....she hauls off and tops herself. Lucky me. :|
Some of you may recall me ranting in the past about my next door neighbor, her dump of a house, her armpit of a yard (was using two old sinks as water bowls for the dogs recently), and of course her damn dogs. The dogs that are outside 24/7 and have a lovely habit of barking constantly. Adding to this charming habit is that they prefer to do most of their barking in the small bit of her yard that is between our two houses (and right underneath our bedroom window). Since the houses are only about 12 feet apart and made of brick, this amplifies the barking tremendously.
Anyway....I was out late last night and enjoying a nice sleep-in when one of her damn dogs starts barking underneath the window. I look at the clock.....7:34 am. Great. I go to the window, note that she's home (truck in driveway = neighbor is home) and assume she'll shut the dog up, so I go back to bed. Dog continues to bark.....and bark....and bark..... Finally at about 8:30, I've had it. I throw on some clothes and head next door. She answers the door and I ask her to please shut her dog up. She looks at me like I'm crazy. I tell her it's been barking for an hour. She says "I didn't hear anything." As if on cue, the dog starts barking furiously. I cup my hand to my ear and say in my most sarcastic voice "That sounds like a barking dog to me....and it seems to be in your backyard."
She now takes a different tact and says that it's not a big deal for her dog to be barking because, in her words, "I should be awake and out of bed by now."
I inform her that not only is it none of her concern how late I choose to sleep, but that the Dekalb ordinance addressing noisy pets doesn't make any kind of stipulation as to what time of day they can or cannot be noisy. If they're audible within 50 feet, and are constantly making noise (I'd say an hour of barking qualifies) then you're in violation of the code. I inform her of this and say that if she won't shut the dogs up, our next conversation will be with the police and animal control.
She then says that if I call the cops, she'll call the cops about my dogs since they've barked at her on occasion. I laugh and tell her to go right ahead since my dogs are inside 24 hours a day unless I put them out for bathroom duty or I'm out in the yard with them. If they start barking, I immediately shut them up and bring them inside (I'm really anal about this since I actually care about showing some consideration for my neighbors), whereas she'll just let her dogs yap without any attempt to shut them up.....ever.
Attempting to salvage the conversation, I say that I understand her plight with not having anyone around to watch the dogs and that they sometimes have to be out for long periods of time, but request that when she is home, could she please try to keep the dogs quiet. She basically says "no" and that she's under no obligation to do so.
*sigh* So now I have to be a dick and write a letter to her and animal control to get the legal ball rolling so that they can actually enforce the law with regard to her dogs (you have to write the letter before they can really do anything). I hate to do this since I have some empathy as to her leaving the dogs out constantly (she lives alone and works), but if she's not even going to try to shut them up when she's home, then I guess I have no choice. I hate to have such an ugly relationship with my next-door neighbor, but it's either this or never get any sleep thanks to her damn dogs.
Rant over......we now return you to your regularly-scheduled neffing.
Some of you may recall me ranting in the past about my next door neighbor, her dump of a house, her armpit of a yard (was using two old sinks as water bowls for the dogs recently), and of course her damn dogs. The dogs that are outside 24/7 and have a lovely habit of barking constantly. Adding to this charming habit is that they prefer to do most of their barking in the small bit of her yard that is between our two houses (and right underneath our bedroom window). Since the houses are only about 12 feet apart and made of brick, this amplifies the barking tremendously.
Anyway....I was out late last night and enjoying a nice sleep-in when one of her damn dogs starts barking underneath the window. I look at the clock.....7:34 am. Great. I go to the window, note that she's home (truck in driveway = neighbor is home) and assume she'll shut the dog up, so I go back to bed. Dog continues to bark.....and bark....and bark..... Finally at about 8:30, I've had it. I throw on some clothes and head next door. She answers the door and I ask her to please shut her dog up. She looks at me like I'm crazy. I tell her it's been barking for an hour. She says "I didn't hear anything." As if on cue, the dog starts barking furiously. I cup my hand to my ear and say in my most sarcastic voice "That sounds like a barking dog to me....and it seems to be in your backyard."
She now takes a different tact and says that it's not a big deal for her dog to be barking because, in her words, "I should be awake and out of bed by now."
She then says that if I call the cops, she'll call the cops about my dogs since they've barked at her on occasion. I laugh and tell her to go right ahead since my dogs are inside 24 hours a day unless I put them out for bathroom duty or I'm out in the yard with them. If they start barking, I immediately shut them up and bring them inside (I'm really anal about this since I actually care about showing some consideration for my neighbors), whereas she'll just let her dogs yap without any attempt to shut them up.....ever.
Attempting to salvage the conversation, I say that I understand her plight with not having anyone around to watch the dogs and that they sometimes have to be out for long periods of time, but request that when she is home, could she please try to keep the dogs quiet. She basically says "no" and that she's under no obligation to do so.
*sigh* So now I have to be a dick and write a letter to her and animal control to get the legal ball rolling so that they can actually enforce the law with regard to her dogs (you have to write the letter before they can really do anything). I hate to do this since I have some empathy as to her leaving the dogs out constantly (she lives alone and works), but if she's not even going to try to shut them up when she's home, then I guess I have no choice. I hate to have such an ugly relationship with my next-door neighbor, but it's either this or never get any sleep thanks to her damn dogs.
Rant over......we now return you to your regularly-scheduled neffing.
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