My dogs sleep indoors every night I'm home. I'm typically home by 10pm, and they spend the rest of the night inside, and then they go back out in the morning to use the restroom. Well, the other night I didn't get home until about 1AM, and my neighbor just now rang the doorbell and said the dog barking them up. Now, I don't know if the dog barked while I was gone, but she did bark for about 5-10 seconds when I came home before I could get her inside. As I said, they spend 13/14 nights indoors with me -- the exception being if I stay at someone's place for the night. There are 100,000 dogs in this neighborhood that bark ALL NIGHT LONG, and mine have always either been inside, or it was once every few weeks that I was gone that they'd have the chance to bark.
The interesting thing to me is that she said when the dog started barking was 1am, which was when I got home. I don't see how 5-10 seconds of a dog barking is a nuisance. If she sat out and howled at the moon for 10 hours like the other 100,000 dogs in the neighborhood do I could understand that, but that is not the case. They've got 2 or 3 cats, so they've always complained about my dogs "scaring" their cats through the fence. I think they just do not like dogs, and are trying to bully me because I'm the youngest homeowner in the neighborhood. They are always telling me things they want ME to do to MY home. There are these rocks along my fence that help with drainage and look pretty good. The other day my neighbor rang the doorbell and asked if I wanted those rocks. WTF? He said it would look much better if I moved them and put pine bark down there. That's his opinion, but it is my fvcking house! I like the way it looks.
I've been nothing but nice to my neighbors -- I'm always quite, never have loud parties, never play loud music, and I always keep my yard and house up. Over the past month or so they've became a thorn in my side by always bitching about something -- and I assume they think I will take it because I'm young.
So, what should I do? I have to go out of town tonight, and I was just going to let the dogs stay out in the yard. I know for a fact that they only bark if another dog comes by and barks at them, or if the neighbor's cat(who roams around) gets in my fence and fvcks with the dog. The exceptions are when I first leave(my girl dog barks for about 5-10 minutes) and then when I arrive back home(she barks for literally seconds because I run to let her in the house). I'm pretty pissed off that suck a big deal is being made out of this.
Cliffs:
1. Neighbor rings doorbell to complain about dogs
2. Dogs rarely bark especially compared to other neighborhood dogs
3. Neighbors have been bitching for months about various things that are none of their business and feel that because they are older they can bully me.
4. Going out of town and don't want to kennel dogs.
I like having a good relationship with my neighbors, and I have a great relationship with all of them, but I tire of someone's useless complaints(this is the prototypical guy that wants to strengthen and create a new HOA) to me about petty bullsh!t. I assume I could start being a jerk to them, but I don't want to ruin the relationship. What would you do?
The interesting thing to me is that she said when the dog started barking was 1am, which was when I got home. I don't see how 5-10 seconds of a dog barking is a nuisance. If she sat out and howled at the moon for 10 hours like the other 100,000 dogs in the neighborhood do I could understand that, but that is not the case. They've got 2 or 3 cats, so they've always complained about my dogs "scaring" their cats through the fence. I think they just do not like dogs, and are trying to bully me because I'm the youngest homeowner in the neighborhood. They are always telling me things they want ME to do to MY home. There are these rocks along my fence that help with drainage and look pretty good. The other day my neighbor rang the doorbell and asked if I wanted those rocks. WTF? He said it would look much better if I moved them and put pine bark down there. That's his opinion, but it is my fvcking house! I like the way it looks.
I've been nothing but nice to my neighbors -- I'm always quite, never have loud parties, never play loud music, and I always keep my yard and house up. Over the past month or so they've became a thorn in my side by always bitching about something -- and I assume they think I will take it because I'm young.
So, what should I do? I have to go out of town tonight, and I was just going to let the dogs stay out in the yard. I know for a fact that they only bark if another dog comes by and barks at them, or if the neighbor's cat(who roams around) gets in my fence and fvcks with the dog. The exceptions are when I first leave(my girl dog barks for about 5-10 minutes) and then when I arrive back home(she barks for literally seconds because I run to let her in the house). I'm pretty pissed off that suck a big deal is being made out of this.
Cliffs:
1. Neighbor rings doorbell to complain about dogs
2. Dogs rarely bark especially compared to other neighborhood dogs
3. Neighbors have been bitching for months about various things that are none of their business and feel that because they are older they can bully me.
4. Going out of town and don't want to kennel dogs.
I like having a good relationship with my neighbors, and I have a great relationship with all of them, but I tire of someone's useless complaints(this is the prototypical guy that wants to strengthen and create a new HOA) to me about petty bullsh!t. I assume I could start being a jerk to them, but I don't want to ruin the relationship. What would you do?
