Wednesday 5 September 2012

Barking Dogs in Dukinfield



I have had a number of dogs over the years and thankfully only one was a persistent barker. That dog was a black and tan doberman and he used to bark for fun. At the time I was younger and more inconsiderate than I am now. I used to get constant complaints from an elderly neighbour and I got so I couldn't stand the sight of her as I knew when ever she was at the door it was for no other reason than to moan about the dog.

Fast forward ten years. The barking doberman had passed on the great kennel in the sky and I am dog-less. I also have a new business which involves late nights which means I sleep until mid morning. All is going well and then, out of the blue, a different neighbour gets a puppy, and yes, karma comes to me, what goes round comes round etc. The new dog is the little yapping mutt from hell. From 7am 7 days a week it would be out yapping away.

The situation had gone full circle from me being the moaned to, to me becoming the moaner myself as I politely explained the situation - repeatedly, to the neighbour and asked them to stop the dog barking in the morning.

This approach did not work and I had many crazy thoughts in my delirious restlessness as I tossed and turned in bed to the unpleasant noise of the barking dog. I even contemplated kidnapping it and getting it rehoused, but the the thought of a theft charge was a strong deterrent so in the end I decided I would write the neighbour a letter explaining the situation in fine detail, with a suggestion that if the dog were to be kept indoors until 10am, the problem would be resolved.

Thankfully this emotional plea worked and the dog was house bound until 10am. This solved the problem and neighbourly harmony was restored.

That approach worked for me, but unfortunately for the Dukinfield resident who is currently having problems with barking dogs, the delicate situation between these two neighbours requires third party mediation, as a direct approach by the complainant could lead to arrest, days in custody and a court appearance.

I sympathies with both parties in this dog barking dispute as I have been both the cause of dog related disturbances to the peace as well as the victim. How ever hard I tried I could not stop my doberman barking and how ever hard I tried to sleep through and ignore the incessant barking of the little mutt next door I could not.

Mediation is the answer, but who the mediator could be is a different question. And if after watching the video above you think the dogs are only barking because the complainant is outside in the garden, you would be mistaken as there are many other videos from inside the house where the dogs can be heard barking too. Let's hope for the sake of all involved this problem is quickly resolved.

58 comments:

Barking dogs : Environmental Protection Act 1990 said...

Whilst dogs are allowed to bark, they are not allowed to bark so that it causes a nuisance. It is a matter of fact and degree in each case and factors that may be taken into account include the volume, duration of the barking and the time of day it happens.

If a complaint is made to a Council, they have a duty to investigate it. The Council may serve a Noise Abatement Notice and if the barking continues then they may prosecute under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The likely penalty is a fine.

The neighbour may also take action themselves

Barking mad? Moi? said...

Clearly the neighbour in question is annoying Mr West. But I wonder who put the idea into the neighbour's head in the first place: to use barking dogs to wind up Mr West??????

There is someone who is in the middle of all this trouble between Mr West and his neighbours - someone stiring the pot against Mr West whilst at the same time pretending to be his "comrade".

I know him, he knows me, and now he knows that I know.

Anonymous said...

NN is back.

Anonymous said...

Roy I've been campaigning against blood sports since 1969. I later joined the A.L.F. Then did some time.
You'll get no change from these people, they kill for pleasure and you will get hounded if you get in their way.

Hunde des Krieges said...

Video the noise with times and dates and put a formal complaint in to the council.

Patient: Why did you charge me a group rate? Psychiatrist: Youve got multiple personalities. said...

Barking Mad has the answer. It is plain as day (in his mind). It is all one big conspiracy between West's neighbour and the middle man, you know, Purnell's secret mate with the hidden camera in his vest.lol

Anonymous said...

People that dig out foxes using a shovel, have no Capacity for thought or reason. They have a blood lust to kill. Barking dogs, you complain, are you having a laugh? They don't care, if they did, they would not kill foxes for pleasure.

A fox is saved during an attempted dig out. Make sure you watch right to the end! said...

Roy you know,that, when you are dealing with people that do this your not going to get any kind reason or fair play? It's a blood lust to kill.

SerpentSlayer said...

I've heard that this mysterious man also has the ability to make you cry like a cissy and shoot like a girl.

Weirdly enough he only targets these special abilities at one person.

Wendy Russell said...

"Often when people feel threatened by the truth, they attempt to undermine the truthteller with sarcastic humour."

Albert Einstein as quoted in the New York Times.

"The problem with being a spy is you are sometimes the last one to realise that everybody has rumbled you".

Kim Philby

CCCCClick said...

Doctor Doctor, how much do you charge to sort out my speech defect which is actually a neurological problem?

Doctor: Some people are beyond help.

Anonymous said...

Maybe we could get John Taylor to be the mediation between them, he's round their house often enough.?
And he's always going on about dog shit and dogs not on the led in the park. He's "well-versed" to listen to complaints about nuisance dogs.
I would say he was the one in the middle here.

