I doubt there is anything you can do about that, as it is her garden and her gate. My best suggestion if you can't get the council to mend the fence is to get someone to do it for you. A patch up job might not be too expensive if you get a local handyman, and it is certainly worth it for your dog's safety.

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God the world has gone mad! Nothing is said about unruly kids or households that hold screaming matches on a regular basis or teenagers coming home in the middle of the night stoned out their minds screaming, screeching and gods knows what else - why on earth would a dog not bark at such disturbances.

The one thing that gets under my skin are those people who have little or no life that they have to continually report others to make themselves feel better.

Grrr.

I used to have a neighbour like that. he complained to the council about everyone and everything, from someone having a pile of sand in their front garden to someone else having a commercial van in their driveway. Even complained that one neighbour was building an extension without planning permission, even though she was simply converting her garage. Oh, and someone else had a tree which was overhanging the pavement - only if you happened to be the Jolly Green Giant! It's quite sad really.

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Good job your neighbours don't live next door to me

This is a very valid point - in a short section of about 8 houses on our road, there are no less than 14 dogs (and many more in close proximity)

I am not going to lie and say mine don't bark because they do - thankfully for me possibly - so do my neighbours dogs

Then we have a dog up the street who barks all night, every night - so in our situation, it could be very easy to confuse dogs - and on more than one occasion I've intentionally reassured my neighbours that it wasn't our dog(s) in their garden barking at 3am.

I think my 'up' neighbour has now got the hang of recognising the big dog -v- small dog barks - and we tell them if there is ever ANY problem, however small, they come and talk to us.

I wouldn't think the council could act without definitive proof (could they?) - hope you managed to get it sorted out.

In many instances - there is often something else behind neighbours arguing - this led to a relatively minor spat between us and our neigbours over dogs barking and babies crying - when actually the problem was CAR PARKING !!! (we live on a main road and most of us don't have driveways)

Do you know which neighbour has complained? can you speak to them reasonably?

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i work at the same place as neighbour, i leave the house at 8.30am and get home around 13.30pm. my neighbour is complaining about my dog barking while i'm out when she starts work before me and finishes later than me, obviously she is complaining for the sake of it and i have no idea how to respond to this. most of the time my partner is in bed after a night shift and never hears a thing either, this has really annoyed me, got any suggestions?

You really should start your own thread, but since you have asked, I would ignore the silly moo. If she is not there, how can she possibly say your dog is causing her problems? If she does complain to the council or someone, they will come round for a listen themselves.

Don't worry about her.

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