attack of the neighbor  

I had a crazy neighbor in Calgary. She would video us parking our 3 ton on our property (it was the only work truck we could bring home because it was under weight regs). She tried every day to get my car towed. She attacked her husband with a knife. Crazy lady. This neighbor is nothing like her just she should have been a lot less aggressive about my pets because like with my kids I am protective over my pets and will I bite you if you show your teeth at them. I am the ultimate mother bear so to speak.

I agree wholeheartedly with you about this. She is "medicated" alright and I think it's more than just prescriptions.

we just found out this evening through some creative research and such that our crazy neighbor (we refer to her as the downstairs deviant) has quite the little criminal record - even abandonment of her kid, breaking and entering, theft, violations of a restraining order. Oh joy! Time to move!! There is a point when if you can you should go! Just had to share it with someone! we always knew there was something wrong with her!

My goodness it is time to move for sure. Just get away from her as fast as you can.

Silent, what should it matter if she lives in a safe neighborhood or not? If it makes her feel safer to have a dog or two that's her right. I live in a very safe area and I have two dogs. Here's the kicker, a few months ago there was a rash of robberies in the area, and guess whose house didn't get broken into? Mine. And I happened to be the only person that had dogs.
I wouldn't keep my dogs in just to keep peace with the neighbor. It sounds to me like you are being a responsible pet owner by having a fence and it also sounds like the dogs aren't violating any laws by being outside barking all night. And am I correct in understanding it is the neighbors dog damaging the fence? If so, maybe you should point that out to her. Life is too short to worry about what the neighbors think. If they want to be petty, let them.

Sorry I should have been a little clearer, I have a security system I just don't use it because I have dogs for that reason, people don't respond to sirens and the police don't call out to security alarms in our area unless the security company can prove a break in is happening. I live in a fairly safe neighborhood but every city has problems and ours just had a rash of break ins in the last month. As far as dogs barking all the neighborhood dogs bark all day long not just mine, as a matter of fact there is one that drives me nuts at night and it goes all night long, one of my other neighbors dog barks a crazy amount also. I will not keep my dogs in all day as that is cruel to them I bought a place with a yard for my kids and dogs and they have a right to use it. I do just as much to stop my dogs from fighting and barking as everyone else does, just because her dog hardly ever goes outside or out of his yard for walks doesn't mean mine have to be the same way. I should also say that her husband drives a jeep with no muffler and he wakes me up every morning at 3 AM when he is leaving for work. I agree with you I hate barking dogs that is the one thing I will not tolerate with my dogs and I come down hard on them for it. As I said I have done stuff to stop the barking but her being afraid they will attack is stupid because there is a fence in the way and they are to large to get through, that doesn't matter because we built a new fence on our side so now there is 2 fences. My problem was her attack on me for something that every dog in our area does, she didn't need to attack the way she did a simple request to take care of the problem without the rude comments. If she is sick of my dogs, well I'm sick of waking up to her jeep in the early morning, I'm sick of her dog wrecking the old fence. See what I mean everyone has things that bug their neighbors and talking to them to solve them is one thing but the way she went about it was not right. Thank you for your comments and I hope you don't think I am attacking you for your comments I am not but the computer doesn't so tone of voice just words. Have a great day.

Thanks soccermom, you are right with everything you said. A few years ago there was a bunch of break ins in the neighborhood I was living in and my house was the only one that didn't get robbed, the thieves tried to get into our house but when they kicked in the door they found my dogs then 4 and 1 and that was as far as they got. No I don't have dogs because my area is bad I have them because I love dogs and I feel safe with them. As I said come on in and meet my 180 lbs of dog and once you get passed them you will find me waiting to kick some butt. Have a great day.

Silentnyt are you new to this world? It's not safe ANYWHERE anymore! There was this suburb that was safe, nice neighbors everywhere, picket fences, blah blah. They had their house broken into and robbed the whole place. It doesn't matter if it's considered 'safe', there's always a first for everything, anywhere, anytime...

I feel for you. My neighbor attacked on Saturday. I lived in a great little village as far as leaving other peoples pets alone, that village had a lot of problems outside of the normal ones and we left because of them but how I miss the sensible people that realized dogs are dogs and kids are kids. My neighbor also complained that my son makes to much noise when he is outside, he is 3 kids make noise. People need to find better things to do then complain. At least I can say my dogs don't bark at night and they only bark for a few seconds before I stop them. Your neighbor needs to invest in bark solutions before he comes to you about your dog. Here's wishing you better luck with your neighbor, thanks for the response.