Anonymous said...

How your council deals with ongoing noise problems
The assessment of noise nuisance is based on:
whether it is 'reasonable', bearing in mind the locality
how often noise occurs
how many people are affected.

Anonymous said...

You must be joking Roy West can't complain about barking dogs, or anything else it's not allowed.
Now on the other hand, make a complaint against Roy West "what lets get round there to investigate."
The community must be protected from flags and poppies.


Len Jackman said...

Brother he is one boring c**t.

Anonymous said...

This might be a radical idea,get yourself a job. Move out of the area and rent somewhere posh. In two years time when I am king, all the benifit payments payed to dole scum will end.
That is all.

Both Sides Of The Story said...

e"People looking for truth"
Till you hear both sides and not what they want you to know......

Yet they persecute Roy West on hearsay evidence said...

A Teeside Crown Court judge has said burglars have “courage” and prison did little good for anyone!
Judge Peter Bowers said he could be “pilloried” for his outrageous judgement to let a serial burglar walk free from his court.

He said: “It takes a huge amount of courage as far as I can see for somebody to burgle somebody’s house.
“I wouldn’t have the nerve.

“Yet somehow, bolstered by drugs and desperation, you were prepared to do that,” he told Richard Rochford, the burglar who was before him.

He went as far to say that Rochford, 26, had been harmed by prison.
“I think prison very rarely does anybody any good,” he said.

“It mostly leaves people the chance to change their own mind if they want to.
“I don’t think anybody would benefit from sending you to prison today.

Anonymous said...

@07/09/2012 02:08 great idea, don't forget, that 90% of all new charter tenants are getting housing benefits.
£7 Million profit last year, Munro on £20,000 a year. They won't go for your idea. Nice thought though come back with another one.

Anonymous said...

@07/09/2012 02:08 you are too stupid to see the bigger picture in the great benefits scam. The real scammers making £millions out of the "dole system" as you call it.
The rent's gone up to £95.17 a week from £89.79 per week. With an healthy profit of 7 million a year, and Munro is making vast amounts of money from the "dolers" In your attempts to be personal, you show yourself up as nasty and pathetic. No wonder you post Anonymous. You are probably a doler yourself.

Cry Havoc and let slip... said...

I can cofirm there were several dogs yapping loudly on Glenmore Grove yesterday evening. I could hear them from some distance away.
This sounds like a job for Tameside's mental Goliath and dog shit/leads/menace Tsar, John "for Christ's sake don't die Kieran" Taylor. It shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience as his car used to be parked there regularly.

Alf Garnett said...

Yes 7 bleeding million profit out of houses that belong to us ? not them theiving scum and millions out of are water and millions out of are are trains are electric are land and hospitals are school coz they keep sellind are kids payin feild ? i couldgo on all day but i think you know what im sayin ? this left wing sh-t have calved up are country and split between them selves and they wonder why are country is in a mess when its makin no money ? ? ? well we goin to take it all back you scum coz it dont belong to you is ares

However this one is said...

The person who believes that every single comment made is directed at them, should get a grip on reality and realise that they are not.

Anonymous said...

Could someone explain why my comments have been removed ...... Scared of the truth perhaps .....

Tameside Citizen said...

I had a cull of ridiculous comments which were by enlarge cryptic by nature and from what I can gather posted by the same individual. I think it centres around a member of a minor party who believes that his comrades are plotting against him or have been spying on him.

I don’t mind people airing their Tameside related differences here - within reason, but it must at least make sense to those who are not involved.

If your comment was accidentally deleted during this ‘cull’, I do apologise and feel free to post again.

Anonymous said...

Well that's all well and good but moderation was on and you approved my comment to West and he responded directly ..... No cryptic message !!! So why remove it ???

Tameside Citizen said...

It must have been accidentally removed as in; deleted by mistake. Please feel free to re-post the message.

is peace and quiet to much to ask for? said...

I have a neighbour with a barking dog and I sympathise with the maker of this video.

Ungesittet said...

They should keep those dogs quiet if they're going to run a dog breeding business in a residential area.
As for brutalising animals for sport, barbaric and disgusting.

Ahkbar said...

We must have the most twisted foreign policy in history in this country. Import millions of hostile, brainwashed, socially retarded religious maniacs. Allow them to build foreign enclaves in our towns and cities. Then launch a series of unjust wars which radicalise that alien population. For good measure allow those fanatics to travel abroad and receive military training, fight British soldiers then return back to Britain. Then again the government are not the ones who either have to live with these backward savages or suffer the consequences of their bombs.

Islam? No Thanks said...

The sooner the shit hits the fan the better because we'll still outnumber them.

SerpentSlayer said...

Do they, I don't see many white people here any more, I see plenty of white creatures but I assume that those are just sheep, they move like sheep, act like sheep and have all of the political sense of your average woolly quadruped.

