Please help-need any advice or moral support!!!!

[PaulaJoAnne]

I am sorry!
I bet it really has nothing to do with you or your animals.
Soem people are just vindictive, and needing attention on themselves.

Maybe your neighbors could move into our neighborhood, and learn what a real noisy place is.
We live in the heart of Iditarod Mushing country, and there are 100s of dogs around.
4 mushers live within 1 mile of us.
Its actually not bad at all.
In fact, its rare that we ever have it truly noisy.
But, some dog yards are unbearable!!!!!!
We have been in some areas, where you cannot even think!!!

I miss our old neighbors. Ramey Smith used to live right across form us, but last year, they moved onto the family homestead, 5 miles from here.
They called their dogs, watchdogs, because that is what they did, if they knew you.
Imagine 75 dogs, all lined up, and moving their heads in unison, as you passed by

 

[Hillsvale]

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Awwwww. that sounds so cute.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

I live in rural Alaska, all my neighbors have too many dogs to name! I have to put up with the barking, as that is what dogs naturally do. They bark when they are happy to see you, they bark when something wild goes by or is hunting the yard, they bark when strangers are nearby. That is their way of communication.

My own dogs only bark when I go outside or when someone new comes to visit. However the neighbor closest to me, her dogs bark when I am outside and they are usually the first to bark, followed by the neighbor behind them. Then the rescue Kennel on the far side gets invovled, pretty soon, you can hear Dogs in the distance getting into the act. That is normal for them!

Luckily with this being the situtation, I don't have real neighbor problems, some even buy their eggs from me. I feel pretty lucky in that respect. at my other property the neighbors let their dogs run loose, and killed some of my puppies & birds. I still have the property but when the house burned due to a wildfire, it was not replaced.

I will use it later for a garden (after Fencing 90% of the neighbors out) I would not want a total fence though as I like the wildlife that used to eat in my garden and bed there in the winter.

Nothing like Alaska home of the midnight sun (summertime).

ETA: I can't type today!

 

[chickensioux]

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My 4 dogs are inside dogs, they are only outside when nec. and never when we are not home. When I hear them start barking at whatever, I bring them back in. Our noise oridnance is no noise between 11p and 7a. Our dogs are in the house. No continuous noise for 10 minutes or more. When my dogs start, I bring them in. No intermittant noise for 30 minutes or more. Again, the dogs come in. I am sure they hear the dogs when they bark, cuz they do bark, but not for very long. The elder neighbor comes home from work anywhere from 8:30a - 9a and gets her mail at that time. She complained about getting barked at in that time at her mailbox. So now I watch for her car and don't let the dogs out til I see that she is home and in her house. I do my part to control the noise and hold it to the barest minimum.

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I definitely know the feeling.

Our neighbors on one side complained about our chickens and we had to move the coop (cost us over $500 to move it), and our neighbor on the other side complained and threatened to file a lawsuit about our dogs barking when they barely bark at all, are kept inside the vast majority of the time, and certainly don't break any noise ordinances.

All this in an area that is known for keeping agriculture and zoned for keeping agriculture! If they don't want to be around animals they should move to apartments in the city or something. I think, like someone said, it's partly because both of them have owned their houses in this area for a long time, and we moved in three years ago. Still, we have a right to own animals, my animals are well cared for, and there's not really any basis for them to complain.

I agree with everyone who says to ignore them. It sounds like they're just being picky and annoying. You have a right to own animals, and if they have no legal basis on which to base their claims, it's basically just whining.

I wish our neighbors would move out and be replaced by animal-friendly neighbors! Maybe someday.

I hope the same for you!

 

[chickensioux]

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Thanks! Your situation does sound exactly like mine. They need to move into a 55+ (they hate kids too), gated, secluded, wooded, lonely, quiet, no fun, no life, community on the edge of a nuclear plant somewhere, THEN maybe I'd, I mean they'd be happy.......

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

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My 4 dogs are inside dogs, they are only outside when nec. and never when we are not home. When I hear them start barking at whatever, I bring them back in. Our noise oridnance is no noise between 11p and 7a. Our dogs are in the house. No continuous noise for 10 minutes or more. When my dogs start, I bring them in. No intermittant noise for 30 minutes or more. Again, the dogs come in. I am sure they hear the dogs when they bark, cuz they do bark, but not for very long. The elder neighbor comes home from work anywhere from 8:30a - 9a and gets her mail at that time. She complained about getting barked at in that time at her mailbox. So now I watch for her car and don't let the dogs out til I see that she is home and in her house. I do my part to control the noise and hold it to the barest minimum.

Thanks for explaining this. It does sound like you are trying to be cordial to the neighbors. Just do as you always have and ignore the neighbors as suggested earlier by other posters.

A couple of months ago I took my roo to a friends house due to a wedding next door. He doesn't crow much but I didn't want him to be crowing during the ceremony. About 30min. before the wedding the bride walked over and asked why she hadn't heard the roo crow all day. I told her what I did. She thanked me for being considerate. She then asked me to go get him that she wanted his crowing recorded during the ceremony. Turns out it was a country wedding with bib overalls, hay bales and the like. Well she got what she wanted. The rooster crowed a couple of times during the ceremony. When I saw the tape I was laughing so hard that I was crying at the part when the preacher asked is there anyone here that objects to this union. The rooster crowed twice.

 

[Slinkytoys]

You might be on the lookout for a sale on yard/wildlife cameras. Once the neighbors find out there is nothing they can do legally, they may try other methods. Especially if they have kids who may think they are doing their parents a favor. Better safe than sorry, sad to say

Slinky