I'm not asking for advice here, really. Just venting.

We just moved to a new house. My reasons behind this were having a place to lock up the cats so they don't wake me up 10 times a night, not having the downstairs neighbors sexy times wake me up at random hours (she was a screamer), and living somewhere where a newborn won't disrupt the neighbors.

We've lived here for a little over two weeks now, and the sleep was awesome... For a week. And over the last week until 7:30 am, when the neighbor dog started howling and whimpering, I assume because they left for work and school. But I can take that - it was no more disruptive than my cat running around. It'd be nicer if that didn't coincide with the whole pregnant-belly-getting-big-enough-to-make-sleep-awkward phase, but whatever.

Then last night, at about 10 pm, the barking started (they have two dogs, and the bigger one has a deep, booming bark). I went to bed at 1:30 am (DH gets home at 10:30, so we sleep from about 1:30-9:30am.) At 3:30 am, I give up on sleeping in my own bed and go to sleep on the couch - I can still hear the dog, but not as loud. At around 4 or so, the dog settles down. Starts barking again at 5 until 6:30, when the neighbor finally lets the wretched beast in. I go back to my bed until 8:30 when the howling starts again. (If it happens again tomorrow with a similar degree of insanity, I'll go talk to the neighbors.)

Anyone else have anything going on in their neighborhood that is driving them batty?