Reply To: Dog barking – committee not taking action

Just thought I’d provide an update (and seek further advice). So the NtC was issued in December, the residents+dog were away for nearly 3 weeks over Christmas. Bliss! Not so much since they returned. I thought I’d give it time, have kept a diary for most of the last 2 months and can see that there is some slight changes – several days of the week no barking (dog must be elsewhere) and they’ve put up some balcony screens (dog can still hear activity so makes no difference).

But no training of the dog, and in fact they don’t even bother to shush it anymore. Nice quiet Sat morning here today, dog has barked 200+ times in the last 2 hours, residents are home.

It’s listed on next week’s Committee agenda to discuss the issuing of the notice, so I spoke with the strata manager. Apparently the owners feel “picked on” because of this and the previous notices re: their unapproved noisy renovations. Far out. I was willing to let the strata manager deal with it, she’s going to talk to them about other methods (training/bark collar etc) but after this morning I’m so done. Do i just submit an email to the Committee to request going to NCAT? Or just provide confirmation the breach is still happening? They issued the Notice under the noise bylaw, not the keeping of animals bylaw – does this matter??

Sorry, so stressed 🙁 Thank you.