As tempting as it is to take the side of someone with a barking dog anywhere near them, the older man had no reason or right to jump around screaming with a mask on rattling the fence. If it IS bothering him, he should know damned well that what he was doing would just make it worse.
1. He is very stupid and thinks that will make the dog stop barking
2. He is bored and thinks it is cute and funny to terrorize animals
3. He is trying to make your animals more aggressive to video or to authorities
I have had to put up with barking dogs at the last three places I've lived, including this one. The difference here is that the barking dogs live here with my landowners and so I can ask them to put bark collars on the dogs. I hardly ever hear barking... sometimes they take the collars off for a day to let the dogs "have a break". I understand that, and they are great people who have treated me well, so I can't very well whine about that one day every week or so. I love the people I rent from, and they are nothing but respectful and helpful.. But even this one day is enough to make me want to move.
Something about a barking dog makes my skin crawl. It goes through my chest like a gunshot. You know, that feeling of electricity in your chest and gut you might get when you know you might be about to die? A dog barks and I feel that. I am a VERY tolerant person. You can play music, rev engines, empty dumpsters, whatever the fuck it is .. even if I am asleep .. but a god damned fucking barking fucking dog pisses me the fuck off so god damned fast and so damned thoroughly that I could literally do some very bad things.
At the place before this the owners were old and dying of cancer .. so I could not get rid of the animals or bother them too much about it without feeling horrible about it. Of course the fucking dogs barked right at my bedroom window 15' away all of the damned time.
At the place before that I came very close to things I will not even bother writing about. That guy let his dog bark right under my bedroom window day and night for THREE YEARS. I tried everything. I asked him nicely. I went over drunk and screaming. I pointed a at him. I called animal control three times. I called local police. I called the county sheriff. This garbage said he "had a right to have a dog, and dogs are going to bark". I told him that I had a "right to peaceful enjoyment and any true right never interferes with the rights of another person". The ignorant bastard just thought it was the most natural thing in the world.
24/7 his loud extremely loud and stupid looking dog would bark. "Attention barking". If a squirrel jumped onto a wire a block away the dog barked. Many times the dog would bark and bark until it woke me up and then it would stop once it knew someone was awake near by. If I was perfectly still. Then it would bark if I moved.
It didn't end there. It would HOWL so loud I thought the world ended. Then it would do this "braying" thing that LITERALLY sounded like a man being tortured. If any of you have ever heard that happening you know how blood curtling it is.
What is even worse was I felt sorry for his dog.. even while it was making my life miserable. The poor dog was running around outside when it was -8F outside. The dog was outside when we had a severe thunderstorm with 75mph winds and near golf ball hail while they sat in their kitchen. It was just sick.
I would then and to this day will do anything I possibly can to legally cause harm to this guy.. The only one reason I did not do things to him or get rid of his animal is that he has three little children. The little bastards tore our fence to hell and compete with the dog for noise making - but they are children - and I will be damned if I was going to hurt their dog or their father.. But it was damned difficult at times not doing so. I never did anything to deserve what he did to me and once his children are raised, and time wears on a little, I am going to be in this mans life in a BIG way. He owes me three years of suffering.. and he's going to pay with ten.
This man is the only ONE person on earth I carry a grudge against. The ONE person I want to make even with. After all of the shit I've been through, this clown is the one I can't let go.
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You can talk about my mother, curse at me, piss on my lawn - just about anything - without making me too terribly upset. I am pretty damned easy going. The two things on this PLANET I can not fucking STAND are
1. Someone fooling with my money
2. A barking dog
I understand that you are not like that motherfucker was.. But definitely try to understand how horrible it is having barking dogs anywhere near someone who does not own one. It is like nails on a chalk board x10.
If that clown is provoking your animals for no reason, he's just making the whole neighborhood miserable by causing them to become more aggressive and loud. No one is going to know that this old man caused them to do it, they're going to know that your dogs are a horrible nuisance. Bad blood is never good - even with clean cut white people in an upscale neighborhood.
You definitely should put a stop to this guy agitating your animals, and the barking, soon.
As an aside- you're right to be concerned about the animals breaking free and harming someone. Pretty much no matter what HE did - it is on you to be sure that your fencing and whatever else precludes the animals from being physically capable of escaping. Due to local ordinances or community bylaws, there may be no fencing available which will accomplish this.
The solution is sturdy fencing along with a secure leash that will not snap or break. At least then you will look better if you're even in court and I am guessing but I would believe that the law would allow more leighway in terms of owner liability when the owner did make every reasonable effort to properly secure the animal.
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