When we first moved into the house we had in Michigan we had a few problems with our neighbors. We lived in town and had to abide by noise ordinances which start at 11pm I believe.
During the first week Cleo barked at everything in sight, to the point it was driving me crazy. I knew though, that once she got used to the scenery and the people she'd chill out. I brought her in one night and had the police show up an hour later telling us she needed to be kept quiet. So to be safe I borrowed a friend's training collar. Problem solved, right?
A couple days after using the collar Cleo is behaving very well. I was on the phone with the friend I borrowed the collar from when I hear someone knocking at the door. It's around maybe three in the afternoon. (Had to be because alpha phi was not at home, working odd shift) It's an animal control officer.
I keep the friend on the line and answer the door.
"yes?"
"Your neighbor complained that your dog is barking"
"Really? I've not heard her make a peep all day. She's wearing a training collar." I also made question about the noise ordinance time...can't remember exactly what I said.
He looked dumbfounded as what to say, but then
"Well Does your dog have tags"
At this point I'm getting pretty pissed off but still I answer somewhat nicely.
"Yes, she does"
He raised his eyebrows at me as if to say I was lying through my teeth and asked if I had proof and pointed out that he could take my dog for being a nuisance.
At this point I lost my temper a bit. I did not appreciate someone threatening to take my baby from me. I hear my friend ask if I needed him to come over, but didn't answer.
Instead I swung the screen door open and snapped.
"Why, Yes she is wearing her tags! You can go in the back and check if you like! I'm sure she'll be REAL happy to see you!"
He actually stepped back quite a few feet shocked, mumbled a small apology for wasting my time and left.
Then I realize the friend is howling with laughter on the phone and said something to the affect of "remind me never to threaten your kids"
We didn't have any further problems with police and animal control thankfully.
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Last edited by Atropos4; 03-25-2007 at 10:00 AM..
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