking in short bursts; it's the constant, unrelenting barking that drives me nuts.

I have a border collie 10mths old so everything is fair game at the moment a cat walking along the fence people she can see from the decking (garden slopes downward)
And butterfly's or any insect come to that! But I will not tolerate continuous barking it annoys me, when she starts I bring her in for 10min then let her out again she will learn eventually lol.

I think it is worse now because of those people that got a dog during Covid when they were home all day, now they are at work the dog barks.

Some owners are unaware they have a barker, they do not know what is happening after they have left the house unless someone tells them.

I can put up with/ignore most noises, music, children playing, and building work but cannot stand the sound of a dog barking.

How desperately sad, Annamar1. It is the lot of so many dogs. Why some people have a dog I really don’t know. Incredibly selfish.

All I can say is some of the dog owners must have very understanding neighbours!
I'm not sure I would be.

It sometimes sounds like packs of wolves haunt the streets at night where I live. One of our neighbours has started keeping chickens and we think he now has a dog that he keeps in the garden to keep the foxes away. A nearby pub also has a dog that roams at night. At about 9 pm one dog starts barking and then the other joins in and sometimes they literally howl. I can't imagine how children nearby get to sleep. I think one of the dogs has gone recently as the noise has decreased a bit.

My girl's dog was an excitable terrier, and nervous, too, so she was yappy.

Have you seen the film "Sam's Day"? Its about a dog left alone while his owner goes to work. The dog sleeps most of the day, occasionally getting up to stretch himself, and to bark when the post comes. Eventually the owner comes back, pats the excited dog and lets him out into the garden to go to the toilet.

Same here Avalon. I always go "Good boy"to any dog for barking when someone comes to the door. After the bark I say sharply "Shut" and even the terrier stops barking when I say "Shut!"

Except when my sons are here and the ball game obsession takes over, then it's not barking but tortured whining and whinging. I don't know how to stop that, so if anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it.

As soon as my dog hears a noise outside she barks, sometimes before I’ve heard it and I jump out of my skin. She will then continue to bark loudly (she’s a lab) until long after the cause eg the postman has gone. I then use distraction to make her stop. I don’t want her not to bark when someone is about.

I understand you train a dog not to bark by first teaching him to bark on command. When he thoroughly understands this command you teach him to bark on command and be silent on command.
Obviuosly no dog trainning happens when a dog is not treated as a sentient creature.

Terriers tend to yap from excitement and are selfish compared with GSDs. My JRT is happy to be left alone in the house When my sons visit my normally well behaved terrier constantly whinges and weeps for them to play the throw and catch game in the garden. I fear the neighbours may think he is being tortured.

Spot on, Caleo. And then what a sad ending to its miserable existence.

"Its tether snapped"
That is why the poor German Shepherd was barking. GSDs are not made for being tethered or left alone and lonely.
The poor dog must have been maddened by loneliness.

When living in the NE 30+ years ago, I came home from hospital with a new baby after a traumatic birth, I’d had a CC and had a younger child.

My neighbours had rescued a dog, they were both out from 8-4.30 and their new dog barked and whined all day.
My GP came to see me ( amazing to think that ever happened) and told me I must address this issue with the neighbour.

My husband went over that evening and explained, the next morning there was a big crash on the doorstep, it was a stone with a note and their house keys attached.
The note was telling me to walk their dog at least once a day to stop the barking and a warning that as the dog had colitis there may be some mess to clear.

Astonishing!

They ended up taking the dog in their car to work, it destroyed the car interior….poor thing.

Eventually it was rehomed again.

Dogs need company and stimulation. They should not be left alone for hours on end with nothing to do. They often bark through frustration and boredom. Our dogs always have company and mental stimulation. They are never left outside. They have rarely barked, so when they have done we have known there is a good reason for it. I'm talking here of German shepherds as you can see from my name. The story told by georgesgran is appalling. My current dog was rescued after being kept outside, tied up. That is no way to treat any animal.

No, not cruel Grammaretto. It’s the same idea as training a dog to sit, not jump up, give a paw or whatever. Dogs, in general, are programmed to please, so a little training every day, always ending in a high is a game for them.

Constant barking/yapping is a real pain and not easy to pinpoint where it is coming from.
Onthe other hand dogs can be a good warning to intruders, but not mine, she is a greyhound and would welcome anyone in silence with a bit of bouncing around.
In 2 years she has barked twice at cats!

None of our dogs have ever been barkers - in fact, in all his 13 years, the only time we ever heard our old boy bark was when he was dreaming! However, we used to have neighbours across the street who always had Cairn terriers, and they were without exception, the worst little yappy things on the planet. One in particular yapped constantly - in the house or in the garden - and this was when they were with it! It's hard to describe their garden, but because the street is on a hill, their front garden was almost at eye level for anyone passing on the pavement - and this dog used to rush up to the edge of the garden yapping frantically at anyone it saw. One poor man got such a fright that he stepped out onto the road and almost got hit by a car! It got so bad that I actually complained to the council about the noise nuisance and they did get a warning, but it made no difference whatsoever.

I never let my dog bark, if it does, usually a cat coming into the garden, I call it in straight away, give him a treat and say 'good boy'. I don't know why other dog owners let there dogs bark continually, if they did the same as me the dog would learn not to bark, easy.

What I hate hearing is a dog crying, have that here, really upsetting to hear, think maybe the dog was bought in lockdown and now owners going back to work and leaving it all day and then sometimes at the weekend, very sad. Can't quite pinpoint where it's coming from or I'd investigate further and make sure the dog was ok.

Far too many people with dogs who shouldn’t have them.

Either out at work and poor dog left on its own, or just not given enough exercise or time.

Dogs must get bored too.

There used to be a constantly yapping dog in the housing estate below my house. The noise was amplified by the valley sides.
It must have died or the people have moved. What a relief!
I didn't know you could train a dog not to bark?
Georgesgran
Isn't that cruel?
Another reason not to get a dog.

It wouldn't do for me, all that noise! My daughters dog used to get on my wick, barging about, treading over everyone and on my hammer toe! so they can keep up to date with the whole roads business.

They seem oblivious MissA