I had an apartment and then a new neighbor moved in next door. She put her dog in a cage that was in her bedroom closet. That bedroom closet was on the wall opposite my headboard side of my bed. Of course, when she went to work that dog would bark all day. I attempted to complain to the apartment manager but guess what happened? Nothing happened because that apartment manager also had a dog that she put in a cage and kept in her apartment while she was away.
In a different apartment I was on the ground floor. There was a lady above me who would let her dog do its business on her concrete patio which was above mine and then she would sweep it over the edge until my patio below looked like a minefield of dog turds.
Dogs need yards and should not be locked up in a cage or in an apartment nor should their barking invade the space of others.
If you own a dog, live in an apartment, and the noise from that dog’s barking is inside the apartments of your neighbors then you are a shitty inconsiderate person!
I had an ex that lived in an apartment complex. One of her neighbors had a dog that would whine and bark all day when they weren’t there. It sounded so horrible and it was constant. I wanted to do something but couldn’t, it’s all legal. Then she got a dog. Then one time we were leaving her place and walking away I started hearing a dog whining and barking. Now it was her dog, locked up in her tiny apartment. That relationship ended quickly after that, but for many other reasons.
I love dogs which is why I’m waiting until when(if) I get a place with a big yard it could run around in anytime. Until then I have my formerly feral cat that is now a chronic introvert.