I have thought about getting a beware of dog sign but I don't really want that image on my dogs, they are friendly they just bark and with there being 3 there is a lot of barking when they get going. Or should I say there used to be a lot of barking, they haven't made a noise since the bark collar arrived. The other reason I don't want a beware sign is that my oldest dog is boxer lab and looks like a pit bull and I don't want the hassle of people calling her a dangerous dog. She could gum you to death if you get to close, lol.

A better sign would be 'protection animal on premises'... there have been some interesting legal battles about the 'beware' and the 'guard dog' wording. This would say that your animals are there to take care of you, but people don't have to 'beware' because they're not dangerous unles YOU are in danger. And a 'guard dog' is assumed to be one that is professionally trained, so if yours aren't, don't use it.

I like that "protection dog on premises."
The only reason I was saying "beware of dog" sign or something like that is not to make your dogs out to be dangerous but to cover your butt if she gets bitten and takes you to court. She would not be able to say that she did not know that your dogs were in the yard because you have a sign clearly displayed.

Thank you, I would have stood up for myself a lot more with her and told her off if I hadn't just woke up to pounding on my door and my baby screaming over being startled awake. I don't like beware of dog sign because they make the dogs seem dangerous and mine are not dangerous they just bark. The younger one bite once but it was a boy I was taking care of and he was abusing her for almost a week before she bite him. Turns out he was an abused kid and was caught torturing a cat just weeks after my girl bite him, but this leaves me with a problem with her because she is on record in our last town as having done this so if she is causing trouble and the cops come then she is the one they will be taking away not the crazy neighbor.

I should add that when she bite the boy I offered his parents to have her put done and they said no, his own dog bite him the night before and again a little while later so it is clear the boy is doing something to the dogs to make them bite.

Thank you, it is funny how people forget that dogs bark to talk and that is what they are doing when my dogs see hers or more to the point smell hers because they can't see through the old fence and now with the new one up there is no chance of them ever seeing him. I really miss my neighbors in my old town, they all were understanding and we all were good friends. I lived in a town of 400 people and our entire block was people our age so we all hung out.

Just remember if she goes nutty again on you, just say get off my property before I call the cops. Or when her dog is barking go over to her house and act all crazy at her, lol.

You would think your neighbor would know this by being a dog owner herself, huh, lol.Funny how dogs act towards other dogs even people. My 6 month old mix breed Shiloh acts all weird when she see's people or even dogs. She thinks she should be able to run right up to them and get petted. It doesn't help that most of my neighbors saw her when she was only 6 wks old and babyed her. So now she will bark at them to get there attention and try her best to run over to them. Now when she doesn't get her way she acts just like a small child and will whine and cry. She is having a hard time trying to figure out why our 9 yr old Beagle, Ladybug won't play with her, lol. Even when she gets snapped at, she still trys to get her to play. Dogs are funny creatures. Not a day goes by that Shiloh doesn't make me laugh.

I love my dogs for that reason, they keep me active. I miss country living.

Thank you for the advise.

Thanks Gabs, I am fine, she just caught me off guard and I didn't have the chance to respond to her so I thought I would vent here. If she shows up here again I will be ready, I have fixed the barking and built a second fence so she has nothing to complain about but I have a lot to complain about her and her household. I really hate their jeep, I woke up to it this morning at 1 and then 3 and then 4:30. The guy that drives it works for a tow company so he comes and goes all night long. She has a tenant so I don't know if the jeep is hers and her husbands or if it belongs to the guy that lives with them.

Just make sure you do not get to stressed out on it Sweetie but do tell her

Being stressed over her is the last thing on my mind. I have so much going on with sick kids, myself being sick and I just promised my grandma that I would take her to bible study starting next week. I don't have time for the neighbor and her sill mind games, when she has a real complaint then I will worry over her.

Sorry I haven't responded yet, I found out last week that the neighbor that share the duplex with crazy neighbor has been teasing my dogs over the fence and that is why they are barking. As a matter of fact it was crazy neighbor that told me this when I finally got up the nerve to go and ask her to deal with the light that shines right into my babies room and wakes him up at night. She was really good about the light and has kept it turned off at night since. Strange how she was ready to flip out at me but changed her tune when she learned of the other neighbor teasing them.