There is a dog newly arrived in Albert Road that makes a kind of terrible, pathetic low intermittent crying noise all day long. Has anyone else heard this? It started about a week ago. The poor animal seems to be kept in a back room, not outside, and it may only be heard by immediate neighbours and from the backs of houses in Lorne Road / Stroud Green Road. It's not very loud but a very strange noise, very persistent, like a repeated groan, and so pathetic and overwhelmingly sad that it actually makes me uncomfortable sitting in my garden.
It makes me wonder if the animal is in distress or suffering from being kept too long indoors. And so, if there is anything to do about it. Does anybody know if the RSPCA or any other animal welfare group has the power to investigate? Of course, it may be a supremely happy animal with a sore throat, but it sure doesn't sound like into me.
[Edit: I've changed 'howling' to 'crying' because it's a better description of this spooky sound.
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