ONTD

The dogs in my street are a fucking pain in the ass; specially one across the street that used to shit in front of my house.

ONTDers, have you ever had pet issues with people who live next to you

The townhouse next to me has a beagle mix that NEVER STOPS BARKING. What makes it even worst is that he will put it outside when he's at work so it's an even bigger pain in the ass. Especially when I'm a student trying to study at home.

I love animals, but I'm tempted to steal it from his backyard and find it a new home.

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Will do. Thanks, bb!

Did you guys see Teen Mom this week? Chelsea's dog was killed by her neighbor's dog.

I won't say it was her fault (obviously the neighbors probably know that their dog is dangerous), but she's one of those dumbasses who just let her dogs out to go to the bathroom wherever they wanted and then she always had trouble rounding them up and getting them back inside. The cops couldn't help her because she violated leash laws. Hopefully she learned her lesson. The preview for the next episode shows that she's moving, which is the best thing for the mother of a toddler.

Yep, my neighbors have a male cat that they let outside all the time. I wouldn't mind so much except that he isn't neutered and I'm sick and tired of coming home to find him getting his groove on with random cats in our yards, leading to them having kittens. I've discussed it with them and they basically said if I wanted him neutered, I could pay for it myself....douchebags.

You are so awesome! We've got the money to pay for it and I checked and its relatively cheap to get him snipped but the problem now is catching him. We bought a cat trap and caught another cat, a female ~ I took her to the pound and thankfully she was already spaid and was chipped, we called and her family had been looking for her so that was a happy ending. STill haven't caught mr. don juan romeo though lol

I would be willing to spilt the bill with you.

My next door neighbors have dogs that bark ALL. DAY. LONG. We live in townhouses and I work from home and they bark all. fucking. day. long. They are currently barking. This doesn't stress me out or annoy me at all.

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Our kids share a bus stop and I have to see her twice a day, so nope. I've tried dropping hints big as anvils to no avail. IDK, I think I'm just going to buy a dog whistle and blow it late at night.

i think homeowner's associations sound so ridiculous. my sister just moved to a suburb in california and their front yard had a bed of cedar chips that wasn't properly installed so it kept sprouting fungi and they ripped it all up and laid down grass seeds instead. and they got threatened with a fine for not getting HOA approval first.

re: the second bit: EXACTLY!!!

I'm okay with my neighbors doing that too.

Exactly, I don't understand the people who get all pissy because their neighbor has some tacky lawn ornament. Just don't look at it.

The dog next door to me is left outside all damn day and will bark for hours. It drives me up the wall because the owner is home and can hear it and god knows we've all complained but he still does nothing. It's a huge dog and needs to let its energy out somehow but the owner refuses to take it for walks or play with it or even take it to training. We've even suggested to the owners like "if you can't take care of it maybe give it someone who can?" and they're like "oh, but it's our BABYYYYY". Well if you care about it so damn much TAKE CARE OF IT.
Oh, and our neighbors across the street leave their dogs out in front of their house all day. There's an electric fence so they don't run away, but the dogs still sit there and just bark and bark. Whenever someone walks by they'll run at them in a really menacing manner. I'm not scared since I know there's a fence, but I can't walk my dog by them because they'll run like they're going to attack her and it terrifies her. We've spoken to those neighbors about it and they give absolutely zero fucks. It's just another point on a long list of reasons of why I hate those neighbors.

My neighbour works for the humane society and her whole garage is filled with cages for injured squirrels. We have such an overabundance of squirrels, I doubt she releases them "in the wild" like she says she does.

Yes. On both sides, our neighbors have multiple dogs. One side, they're fine. Yeah, they bark at our dog, but its fine, its a dog thing. On the other side, they bark ALL DAY LONG, coupled with the teens working on a car and revving it all day, and them screaming at the dogs...

The old bastard across the street, his dogs always get out. They're sweet, so we take them in for a while and then take them back over. The next time the little chihuahua gets out, I'm keeping her. Fuck that guy. Fix your fence.

