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03-06-2010, 11:57 AM
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I really don't hate the dog all that much, it's not really her fault. It's the ******* neighbors. Their backyard is tiny; it's maybe 12' x 12' and this doesn't include patio furniture. To give the dog (2 year old pit bull) exercise, they open the kennel door so it can walk around in the tiny backyard once a day. The dog has never been taken for a walk.
The dog just has too much energy and I don't think it has ever had enough room to do anything but walk a few feet in its entire life--never ran before.
This family is a model of dysfunctionality. We're talking about a family of 6 plus 3 dogs in a 650 square foot apt. Not going to get into details. The family is pretty damn rude to each other and nobody ever smiles at anybody, including other neighbors. These are not friendly or reasonable people.
One problem is the children don't give a **** about dad's dog. When the 9 year old boy gets home from school and everyone else is gone, the dog flips out at starts barking like hell. The boy ignores it. When the fat teenage daughter gets home from being fat somewhere, same thing, dog flips out. The older sister, same thing.
The bark isn't just a boredom bark. It's this loud, frantic, desperate sort of screeching bark that makes it all the more irritating. The dog shuts up for mom and dad because it doesn't want to be beaten with a broom (they used the soft end to train it, now it just shuts up in their presence).
I tried the high pitched noise gun thing, but it isn't all that effective. From what I understand, you need to use the gun at the same time you are commanding the dog for it to learn.
I considered an antifreeze injected hot dog. But the oldest daughter has a toddler and I don't want to miss tossing the hot dog in the kennel from over the fence, only to have the toddler pick it up.
I'm probably just going to research state nuisance laws, wait until a Friday (when the fat one is home alone for a couple of hours), and make a video/audio recording.
The dog just has too much energy and I don't think it has ever had enough room to do anything but walk a few feet in its entire life--never ran before.
This family is a model of dysfunctionality. We're talking about a family of 6 plus 3 dogs in a 650 square foot apt. Not going to get into details. The family is pretty damn rude to each other and nobody ever smiles at anybody, including other neighbors. These are not friendly or reasonable people.
One problem is the children don't give a **** about dad's dog. When the 9 year old boy gets home from school and everyone else is gone, the dog flips out at starts barking like hell. The boy ignores it. When the fat teenage daughter gets home from being fat somewhere, same thing, dog flips out. The older sister, same thing.
The bark isn't just a boredom bark. It's this loud, frantic, desperate sort of screeching bark that makes it all the more irritating. The dog shuts up for mom and dad because it doesn't want to be beaten with a broom (they used the soft end to train it, now it just shuts up in their presence).
I tried the high pitched noise gun thing, but it isn't all that effective. From what I understand, you need to use the gun at the same time you are commanding the dog for it to learn.
I considered an antifreeze injected hot dog. But the oldest daughter has a toddler and I don't want to miss tossing the hot dog in the kennel from over the fence, only to have the toddler pick it up.
I'm probably just going to research state nuisance laws, wait until a Friday (when the fat one is home alone for a couple of hours), and make a video/audio recording.
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03-07-2010, 05:33 PM
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What the hell is this fascination with bodily excretions going on here? Shitting on a guy's doorstep might be cool when you're 10 years old, but it's certainly not going to win you any points now.
The alpha male is simply dominant by nature- he need not engage in acts of vandalism or other juvenile hi-jinx.
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The alpha male is simply dominant by nature- he need not engage in acts of vandalism or other juvenile hi-jinx.
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04-28-2010, 07:02 AM
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I don't know how I missed this thread, must have been midterms...
Here's what should have happened:
My house is at the top of a loop in the back of our neighborhood, and our lot extends from the street in front, to an outside road behind. Myself and my 2 neighbors with a similar setup all have parking in the back. Mine is the only one that also has parking in the front, going to the garage.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors slacker grandson that lives there with his girlfriend and kid is a drug dealer. There is constant traffic back there, and a visit by some guys in a big Cadillac SUV on 28" rims (they *are* rims) every Friday...
