Petty neighbor gets even with nightshift employee who lets his doggo bark all night by replaying it at 6 AM to give him a taste of his own medicine

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Jun 4, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Dogs bark. In case you weren't aware, that's a standard-issue feature that comes with every current model. They can bark for literally any reason - leaves rustling outside, for not giving them their favorite bone exactly when they want it, attempting to sleep in when they need to go potty, or literally anything else you can think of. However, it's also our job as pawrents to make sure our doggos know how to use their "inside voices". There is a time and place to bark, and there are certainly times not to. From midnight to 3 AM is one of those times.

Every night for around three hours, this nightshift employee would leave his dog outside to bark. Their neighbor got fed up with it, and decided to take matters into their own hands. They recorded his dog barking, and then started playing it with a speaker pointed right at their walls from 6 AM. Needless to say, the employee found a way to stop his dog from barking from then on. Read through the full story below!

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    My neighbor's dog ruined my sleep so I used it to ruin his
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    Every night from midnight to 3AM his dog would bark non- stop right outside my bedroom. Deep loud echoing barks like he was announcing the end of the world
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    I asked my neighbor twice to bring the dog in. Both times he brushed it off with a smirk and said "he's just doing his job"
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    Cool. Then I'll do mine
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    I started recording the barking on my phone. The next morning at 6AM right after my neighbor got home from his night shift I played it back full volume through a speaker pointed at his wall
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    I repeated that for two mornings. No yelling. No threats. Just his own dog giving him a taste of what I'd been dealing with
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    On day three the dog was inside before 10PM. Hasn't barked at night since Sometimes the best revenge is pressing play
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  • Sometimes, the simplest solution is the best one. This is a great example of that. We're definitely going to steal this technique for the next time our upstairs neighbors decide to have salsa lessons at midnight. When we get up for work at 6 the next day, we might be inspired to clean the ceiling noisily for an hour before leaving.

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    hybridaaroncarroll Reminds me of my dad. Before digital cameras he had lots of SLR's from being a wedding photographer. He got fed up with people who were walking their dogs and letting them sh on our
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    lawn without cleaning it up (the house was a corner lot so lots of foot traffic). Anytime he'd see it start to happen he'd grab one of his cameras with no film and stand on the porch snapping pretend photos of the activity, not saying a word. The problem stopped almost immediately.
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    Careful-Blacksmith-8 Wonderfully petty - and effective - love it!
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    Sufficient Equal_334 I had that problem so I'd put my speaker outside on my wall and played "we built this city on rock and roll" on repeat for 3 hours.
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    Connect_Relation1007 My dad used to get up at 5am to go to work every day. Anytime the neighbors dog woke him up during the night, they got a knock on the door around 530. Dad would just casually let them know he was off to work and their dog woke him up.
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    TemporaryFun4544 When my neighbor's dog wouldn't stop barking out in their yard I took a flashlight and aimed the beam at the side of the house. and the stupid dog chased the beam of light and jumped all
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    over the house. and they would come out and yell King stop jumping! and I would start all over again when they went back in ...until they finally brought him in..
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    Missbhavin58 My husband did a similar thing many years ago. Had a noisy neighbour so he recorded some of the neighbours favourite tunes, put the speakers facing the wall and put it on play on a continuous loop for the weekend while he went out. Worked a charm
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    EmotionalFun8865 Years ago my parents had a tenant who would play disco music at an appalling volume every morning at 2:00 am. We begged her to stop and she never did. I finally got fed up with her
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    and my brother and I decided to get back at her. We parked a very large first amp at her back door and then I added an additional 30 decibels to the song "Ding Dong, the Witch is De d" from the Wizard of Oz and attached my CD
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    player to my bro's guitar amp and then we waited. The next night her music went on and 2 minutes later, so did ours. I thought her shoe was going to explode it was
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    so loud. It blasted out for about 2 minutes before I heard her yelling she was turning the music off. We had to repeat it a few times, but she eventually got the message
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    BuffMan5 We had a old lady that lived behind our house that would leave her dog out and bark around the clock. I work night shift at the time so I got sick and
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    tired of having earplugs jammed in my ears and fans turned on. I got one of those bark Stop boxes and hung it up on her fence. Miraculously cured the dog from barking.
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