One of our supporters we'll call him Jack, who works from home and does not want to be identified for obvious reasons, has been having a few problems with a neighbours' pair of dogs locked in all day, the rest of us on Park Farm might have heard them as well!
Jack writes: "One of my neighbours keeps dogs, which when the owners are home, are good as gold and you wouldn't know they were there. The problems start when the owners (who are a decent couple as far as I can tell) leave for work. Then, the whining starts, usually for a few hours. Occasionally I'll hear fighting between the dogs for a minute or two, then they settle down.We strongly suggest:
"The first step to stopping this should really be speaking to the neighbour in question, but I don't often see them in the street and I'd rather not knock on the door to introduce myself and follow it with a complaint.
"I've been keeping a nuisance dog diary if I need to report it to the council but if the dogs are in distress then maybe the RSPCA would be the people to speak to?"
As you say the problem starts when your neighbours go off to work and you are already keeping a diary of the noise nuisance. We would suggest that it seems to have gone on long enough and a call to the RSPCA 01733 222188 Opening hours: 9.00am- 5.00pm Mon - Fri. might be the best option. If the dogs are distressed they might well turn on each other or develop some form of nervous disorder and make them generally unstable and instead of fighting each other might well bite someone. You might also like to try Cambridgeshire Constabulary on 0845 4564564 ask for the Neighbourhood policing team for your area.
The RSPCA will respect your confidence and it may just be a question of education. If any of our readers know the people concerned (or indeed you actually are the absentee owners of the two dogs) you now know this is an issue and some form of action needs to be taken. It could well be that if you work locally someone arranges to come home at lunchtime or perhaps you have been neglecting a good long walk for both of them BEFORE you go off to work? In any case, commonsense would suggest that dogs barking and fighting on a continuing basis must be grounds for an investigation. The RSPCA on 01733 222188 would seem to be your best option.
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