Neighbour screaming out of control kids making dog bark

There is one child on my street who has reduced me to tears this past week with the amount of noise he makes.

Ok it may be the fact that I am about to pop out a baby that is making me more prone to tears but if he was a dog I would have no problem marching round there and biting someone's head off. Why is it ok for a child to make SO much noise? I would rather listen to a dog.
 
I feel your pain op I can't stand 2 out of 4 neighbours as they are all crims and tax dodgers. Hope it works out for you as you are entitled to quiet enjoyment of your own property. I would get a rap cd with lots of swearing and play it loud in the garden so she takes the kids in :D:D (joke before anyone gets upset)
 
There is a difference between a dog just generally barking and a dog barking at you. I used to have a neighbour who had a collie that was left in their large garden all day. I love dogs and barking normally passes right over my head but this dog started to bark at me everytime I was in the part of my garden where it could see me. If I was weeding for example the dog would stand 10 feet from me and bark at me non stop. The longest I put up with it was for 2 hrs hoping it would give up but I had to go inside. I looked it up and the council where I live does makes a distinction between the case of general barking against barking aimed at one person ie neighbour. It may sound a bit mad but believe me it is mucn more irritating when you are the sole endless focus of a dog barking.
Maybe the kids wound your dog up and it is barking at them now or maybe your dog wound the kids up by barking at them. It is a nuisance for both parties and hopefully a compromise can be met.
 
littlemisslauren said:
There is one child on my street who has reduced me to tears this past week with the amount of noise he makes.

Ok it may be the fact that I am about to pop out a baby that is making me more prone to tears but if he was a dog I would have no problem marching round there and biting someone's head off. Why is it ok for a child to make SO much noise? I would rather listen to a dog.
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I love children ... but could only manage one at a time! Only joking ... seriously, I love children, they are fascinating and so interesting to talk to ... as long as they are well behaved! These days though, the little blighters just seem to have taken over - the world revolves around them, their wants, their desires. Some children, well, let's be reasonable, most children are lovely, but you get some that are just allowed to do what they want. They run amok in public, but God help you if you come near them with your dogs on leads, well-behaved, but nonetheless you often get shrieked at "take them away, take them away, little Jonnie is allergic to dogs, is terrified of dogs, hates dogs, etc. etc." They have the problem, and yet somehow it becomes YOUR problem.

I'm an old bag of 59, so I was brought up in a time when children were seen but very definitely not heard. God help me and my brother if we screamed in the house and made a noise. Even playing in our very large garden, with no neighbours, we were not allowed to scream too loudly, we always were expected to play reasonably. In public, we had to mind our manners, only speak when we were spoken to, get up when adults came into the room, say grace before and after meals, not put our elbows on the table, sit up straight, say please and thank you. Never ever ever would we be allowed to run in a public place, or make a noise.

We even had a woman come up to us once at a village fete. The heavens had opened, and everyone piled into this barn where they were serving refreshments. Our 2 boys are massive and take up a lot of room, so we took them through the crowd of people milling around the refreshment area to sit them down in a corner at the back of the barn well out of everyone's way. This woman started shrieking like a banshee at us, screaming her daughter was allergic to dogs and to please take our dogs outside! I explained we were trying to get through the melee as quickly as possible to get them out of the way, but she was having none of it. She kept screaming at me to get them out into the pouring rain, where presumably she wanted me to stand holding onto them getting absolutely drenched! I told her that perhaps she and her child might like to go outside as they clearly had a bit of a problem, and she shut up.
 
Just an Update. First I would like to thank everyone who has been supportive and offered good advice. I have taken some advice on board to try to sort this out. Firstly I have shut the dog away from the part of the garden that seems to be causing the problem. Secondly I have started taking the dog to the livery yard with me so that she is'nt around all evening. She has to stay in the car most of the time that we are down there but is in the shade and gets a walk around the fields afterwards. Thirdly we are in the process of putting a second fence between the gardens to keep her away from the original fence. I am hoping this will sort things out. At the moment it seems to be working. Also the childrens father seems to be around in the evenings and as he is a good parent that spends time with the children and keeps them under control perhaps they will calm down a bit. I would like to add that I have been thinking about this a bit more and think that the kids are probably baiting the dog when they are in the garden. They are not the most animal friendly children. I would say they can be quite cruel to animals. I say this because a few years ago when the older child (a girl of 8 at that time) had a Guinea pig. I caught her bashing it over the head with a heavy bowl. It died a few days later. They have been through no end of small animals some of them being squashed to death. They have never shown any remorse. They quit openly say what they have done. Also only a few weeks ago I saw both children in the garden pick up their chickens and put them in a rabbit pen on the grass and then proceed to poke them with sticks and hit the top of the pen with a large piece of wood. The chickens were very frightened but as usual mummy was nowhere to be seen, probably drinking tea and watching TV while her kids are chucked out the garden. Sorry if some of you think I am anti-children, I can assure you I am not. I spend most of my weekend and evenings with my four grandchildren and we have quite a few youngsters down our livery yard. I let some of them ride our pony and always chat to them, I just don't do hooligans and future yobs.
 
