Do you leave your dog outside barking?

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Both of our "neighbours" either side have dogs. It is quite common that they leave the dogs out barking, when they are in.

Do you leave your dogs to stand outside barking?
 
Same here, a couple of neighbours have dogs that are out all day everyday. One has a kennel by the front gate.

I think I live in a very tolerant neighbourhood as no one has complained about the constant barking. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at blanking the noise out.
 
I have neighbours both sides with dogs, one in particular barks outside a lot of the day, and his garden sort of backs onto ours (his house is in a different road).

I have 3 large dogs which people see me walking, and when I come back, I pop mine in our garden for a quick paddle in the pool, or just a fuss. This neighbouring dogs always starts barking, and I worry that other people think it's ours!

If I pop mine out during the day for a wee, this other dog barks, and several people have commented on the fact that my dogs are loud - no they bl00dy aren't!

I have a samoyed who never barks at home (unusual, I know!) and two malamutes who howl, not bark bark, and never at home!

I hope they notice that the barking carries on once we've moved!!!
 
I am always surprised that people can stand the noise of their dogs barking. I certainly can't, it's like nails down a chalk board. No matter where I am in the house/farm I always shut them up.
 
Nope, I either make him come back in or distract him. Can't be doing with the noise of dogs barking constantly. I think you should go have a word with them to tell them it's annoying you :)
 
Depends what they are barking at.

Stupid/nonsense barking (the bloody cat, excitement, I Want To Come Inside Now It's Bedtime) is shouted down.
If there is someone parked or standing in the driveway that I don't know, people walking along the road/any sort of natural boundary defence I let them bark.
Once I know someone is 'safe', they get a 'quit'.

Nonsense barking really gets on my wick too.
 
Abolutely not! Nothing more annoying/irritating than a dog or dogs that constantly bark for no apparant reason, other than seeking attention from their humans. :mad:

Fortunately we have neighbours who are like-minded - one neighbour has 2 JRT's (now, they can be noisey, but it's never prolonged) and the other has a GSD, and with Bear thrown into the mix, it can get loud. Free running dogs -two in particular:mad:- will get them all going. But a growl from a human often sends them packing, and peace is restored. :)
 
No! It annoys the hell out of me, let alone the neighbours. people who leave dogs outside barking all day are just antisocial.
 
No mine come in if they bark, however a neighbour complained about them barking even though they hardley bark and if they do are always called in.
Annoying thing is, I have to put up with their teenagers music at full blast with her singing along very badly and loudly and their very loud conversations when they are in the garden and thier noisy bqs! p*** me off!
 
I don't have an outside space in which they can bark, so no. :p

Mine are not barkers anyway - both will howl but it's very seldom an out-and-out AROOOO, mostly just grumbling and woo-ing between themselves if they're playfighting, it's not at all loud or as piercing as a bark.

Having had my car stolen from right outside the house last week I do sometimes wish they'd bark at passing strangers. :o
 
NO....One good quality about me is that I am not inconsiderate at all! (gives self pat on back) one bark from me and im there like a shot. Hence why nobody has a clue I have so many dogs, my house/garden is 99% silent, even when im boarding dogs. I never leave a dog out when im out and never ever ignore a bark, im there to see what they are barking at and to silence it immediately, I hate ignorant people who let dogs bark and bark and bark.
 
Never. Betsy will bark at cats outside of the garden / try to eat them if they are in the garden. Other than that there is never a noise from my garden.

I also never leave her outside unsupervised, ever. So there is no chance for her to start yapping on.

Others on my street dont seem to care.
 
No way! I hate them barking, the older two didn't so these two were a bit of a surprise. Next door's GSD barks a lot :mad:, so we've had to train ours not to react. Painful.
 
Never. Several round me to. New neighbour had been there a year before she even knew I had a dog (as I rarely walk from the house, so take him out the back way and straight into my car).
 
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Yes.

My dogs live outside, they have a bedroom and a yard and are free to come and go, but Yes, they stay outside and bark.

That's what I have them for, I know if anyone ever comes on the yard, day or night. I also know if a cat crosses the lawn, a deer, racoon or coyote comes up from the forest, the fairies at the bottom of the garden (apparently, according to one dog, there are fairies) have a party, a leaf falls but there you go.

But, big but, I live on a farm, dogs barking, howling, baying with the coyotes across the valley are part and parcel of living out in the sticks.

If I lived with neighbours close by (shudders at the thought) then no way would I leave my dogs out if I thought that they would inconvenience neighbours. A barking dog is like a dripping tap, once it gets on your nerves it is all you can hear. If a dog is barking enough to be a nuisance then I suggest you speak to your neighbour and if that doesn't solve the problem then get onto your council, I am sure barking dogs constitute a public nuisance or somesuch thing.
 