Anyhow, our back parking spaces are not fenced in, but are 15' from the back of the house, which has no less than 4 windows. So when not in use the guy's ****** customers liked to treat that like the "to-go" parking. I put up with slamming doors for two nights before I knew something had to be done.
I let my neighbor know I didn't appreciate it, and didn't even respond to his muttered excuses besides repeating the fact that it was my property, and I didn't want to see it again.
Apparently the pansy couldn't tell his "friends" on his own, so I started walking out and telling the ******* myself. Every single one of them tried to act like they really thought it was parking for that guy's (grandma's) house.
Don't ever let things continue to occur that grind on your nerves. It's not worth the stress that it causes you. Also alert them as soon as possible so they understand exactly what is going on from your end from here on out.
If my neighbor saw me:
-writing down license plates and taking pictures of cars
-getting into arguments with his guests
-flashing my back porch light when people pull up
He'd probably just think I'm an emo-***.
But since he already knew why I was pissed, he knew I wasn't just going to let it go.
One day someone pulled up who he apparently owed money or something to, because they didn't heed my usual diatribe on how that's my property, and the car doors can be heard inside...yada yada, as they were more concerned with finding my neighbor, and once I was out there treated me like some sort of aid, asking if I knew where he was, since they -really- needed to find him.
The guy started to walk towards the douche's house, leaving his car there, and I went off. I told the ************ to get back in his god damn car and move the piece of **** to the road before I got it towed. Before everyone had grudgingly sat back down and moved their car. This guy thought his business was important enough to violate my property rights.
Guy looked at me, looked at his lady in the truck, looked back at me and asked "You're serious?" I said "**** yeah, and don't let me see this thing here again."
NO ONE has parked there since.
Cliffs:
It's kinda hard to keep people from stepping on you when you've already told them you're a doormat.
Here's what should have happened:
My house is at the top of a loop in the back of our neighborhood, and our lot extends from the street in front, to an outside road behind. Myself and my 2 neighbors with a similar setup all have parking in the back. Mine is the only one that also has parking in the front, going to the garage.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors slacker grandson that lives there with his girlfriend and kid is a drug dealer. There is constant traffic back there, and a visit by some guys in a big Cadillac SUV on 28" rims (they *are* rims) every Friday...
Anyhow, our back parking spaces are not fenced in, but are 15' from the back of the house, which has no less than 4 windows. So when not in use the guy's ****** customers liked to treat that like the "to-go" parking. I put up with slamming doors for two nights before I knew something had to be done.
I let my neighbor know I didn't appreciate it, and didn't even respond to his muttered excuses besides repeating the fact that it was my property, and I didn't want to see it again.
Apparently the pansy couldn't tell his "friends" on his own, so I started walking out and telling the ******* myself. Every single one of them tried to act like they really thought it was parking for that guy's (grandma's) house.
Don't ever let things continue to occur that grind on your nerves. It's not worth the stress that it causes you. Also alert them as soon as possible so they understand exactly what is going on from your end from here on out.
If my neighbor saw me:
-writing down license plates and taking pictures of cars
-getting into arguments with his guests
-flashing my back porch light when people pull up
He'd probably just think I'm an emo-***.
But since he already knew why I was pissed, he knew I wasn't just going to let it go.
One day someone pulled up who he apparently owed money or something to, because they didn't heed my usual diatribe on how that's my property, and the car doors can be heard inside...yada yada, as they were more concerned with finding my neighbor, and once I was out there treated me like some sort of aid, asking if I knew where he was, since they -really- needed to find him.
The guy started to walk towards the douche's house, leaving his car there, and I went off. I told the ************ to get back in his god damn car and move the piece of **** to the road before I got it towed. Before everyone had grudgingly sat back down and moved their car. This guy thought his business was important enough to violate my property rights.
Guy looked at me, looked at his lady in the truck, looked back at me and asked "You're serious?" I said "**** yeah, and don't let me see this thing here again."
NO ONE has parked there since.
Cliffs:
It's kinda hard to keep people from stepping on you when you've already told them you're a doormat.
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04-29-2010, 09:19 AM
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Don't all Americans just shoot other bad neighbour ***** for **** like dogs barking and nuisance?
