Have you had a big problem with a neighbor because of either their pet or yours?

Question

Do you no longer speak to your neighbor because of a problem over a pet? Did your neighbor get angry at you because of your pet?

I havent talked to my neighbor in over a year because she let her dogs poop in my yard EVERY DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK between 7 and 730 EVERY MORNING, and then usually again in the afternoon. Once she stood there laughing while the dog did it.One day I lost it, I told her to get her sh*tting dogs off my property and keep them off after asking her nicely at least 10 times not to let them do that.

My neighbor keeps her dogs off my property. the homeowners association does not permit fences. No one in the neighboorhood likes her because of her dogs, and loud parties.

Answer 1

Yes but in my case I was the dog owner. When I got my rescue boy, he had been starving on the streets with one of his brothers and had been through god knows what else. He had some barking problems and for some reason didn't like my next door neighbour. He used to bark at him. I dont know which was first, the chicken or the egg, but he would yell at my dog and my dog would bark at him. I would come outside to see why my dog was barking and there would be water left by a hose all over the concrete in the yard (i lived in a really ugly place at that point!) so evidently he had been hosing my dog. There would also be large rocks, larger than a man's fist in my yard that hadn't been there before so I figured that he'd been chucking rocks at my poor boy as well. In the end, he called the council and told them that I had a "dangerous dog" - he had never attacked anyone, just barked at them!! He would come out and yell at me and of course, my boy would go nuts and bark at him because he felt I was being threatened. I would say that I definitely did not talk to him at all. What a nasty man! I don't think that you were untoward in yelling at her in frustration. She does not sound like a responsible pet owner at all. I would have put all the poop somewhere in her yard... or just started flinging it at her property, but then again, i'm super immature!! :P

Answer 2

I haven't personally had any major problems, but I work with animal rescue, and we get calls all the time about angry neighbors. It can get nasty, for sure!

There are many ways to help with the problems, but most of them take either a considerable amount of time, a good bit of money, or someone conceding the argument and simply saying "I'm sorry" and stopping what's causing the problem.

Very often, if a third party is willing to mediate and get both neighbors together in a non-hostile environment (in one's home, over coffee or brunch, if you do that, is great) to simply talk about it, a resolution may be reached.

But if it's escalated already into angry neighbors, or if one is just an a**, then other measures have to be taken. The most reliable way to keep other dogs out of the yard is a fence -- and in some states (or by town code) a fence put up on the property line MUST be shared in cost by both parties, so sometimes a letter from a lawyer promising a court date will work. Also, if the dog is not on leash, buy, rent or borrow a humane trap, bait it with food, and catch the dog in the trap. Then call animal control to come get it, tell them it belongs to the neighbor so they can notify him and possibly cite him, and he can go to the trouble of going to pick up his dog from doggy jail. Keep in mind, though, that sometimes ugly neighbors will just get uglier and retaliate.

I hope you can work it out! Good neighbors are hard to find.... that's why we have none! :-)

Answer 3

We have neighbors - we literally call them "the dog people" because they have 3 dogs that they would just let them run loose all the time. When we moved in next to them, (we had purchased an 80 acre farm), we asked them to mind their dogs and they said that they were used to doing this and they were fine. Well, after the dogs starting killing our chickens - literally they ripped boards off the chicken coop, we called the dog catcher. He gave them a warning, then a second warning.
So, later, we find out that ALL of the neighbors had complained about these dogs, and one neighbor actually had a PIG killed! Finally, we were able to get the "leader" of the pack picked up by the pound, and the people got the message. BTW - nobody talks to these people, not just us!

Answer 4

I used to live next door to a man that had dogs (later we found out he had 80) he would go around picking up strays. all we ever heard was barking well we got used to it . Well we had to start complaining about the dogs because they would get out and come over into our yard and chase us in the house . We took video of this and the animal control got involved . Well we had 3 dogs in a fenced yard. They never got out . well after we reported him he started pointing a water hose into our window air conditioner that is when the police got involved. it got so bad we put the house up for sale and moved. I am glad we did .The next neighbors who moved into our old house also moved 3 mos later . the house has been empty for a while now . I drive by there occasionally to visit old friends. good luck and god bless and happy holidays.

Answer 5

Hearing things like this makes me feel very lucky. We are in a duplex and get along great with our neighbor (he lives in the other half of our duplex). I'm guilty of allowing my dogs to run in his yard, but he's very well aware of it and always says it's okay. My Lab immediately upon being let out will check our tree for squirrels and then run right to the neighbor's yard to check his tree also. Actually when he pulls in the driveway my dogs run up and greet him all the time. I almost think my JRT gets more excited when the neighbor gets home then when I do. We're in close quarters and good neighbors to each other I think, so our dogs are always back and forth. The 3 dogs (my two and his) play a lot during the summer as my dog can jump the fence between our back yards, and the neighbor always lifts the little over into his yard to come play. His dog comes over to my house too, but he can't be loose so it's not very often. The last time his dog came into my back yard, my Lab mix had a brain fart and went after him. She nipped the inside of his ear causing a trip to the vet, one stitch and the back seat of my car to look like a murder scene. So his dog hasn't come over since.

Overall though, we get along great and my animals now think that his yard is just part of theirs. When I clean my yard, I clean his also. I'm lucky, I could have someone who hates animals next to me....

Answer 6

Don't you hate people like this? You may have to get the police involved. Does your neighborhood have a pooper-scooper law? You could get even and start putting the poop in a bag and throwing it back in her yard but that's kind of immature. What do your other neighbors think of her? If you have other neighbors complain, the police will be more likely to get involved. Good luck. I've also witnessed my neighbors let their dogs go in my yard but they pretend like they don't notice. I think picking up dog waste should be a law everywhere! And I have dogs! If my dog even goes on the edge of someone's property, I pick it up with a special doggie bag that attaches to the leash.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

we once had a problem with the people that lived behind us, one day we let our dog out on the deck and his kids were running thru our yard and all over the place, in between all the house, screaming, all that stuff, and my dog was going nuts, just barkingbarkingbarking. he called to complain about the noise!! i was like, look, its the middle of the afternoon and your kids are in my yard and THATS what she's barking about, i didnt call you to complain about your kids trespassing...

lets just say he never bothered us again

Answer 9

If the dogs aren't pooping in your yard anymore, sounds like you made your point. Some people have no respect for others. My neighbor's dogs like to bark, if she is home the dogs go right inside. If she is NOT home, we have a super soaker squirt gun in the yard that SHE gave us to squirt the dogs with.

Answer 10

My neighbor has a pitbull that's very vicious. He's tried to kill one of our dogs several times. One of the guys who lives there even said "I give it a month before that dogs in your yard, killing one of yours." How crazy is that? So we put up a little fence in our yard to keep him out if he ever actually got into our yard.