Our best bet is our glorious armed forces, those lads care about Britain and are prepared to die for it. I just wish that either Prince Henry or Prince William take the throne next, both of them are military boys and who knows they may just decide that the Monarchy and what she represents is worth fighting for.

Wade in and start hacking said...

The British Armed Forces are being deliberately 'phased out' by contraction, so we will become dependent on international assistance.
As for dumb and dumber they've both got advanced Thirdworlditis, caught from their bleeding heart (and brain) mother.

SerpentSlayer said...

There are still plenty of lads serving now and who have served. Must be loads of men out there on the dole queue who are ready to serve their country and can operate an eighty.

Master of the Hounds said...

SS is correct, the only real hope of saving this once great nation is the military. The enemies of Western civilization are so deeply entrenched within the system that the only way they can be removed is by force, and the military are the only ones capable of doing such a job. However, if they will is an entirely different matter.

SerpentSlayer said...

Hopefully the military will have toughened them up. Failing that we will be in need of a new monarchy, a new King. That would form the strongest foundations but such a hero would need the backing of the army to place himself there in the first place. We need an Alexander, a Caesar, a Bonaparte, a Franco a great general with the power of a god behind him.

God help Britain said...

I agree SS, but the hereditary PC infected candidates on offer are worse than useless.
'Cometh the hour cometh the man', and in these increasingly desperate times it WOULD need to be someone with a divine spark.

This just about sums up where we're heading as a nation said...

Rule Britania with marmalade and jam.....

Alf Garnett said...

iv been thinking ? this left wing scum owe each and ever one of the true british poeple about 40 million pounds each ? and it works like this ? population 47 million now do your maths ? They sell are water compamy for how much ? are trains for how much ? and im not putin any more of are assets down but they sold are country off in the last 20 years for trillions of pounds ? NOW YOU DIDNT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SELL IT BUT IM SURE AS F-UCK NOT LETING YOU LEFT WING SCUM ROB ME OF MY ANCHESTRUL INHERTANCE ? so where is my money

Anonymous said...

A Close Source to the maker of this video of howling dogs. Told me, that the lady in distess by the howling dogs. Is also distressed at the moment, with the sad news of her mother having an heart attack. She want's a bit of consideration that's all.

Germania said...

Good riddance to the PC propagandafest that is the Olympics.
And to think they slagged the Nazis off for using the games for their own purposes.

Anonymous said...

Good point by Love Thy Neighbour. What does happen to all the money from the privatisation of our national assets?

why do some people see everything as harassment? said...

A Close Source to the maker of this video. Told me, that the lady distressed by the howling dogs. Is also out of her mind having to watch her mother die in Tameside hospital at this present time. This video is not there to harass anyone, but to highlight a distressing situation, for the lady affected by the howling dogs.








Reimer said...

The military has been being kept tied up out of the way during a time of scripted change, pursuing its fools' errands on the other side of the world where it can't get involved in protecting the realm.

Colin said...

It seems to me that those having to listen to that, are the one's being harassed. My view you should leave there and let someone else have a turn.

Ukip 2012 said...

I would also say seriously consider moving from there. You are obviously being set up again.
Anyone could be mistaken in to thinking, that they are getting some enjoyment out of doing so.

Pam said...

I had to complain to my neighbours landlord because we had dogs barking night and day. It took us a while to get it sorted out but in the end we did. Good luck to you.

Advice of someone that knows said...

Look send the recordings to the council or charter, or both. Explain the distress it's causing, also explain to them your partner's very recent bereavement.
They've got to look into it and they can't ignore this.

Nuisance Barking Dog said...

Good luck from another victim.

Debirther said...

Don't know about the West case as his neighbours seem like employed, generally responsible types, but there are a vast amount of subhuman c***s out there nowadays who do as they please and couldn't give a toss if their dogs or their putrid, subnormal children inflict themselves on decent people.
In my view every generation of these scum families should be thrown in the same industrial mincer to correct matters as none of this human detritus should have been born in the first place.

A Friend said...

@11/09/2012 12:18 In fact her mother died on the 12th of September in Tameside hospital.

Anonymous said...

As the first post mentions "nuisance"
Yes of course, dogs are allowed to bark that's what they do.
But if a persons health is affected by dogs howling throughout the day, then that's not right.
And if a person can't open their windows because if they do, it's like having the dogs in their own living room. Then that can't be right or fair?

Anonymous said...

Ok I avoided making a comment on this one not much time for West's lunatic postings. But he's got a point on this one. His neighbours are looking more and more like playground bullies.
I was glad he got what he got in court, but I'm not so sure now.

Alan said...

We had this problem all the time. We had to get up for work kept awake all night. Don't know if you are kept awake by barking dogs but we were.

Anonymous said...

That would drive me made mate

Anonymous said...

Even mad

Anonymous said...

woof woof

Anonymous said...

God man how do you stick that?