Afterall for a forum about hairdresser's cars I've learned almost more about guns here than I have about hairdryers.
Afterall for a forum about hairdresser's cars I've learned almost more about guns here than I have about hairdryers.
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04-29-2010, 10:53 AM
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Everything else can be discussed like gentlemen, unless what you're saying is "get the **** out of my house" and the guy isn't heeding the warning.
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04-29-2010, 12:08 PM
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Hairdryer elements make great torture devices. Bring it to the neighbor and stick it on his sack! Screams and the smell of burning pubes would fill the room, and the issue would end there if he didn't sue you.
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04-29-2010, 04:03 PM
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Just remember it isn't the dog's fault. He's just a dog doing the best he can do, doing all he knows to do to try to get somebody to give him some affection. He lives in a prison cell sentenced to solitary confinement for the crime of being a puppy. Sometimes they let him walk the prison yard, but its high walls are always there to remind him he's still a prisoner. And yes he calls out to the only family he knows, "I'm here, come play with me, come touch me, come talk to me."
Have you ever been so lonely that you just wanted a kind word, even from a stranger? How much can a reassuring touch on the shoulder mean to you when your heart is desperately aching?
A baby monkey will starve itself while hanging onto a fake-fur doll surrogate mother rather than drink milk from a surrogate mother made of wire mesh. Why? Contact, softness, warmth, security. How much more then would it crave interaction from a living affectionate being?
The stupid old goofy slobbering dog is just being a stupid old goofy slobbering dog. He doesn't know any better. And the owners haven't any idea how to quiet his barking either. It is very likely annoying them as well.
There are barking dog ordinances in most municipalities. The system is probably there already to handle the problem without you earning a criminal record.
Have you ever been so lonely that you just wanted a kind word, even from a stranger? How much can a reassuring touch on the shoulder mean to you when your heart is desperately aching?
A baby monkey will starve itself while hanging onto a fake-fur doll surrogate mother rather than drink milk from a surrogate mother made of wire mesh. Why? Contact, softness, warmth, security. How much more then would it crave interaction from a living affectionate being?
The stupid old goofy slobbering dog is just being a stupid old goofy slobbering dog. He doesn't know any better. And the owners haven't any idea how to quiet his barking either. It is very likely annoying them as well.
There are barking dog ordinances in most municipalities. The system is probably there already to handle the problem without you earning a criminal record.
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04-29-2010, 04:49 PM
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Just remember it isn't the dog's fault. He's just a dog doing the best he can do, doing all he knows to do to try to get somebody to give him some affection. He lives in a prison cell sentenced to solitary confinement for the crime of being a puppy. Sometimes they let him walk the prison yard, but its high walls are always there to remind him he's still a prisoner. And yes he calls out to the only family he knows, "I'm here, come play with me, come touch me, come talk to me."
Have you ever been so lonely that you just wanted a kind word, even from a stranger? How much can a reassuring touch on the shoulder mean to you when your heart is desperately aching?
A baby monkey will starve itself while hanging onto a fake-fur doll surrogate mother rather than drink milk from a surrogate mother made of wire mesh. Why? Contact, softness, warmth, security. How much more then would it crave interaction from a living affectionate being?
The stupid old goofy slobbering dog is just being a stupid old goofy slobbering dog. He doesn't know any better. And the owners haven't any idea how to quiet his barking either. It is very likely annoying them as well.
There are barking dog ordinances in most municipalities. The system is probably there already to handle the problem without you earning a criminal record.
Have you ever been so lonely that you just wanted a kind word, even from a stranger? How much can a reassuring touch on the shoulder mean to you when your heart is desperately aching?
A baby monkey will starve itself while hanging onto a fake-fur doll surrogate mother rather than drink milk from a surrogate mother made of wire mesh. Why? Contact, softness, warmth, security. How much more then would it crave interaction from a living affectionate being?
The stupid old goofy slobbering dog is just being a stupid old goofy slobbering dog. He doesn't know any better. And the owners haven't any idea how to quiet his barking either. It is very likely annoying them as well.
There are barking dog ordinances in most municipalities. The system is probably there already to handle the problem without you earning a criminal record.
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