His New Neighbor Rudely Demanded That He Change His Dog’s Name, Since This Guy’s Daughter Has The Same Name
As if arguments or confrontations with neighbors weren’t already terrible, they’re even worse when they can’t seem to get resolved.
One man is unsure what to do after his new neighbor told him he has to change his dog’s name because it’s the same name as his two-year-old daughter.
He’s 36 and has lived in a house in a lower-middle-class suburb for about a year with his six-year-old Great Pyrenees/Australian Cattle Dog mix, Charlotte.
Around six times a day, he lets Charlotte out into his backyard to use the bathroom. They’ve had the same routine for a while now, where he lets her out to do her thing and eventually calls out her name so she knows to go back inside.
“About a week or two ago, new neighbors moved in across my back alley,” he said.
“I had no intentions of interacting with them whatsoever, like, ever, except today when I was executing the last step of Charlotte’s aforementioned potty protocol.”
“I stuck my head out and called her name, but this time, alongside the familiar sounds of my dog galloping up the porch steps, was an adult human voice shouting.”
Suddenly, he heard someone shouting, “Why are you calling my daughter?!”
He dismissed the shouting as a neighbor dispute until a few moments later, when he heard some angry knocking at his door and saw a man twice his size standing there fuming.
Photo 7045194 © Sunheyy – Dreamstime.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual dog
The man turned out to be one of his new neighbors and angrily asked him why he was trying to call his daughter into his house.
Confused, he asked if the man’s daughter was named Charlotte. Once he found out she was, he tried to politely explain that his dog is named Charlotte.
“He rolled his eyes at me and said I’d ‘better’ change my dog’s name because he doesn’t want his [two-year-old] daughter getting confused and running into my house. I told him that’s not going to happen because not only did my dog have the name first, but we also lived here first. Plus, I don’t like strangers making demands of me before even attempting to be polite.”
The man told him he was stupid and that the name of a ‘human child’ should have priority over a dog’s name. He decided to shut the door in his neighbor’s face and waited for him to leave. Later that day, he stayed in the yard with Charlotte until she had finished her business.
“This guy just kind of stood in his yard with his arms crossed and glared at me the entire time,” he recalled.
He doesn’t think he should have to change his dog’s name and believes his neighbor should be the one teaching his daughter about stranger danger and advising her against wandering into people’s yards at a young age.
What would you do if you were in his shoes?
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