Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer

Isn't the offer of a room move for "there's a barking dog in a nearby room and the owner is not readily at hand to calm it down" a proper and reasonable response ?

Seems, if the OP really was being disturbed from whatever they were planning to do in the room that afternoon, they would have best moved rooms and got on with whatever it was rather than spend all the time playing "hunt the manager to extract compensation" .....