Reporting a neighbour's dog?
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OK, a little more context....
I was up at my brother's place yesterday. The fence between the gardens is roughly at chest-height on me (I'm 5'10) and next door's dog was jumping up at the fence, able to get head and shoulders above the top (almost face-level with me), barking loudly and causing the fence to shake.
It's not the dog's fault - the blame lies with the neighbours who aren't training it at all and apparently rarely walk or exercise it. They just leave it in the garden most of the day and aren't teaching it that the barking and jumping up is bad/unacceptable behaviour. The dog is named 'Mayhem' - make of that what you will - I'm not sure what breed it is but it looks lean and muscular like a boxer but has a longer nose.
My brother and his wife have a 15-month old who's just starting to toddle his way around - they would like to be able to use their garden with summer approaching and be outside without being intimidated/disturbed by the dog. The dog went went nuts any time one of us set foot outside in the garden and staying out only resulted in it getting even more wound up (to the point where I thought better of taking my nephew round the garden and went back inside). Another concern was that if the dog gets much bigger or is more determined it could make it all the way over the fence and we don't want to risk finding out whether it's 'all bark and no bite' should it make it into their garden.
Nothing has happened as yet thankfully but going out in the garden for them recently has been a no-go unless the neighbours have the dog inside. Unfortunately the neighbours aren't really the type for reasoned, polite conversation.
I was up at my brother's place yesterday. The fence between the gardens is roughly at chest-height on me (I'm 5'10) and next door's dog was jumping up at the fence, able to get head and shoulders above the top (almost face-level with me), barking loudly and causing the fence to shake.
It's not the dog's fault - the blame lies with the neighbours who aren't training it at all and apparently rarely walk or exercise it. They just leave it in the garden most of the day and aren't teaching it that the barking and jumping up is bad/unacceptable behaviour. The dog is named 'Mayhem' - make of that what you will - I'm not sure what breed it is but it looks lean and muscular like a boxer but has a longer nose.
My brother and his wife have a 15-month old who's just starting to toddle his way around - they would like to be able to use their garden with summer approaching and be outside without being intimidated/disturbed by the dog. The dog went went nuts any time one of us set foot outside in the garden and staying out only resulted in it getting even more wound up (to the point where I thought better of taking my nephew round the garden and went back inside). Another concern was that if the dog gets much bigger or is more determined it could make it all the way over the fence and we don't want to risk finding out whether it's 'all bark and no bite' should it make it into their garden.
Nothing has happened as yet thankfully but going out in the garden for them recently has been a no-go unless the neighbours have the dog inside. Unfortunately the neighbours aren't really the type for reasoned, polite conversation.
Funk said:
OK, a little more context....
I was up at my brother's place yesterday. The fence between the gardens is roughly at chest-height on me (I'm 5'10) and next door's dog was jumping up at the fence, able to get head and shoulders above the top (almost face-level with me), barking loudly and causing the fence to shake.
It's not the dog's fault - the blame lies with the neighbours who aren't training it at all and apparently rarely walk or exercise it. They just leave it in the garden most of the day and aren't teaching it that the barking and jumping up is bad/unacceptable behaviour. The dog is named 'Mayhem' - make of that what you will - I'm not sure what breed it is but it looks lean and muscular like a boxer but has a longer nose.
My brother and his wife have a 15-month old who's just starting to toddle his way around - they would like to be able to use their garden with summer approaching and be outside without being intimidated/disturbed by the dog. The dog went went nuts any time one of us set foot outside in the garden and staying out only resulted in it getting even more wound up (to the point where I thought better of taking my nephew round the garden and went back inside). Another concern was that if the dog gets much bigger or is more determined it could make it all the way over the fence and we don't want to risk finding out whether it's 'all bark and no bite' should it make it into their garden.
Nothing has happened as yet thankfully but going out in the garden for them recently has been a no-go unless the neighbours have the dog inside. Unfortunately the neighbours aren't really the type for reasoned, polite conversation.
I don't think there's a lot you can do, except a bigger stronger fence. I was up at my brother's place yesterday. The fence between the gardens is roughly at chest-height on me (I'm 5'10) and next door's dog was jumping up at the fence, able to get head and shoulders above the top (almost face-level with me), barking loudly and causing the fence to shake.
It's not the dog's fault - the blame lies with the neighbours who aren't training it at all and apparently rarely walk or exercise it. They just leave it in the garden most of the day and aren't teaching it that the barking and jumping up is bad/unacceptable behaviour. The dog is named 'Mayhem' - make of that what you will - I'm not sure what breed it is but it looks lean and muscular like a boxer but has a longer nose.
My brother and his wife have a 15-month old who's just starting to toddle his way around - they would like to be able to use their garden with summer approaching and be outside without being intimidated/disturbed by the dog. The dog went went nuts any time one of us set foot outside in the garden and staying out only resulted in it getting even more wound up (to the point where I thought better of taking my nephew round the garden and went back inside). Another concern was that if the dog gets much bigger or is more determined it could make it all the way over the fence and we don't want to risk finding out whether it's 'all bark and no bite' should it make it into their garden.
Nothing has happened as yet thankfully but going out in the garden for them recently has been a no-go unless the neighbours have the dog inside. Unfortunately the neighbours aren't really the type for reasoned, polite conversation.
PositronicRay said:
I don't think there's a lot you can do, except a bigger stronger fence.
I think you're probably right. The fence further down the garden is already leaning over into my brother's garden and in need of replacing. I'll suggest to my brother that it might be worth seeing if they can get their landlord to replace it with a new, stronger 6ft fence.Funk said:
I think you're probably right. The fence further down the garden is already leaning over into my brother's garden and in need of replacing. I'll suggest to my brother that it might be worth seeing if they can get their landlord to replace it with a new, stronger 6ft fence.
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