NikkiJ, your upbringing seems very similar to my own. I am a miserable old bag of 62. I am one of six children and my parents would never have let us behave in such a way. We always had a dog and spent hours playing with him. We would never have got away with what these horrible little ****'s get away with. I have partly bought up my 14yr old granddaughter and when she lived with me she was respectful and well behaved with good manners. This dog is actually hers by rights and she adores her, but cant have her at her own home as it is rented and no dogs are allowed. She even played with the older girl in question for a while but got fed up with her because she was so demanding. Pippa thats the dogs name will if told to, go and lay down and is very well behaved. Something must have upset her. The neighbour actually said this had only just started to happen and we have had the dog in the same situation for about 18months.
 
few weeks ago I saw both children in the garden pick up their chickens and put them in a rabbit pen on the grass and then proceed to poke them with sticks and hit the top of the pen with a large piece of wood. The chickens were very frightened
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You have reported this to the RSPCA haven't you?
 
Amymay, I told the mother and she says she will keep and eye on it. The pen is turned up on its side now. Don't worry I will be keeping a good eye on them.
 
I've had border collies all my life and I have 2 atm, and they have all been exceptionally clever dogs and very trainable. I also have children who, when young, did the same as any other children; making noise, bouncing on trampolines, whizzing around on bicycles, skateboards etc. My border collies have all been very capable of learning not to bark at children's noise. I have 7 dogs altogether and they don't have a lot to do with children as ours are grown up now, however we do on occasion have small children come to the farm and they want to go on the swing, bounce on the trampoline, ride their little bikes ringing their bells and splash about in the swimming pool. My dogs do get a little inquistive when the children first arrive and start making all this noise that my dogs aren't used to, but the dogs take their cues from me and do as I ask. No problems at all however I'm sure the dogs are as relieved as I am when the loud little loves go on home again and peace and quiet is restored :)

As for the alleged goading and cruelty to their small animals, if you saw them doing these things would you not speak to the children and help to teach them that this is not acceptable? I certainly wouldn't hold back, and if necessary yes I'd tell them off for hurting animals.
 
Spring Feather. I did say something about the small animals, both to the parents and the children. The father told us about the squashing of some baby rabbits. He said that the children had been out to the rabbit hutch and picked them up without his knowledge. This was last year. They just keep going out and buying more animals and you dont hear anything about the loss of them until way past when it happens. As for the things I have seen myself I have said my piece. They had 6 chickens and 2 lovely white ducks a year ago that were "free range" meaning no where to go for a while. We showed them how to make a hen house, so that at least the chickens had somewhere to roost and lay eggs but they did'nt bother to go and shut them in after dark and the fox had the lot. They now have 3 out of 5 left of the latest batch. They are complete losers really. I have never seen them go and clean out the hen house or nest boxes. We have a chicken run with a high fence round it and 15 hens. It is completely fox proof and we havent lost any. We have kept chickens for several years now. I'm afraid they just havent got a clue because they live in the countryside but dont make the effort to learn about the workings of it.
 
I really feel your pain! I live in a flat and it goes like this:

7am mother screams blue murder at child to get up (pleasant awakening for all in earshot)

Thunderthunderthunder all day on my ceiling

Ooh, sun is out, things seem quieter, wait I can hear screaming... Child comes back with many more children, theyre out in force, they've got bikes!

Unfortunately my flat has a circular route for cycling high japes directly around it, my flat is inside a race track.

Evening, seems quiet for half an hour.... Then they start what I assume is playing on a Wii with rhythmic thumps. Mum and dad shout.

I dream of living in a house with only a garden next to other people, and you tell me they will come to ruin your life even then?! There's no hope!! I'd be up for bark collars on kids, just saying.
 
To be honest the kids sound as stressed as your dog. It can't be easy for the children to see their parents getting separated and it can't be easy for your dog to be wound up by the children. I suspect this won't really get resolved unless both parties make changes to how they look after their charges.
 
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