We have before. We've even talked to them about the revving, because we have a 2 year old, who I'd like to take naps. We are only renting this house, so hopefully we find a place to move by the summer (although moving in summer is terrible)

thank fuck my closest neighbors with pets just have horses lol. i can't deal with constant barking ugh

Growing up, the first house I lived in was down the street from these people who had so many stray cats. Of course none of them were ever fixed, so 99% of our pet cats were strays from them lol. Some of them we took care of but never got the chance to take in since they disappeared/were killed :( I think we ended up with 4 cats over time that way (once of which also had kittens at one point that we found homes for). Still have one of them!

However the next house we moved to, our neighbors had an indoor/outdoor cat that would climb the fence sometimes and visit. He was gorg and I enjoyed him. Alas, he too was killed, hit by a car I think. THIS IS WHY OUTDOOR PETS ARE NEVER A GOOD IDEA.

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Ugh, an animal going missing is just the worst. One of our cats got out and I was in constant terror mode for days until she showed back up, wondering if I should be out looking for her every moment.

For the past year+ i've been taking care of a feral, and she drives me crazy cause she will never be an indoor cat. I just want to bring her in at nights, esp during the winter, but when she is inside she cries endlessly and is unhappy. I worry all the time about the cold, cars, even asshole teenagers since there is a middle school across the street. Damn cat!!

there was a dog that used to wander around my neighborhood in ALL weather and all times of the day. rain, snow, wind, at night, the dog was just walking around on the streets. besides the fact that my heart breaks for any animal outside in that kind of weather (personally, my pup sits next to me on the couch next to the fireplace) but we have lots of windy roads and i've almost hit the dog loads of times. this was going on for years. finally i tracked down the owners, my neighbors, and brought the dog back. i said, "do you know that your dog is getting out of the yard?" and they were like, "he's not fenced in. we just let him walk around." i asked why and they said because the kids wanted a dog but they were all allergic so they keep him outside. i told them if i saw the dog outside again, i was going to take him home and keep him (he's the sweetest black lab) because there's no way that any animal should be treated that way, especially if they're outside because YOU'RE ALL FUCKING ALLERGIC. i never saw the dog outside again.

fuck those people. a pet is a responsibility and (hopefully) a member of your family. you don't let your dog walk around in a fucking snow storm.

it's a bit easier for my boyfriend because he's in the south of england, tons of houses close together, pretty much no traffic, no snow, not that cold, there's a cat flap so she can come inside the house whenever she wants, but i'm still not comfortable with it. happily, the cat is 15 and she's been doing it her whole life but i won't keep an animal outside. i put my foot down about it.

but that's so sad about not bringing it inside during snow. :(

UGH what the fuck is wrong with people :(

Ugh fuck HOAs, forreal. Like yeah most people don't want to live in a neighborhood full of garbage and abandoned-looking homes, but as long as it appears that someone is living there or at least regularly tending to the property, who gives a shit about a dog house or basketball goal or whatnot?

Growing up, I had a neighbor with 3 huge dogs. OMG...they drove me crazy. They constantly escaped through the fence and chased my family. One nipped at me during a chase once. To this day, they are why I tense up when around strange dogs. My dad is amazing though because one afternoon while my brother and I were bicycling in our backyard, one of the dogs jumped over the fence and chased my brothers and I. We ran inside, hysterical, and my dad, a huge black dude, went to the basement, grabbed a shovel, went to my neighbor's front door, and was like, 'if your dogs keep fucking with my kids, I'm beating your ass with this damn shovel. Either keep them inside or erect a higher fence. The next time they try to attack my kids, I'm coming back with this shovel and you're going to pay then'. It was awesome. By the next week, my neighbor was having a new fence installed.

my neighbors have a vicious chihuahua that always escapes their yard and comes to the gate of my yard and riles my dog up and makes him start barking like at 3 in the morning sometimes, when my parents told our neighbors about it (not even in a complaining way, just in an 'omg your dog is a little trickster always escaping your yard' way) they told my mom that maybe we should teach our dog not to bark... i'm pretty sure if your dog is the one that keeps escaping, you need to better protect your yard