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I hate my neighbor's dog
Erandus
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So. My Neighbor has a dog. It wont shut up. It's a little yappy black thing with curly fur that looks like it's probably a terrier of some sort. He lets it out every morning at 7 am. It starts barking. When I come home from work at 5, it's still barking. It literally barks every minute of the day with no more than a 15-30 second break at any time, until he lets it inside at 10pm. Assuming he hasn't passed out drunk (he's an unemployed bum) and forgotten to let it in. It does not stop barking. Ever. EVER. It barks at everything that moves. If nothing is moving, it barks at nothing. It is a piercing, hellish daemon howl that I cannot escape from anywhere in my house.
He lets it out and the first thing it does is shit on my lawn. The place he ties it up is directly under my bedroom window. He steals water from the spigot on the side of my house to water it. I have called the cops many, many, many times about it. If it's late at night and he's forgotten to let it in, they stop by and ask him to take it inside. I have calmly walked over to his house, knocked on his door, and asked him to do something about it. His response was "fuck you, cocksucker".
A few days ago he started feeding it bread instead of dog food, I assume because he's a glorified hobo. I called around to ask how to get ahold of Animal Control in my area, and I was told that we live in such a tiny ass town that Animal Control = the cops. The cops came, told him not to feed it bread anymore, and that was that. The cops literally do nothing but tell him to stop, and tell me they're deeply concerned. This has been going on since April.
Before I mow my lawn I have to go pick up all his dog's shit off of it, and throw it on his lawn. He comes outside and calls me a cocksucker and tells me to "get over here", which I ignore, because I'm not that stupid to go onto his property. He never personally crosses mine. I ask him to tie his dog up where it cant reach my lawn and he calls me a cocksucker. I ask the police to do something about this, and they show up to have a talk with him, and he moves his dog away from my lawn for a few days before it slowly creeps back to the property line.
I rent. My landlord is aware but fairly impartial.
I am going insane via dog. What the hell else can I do here? I will not hurt the dog, or do anything illegal or immoral. HALP.
He lets it out and the first thing it does is shit on my lawn. The place he ties it up is directly under my bedroom window. He steals water from the spigot on the side of my house to water it. I have called the cops many, many, many times about it. If it's late at night and he's forgotten to let it in, they stop by and ask him to take it inside. I have calmly walked over to his house, knocked on his door, and asked him to do something about it. His response was "fuck you, cocksucker".
A few days ago he started feeding it bread instead of dog food, I assume because he's a glorified hobo. I called around to ask how to get ahold of Animal Control in my area, and I was told that we live in such a tiny ass town that Animal Control = the cops. The cops came, told him not to feed it bread anymore, and that was that. The cops literally do nothing but tell him to stop, and tell me they're deeply concerned. This has been going on since April.
Before I mow my lawn I have to go pick up all his dog's shit off of it, and throw it on his lawn. He comes outside and calls me a cocksucker and tells me to "get over here", which I ignore, because I'm not that stupid to go onto his property. He never personally crosses mine. I ask him to tie his dog up where it cant reach my lawn and he calls me a cocksucker. I ask the police to do something about this, and they show up to have a talk with him, and he moves his dog away from my lawn for a few days before it slowly creeps back to the property line.
I rent. My landlord is aware but fairly impartial.
I am going insane via dog. What the hell else can I do here? I will not hurt the dog, or do anything illegal or immoral. HALP.
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There really isn't much you can do, I don't think, unless you want to try and actually press charges for harassment or something.
not much you can do about the noise. Lots of places have bylaws about noise between midnight and 7AM but that won't do you much good.
OR you could look up litter fees and tickets and report those specifically to the police. As in "It is against the law for him to do what he is doing, here is the law that specifically talks about it. Please fine him, as I have complained about this to him and the police in the past. If you do not, I would like to speak to your supervisor. If you don't give the police the option to let him off easy, they will most likely follow up. I would say that every day the dog craps in your yard, call the police.
Every time the dog is outside barking more than 10 minutes, call the police. If it is a small enough town, the police will eventually do something about it, as they can't feasibly continue talking to him every day.
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That's what I'd do.
I'll ask about littering or harassment or any way to officially request that the police elevate the matter.
I was hoping there was some sort of county or state based animal rescue that could supersede the police jurisdiction as our defacto animal control.
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Hmm.... that is highly intriguing. Thank you, fire.