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Loki only barks when he has a reason to, so I let him do it a couple of times, and then silence him. I want him to let me know when something is amiss, but I don't allow noise for the sake of making noise. I would never leave him outside barking. It annoys me when the neighbor lets her dogs bark outside, though she doesn't seem to think it is a problem.
 
Ours never really bark without reason, in fact I can't think of a single time when we're had any nonsense barking from them.

The whippet will alert us to people who come too close to our house/garden. He's allowed to bark a couple of times but once he's made us aware he's expected to be quiet.

The only other time they really bark is when someone knocks on the door when Big Dog inevitably goes absolutely ballistic but the second the door is opened he shuts up. We had got him much better about it but he's no old and has decided that he no longer needs to pay attention to any training we've done over the years. Thankfully we're no in a detached so no neighbours to annoy :D
 
Cairn terriers barking a lot at night, grrr and no not mine. Other neighbour with zoo of dogs and they bark and howl all day, luckily neighbours are deaf
 
Ours are out in the courtyard in the day for quite a bit(if it's nice weather & I'm in the house) but I can tell the difference between a mardy 'I want to come in' bark and a 'There's someone on the lane,walking/driving/riding past the house! Alert! Alert!' bark,so tend to ignore the latter (it stops when they've gone&if it doesn't,I go out to the gate,as someone must be on other side,maybe too nervous to ring bell?!?;)) and attend to the former (let them in)if it doesn't stop after a few whiney barks:-/ No close neighbours tho,so not a big prob but if I did have close neighbours,I would be v conscious of it-I agree with above poster-constant 'drip,drip,drip' kind of dog barking (like some aged,bit senile dogs can do sometimes) is like torture to listen to:( Feel much the same way about my kids when they whine too...torture;)
 
'Out in the sticks'. . .Enfys, you've gone native! ;)

My older dog is virtually silent but will 'speak whale' if there are foxes or cats on parade. The younger one will bark if she can see someone next door when she's out in the yard, someone comes to the door etc but we don't let it go on. They are never outside for any length of time.

The younger one used to cry when we went out - literally cry, not scratch at the door etc - which I know because the people upstairs told me but she doesn't seem to do it anymore. (She used to just randomly cry in her sleep, or when she was tired, too.)

Amazingly, although there are lots of dogs in our area there is very little barking. The worst offender is a dog that's probably a visitor as not around all the time. Unfortunately - or fortunately - because we live in a very urban area I suspect dogs that bark get quickly dealt with or moved on by the authorities. I also think, because of where they live, the neighbourhood dogs are pretty inured to people walking, cars passing etc. so maybe less inclined than country dogs.
 
My dog has constant access to the back garden and can come and go as he pleases. I think even if we put him out and shut the door he wouldn't bark. He's more of a stalk and think dog. Not vocal at all unless it's serious. For example him grumbling and growling when our neighbour's toddler was hanging out of an upstairs window...
 
I let mine woof at people coming in, and going past - but will quiet him after a few. I cannot bear incessant yapping :mad:

Occasionally him and the dog across the road will have a barking conversation, which I try to stop, but as the other dog is allowed to continue its difficult, he's getting it though. Lucky pup is out in the garden all this morning with my neighbour :)
 
No I am up like a rocket when they start barking, not only because its damn annoying but because I'm aware that the lurcher if she thought was a severe threat would be straight over the back fence and then over the front wall to accost whatever had made them bark!
 
No. Allowed to have a short bark at possible intruders, but only a very short one. Not intruders as in neighbours in their garden. Current dog quite good anyway, does one bark to alert you, then if its a continued threat will do a low pitched growl until told its ok. Eg neighbours had builders in, after first day he didn't bother. Thieving scumbags trying to steal other neighbours garden furniture in the early hours, I left him growling while I climbed on a chair & asked if they were leaving or if I should pull up the fence panel & let him in. Don't generally leave him out if I'm out anyway. Occasionally do for short periods but only if neighbours home, & he listens if they tell him to quit. Tbh though he isn't one for barking at stuff like cats or birds or passers by, has to be someone close to the house.
 
My neighbours are not very tolerant of dogs barkings so much so that a couple when they have moved in have been pretty much forced to rehome their dogs because at every bark environment health was called :(

Mine are large breed so you know when they bark and it is usually because of an intruder (or my neighbours mum having a smoke outside - YUK!) but we often get blamed for other peoples dogs barking because mine have a kennel run (used only when we are in the garden) we use bark collars but the number of times we have had a visit from EH on barking is above 10 in a year... wouldn't mind if they were actually my dogs barking!!! Thankfully our EH is pretty good and actually likes dogs which helps. :D

At times I am tempted to complain to one particular neighbour who does most of the complaining about her night time antics which can be heard through the walls but I don't think I would walk away without a bright red face! :rolleyes::D
 
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