A while back some of you may remember that i posted saying about how my neighbour had reported us to the council saying that my goats were causing rats, council came out said the goats were not the problem and that they knew where the rats were coming from and were in the process of sorting it, and as we are building a new pen for the goats that they couldnot see what the problem was. A few months later, someone 3 doors down from us (my mum went to school with them, and they have 3 rescue greyhounds, as they work early mornings they go to bed early so the dogs are indoors and tucked up for the night by 9.30 10 at the latest,) showed us a letter they had from the council saying that they had been reported for having noisy dogs and that their dogs have been barking at early hours of the morning, its impossible to say which dogs are barking as in our road, on our side there is me with 3 dogs, 2 doors down there is a BSD, then the 3 greys, then a lab, and then a jack, opposite there is a rotti, then a st bernard, a lab, a lhaso and then a GSD, so as you can see impossible. A couple of days ago my neighbours approached me saying that my dogs had been barking all day and that we better sort it, mum doesnt work so she is at hime with the dogs, they also keep parking over our drive so that we cant get to it and then moaning when we ask them to move their cars so that we can get on to the drive (its our neighbours daughter who no longer lives with her parents thta parks acroosss the drive), and we have now discovered that our neighbours have been banging on our privacy fence and peering around the fence in order to make the dogs bark, fortunely Jack comes to work with me daily and Bruce has been coming to work since tess was spayed Toby doesnt hear a lot and tess sleeps through out the day and luckily hasnt heard my neighbours banging, it has now got to the point where we cant let our pups be pups because of our neighbours moaning about the noise, we are now in the  process of having a six ft fence put right down the garden and have cctv on the dog kennel, which also picks up sound so hopefully we will catch neighbours in the act of teasing dogs.
thats it rant over, has any one else got neighbours like mine?
tanya

Hi,

My heart goes out to you,almost identical situation.

I have had to put up a 6' fence and had cctv put in and the neighbours do not like our dogs.My dogs bark very little as it would drive me nuts if they were barking even for 5mins
continous I wouldn't want to listen to them.
Our koi fish was poisoned last year with slug pellets we have had alot of problems which led us to fit cctv.If you go down that route make sure it has date and time and if what to prsecute should you ever have to (god forbid you don't)you will need 7 tapes labled one for each day of the week.We just pop in last thing at night and its only activated if movement is the garden.Also with the amount of dog thefts its handy to watch over the koi and our dogs by the time sombody has a hand or anybody touch the top of our boundaries an alarm sounds if its a cat the alarm does not sound for long enough .We don't know there anymore (cameras)  its a sad world we had to do this,but we had neighbour and prowler problems with the police at our house 5 times in one week last summer and brick at my baby's window it s the only thing left positive I felt I could do.

No problems since touch wood.

Briony

Hi,

Also forgot to say the police have to pick the tapes up from your house but first you have to show any evidence on your system.You then have forms to fill in at your house and the tapes are then sealed in evidence bags which you have to buy and both you and police sign the forms berfore they take the tapes from your house.You may alredy know this.
Ours too are also fitted with sound :-)

Briony:-)

My heart goes out to both of you.
People can be so horrible!!  We are very fortunate to have nice neighbours who like our dogs and we get on well with.
Hope you both get this resolved quickly.

Sarah.

Downright anti social neighbours you have, girls. If these were tenants theyd be on eviction notice by now. It really annoys me that some people think buying a house gives them carte blanche to treat other people badly, and that the law in relation to house sales puts folks off taking legal action against them. Why move into a street full of dogs then moan about them? I hope you can get legal advice to sort them out.

our neighbours the same    

before i moved in my partner had problems with his neighbour tormenting his dog. it drove her completely out of control . they tormented her with brushes hitting the fence , calling her name , the dog was barking uncontrolably at any noise , we told the council as she was a council tennant and we own our property and we were told that there was nothing they could  do . we have video evidence of this but they would not gt involved as it only had sound on and not a picture of them. but to us the real reason is her best pal is our estate warden .  ...unfourtenetly my partner had the dog rehomed.. he still misses her and wonders if she is ok.
also when i moved in she started up again so i told her where to get of and have set up a consttant camera up and she is aware of this, funny shes never spoken to me since

I sympathise with you.  My neighbours are the same.  They don't approve as we have working gundogs who sleep in a kennel - the height of cruelty to them!  I've been reported to the dog warden by them.

