JoeFreedom
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Recently, my new neighbors got two rescue dogs. We have a dog of our own, as we love dogs. However, the owners work weird hours, nights, weekends, all times of day, due to their jobs. For the last five nights, they’ve let their dogs out anywhere between midnight and 5am, and have left them out, barking and barking and barking and barking. Their backyard is essentially right outside our bedroom window and these dogs are extremely loud. Not only are they loud, but the owners don’t bring them in, and these dogs just bark, bark at the wind, and non-stop, incessantly. I get it, dogs bark, and dogs should bark. But these last five nights neither my wife or I we’ve have gotten very little sleep because of being startled so quickly and the non-stop barking during normal sleeping hours. On top of that, the owners we’ll leave their dogs in the backyard while they go to work, and the dogs bark at the wind. It’s not a quick bark at someone walking by, since they have an enclosed six foot high fence. But they bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark, at nothing. Finally last night I went outside a little after midnight and tried to get the neighbors attention but she just looked at me.
I’ve learned in life, that really nothing works. One of the subdivision’s other neighbors was even worse with their dogs. This was about 5 years ago. His dogs would be out for days barking with no food and water. When I figured I’d be the bigger person and ask kindly if he could bring in his dogs (as some of the other neighbors were irritated too), he came after me with a butcher knife (after I called 911 the police told me he was taken to jail several times for beating his wife). To make matters worse, after he moved out, a new family moved in and started to do the same thing!!! Finally, calling the cops multiple times and having them caught in the act and the cops giving them a $150 ticket, finally solved the problem. But asking them won’t do anything and doing nothing won’t do anything either. If people are already that inconsiderate, what is going to make them stop?
I did go over to try and talk to them the other day after their dogs had been barking for hours straight, so I rang the bell (all the while knowing I might get shot…geesh), and I heard someone rustling around but no one ever answered the door.
I’m tired, and I’m angry. I have a right to be angry, right? This would be justified, would it not? These people don’t have any consideration for their fellow man. But does my anger turn to hatred if I want their dogs to be taken away? These people shouldn’t own dogs if they won’t or can’t take care of them and especially if they are that inconsiderate of their neighbors and are in fact, violating local laws (I’ve looked it up). I want to start video-taping the dogs barking non-stop at all hours of the day and hire a lawyer. Does this mean I’ve turned my anger into hatred? Is my anger justified? When is turning into hatred?
Finally, what would you do? I know most people these days don’t care, and because of this, “none-of-my-business” attitude our culture has taken, no one else wants to step in.
I’ve learned in life, that really nothing works. One of the subdivision’s other neighbors was even worse with their dogs. This was about 5 years ago. His dogs would be out for days barking with no food and water. When I figured I’d be the bigger person and ask kindly if he could bring in his dogs (as some of the other neighbors were irritated too), he came after me with a butcher knife (after I called 911 the police told me he was taken to jail several times for beating his wife). To make matters worse, after he moved out, a new family moved in and started to do the same thing!!! Finally, calling the cops multiple times and having them caught in the act and the cops giving them a $150 ticket, finally solved the problem. But asking them won’t do anything and doing nothing won’t do anything either. If people are already that inconsiderate, what is going to make them stop?
I did go over to try and talk to them the other day after their dogs had been barking for hours straight, so I rang the bell (all the while knowing I might get shot…geesh), and I heard someone rustling around but no one ever answered the door.
I’m tired, and I’m angry. I have a right to be angry, right? This would be justified, would it not? These people don’t have any consideration for their fellow man. But does my anger turn to hatred if I want their dogs to be taken away? These people shouldn’t own dogs if they won’t or can’t take care of them and especially if they are that inconsiderate of their neighbors and are in fact, violating local laws (I’ve looked it up). I want to start video-taping the dogs barking non-stop at all hours of the day and hire a lawyer. Does this mean I’ve turned my anger into hatred? Is my anger justified? When is turning into hatred?
Finally, what would you do? I know most people these days don’t care, and because of this, “none-of-my-business” attitude our culture has taken, no one else wants to step in.
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