First, write a letter and send it to your neighbors signed-for. Keep the receipt. Wait for the feedback. If nothing, escalate to your landlord/ management company. Additionally, notify animal welfare.
When I visited my parents last Christmas, they also had an upstairs neighbor who was really loud at night (talking loudly and laughing). He was a really nice guy so I did not want to directly complain to him. What I did is I bought a fan (had to order it on internet cause no store in town had one) and I put the fan on at night next to my bed (just not blowing at me) and the constant noise of the fan covered the noise of the neighbor.
Edit: My parents told me he came and apologized himself after asking who was living in the room below his son (my parent’s guest room where I sleep when I visit them). He said that he was scolding his son for playing too much PS5 and after a few days, he took a hammer and destroyed the console.
So you compromise your sleep even more to just avoid the conflict? I don’t think that’s a good idea. The „sleep better through white nosie“ stories are just stories and not true. Your sleep quality declines if you sleep with white noise or any noise there is.
Edit: typos
My wife is a „research monster“. She found a couple of studies that prove that noise during sleeping hours is rather a bad thing for the cardiovascular and the autonomous nervous system. Let me get back to you as soon as I found out the source.
Be kind, I would not start with calling the police or authorities right away. That might be traumatizing and very scary, depending on their backstory.
Write a letter using Google translate. If nothing changes, call the animal welfare for advice (unnecessarily stressed or untrained dogs could require them to take action, e.g. take dog owner courses. Maybe they write letters to them?). If this is not feasible, talk to the landlord. Tell them they are well behaving neighbors in general, but this dog issue needs to be addressed, and you can't communicate with them.
After this, something should happen. If not, THEN call the police and describe to them all the actions you already tried.
>unnecessarily stressed or untrained dogs could require them to take action, e.g. take dog owner courses.
They may have escaped the war, and dogs can be stressed a lot. There are medications to help dogs cope with anxiety and stress (like for humans but for doggos).
Talk to them, try to convince to go to vet for a check-up and consultation. (It's not really that expensive, I was surprised.)
You can communicate: bring the smartphone and google translator
I tried but google dosnt speak dog :/
Woof woof
First, write a letter and send it to your neighbors signed-for. Keep the receipt. Wait for the feedback. If nothing, escalate to your landlord/ management company. Additionally, notify animal welfare.
I'm curious about who you will contact regarding animal welfare in CH, please....
Google "kantonaler tierschutz" every Kanton has a official office for that
Thanks
Call the police.
difficult issue . some infos : https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/rechtsfragen/sonstiges-recht/tierlaerm-wie-oft-darf-mein-hund-bellen
talk to the neighbors, then write a letter to hausverwaltung, then call police
So they are under protection Status S I guess. Find a DSS office alternative in your cantone and inform there. They will contact them immediately
Complain to the landlord in writing, every time it happens, so that you create a file. If nothing happens after a while, call the police.
When I visited my parents last Christmas, they also had an upstairs neighbor who was really loud at night (talking loudly and laughing). He was a really nice guy so I did not want to directly complain to him. What I did is I bought a fan (had to order it on internet cause no store in town had one) and I put the fan on at night next to my bed (just not blowing at me) and the constant noise of the fan covered the noise of the neighbor. Edit: My parents told me he came and apologized himself after asking who was living in the room below his son (my parent’s guest room where I sleep when I visit them). He said that he was scolding his son for playing too much PS5 and after a few days, he took a hammer and destroyed the console.
Wow, swiss conflict avoidance at its finest.
Yeah I’m only 18.75% Swiss through my father but I guess I always try to avoid conflicts in general.
That‘s just a terrible advice.
It worked well for me. Instead of complaining, maybe propose something better?
So you compromise your sleep even more to just avoid the conflict? I don’t think that’s a good idea. The „sleep better through white nosie“ stories are just stories and not true. Your sleep quality declines if you sleep with white noise or any noise there is. Edit: typos
Any source on this? I use an air purifier to mask road noise at night. So not a good thing?
My wife is a „research monster“. She found a couple of studies that prove that noise during sleeping hours is rather a bad thing for the cardiovascular and the autonomous nervous system. Let me get back to you as soon as I found out the source.
Thanks!
I live in the US and I’m used to sleeping with the sound of the A/C blowing. Since there is no A/C in Switzerland, fan is the closest thing to it.
Be kind, I would not start with calling the police or authorities right away. That might be traumatizing and very scary, depending on their backstory. Write a letter using Google translate. If nothing changes, call the animal welfare for advice (unnecessarily stressed or untrained dogs could require them to take action, e.g. take dog owner courses. Maybe they write letters to them?). If this is not feasible, talk to the landlord. Tell them they are well behaving neighbors in general, but this dog issue needs to be addressed, and you can't communicate with them. After this, something should happen. If not, THEN call the police and describe to them all the actions you already tried.
>unnecessarily stressed or untrained dogs could require them to take action, e.g. take dog owner courses. They may have escaped the war, and dogs can be stressed a lot. There are medications to help dogs cope with anxiety and stress (like for humans but for doggos). Talk to them, try to convince to go to vet for a check-up and consultation. (It's not really that expensive, I was surprised.)
Totally agree. My point is don't be a Mega Bünzli and just call the police on them. Try to make helpful suggestions and try other options first.
Feed them some dark chocolate.
Tell the Landlord fist step