QOTD #66: Do you have a bad neighbor?

We don't currently have any particularly bad neighbors. Our chief annoyance is one neighbor's new dog. He barks at everything. No, no, literally everything. If we turn a light on inside the house, on their side, he barks. If we make a sound in any of the rooms on that side of the house, he barks. Not a loud sound. Any sound. If we walk outside, he barks. If we move around in the room and the shadows change on the curtains, he barks. Not a "yip" but a "bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark." When he's not barking, he's wandering back and forth in their yard, growling quietly. One day, when my wife was going to work, he was out in the front yard, and came into our yard to growl at her. She backed him down and he fled. I have yet to encounter him "in the wild" however. I don't cotton to dogs squaring off with me in general, and especially not in my own yard.

I've reported them for chronic animal noise, literally hours of barking, and the animal control response was "Document it for two weeks, with specific times and disturbances. Then take it to this judge. You'll have to testify. If the judge finds the dog may actually be a nuisance, then we *might* take action." I told them that I'd buy better earplugs, and that I wasn't going to do their fucking job for them.

We've had worse neighbors with dogs in that house, though. People who'd chain them in the yard (against local ordinances), and they would tangle themselves up not only with each other, but with bushes. One even tried jumping over our fence, and was nearly strangling when we found him. Animal control did come out several times for those things, and the dogs eventually went elsewhere, presumably someplace safer with better humans.