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How To Keep The Neighbors Dogs Out Of My Yard
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 570748" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Do you have a community mediation office available? You could try to take advantage of that to come to an agreement. It usually ends up being something along the lines of they understand that they need to keep their dogs in their yard, and you understand that sometimes they will get into your yard. What they also need to understand is that there will consequences within the confines of the law if their dogs get into your yard. Your yard, your property. That's why it's your fault if you let them out of your yard and injure someone. You might have to have a friend load them into the car and take them to the pound. After all, <em>you</em> don't want them.</p><p></p><p>We did this with a truly obnoxious neighbor who believed that no one should ever make noise that she could hear in her yard. She'd get crazy and put her speakers outside to blast heavy metal in retaliation for an 8 year old's mid afternoon birthday party. If you called and talked to her she'd use foul mouthed language but if you reported her to police she'd turn on the "Oh, it just breaks my mommy heart that the neighbor just abandons their children out in the yard and won't let them come into the house." I audio-taped her response to my phone call asking her to turn down her music. It was legal in our state so long as one party is aware that you're audio recording. I video taped her blasting music and telling children they could "rot in ----" for all she cared. We got to mediation and she pulled the holier than thou stuff and I let her go to town. Then I played my tapes. Here's the agreement we came to.</p><p></p><p>If she has a problem with a neighbor's noise outside the legal time that you can make noise, she will approach or call the neighbor to ask them to turn it down. If she blasts her stereo or starts swearing, I call the cops and record her behavior. (Oh, she didn't like that but I was within my rights.) It took her about 4 months to decide to sell her house. YAY! One for the win column!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 570748, member: 99"] Do you have a community mediation office available? You could try to take advantage of that to come to an agreement. It usually ends up being something along the lines of they understand that they need to keep their dogs in their yard, and you understand that sometimes they will get into your yard. What they also need to understand is that there will consequences within the confines of the law if their dogs get into your yard. Your yard, your property. That's why it's your fault if you let them out of your yard and injure someone. You might have to have a friend load them into the car and take them to the pound. After all, [I]you[/I] don't want them. We did this with a truly obnoxious neighbor who believed that no one should ever make noise that she could hear in her yard. She'd get crazy and put her speakers outside to blast heavy metal in retaliation for an 8 year old's mid afternoon birthday party. If you called and talked to her she'd use foul mouthed language but if you reported her to police she'd turn on the "Oh, it just breaks my mommy heart that the neighbor just abandons their children out in the yard and won't let them come into the house." I audio-taped her response to my phone call asking her to turn down her music. It was legal in our state so long as one party is aware that you're audio recording. I video taped her blasting music and telling children they could "rot in ----" for all she cared. We got to mediation and she pulled the holier than thou stuff and I let her go to town. Then I played my tapes. Here's the agreement we came to. If she has a problem with a neighbor's noise outside the legal time that you can make noise, she will approach or call the neighbor to ask them to turn it down. If she blasts her stereo or starts swearing, I call the cops and record her behavior. (Oh, she didn't like that but I was within my rights.) It took her about 4 months to decide to sell her house. YAY! One for the win column! [/QUOTE]
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