Puppy won't quit fricking yapping!

Go to your neighbors and tell them to shut the Goddamn dog up. If that doesn't work, check with the homeowners association.

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Yeah, I know this is what I should do, but my neighbors are cool people and I don't wanna create tension with them.

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If they're actually cool, they'll understand and try to accommodate.

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Puppies raise a ruckus for the same reasons a baby does. They want attention. It's cruel for the owners to take it from its pack and just isolate the dog.

One thing is for sure, the puppy is not going to stop barking. It desperately wants and needs access to the family, who it considers to be its pack now.

You should definitely have a talk with someone in the family and let them know that the situation is not going to resolve itself. Either they change the pup's situation or give it up. It will not accept this isolation. Nor should it. It's cruel.

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Yeah. And worst case scenario it's a yippy dog that barks at literally everything. Different breeds have different barking behaviors.

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Puppies raise a ruckus for the same reasons a baby does. They want attention. It's cruel for the owners to take it from its pack and just isolate the dog.

One thing is for sure, the puppy is not going to stop barking. It desperately wants and needs access to the family, who it considers to be its pack now.

You should definitely have a talk with someone in the family and let them know that the situation is not going to resolve itself. Either they change the pup's situation or give it up. It will not accept this isolation. Nor should it. It's cruel.

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Yep. This can actually cause aggression in dogs. It's alright to leave them outdoors on a nice day when everyone is at work. But depending on how young the dog, it may be too young to leave out outdoors, because they haven't learned their owners routine. But if it's a naturally yappy dog, then it's bad because you about your neighbors.

I had an unknown neighbor snitch to the county, because my roommate's dog would bark at squirrels non-stop, until you brought him inside. I didn't like the tactic, but I understood why they called the county.

Just don't do what my parent's neighbor did. He went to the homeowner's association. He got their new president and him to walk over. He claimed their chocolate lab was pooping in his yard. Now they couldn't dispute this because they just open the door to let him do his business. So they said they were sorry and walked over to pick it up.

One huge, well actually literally small, problem was that the terd was tiny. Gumbo at that time was a 120# lab. Stout and muscular. My dad laughed and said "I wish that dog shite terds that small." So they walk over to the over piles of "poop." He points to two dead birds. They were decaying, but you could clearly see feathers. Well the homeowner president asked him what else. His response was "I just don't understand why everyone that lives in that house always has big dogs."

Humiliated and on the losing end he resorted to criminal tactics. A few months later They had to rush Gumbo to the ER vet to have his stomach pumped.

Thanks man. They pressed charges, but could never prove he did it. Everyone knew it was him, but there wasn't anything we could do. He's a great dog. Cancer survivor, poison survivor, recently retired from hunting, and now just gets to lay around the house all day in his old age.

To the OP. Speak to your neighbors. If they are as cool as you say, they will be accommodating. talk to them about indoor crate training it. Does wonders for house breaking and behavior of done right.

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It desperately wants and needs access to the family, who it considers to be its pack now.

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interesting!

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You should definitely have a talk with someone in the family and let them know that the situation is not going to resolve itself. Either they change the pup's situation or give it up. It will not accept this isolation. Nor should it. It's cruel.

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will do... thanks

Dog treat + Timic

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You should definitely have a talk with someone in the family and let them know that the situation is not going to resolve itself.

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talked to my neighbor, casually asked about how the dog was doing and he said "it's been barking a lot I know, I was worried about him disturbing y'all so much." He said the dog has been sleeping in his son's room at night and they let him out during the day while everyone is at school and work.

I brought up crate training, apparently he didn't know anything about the concept. So I told him a bit about it and house training and he said he's going to do some research and get a crate.

Overall, good conversation with no animosity or hard feelings, which was my biggest concern.

Thanks for all the input, y'all!