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We are in our 50's and 5 years ago bought our dream home with some lake frontage. There are a total of four homes in our little community. Two of the homeowners live out of state, so that leaves us and the other neighbor. He's an elderly gentleman, very territorial thinks he owns the entire road and area. With that being said, we still managed to get along with him until this past spring, his mooching felon son moved in with him and then a couple of months later hauled in a girlfriend and her pitbull. Our lives have been a living hell since this all happened. She thinks it's okay just to let her dog run and use our beautiful yard as a dog park...crap, pee, digging holes in my gardens. We had to put a fence up around my veggie garden and the darn dog still likes to **** his leg even on the fence! We've called the town, the dog catcher and no one seems to do anything about it. Animal control shows up, she says, "that's not my dog (despite my video of him digging and peeing). Animal control says, "Mam just please try to keep your dog under control." That's it. So one day while I was away, she opened up my gate to my veggie garden and let her dog in to pee all over my tomatoes etc., She then filmed me later going out in my garden to eat a cherry tomato and started laughing psychotically and posted this on social media. She also went to court to try and get a harrassment order slapped on my husband (he's never spoke with the woman) saying that he has been threatening her and that she's scared of him. The Judge didn't grant it to her, but we are still stuck having to hire an atty and going to court in the near future so that she can be heard.
I hate to move, but we can't live around crazy people either. Any thoughts on how to deal with these kind of nuts? The three other homes cannot stand these folks either. Has anyone else ever had this kind of crazy for a neighbor?
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Last edited by Miss Blue; 10-10-2015 at 01:20 PM..
Reason: maybe, but also bait for a flame war
okay I agree with the electric fence so that hoe and her dog can get shocked . Then let her call the cops what is she going to say the fence shocked her ? heck no cause then the police will ask her why she was over there and then maybe put up a privacy fence . Then tell the old man if they don't go you will have someone come sell your house and he can put up with the next neighbors who might be far worse than you . I would call the mayors office and also let them know that animal control is not doing their job and you want to know why ?
Sounds like you have issues with the dog mostly. You just have to make it either uncomfortable for the dog to be in the yard or restrict access to the yard entirely.
I hate to say it, but you've GOT to grit your teeth and befriend them somehow. Because these sick kinds of people will NEVER change (said from experience). Even if you decide to move, try to make inroads with them, because they could, if they wanted (through meanness), make selling impossible for you.
Leave a note in their mailbox, inviting them over (grit teeth) with the other neighbors for a friendly community happy hour. Clue the others in ahead of time, plan your strategy together. Maybe another neighbor can do the next round robin. It's the only way, other than moving. And start looking now for where you might want to move, because this could likely fail.
RiverBird...oh heck no! He has a criminal record dating back to 1984 and is a felon and she has a record a mile long too. They are not the kind of people you would want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with. From what I have been told she likes to sue people and creates havoc wherever she lands. We did countersue them for harrassment, since he's walked over on our property with his fists up to my husband and yelling profanity around our 10 y.o. all because my husband told him to please keep the pitbull off our property. That dog has peed all over my expensive shrubs, flowers etc., and we have tried to explain to these people it's rude to allow your dog to do this to someone elses property. In their thinking...it's only urine! Now, if someone were to touch one blade of grass on their property, he would be all over you!
Super high privacy fence with keyed gated entry. Low voltage electrified fence around the garden. Boulders placed at base of fence to deter any digging under. Motion-detector sprinkler system/lights/alarm/cameras. Good security system and motion-detected strobe lighting at night. Freak them out so much that they don't come calling. Cheaper than moving.
If the other two homes are mostly vacant why don't they just abuse those properties?
Tall fences, auto-sprinklers, locks on gates, noise activated perimeter alarms. Use a live animal trap and take the dog in to the shelter. A few impoundment fees will have them either surrendering the dog or keeping it contained. I was going to suggest the low voltage wire grid around your vegetable garden and draped over your shrubs. They make a solar powered electro-mesh fence capable of keeping in goats. I'm pretty sure that this will be good negative reinforcement for that dog.
I had a diabolical co-worker who's stories about dealing with bad neighbors and their uncontrolled pets (non-lethal methods) that I recall but I suspect that he could out-crazy your neighbors. For normal folks like us, stick with defensive methods. Just quit dealing with those folks altogether. They are unreasonable. I would absolutely not employ the befriending method. These people will never be your friends. If it comes down to it, move or hope to outlive the old cuss.
Trapping their animal could be the act they're looking for to escalate. They seem to have a lot of time on their hands. I would try my best to keep that dog far away.
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