A couple of weeks ago my neighbor (the good neighbor, not the sociopathic barking dog owner) put some yard waste out to be picked up, but apparently she was supposed to bag it and a city official came out to her house to give her a warning. Apparently the rules have changed since last year, because in previous years they've picked it up this same stuff, unbagged.
Last week I cut back some large over grown shrubs that were encroaching on our property and put the cuttings out for collection. Apparently, limbs are supposed to be cut to 4 feet lengths, and mine were longer so the trash guys wouldn't take them away, and the city sent me a letter that same day. I have not received the letter yet. I called them on trash collection day because they did not pick up my limbs and the lady I spoke with told me they'd already sent a letter telling me to remedy the situation.
Both the police and animal control have heard my barking neighbor yacking his head off, I mean we're talking some seriously long and loud barking fits, the kind that made me wonder why the dog didn't drop dead from the force and duration of his barking...we're talking way more than just a few woof woofs here...yet my negligent barking dog owner neighbors have not received a citation nor a written warning. Many people would think that habitual, shrill and frequent dog barking at all hours is much more unattractive and harmful to the health of humans than tall grass, long shrub cuttings and other yard waste, but I guess the City of Monroe thinks otherwise.
Isn't there something seriously wrong with priorities when you can severly disrupt your neighbors' lives and endanger their health by allowing your shrill dog to bark like a psycho at all hours, and pollute the environment with so much dog feces that it makes you gag and you can't open your windows or it will smell like dog crap in your house, yet if you let your grass get too tall you'll get a warning, a subsequent citation and fine, and then charged for the cost of the city having it mowed down if you fail to do it?
Isn't it just so bizarre that my neighbors can trap my cat and send him to the shelter if he wanders onto their property, and then I have to pay a fee to get him out...if I even find out he's been arrested in time and he doesn't get killed in the gas chamber first..., yet they can let their dog's loud shrill barking invade all corners of my house and property, for hours, day and night, and get away with it? Why can't I send the dog to the shelter for invading my property with his extremely unpleasant voice and odors?
I'm going to put up a cat proof fence to keep my cat from invading my neighbor's property, but will they then stop their dog's barking from invading mine?
Personally, I'd rather live next door to tall grass than a barking freaking stinky dog.
And to those of you who are going to get their panties in a bunch because I'm desparaging the dog, I know it's not the dog's fault; he's a dog and he barks and shits and doesn't have opposable thumbs with which to pick up his turds. It's the negligent dog owners fault for allowing their dog to be a nuisance. Too bad we can't send the negligent humans to the shelter and find the dog a new home with people who will train him to be a decent citizen & good neighbor, and let him come inside to join the family.
