Noisy dog - Calton Avenue/Gilkes Crescent

[dul_resident]

If the owner of the frequently barking/yapping dog living in one of the Calton Avenue* gardens backing onto Gilkes Crescent is reading this, PLEASE can you control your dog and/or keep it indoors until it stops barking.

*Disclaimer: it is difficult to gauge exactly which house/garden the dog lives in. It is a high pitched yapping/barking, which the dog seems to be able to sustain at length.

On Monday night this week our household was awoken at 3am and kept awake until approx 4am by your dog barking incessantly.

Last night your dog was barking agian, albeit earlier in the night and for a shorter duration(between 10 and 11pm).

This is not the first time your dog has been a noise nusiance at night. It also barks during the day which is very annoying but not as big an issue as the night-time.

Please be neighbourly and have consideration for other people trying to sleep.

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/412/noise_problems/377/be_a_considerate_neighbour

If anyone reading this is aware of the source of the noise please feel free to PM me.

I don't normally complain on forums, and would prefer to knock on their door, but I don't know which house it is.

I expect they don't realise how much disruption they are causing to their neighbours.

[Villager]

We can hear it over in East Dulwich Grove!

I thought it was my over-sensitive hearing but now I will wander round thereabouts and see where the barking is coming from.

I hear it most frequently between 5pm and 9pm.

[i*Rate]

I did'nt realise that you posh Dulwich Village types used our lowly forum, times were when you did'nt dare venture across Lordship Lane.

Barking dogs - get over it. Might be more riots next month, like last year, and they might be down your manor.

Pip Pip and Cheerybye!

[Green Goose]

i*Rate Wrote:

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> I did'nt realise that you posh Dulwich Village

> types used our lowly forum, times were when you

> did'nt dare venture across Lordship Lane.

> Barking dogs - get over it. Might be more riots

> next month, like last year, and they might be down

> your manor.

>

>

What do riots have to do with barking dogs?

Isn't East Dulwich Grove in East Duwich?

Do you assume that someone with the handle Villager must live in Dulwich Village?

What have you got against residents of Dulwich Village? Envy? Resentment?

Or are you a troll or just having a bad day?

Goose

[tiddles]

yes a bit of an odd response from i*rate about a perfectly reasonable query. I completely sympathise with anyone suffering noise pollution (and the angst of hearing a dog barking and worrying about it)

[tallulah71]

Couldn't agree more tiddles and Goose...

[maxamydus]

dogs bark its in their nature. Why not stop being so tight and buy some ear plugs instead of wasting time posting this on a website?

[bonniebird]

Blimey! As a dog owner its my duty NOT to let my dogs bark at all hours, its not fair when your trying to get to sleep, I wouldn't want to hear it and I LOVE dogs, but it would drive me nuts!

[tiddles]

there is a difference between the occasional bark and relentless barking from the same dog especially when it wakes you up in the night. You get to the point that you are in a constant state of agitation every time you hear one bark waiting for the onslaught to begin. I say this as a dog owner who used to live near a relentlessly barking dog!

[BrandNewGuy]

maxamydus Wrote:

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> dogs bark its in their nature. Why not stop being

> so tight and buy some ear plugs instead of wasting

> time posting this on a website?

Psst... want any dodgy earplugs?

[tallulah71]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> maxamydus Wrote:

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> -----

> > dogs bark its in their nature. Why not stop

> being

> > so tight and buy some ear plugs instead of

> wasting

> > time posting this on a website?

>

> Psst... want any dodgy earplugs?

Hahahahhaahahahaha

[NeilDani]

The last time I looked East Dulwich wasn't some private estate with separate rules from the rest of society. If you have an issue with noise from a local dog and barking why not do what any normal person would do and go and speak to the owner. No, you post a message on a forum that the owner is unlikely to read in the standard middle class passive aggressive manner.

This forum is so polluted with the virtual curtain twitching, middle England, white middle class closeted nonsense it is beyond a joke. It's like you live outside of normal society and the normal means of social growth and socialisation.

[BrandNewGuy]

Nice chip on that shoulder of yours... the OP said s/he didn't know where the dog lived, so couldn't really go and speak to the owner. But you probably didn't have time to read that, what with fighting the class war 'n' all...

[pipsky2008]

Neil/Dani Wrote:

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> The last time I looked East Dulwich wasn't some

> private estate with separate rules from the rest

> of society. If you have an issue with noise from a

> local dog and barking why not do what any normal

> person would do and go and speak to the owner. No,

> you post a message on a forum that the owner is

> unlikely to read in the standard middle class

> passive aggressive manner.

> This forum is so polluted with the virtual curtain

> twitching, middle England, white middle class

> closeted nonsense it is beyond a joke. It's like

> you live outside of normal society and the normal

> means of social growth and socialisation.

You're right of course but if it isn't a nice middle class doggy that says sorry for the inconvienience, I do apologise but says go fuck yourself, cunt instead and sets said dog on to you, would you?

[kerry.finlay]

There are actually two dogs guilty of this - one at the bottom of Calton, one near the end of Gilkes (we're on Calton).

However one barks more loudly and more often than the other. Mutiple times in the evening and often, like you said, in the small hours. As far as we can see it is a case of the owners not letting the dog back in after letting it out to do its thing. I know dogs bark, but this is a case of bad owners in my view.

I know exactly which house the main offender lives at if you'd like to know - send me a PM.

Said dog has woken our baby daughter up most nights, for months. Worse in the summer as her windows need to be open and the garden backs onto ours, so the dog is pretty much underneath her. Grrr.

And for the misery here who thinks it's as simple as some ear plugs - want to come and try sleeping in her room one evening?

[dul_resident]

Thanks for the notes of sympathy! Judging by a couple of posts above, and a couple of PMs I've received, I am not the only one being disturbed. Kerry I will PM you.

Ear plugs are standard wear for me, but this noise penetrates them. Shutting windows during the recent heat wave was not an option.

It seems to have been quieter since I posted, so perhaps the message has filtered through.

And Neil/Dani and i*Rate, I want to correct your assumptions, I am neither British, nor middle class nor rich nor privately educated nor posh. I work damn hard to pay to live where I do, hence I need a good night's sleep - without barking dogs - so I can get up early and go out and earn a living!