'Your dog is an annoyance

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7 Iron

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. . . this is a quiet neghborhood."

That is what my next door neighbor told me this morning as I was leaving for work. I'm about 2 weeks new to the neighborhood and had never met him before. Its not like I'm having parties or something.

My dog is a 4 month old Red Bone Coonhound and we keep her kennelled up at night inside. I usually get up at 5AM to let her out and then put her back to bed til about 630 til we get up and feed her.

Well around 630 she hears us getting up and starts whining/howling - mind you, this is while she's in her keenel inside. Her kennel is in the laundry room and I think the neighbor is hearing her through the dryer's exhaust pipe that comes out the side of the house. His bedroom must be on the side of his house that is adjacent to our laundry room.

Anyway - what the hell do I do? She's only a pup and will eventually grow out of this, but this guy is an ***. I should have mentioned to him that its an annoyance when he parks his cars on his lawn.
 
Put the dog in a room other than the laundry room to test the theory.

Like you said, the dog situation is only temp., but your neighbors grudge could last for however long you stay in the neighborhood.. For the record, he is a dick...
 
Move your dog to another room, as the above poster mentioned, and see if that works. Keep in mind that some people just look for anything to complain about, and this guy sounds like one of those people.
 
If my neighbor's dog was waking me up at 6:30 every morning, I'd be a little annoyed also. I would probably try to be more tactful, but you should try doing something different with the dog, whether it be putting it in a different room or whatever.
 
Follow the above advice. If the guy says anything again, say to him "You know, he's just a puppy. He'll grow out of this as he matures. What's your excuse?"
 
if your dog is waking me up every morning i am pissed too.

if it doesn't bother you, put the kennel in your room.

note: i am a dog lover. just not necessarily your dog.
 
My neighbor's dog behind me IS AN ANNOYANCE. Their dog howls from 10 am to 10 pm. STRAIGHT.

Good grief... I have a dog that barks, too.. But we don't leave him out when he starts doing it.

Basically, if your dog barks a little bit from time to time... no big deal... That's life in a neighborhood. However, if its a hound dog like the one I have to deal with from the moment I get home at 5:30 til I go to bed at 10 pm. Then its a nuisance.

Be respectful of your neighbor... no one should have to raise the volume on their own television so they won't have to hear a neighbor's dog howling.

If it's for a total of maybe 15 minutes a day... then the neighbor just needs to deal, though.
 
I don't think I should have to listen to my neighbor's dog bark at dawn each morning at 6:30 AM while I'm trying to sleep. You obviously don't mind since you're already awake. How would you feel if your neighbor rose a few hours before you did each morning and decided to warm up his Harley in his driveway for 30 minutes before going to work? What's if he's playing loud music while you're trying to fall asleep? Noise is noise.

Certainly your neighbor could have found a better way to broach the subject. Cut him some slack. Chalk it up to sleep deprevation. I doubt he knew, as you do, that it's only a temporary phenomenon. You should find a better spot to place the kennel until the barking and howling stops.

Bernard
 
I'm in the "5:30-6:30 time period being too early for a barking/howling dog" camp. The puppy excuse only gets you so far, the dog is still your responsibility not your neighbor's.

I'm also in the "that guy is a jackass" camp. I don't care how ticked off the dude was, you weren't trying to intentionally screw with him, so he should at least attempt to show some civility.
 
It's your dog, so by extension, you are waking him up every morning.

From his perspective, he probably thinks you are an ***. And it's not like he doesn't have good reason to think that.

Would you be patient enough to deal with a neighbor waking your *** up every morning until his dog "grows out of it?" Not many people would say yes to that question.

You should be a good neighbor. It's your dog. Your problem. Your responsibility to take care of the situation.
 
None of these responses are what I was looking for.

I don't have the discipline to take care of my pup, so I guess I'm going to drop her off at the pound tomorrow. Or take her out to the country and set her free in the wild.
 
seriously, try moving the kennel to anohter part of the house and train the dog to not bark. It's just a puppy and has a lot of energy in the morning. It's completely normal.

You aren't going to be friends with your neighbor. Blow him off.
 
throw a coke on him! Or just move the kennel as others have said. Doesn't sound like a big deal. If he can hear the dog through your walls and his, eh, tell him to stop living in a shanty.
 
I don't sleep much, no more than six hours a night at most. But I get really, really testy if I am awakened early. Perhaps the neighbor has been awakened a few nights in a row, and is thinkiing, "Jeez, that guy just got hisself a pup; this may be going on for years, and he may not even know it's killing me. I'd better put a stop to it as soon as I can."
 
"I'm also in the "that guy is a jackass" camp. I don't care how ticked off the dude was, you weren't trying to intentionally screw with him, so he should at least attempt to show some civility"

Sounds to me like the guy was being neighborly by mentioning it to you instead of first calling the city to report a barking dog.

I do agree with others about putting his crate in another room. Maybe the bedroom.

Dogs are pack animals. He's still a puppy and probably misses being with his "pack", so he vocalizes to communicate with you.
 
is the guy a jerk? probably, but he's still well within his rights to be mad. My next door neighbor has (had? I haven't heard or seen it in awhile) a dog that used to bark every morning from 7-9 am. constantly, for 2 hours. Now, my master bedroom has 2 windows that face their backyard directly, so it was pretty damn annoying.

And i knew it wasn't just a puppy, apparently the guy who lived in my house before me threatened violence on the family if they didn't shut their dog up, so it had been going on for awhile. I made no threats, and was generally pretty cool about it, but damn if it didn't bother the **** out of me and lower my opinion of my neighbors.
 
It's "neighborly" to have your first conversation be so confrontational? Granted there is a spectrum of options here and the neighbor could have been a bigger prick... but that doesn't mean he still wasn't still being a prick. I'm not excusing 7 Iron of his responsibilities as a pet owner, I'm just saying the neighbor didn't need to be such a jerk. They are going to be living next to each other for a while, there is no reason to lead off by burning a bridge.
 
If the guy had 7 Iron by the throat when he said ". . . this is a quiet neghborhood", that's confrontational. Otherwise, some of you people are a little too sensitive.
 
AustinTejanFan, its not so much the "this is a quiet neighborhood" part as the "your dog is an annoyance" part.... and it is not even that so much as the "this is the first thing I'm ever going to say to the person who I share a property line with" thing. If you don't like the word confrontational... then maybe you'll agree to "tactless".

But again, as pmg said... we've got a one sentence account of the conversation, so maybe there is a context where it makes more sense.
 
Just be wary about moving the kennel up into your bedroom... Dogs can develop separation anxiety if you let them sleep with you. Generally, thats if they are sharing the bed with you so I'm guessing if you keep her in her kennel, that shouldn't be a problem.

We moved our dogs kennel up into our bedroom a few months ago... That dog tosses and turns so damn much at night. Always around 3 am, hes awake for a good 30 minutes tossing and turning. Hope your dog doesn't do the same...
 
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