If my neighbor has loud barking dogs, do I have any legal rights to have this stopped?
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If my neighbor has loud barking dogs, do I have any legal rights to have this stopped?
They don’t bark all the time but on and off throughout the day. This has been ongoing for many years and I have tried in vain to resolve the issue.
Asked on May 21, 2015 under Real Estate Law, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, you would most likely not have any right to resolve this. Dogs are a natural/reasonable thing to have in a residential area; dogs barking is a natural and reasonsable sound to hear and have to deal with. While it's certainly possible these dogs are louder than normal, they likely are not so much louder as to rise to the level of a "legal nuisance," which typically is something not appropriate for an residential area--like a bar, pub, restaurant in a residential area which plays loud music late a night for hours on end, or a light manufacturing plant emiting noxious oders. Dogs who bark more than ideal or common is probably still within the range of things which are natural or normal enough that you have to live with it.
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