My trashy neighbors sold their house :-D

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I've had these neighbors since July of 2005 who drive me insane! They have a German Shepherd named "Dakota" who is a very polite and docile dog when they walk her. But during the day when they are at work, they tie her up in the back yard with minimal food and water, and she howls ALL DAY LONG!! So, when they first moved in, I walked up to their house and told them "I am concerned about your dog's barking." That's all I said. They proceeded to accuse me of trying to break up their marriage, drive them out of the neighborhood, trying to kill their dog, breaking into their house. Long story short - they were just NUTS.

Anyway, all future dealings with them were THROUGH animal control. Animal control had so many complaints against these people that it was really a joke. But the real joke was animal control because they kept citing them and talking to them instead of impounding the dog to get her our of the cruel situation.

Yesterday, the dog was outside again howling, crying, barking, wailing (seriously, it sounds like someone is torturing this dog when she is tied outside). So it was disturbing enough that my husband wanted to start the Springtime round of animal control calls early. I didn't remember their house number, so I decided to drive past their house to see the number, and there was a big "FOR SALE - UNDER CONTRACT" sign in front of their house My neighborhood managed to dispatch with these dirtballs in just over 1.5 years

I am so happy

Well, I used to volunteer at a humane society, and I don't think they considered it cruel to leave a dog outside all day when it has food and water... Unless it's really cold or something. I can see how it would be seen from a neighbor's point of view, though.

The point was that there wasn't sufficient food or water.

The first July that they moved in was a record HOT July (think 100+ degrees) and they left a dog with one small bowl of water from 8AM until 10PM sometimes. Another neighbor actually did climb over their fence to refill the bowl a few times.

Just remember you can't spell N-U-T-S without NT!

I hear you Janicka, we had these neighbors who when they talked, they yelled.I don't get it, they weren't even angry. Anyways 12:00 midnight and on, we had to ask them many times to please lower their voices, it got rediculous, they even did this on work nights, geesh, I'd have to get up in the a.m's. My husband has a harsh accent...can't help it, so one time when he yelled over the fence the man yelled back very rudely,swearing and everything. I tried to reason with him, my husband called his landlord. the neighbor then said he wanted to come over to talk to us, I said fine, come over, he did, I invited him into our house, and we ironed out what the problem was, his wife....not so agreable, she frustrated me to no end, she says "the police where called on us 6 times, we are still here"....hello...we didn't call the police on them 6 times. I was quick to inform them of that. It wasn't that I could hear them talking, I can handle that, it's that they were so loud it sounded like they were in our bedroom, and my husband is hard of hearing, he wears a hearing aid, and they woke him out of a sound sleep. I told them that. He understood, she didn't. They've moved recently. Hope new neighbors are more polite, we'll see come summer.

These people don't know how to keep their voices down either. They are almost as bad as their dog. We'd hear them out on their patio making a holy racket when we were in our back yard in the hot tub. We never bothered to talk to them about that, because the dog was much worse, and they had already threatened us over the dog situation.

BTW, there is a nuisance barking statute in our town. At one point, the case got so escalated that everyone on the three streets that complaints were coming from was required to keep a "barking log" for the animal control (to see if the times that we heard the barking rougly matched up). I actually set a tape recorder up in my back yard before I went to work to turn in with the barking log.

Anyway, the barking log period is supposed to be two weeks. About 3 days into it, the lady came around with this open letter to the neighbors apologizing profusely for the barking problem. We called animal control and gave them the letter instead of the log. At that point I think that they got cited (finally). I think they must have put the dog in doggy daycare until the case was closed, because we didn't hear her for about 4 months. Then it started up again, and so did the whole animal control nightmare.

That's very good news.

Brilliant news janicka! Bad neighbours can be a real downer. Hope your new ones are nice.

Bad neighbors suck.

The kid next door before he moved taught my 8 year old bro (10 now but 8 then) to look up porn.

I've never had good neighbors in the house next to mine. The current ones are loud and often throw garbage in their driveway. Most of it is McDonalds bags and they sometimes end up blowing into my front yard. Hopefully they will be gone soon.

I hope some classy people buy that house as well. There was a nice Asian family there before this trashy lot. The lady was really into gardening, so they had a nice garden. These people neglected it They also had a child that practiced the violin a lot, so I always heard her when I was working on my garden. I hope someone like that family buys the house.

I completely understand. Our neighbors just got a dog, amd they keep it in an enclosure that's much too small. I think it's bored mostly, so it barks. The Missus asked them to at least wait to put the dog out in the morning, they were putting it out at 4:30 am ! !! We've lived here 13 years, and never had a problem with them, until the dog ! !!

thankfully my neighbors live about 500 feet from me. so whatever they do doesnt really bother me

Prof: At least it sounds like you can talk to your neighbors. Hopefully they are polite and try to work with you when you talk to them. These dirtballs threatened me when I went to talk to them They also accused me of doing things like breaking into their house (my other neighbor's kids did break into their yard to give the dog water but apparently everything that ever happenned to them in that neighborhood became MY fault because I was the only person to talk to them...)