It's awful and makes for a stressful time.

Hi,

When I moved in to my patner end terrace cottage we only had 3' broken fence and 3'corrigated metal rusty sheet between the gardens.
My partner always intended putting a fence up as there was no privacy in the garden whatsoever .As I had Goldens at the time we thought we put up some nice bamboo fencing which has some trelis work on top,this would look great next to the koi pond and look nice beteween the gardens.Our neighbours were furious we were going to put a fence up even though we tried our best to explain that Golden Retrievers were expert escape artists and 2-3 ' little fence was not adequate to keep our dogs in they would be in her garden and her pond.The language was not repeatab;e on here about the bamboo.I was so disgusted a normal 6'panel fence went up with the nice bamboo attached on our side the whole fence was errected inside our garden boundary.The neighbour does have a right of wayvia passage way so just beyoud this is the rest of ourgarden so we put bamboo across partner made a gate which can be locked,so coal men can through but they can't walk down rest of my garden.Then we had a wooden greenhouse built inside our boundaries ,where upon photos were taken for planning- which obviously we didn't need.
The kennels were built and we had just about every depatment from the council round
at the end of it all we didn't need planning permission we already got advice from berfore we started building and planning gave us aletter to show anyone who started giving us a hard time over it.
We also have parking problems but thats another story.Every other word is an F word in the summer which when you have children its not very nice,luckily they work alot.

Briony

I don't envy any of you with these problems, it must be so frustrating!
Our neighbours are great, our girl has pulled a fence over and gone on a jaunt in the neighbours garden, she has made a massive hole in the hedges and they said don't worry. (We do fix every mishap asap).
But they have a cat that is constantly tormenting our girl who is frightened of it so swings and roundabouts i guess lol.

Should have said before we own our house and have lived here for 18 years, next door are council and have been here for longer than us, up until last year they still had a dog but he died thru old age, and 3 years ago they had 2 dogs one of which, candy a collie cross, was rescued by my mum, and they asked if they could have her, as at the time we had only been in the house a year, and didnt have a proper fence, (candy was 6 months old and her owner went in to the pub where my mum worked and said if he couldnt 'get rid of her he was going to have her put to sleep :( ' mum couldnt have that so took her.) they problems with the dogs have got worse since they havent had any and worse still when there daughter bought her two dogs a staffie and jrt both entire males over in the summer, our dogs normally only have part of the garden so that the kids have the grass area (our garden is 120ft), i was home alone as everyone else on holiday and i was gardening so i let the dogs have the full garden so they could lay under the trees in the shade the staff came running out full pelt up the garden growling and barking at Jack how then was still only a baby, tess being protective took the challenge and got the staff thru the fence, when called she left him alone neither dog was marked luckily, but the dogs havent been back  since, which we are glad of as next door kept shouting at our dogs for barking at theirs
tanya

I sympathise with all of you with "bad/miserable/unsociable" neighbours; I thank my lucky stars we have Good NO Fantastic neighbours; Quiet, Keep an eye on the house when we are on hols, even cutting the grass! Clean/Tidy, Have a dog (a poodle pup who loves Sal and vice versa) Not  just the next door neighbours either, the whole Croft is friendly, and very very helpful.

In fact neighbours are the one thing that stopped me from moving last year...how do you find good neighbours. Hard it seems.

Karen

Hi I totally sympathise as I have put on previous thread about our noise intolerent neighbour,  she has been quiet for a while, but maybe I am speaking too soon.  Told my husband next time she comes out to moan she can have it with both barrells.  We are sick of tiptoeing round but we do not want to move as we only have 11 years on our mortgage left.

Makes you sick people. I work as a Customer Service advisor and you get people ringing up and talking to you like a piece of S***.  It is a sign of the times, people think they have rights and whinge about everything and dont care.