I never thought I’d like little dogs. They yap and yap. But, as you have probably seen, I have two! One is my step-child, the other is my own. They are semi-well behaved, at least they have good intentions most of the time. With that being said, my neighbor has the most annoying dog I’ve ever come into contact with. I think it’s entire goal in life is to go outside and bark. Because we have these adorable backyards with patio areas, our patio faces the neighbor’s patio. Their dog will go outside, stick it’s head between the iron gate and just stare at our yard and bark, telling our dogs to come outside and bark with him. It is so frustrating.
Now, when I let my dogs outside, I have to stand by the door with my head sticking out like a turtle to tell my dogs “leave it” or “hush” because they both go outside ready to defend their territory. That’s fine, that’s definitely not the worse of it.
In the middle of the night, at 6am, at 2pm, at 7pm, the dog is barking. I’m not one to tell the office on someone, and I have a feeling that if I go over there and kindly say something, I will kindly have a nice scratch down my new prestine car (or it used to be prestine until somebody hit it in a parking lot then drove off while I was enjoying a movie last week). SO, what to do. Leave an anonymous note? The owners are home at random times during the day, and with my luck these days, I would be walking up to the door and put the note on their door, turn around, and the Scottish neighbor would be getting out of his truck looking at me. Maybe I should put a note in their mailbox. At least then I could pretend to be getting my own mail. OR, even better, I could just let my dogs outside and let them bark and bark and bark at all hours until THEY get annoyed and then maybe they will learn their own lesson. Actually, I think I’m going to bring my parent’s dog, Konrad, over. He LOVES little dogs. He loves them so much that he will get jump towards them and bark at them non-stop until you are embarrassed and have to leave the dog park. He means no harm, I think he is a confused young man who is fascinated by animals smaller than him. Meet Konrad.
This is why I want a house. My faux-house-apartment doesn’t cater to the annoying neighbor dogs. Or the neighbors who have children that throw tree bark in your backyard.
