Okay I have to vent and since I've already vented to my DH and parents, I need another avenue! As I think you all know we have a beagle who will be a year old next week, she is still a puppy and she is still learning. My DH and I were just commenting how much her training just seems to have "clicked" in the last few weeks. She still barks quite a bit but we thought it was getting better. I mean she's a beagle, when the neighborhood cats taunt her from the other side of the fence and when the neighbor's lab starts barking she barks back. Anyway, today we got an anonymous letter in our mailbox signed "Several concerned neighbors" stating she barks too much and we may not notice it but she barked for two hours the other day and for 90 minutes the day before, blah blah blah. They also suggested that we shouldn't leave her in the yard when we're not home, the ENTIRE reason we bought this house was so that we could have a nice yard and get a dog. I refuse to keep her in a two foot crate for 9 hours/day when we're at work.
We don't let her out before 6:30am and we don't let her out off leash after 9pm. I'm just beside myself I don't know what to do and it really pisses me off that they didn't have the balls to sign the letter. I called our neighbors that live next door and we eliminated probably 75% of our immediate neighbors. We think its the people that live next to us, that have a privacy fence, that no one ever sees. What's funny is that it was their fault that she started barking at 6:30 am on Monday because there was someone out in their yard. Because they have a privacy fence she can't see them but she can hear something moving around, wouldn't almost any dog bark at that. I'm waiting to talk to our neighbors that have a black lab puppy a few months older than Molly. He barks about the same and is of course much louder. They live on the other side of the suspected culprits, so it'll be interesting to see if they got one too.
Anyway, just needed to vent. For those of you that have dogs, please tell me I'm not being unreasonable. ARGH!
We don't let her out before 6:30am and we don't let her out off leash after 9pm. I'm just beside myself I don't know what to do and it really pisses me off that they didn't have the balls to sign the letter. I called our neighbors that live next door and we eliminated probably 75% of our immediate neighbors. We think its the people that live next to us, that have a privacy fence, that no one ever sees. What's funny is that it was their fault that she started barking at 6:30 am on Monday because there was someone out in their yard. Because they have a privacy fence she can't see them but she can hear something moving around, wouldn't almost any dog bark at that. I'm waiting to talk to our neighbors that have a black lab puppy a few months older than Molly. He barks about the same and is of course much louder. They live on the other side of the suspected culprits, so it'll be interesting to see if they got one too.
Anyway, just needed to vent. For those of you that have dogs, please tell me I'm not being unreasonable. ARGH!
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