Helpful neighbor!

[PILOON]

I'm in total agreement and I love dogs.

I like dogs as well and my wife loves flowers but the neighbor has a huge mutt that simply plows down the flowers every weekend.
They bring the mutt to the country to 'free roam' as they have a condo in city and wish to 'exercise the mutt.
Naturally he (mutt) needs to relieve himself as he passes across our property and usually does so next to my garbage bin.
The mutt owner generally simply looks the other way and comments that mutt is simply a big puppy and harmless.
Maybe I should trample his flower beds so that he get the picture!
It is very frustrating and I sympathize with the poster.

 

[madmax12]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

 

[cqaigy2]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

+1 :thumbsup:

 

[dave1949]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

+2 :thumbsup:

I don't understand the logic that whoever was in a particular area first automagically gets to define acceptable behavior, common sense & decency. That is what is being done if you try to fit in with idiots just because they preceded you. What is their argument, "If you didn't want to put up with idiots, you shouldn't have moved here." ?

Fortunately I don't have neighbor problems. My sympathy to those who do though.

 

[joshuabardwell]

I don't understand the logic that whoever was in a particular area first automagically gets to define acceptable behavior, common sense & decency. That is what is being done if you try to fit in with idiots just because they preceded you. What is their argument, "If you didn't want to put up with idiots, you shouldn't have moved here." ?

I accept that there's different standards for different areas. If you live on a 1/4 acre lot and mow your lawn at 8 AM on a Saturday, your neighbors may rightly have words with you. If you live on five acres in the country, there's a different expectation. My neighbor sometimes rides a loud, 2-stroke dirt-bike around his field for hours. It annoys me, but I know that one of the reasons people (including me) move to the country is so they can have some space and make some noise. That being said, there has to be a line somewhere. There's no excuse for damaging someone's property. We all understand that sometimes an animal escapes and makes a little trouble, but if you intentionally let your dogs roam free, or if your donkey is escaping every three days because your fence is inadequate to hold him, that's another story.

(No, I did not make up the donkey example.)

 

[jaotguy]

Naturally he (mutt) needs to relieve himself as he passes across our property and usually does so next to my garbage bin.

a small toy pistol filled with " cheap perfume" ( highly aromatic ) or garlic water ... spray the mutt as he relieves himself .... let him stink up the neighbor's house/car and the message will get across... harmless but effective...


ya know ...... hmmmm, must of got into the garbage, we've been having problems with coons this year.....

 

[Mace Canute]

I've heard a feed of pineapple makes a dog's stool sticky, watery and stinky...and I've also heard that soap will do much the same, just have to figure out a delivery method.

 

[chvfrk98]

I accept that there's different standards for different areas. If you live on a 1/4 acre lot and mow your lawn at 8 AM on a Saturday, your neighbors may rightly have words with you. If you live on five acres in the country, there's a different expectation. My neighbor sometimes rides a loud, 2-stroke dirt-bike around his field for hours. It annoys me, but I know that one of the reasons people (including me) move to the country is so they can have some space and make some noise. That being said, there has to be a line somewhere. There's no excuse for damaging someone's property. We all understand that sometimes an animal escapes and makes a little trouble, but if you intentionally let your dogs roam free, or if your donkey is escaping every three days because your fence is inadequate to hold him, that's another story.

(No, I did not make up the donkey example.)

What's wrong with mowing at 8am any day of the week? Maybe with the exception of New Years Day? I would be happy that my neighbor was maintaining their property. I suppose they have fewer rights because they don't own as much land.

 

[KretZ]

What's wrong with mowing at 8am any day of the week? Maybe with the exception of New Years Day? I would be happy that my neighbor was maintaining their property. I suppose they have fewer rights because they don't own as much land.

One of the hardest things to get used to since I have been in Germany is quiet hours...and days. Sunday you can't mow grass, sort recycling or really do anything that makes noise, this includes all holidays of religious significance. Then the rest of the week quiet hours are from 8pm - 8am. With a period in the middle of the day of 1000 - 1400 for "lunch time peacefulness". Germans are all about laws, they love making them, and obeying them. Everything except the speed limit on the highway, that is the only time the Germans are more relaxed than the states.

 

[Ridgewalker]

I'm doing this just to annoy my pesky neighbor and since we are zoned agricultural there is nothing they can do or say about it. This is Buckwheat, when it flowers I'll cut it down and plant Daikon radishes. They get ticked, I get soil amendment.

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This cleared part of the field I'm reclaiming will never have anything allowed to grow on it so that it can turn into a dust bowl. Prevailing winds will make for much more cleaning at their place.

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You sir, are a tool! And not a good, useful tool.