Giselle
07-05-2007, 03:14 AM
UGH. I'm so LIVID right now!
For brief background info, my neighbors have a labrador that they keep outside on their tiny little deck, approximately 6' X 2-3'. For years, their dog has barked its head off and, for years, I refrained from making a call to the AC. Recently, I spoke to another neighbor who confirmed my belief- they, too, had already contacted the AC several times and considered it animal abuse. They said that these people should not even have a dog. I suppose the severity of the situation finally set in as my neighbors have recently begun to bring the dog in more often. However, it still barks, and we've never made a public complaint.
HOWEVER, they, on the other hand, are free to criticize us. For example, when I first got Ivy, they complained about her barking. Why did Ivy bark? You guessed it. Because their dog was barking. We trained her out of it. She does not bark at all anymore. Then, today, on THE FOURTH OF JULY WHEN EVERYBODY IS SETTING OFF FIREWORKS, they complained about my dogs again by taping a nice, little letter on our front door with their name and number. Are they completely unaware that my DOGS probably barked out of fear and chaos when their dog spent its entire life up until this point OUT ON A TINY DECK???? Are they aware that they are the ONLY neighbor who has EVER complained about mine??? It's JULY FOURTH for crying out loud! How do you expect dogs to deal with the fireworks?! And, perhaps they don't know, but our dogs are given the choice to be out/in via a DOG DOOR. They make it sound like we purposely force them out when we aren't home!
They've also accused us of not cleaning up tree debris on the border between our properties. The tree debris, by the way, was cut by the city and later cleaned up by the city. I truly hate these "people". They are the epitome of malice and hypocrisy. :mad:
For brief background info, my neighbors have a labrador that they keep outside on their tiny little deck, approximately 6' X 2-3'. For years, their dog has barked its head off and, for years, I refrained from making a call to the AC. Recently, I spoke to another neighbor who confirmed my belief- they, too, had already contacted the AC several times and considered it animal abuse. They said that these people should not even have a dog. I suppose the severity of the situation finally set in as my neighbors have recently begun to bring the dog in more often. However, it still barks, and we've never made a public complaint.
HOWEVER, they, on the other hand, are free to criticize us. For example, when I first got Ivy, they complained about her barking. Why did Ivy bark? You guessed it. Because their dog was barking. We trained her out of it. She does not bark at all anymore. Then, today, on THE FOURTH OF JULY WHEN EVERYBODY IS SETTING OFF FIREWORKS, they complained about my dogs again by taping a nice, little letter on our front door with their name and number. Are they completely unaware that my DOGS probably barked out of fear and chaos when their dog spent its entire life up until this point OUT ON A TINY DECK???? Are they aware that they are the ONLY neighbor who has EVER complained about mine??? It's JULY FOURTH for crying out loud! How do you expect dogs to deal with the fireworks?! And, perhaps they don't know, but our dogs are given the choice to be out/in via a DOG DOOR. They make it sound like we purposely force them out when we aren't home!
They've also accused us of not cleaning up tree debris on the border between our properties. The tree debris, by the way, was cut by the city and later cleaned up by the city. I truly hate these "people". They are the epitome of malice and hypocrisy. :mad: