Yappy little booger.
You know what, we have really nice neighbors. We don’t know many folks on our street – most are pretty snotty, to be quite honest. But the next door neighbors are good people. We’ve done favors for one another in the past and our kids have played together occasionally.
So here’s the thing. They just got a dog. A big lab. And he barks and barks and BARKS! And the guy is like, “I’m sure it’s not our dog you’re hearing, if you hear barking. We keep him in the house when we aren’t home.” But, no. I think the kids must let the dog out in the yard and then go watch Andy Milonakis or something for half an hour and ignore the dog, because he’s out there in the damned yard every single day, barking! And – I noticed that the kids walk him in the creek area behind our house. They must encourage the dog to do his business DIRECTLY BEHIND OUR FENCE, because I noticed the other day that we have, I don’t know, maybe EIGHTY piles of dog crap right behind our fence.
I hate dealing with conflict with the neighbors, but I think we’re going to have to have a talk with them, especially once the weather gets warm enough for us to start working in the yard and getting behind our fence to weed eat and all that. I don’t want a gazillion dog bombs back there! Sheesh.
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism.
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March 5th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
last spring we had a new family move in 2 doors down and they had the yappiest dog EVER. The neighbor between our house and theirs loves to spend a LOT of time on their back patio/yard area and would not put up with Mr. Barks a Lot dog. Neighbor used a spray bottle of Listerine and water and within a week the dog did not bark at the neighbor any more! Might be worth a non confrontational shot, right? Worse case their dog smells minty fresh for a while