We just got a 7 month old dog 2 weeks ago. We live in a cold state, it has been -20 before wind. This weekend was the first weekend our dog has been able to spend a decent amount of time outside. This afternoon we enjoyed having the ability to have her play in the yard. One of the times we let her inside our neighbor hollered over the fence that it’s not ok for our dog to be outside barking for an hour. Yes our dog was out a lot but not an hour straight. Yes she has been barking as all our neighbors, including the complaining one, has dogs and she doesn’t know them yet. Our dog was out from 1:53-2:15 2:25-2:40 3:05-3:12. It’s not like our dog was the only one barking, including theirs. Am I the asshole? Their solution is not letting her play in the backyard only using it for the restroom and taking her on walks to get her energy out. And putting a bark collar on her for when she’s in the yard.
You’re not the asshole for letting her play outside in the cold, but you’re definitely the asshole for not correcting her when she’s barking at your neighbors. She’s still young, if you don’t do it now, it will be much harder later.
Soft YTA. I think you need to do behavioral training and desensitization training with your puppy. Training a puppy to remain calm and nonreactive is the base layer of all behavioral training and will make your life and your dogs life a lot better. YouTube should have all the info you could possibly need just don’t listen to anyone who encourages punishing your dog. Positive reinforcement works best with very minor negative consequences for negative behavior. Training should NEVER involve yelling, hitting, yanking the leash,etc.
She is in training unfortunately at this time we had a few chores that needed to get done and all she wanted to do was go play in the snow and see all the other dogs. It was mid day I assumed a bit of barking would be ok knowing we haven’t let her another time
If training is not consistent, it’s not going to work. YTA if you already can’t be bothered after 2 weeks.
NTA she’s a dog they bark and it was the afternoon not the middle of the night.
That was my thought. We have our dog in training it will be worked on more seriously in the near future. We have only had her 2 weeks and we have corrected her everyday before today. It’s not like this is happening every day.
YTA for letting her bark. If someone in the neighbour’s yard was yelling for almost an hour, I’m sure it would annoy you (or would annoy most people.) Same thing, more or less. Similar volume, similar disturbance. Not to blame the dog for it, but she needs to be trained out of that habit. No reason she can’t go out, but she shouldn’t be left out unsupervised for extended periods. Dogs meet other living things outside, so that’s a risk, plus they find a million things to eat that they shouldn’t, so that’d be another good reason to keep an eye on her.
YTA for letting her out for an hour off and on letting her bark and annoy people while you fuck off not paying attention. “Other people let their dogs bark” so? Nobody likes that either, plus puppies and young dogs barking can be particularly grating. Be responsible for your pet.
Totally understand that’s why I am here asking. We have her in training and we have been working on it. Unfortunately we hit a situation in our house and all she wanted was to be outside. And for argument sake I did not say “other people dogs bark” but the person who was complaining had their dog out their barking as well. And generally we correct her we were just in a situation. She was not barking the whole time she was out. My opinion is the neighbor is a retired crab who needs to calm down. But again I do love my neighbors and I was feeling quite upset over this and worried that I was in the wrong. That is why I am here. Dog training continues and this is something that we have planned to work on. The trainer had us working on other things first
NTA. dogs bark. That’s life. Obviously don’t let her do it constantly and monitor her but intermittent barking is just what dogs do. You can’t expect a dog to never bark, especially in response to other dogs.