You can see about the ASPCA.
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It didn't occur to me that my 120 dollar water bills might be the result of him stealing water from me until one of the other neighbors informed me that this guy doesn't pay his water bill for 4-6 months at a time. This also means that he can't flush his toilet, and apparently he shits in a 5 gallon plastic bucket in his garage, and then walks to one of the businesses down the street and dumps his shit-bucket in their dumpster.
This guy's a real class act.
I don't honestly know what the police will ever do. When I say my town is small, I am not exagerating. If the town population is 1000 people by now, I would be surprised. Its probably realistically around 900. Our police station is one of those temporary trailer buildings like you see at construction sites. They seem to prefer to not rock the boat and just show up and tell him he's gotta knock it off. He does for a day or two, and then we're back where we started.
So, I will keep bothering them and hope their desire to not be bothered eventually supersedes their desire to not do their jobs. I will also buy a spigot lock and head to home depot to look into dog repellents, sonic or chemical.
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You mentioned your landlord is fairly impartial on the situation...but have you asked him about a fence? That'd do enough to keep the dog away. And if the neighbor is as horrible as he sounds, he just might break the fence, inviting all sorts of real trouble from the landlord/cops.
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I'd also write a letter to the ASPCA. You may get lucky and they will lean on your local cops or state government to remove the dog from him so it can actually be adopted by someone that gives a shit about him.
What's hilarious is that if he was really smart, he'd be stealing water then putting it in his toilet's tank so he could flush it. But if he wants to just shit in a bucket..
Is there a window above the spigot? Do you have a Canon camera? You could set up motion detection on the camera and try to catch him taking from the spigot. You would then at least have a trespassing charge so the police could actually do something about him (he sounds like he seriously needs help).
Oh, never mind.
Uh. I don't think is much you CAN do, anything you can will involve the dog somehow as police are fairly useless in this area. Hose the dog maybe? I have no idea.
You could install a stop just after the bibb, in order to cut off the flow. Or you could install a commercial bibb, which has a specialized key in order to turn it. Or if you've got the right type of handle as to be able to thread a padlock through it (and threaded tightly, too), you can always try throwing a padlock on there
Is the dude renting as well? Even if he owns the house, if he can't even pay his water bill you're pretty much garanteed to be free of him in the coming months. Also, tell the local businesses that some dude is most likely dumping his feces in their dumpsters. I'm pretty sure that's not legal.
Sorry, none of this involves the dog. I don't think there's an immediate solution that doesn't involve some sort of violence.
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I'd love a fence, but my landlord is apparently broke and has a hard time paying to have even really important stuff fixed.
It's mostly on his property, but it can wander 5 or 10 feet into my yard. To untie it, I'd have to walk onto his property, and I'm not really excited about that.
His ex-wife bought the house for him after they divorced. She is apparently filthy rich. Why would not paying his water bill "guarantee me to be free of him"? I don't follow you.
They know, many have started locking up their dumpsters.
I'm afraid that's probably true. I'm going to look for a spigot lock today and start shopping around for dog repellents.
Lets put it this way. I don't believe he's ever spoken a single sentence to me ever wherein it was not implied that I like to suck cock.
The first words he ever spoke to me were "Fuck off, cocksucker" just before he slammed the door in my face.
Do... do you want a dog?
The legal remedy described in the link on the previous page is essentially correct so far as I can tell for general situations, (except that there haven't been separate proceedings for equity and money judgments for fucking ages in the US), but you have this weird one where the dog is on your property and the guy is stealing from you at the same time. Presumably he must come on to your property to do that theft?
A camera would be significantly more useful than a spigot lock, I think.
Yes he has to come onto my property to get to the water. I don't have a motion activated camera option, and I'm sure the guy is too cagey to do it while I'm home.
Earplugs would be a lot cheaper than paying a lawyer to bring a case for you, though.
You could also try getting a much bigger dog. I had a very similar problem to yours except this fucking animal was across the street. Its bark would wake me every morning. Eventually I just let my dog out (100 lb pit bull/bulldog) and that put a stop to the problem very quickly. However that could be illegal in your area considering leash laws and whatnot. Also buying a dog just to combat another dog is not really a good reason to get a dog.
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However, it implanted a hilarious image in my mind. God we have a dog like that in our neighbourhood. I always wonder what sort of people do not give a fuck if their dog is barking 24/7.
Do you have a Canon camera?
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