He Opened His Neighbor’s Back Gate And Let Their New Dog Escape Because He Was Sick Of Listening To The Pup’s Barking For Months On End
Whether or not you love dogs, you’ll probably agree that the sound of a pup barking incessantly is enough to drive you nuts.
This issue is most common in apartment buildings, where units are so close together that it’s easy to hear everything going on in your neighbor’s living space. However, even if you live in a house in a neighborhood, sometimes a loud, barking dog can still be heard from your own property.
In these situations, what’s the best course of action? Would you talk to your neighbor and, if nothing changed, file a noise complaint?
Well, one man handled this same situation very differently after he tried all of the traditional routes, and the dog was still a problem.
For some context, he’s currently married, and he and his wife have a neighbor who got a new dog about three months ago. And apparently, the pup barks constantly all night, every night.
He and his wife are absolutely sick of it, too, especially because they had a baby right around the same time their neighbor got the dog.
“So, we are already tired. This [freaking] dog doesn’t help,” he said.
That’s why they’ve already reported their neighbor to both the city and animal control. Yet, the authorities have done nothing over the last two months since they filed their first complaint.
“And we’ve talked to our neighbor about it and have been dismissed. No one with any authority will do anything about it,” he explained.
andrey – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual dog
So, just last week, he decided to take the matter into his own hands. One night, when he knew that his neighbor wasn’t home, he actually walked onto his neighbor’s property, opened up their back gate, and simply walked away – allowing the pup to escape.
“I was sick and tired of the dog. It had literally been months. And in the last week, having quiet nights has been refreshing,” he reasoned.
However, the pup has not been found by its owners, and his neighbor has been accusing him of getting rid of the dog.
Now, he claims that he didn’t “get rid of it,” per se.
“It left on its own. Semantics, I know,” he stated.
Regardless, his neighbor firmly believes that he’s responsible for the dog escaping, and he refuses to admit to anything.
“But they suspect me of it, given my past history of complaining to them,” he vented.
So, in the wake of what happened, he can’t help but wonder if opening his neighbor’s backyard gate and purposely letting their barking dog escape was justified or made him a real jerk.
Can you understand why he was so frustrated by the dog constantly barking? At the same time, was it right to let a defenseless pet escape and get lost?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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