Sounds of the suburbs

As you should have worked out by now I am a pretty tolerant person, but when something pushes my buttons I tend to snap.

This week its my neighbours dogs. A nice young couple moved in next to us about 6 months ago, but they have these two cattle dog things. During the day they will lock the dogs in the backyard while they are at work, and at night they will stick them out the back.

Problem is the dogs get bored - there is not much excitement in a 6 x 10m back yard for a couple of dogs. So they like to jump and bark. A favourite trick is to sit at the gate that goes down the side of the house (next to our bedroom) and bark at people passing in the street. Sometimes (3 -4 times a day) the two dogs will start barking at each other and then howling.

For christmas I got the wife an ultrasonic dog scarer which we use to make them shutup. Works quite well through the fence, but I don't see why I should need to do that at all hours to get some peace and quiet.

I was working late in the shed the other night and could hear one of the dogs walking up and down the fence line growling and trying to dig out under the fence. It would then also whack the fence with its tail which makes the whole fence vibrate and clatter.

Weird thing is these people never take the dogs out for a walk. I have never seen the dogs outside the house or backyard. When they moved in we had to get the fence repaired as they were worried that the dog could jump the fence (2.4m high colourbond) - apparently they had done it before. They also bricked up the little gap at the bottom of the fence.

I think its not only cruel, but if I have to spend an hour getting the baby back to sleep beacuse of those stupid dogs howling at each other one more time I am going to snap. I also now have a 4 year old who is scared of dogs as she thinks they will attack her.

Luckily Mrs neighbour is now up the duff so we will see how much she likes it when the stupid dogs wake up her kid 3 times a day..

Other option I though of was to work the dogs into a frenzy one day and call the RSPCA - but that would be cruel...