I am SO ticked!

OK - I've never been SO humiliated, embarrassed, PISSED off in my life! I mean, to the point that I want to just MOVE! GRRRRRRRRR I go out to check my mail and an animal control officer is in my driveway. Seems someone has called a complaint on us. Now, get this, they say that we have been throwing stuff over the fence, and that our dog barks all the time. First of all - she's an INSIDE freakin' dog. And besides that, when she is outside some during the day, she NEVER barks -- unless she sees a squirrel or something, but even then it's only for a second. I walk my dog on a leash, and she is kenneled at night - INSIDE! So please could someone explain to me how she is disturbing anybody? Good freakin' grief! Now, our neighbors dog barks alot - but not ours! And what is this about throwing stuff over the fence? We don't even walk to our fence line - and even if we did - because of landscaping and trees - we'd have to REALLY chunck the stuff pretty hard to get it over the 6 foot fence. I am SO pissed - I mean my blood is boiling! GRRRRRRRRR And then to top it all off, the officer says, "you have a 'waste smell' in your backyard". Well, I then try to explain that we just got a load of pine wood from a tree down in a friends yard, and it smells just like crap because of the sap drying out. She just looks at me in disbelief - but I told her - seriously - go smell it! And while you're back there, try to find ONE pile of crap back there that isn't more than 30 minutes old, because that's how long Dixie has been out there. I mean - good grief - our children play out there, do you really think we're going to just leave crap laying around? And how much can one dog crap anyway? She does it once a day! OH - IF I COULD FIND THE PERSON WHO CALLED IT IN I'D LET THEM HAVE IT! I figured it had to be a neighbor behind us if they say we are throwing things over the fence. I feel like drawing a big picture of a hand with a choice finger pointing upward and nailing it to the back of my fence! I've just never been personally attacked like that. UNREAL! GRRRRRR Thanks for letting me vent! HUGS Kimberly

Hey Kimberly!! Wow.. your post looks like a deja vu from my own life about 7 yrs ago!! Do you have any neighbors named Mitzi?? LOL I was living peacefully with my two young children, as a single mom, and our dog was outside in the back yard, yes, but NEVER barked unless there was a good reason for it, such as a STRANGE PERSON in the yard !!! Anyways, my neighbor lady was a very unhappy person, she had a mentally retarded child living with her and he was around 13 years old at the time. She would let him sit outside in her very very small yard that bordered my one acre yard, and she would let him play a drum < yes a DRUM!!!> and he would do this for hours at a time. I never said a thing. I understand that it's challenging and hey, my kids would go out in the back and make noise too, so it wasn't a big deal. At that time I worked nights, so you can imagine it wasnt easy to just tolerate this while trying to sleep, but nevertheless I did. My neighbor on the other side had SIX dogs in the yard , they barked all day. My dog laid in the backyard and slept most of the time. Make a long story short, the one who didnt like me called animal control again and again, the dog catcher came out and spent HOURS sitting behind my property and never ever saw my dog bark once. She called and called and one day happened to come upon a cop friend of mine whom she stated to that she had talked to the mayor (!!) and he said if she had to call the cops one more time on my barking dog, I would be arrested (!!) which was a complete lie!! Well, my friend stayed at her house for about an hour, and told me later she would lead him outside and BANG her hand against the fence and my dog STILL didnt bark while he was there, he just raised his head, looked and laid back down to sleep LOL He brought the issue before the Mayor himself as they were well acquainted and this finally solved my problem. The neighbor was advised that should she call just ONE more false report on me, SHE would be put in jail for making wrongful accusations, for WASTING the police's time that they could be using in a much more constructive fashion such as catching criminals and she was told if she can't handle living in the city where people have kids playing and dogs barking occasionally, she should consider moving into the country away from civilization LOL She moved about a year later , what a relief. Be on the lookout for when your dog barks, just bring him in. If the cops SEE the barking dog, you will get a ticket ( yeah, stupid city ordinances!). You may even want to set up a video sometime to record your dog when he/she is outside to make SURE that you have proof it's not YOURS who makes the noise. Your dog can bark inside the house, that's nobody's business. I wish you the best of luck and hopefully the person who's harassing you will stop it. I like the fence/ bird idea.... it's something I was going to do too but decided against since I had little kids LOL ~Andie~

Checking for girls named Mitzi around here, and in the mean time, thinking of the video camera thing. It just might work. Last nite I heard dogs barking, NOT MINE, and I opened the back door and yelled out, "I just want you to know that is NOT my dog barking!" LOL So immature, I know. I was just SO pissed. Can ya tell? Glad I'm not the only one who's had to live through this. HUGS K

Maybe you should set up a video camera at the window, trained on the fence where the neighbors are saying you threw trash with date and time markers. Do it randomly, it will run for several hours and you might find the culprit!!!!! Also, it will document that your dog does not bark!!!!! Smiles, Cheryl

Thanks Cheryl - Scott's trying to figure out how to do it now. HUGS K

Your dog only poops once a day????? Polly goes 3 times a day!!!! Course since she is so little it's like pinkie sized each time and sometimes it's not even that big!!!! And guess, what, living in an apartment complex with 40 zillion kids running wild, I am the ONLY one that picks up after their dog!!!!! And I think they let someone keep a horse for a pet here because it's been pooping right in front of my patio!!!! Durn near fills a Walmart bag! We got a "ticket" the other day because some one dropped an egg (ONE egg) in front of our patio! (They put these "tickets" in your file and after you accumlate so many, you get booted out.) Jim picked it up and I went to the office and told them that it wasn't our egg, but Jim picked it up and then I held up my baggie with Polly's teaspoon of poop in it and said, "Now do you think somebody that picks up their dog's poop would deliberately throw an egg in their own front yard?" Ah, the JOYS of living in civilization!!!! Give me the boonies any day!!!! Smoochies Arlies PS Video!!!! Sounds like a winner!!!

I Promise it's NOT my dog pooping in your yard! Geesh - I can't believe you went through that all over an egg? Good freakin' grief. I'm thinking country living may not be so bad! HUGS K

Yeah.. Picking up doggie leftovers in the city is a big issue everywhere. We always carry a rolled up walmart bag in our pocket when we go walking, so we pick up after our doggie too.. which isnt all that pleasant if you own a Labrador Retriever.. BUT with quality brand dogfood it's actually no big deal .. know what I mean LOL ( forget Old Roy !! ewww ) So anyways.. yeah the "ticket" u got for the egg is ridiculous, we used to have a neighbor at the apt in Pascagoula that never picked up after their dog but made it a point to let it "go" right in front of our house. I made sure I took pics of her dog doing it and brought it to the office , because I wasn't about to get a fine for it ( yeah they DID warn you once before charging you a $25.00 doggie doo pickup fee )