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RE: Neighbours dog is a nightmare!

Posted 1040 days ago

I understand your anguish mcgoss. Police & Council cannot ignore your complaint but it seems they have. The best I can recommend to you is to try putting your problem to the forum on "dogsonline." It's a dog forum and though I haven't noticed a problem like yours on there before I'm pretty sure that they will be well versed in the laws controlling dogs and the problems that can occur.

Best of luck to you.

RE: Neighbours dog is a nightmare!

Posted 1040 days ago

I have had problems with barking dogs before and rang council i told them to get the ranger out as the dog was being neglected and i had enough of the barking. I haven't had problem with vicious dogs but. Ask council to post out the laws on barking dogs to you, photocopy it and stick it in the owners letter box but highlight some of the main points on it. And give ya other neighbours a copy to. With a vicious dog on a property, council can issue a sign for the owner to display on their fence stating dangerous dog on property, If the ranger comes round to and the dog is not microchipped or registered the owner can be fined. Just tell council if the dog attacks a child or another pet you and your neighbours will sue the council for not acting correctly by the law. I think they will soon pull their finger out and do something, get a partitian going with the signatures of all ya neighbours send it to council, the ranger and the police. GOOD LUCK
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RE: Neighbours dog is a nightmare!

Posted 1038 days ago

God, you poor thing, can understand where you're coming from! What about a letter to your local paper advising of the situation. somebody has to do something. That dog is a disaster waiting to happen. Good luck. Mausy

RE: Neighbours dog is a nightmare!

Posted 1034 days ago

I've just been going through a similar thing, thankfully after 12 months it seems to be sorted out.
The Council has to do something, my advice is to get everyone to record every event with as much detail as possible, dates etc and just keep pestering.
A dog is considered a nusance if it is barking for more than 6 minutes an hour on a continuous basis and It dosn't have to actually bite anyone to be deemed dangerous.
If you find the dog in your yard (or on the street) call the pound/dog catcher to come and get it.
The more evidence you have and the more people that ring and complain then the Council is more likely to respond.
Good luck
Ducky
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RE: Neighbours dog is a nightmare!

Posted 822 days ago

I think what needs to be looked at first here is the environment the poor dog is living as it seems to me that noone looks after the poor animal well, and therefore he keeps barking as he is seeking the attention so absolutely the RSPCA is the first point of contact and once that is sorted out the behaviour can be looked at too and I am sure once the dog will be taken for a walk and played with he will also stop barking