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LuckyMacAndCheese t1_j6cqu1h wrote

Reply to comment by greenmtnramble in Who to call about neighbors leaving dog outside by MortaLPortaL

I'm gonna go ahead and say I strongly recommend not going to talk to them. This person knows they're a shitty dog owner, I'm sorry but there's no way they don't. They just don't care.

If you're going to get the police involved to complain about noise (which I think you should) or escalate with repeated complaints to animal control, you do not want this person associating you with the reason they lost their dog or are being fined. The type of person who's going to just leave their dog outside barking all night is the type of person who would go out of their way to be shitty to the neighbor who caused trouble for them...

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greenmtnramble t1_j6cse70 wrote

Good points. I guess it's a personal opinion, but I'd rather give them the chance to fix it before I get someone else involved.

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LuckyMacAndCheese t1_j6ctm0n wrote

If it were something like... having a party with loud music, I'd agree about trying to talk to them first. But a nightly occurrence with a dog barking at all hours sounds like animal neglect, and getting authorities involved in one way or another is probably the best thing to do, and that could get really ugly with the neighbor being fined and/or losing the animal.

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