I had an apartment and then a new neighbor moved in next door. She put her dog in a cage that was in her bedroom closet. That bedroom closet was on the wall opposite my headboard side of my bed. Of course, when she went to work that dog would bark all day. I attempted to complain to the apartment manager but guess what happened? Nothing happened because that apartment manager also had a dog that she put in a cage and kept in her apartment while she was away.

In a different apartment I was on the ground floor. There was a lady above me who would let her dog do its business on her concrete patio which was above mine and then she would sweep it over the edge until my patio below looked like a minefield of dog turds.

Dogs need yards and should not be locked up in a cage or in an apartment nor should their barking invade the space of others.

If you own a dog, live in an apartment, and the noise from that dog’s barking is inside the apartments of your neighbors then you are a shitty inconsiderate person!

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    5 months ago

    What I hate the most is people letting their dogs out in apartment corridors and shared spaces unleashed. “Oh he’s friendly don’t worry”. Yeah no, the fact that your dog was barking while charging at me says the opposite. I have a LOT of stories about unleashed dogs and their dumb owners in my complex.

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        5 months ago

        Does it matter? I have sensitive skin and get hives from contact with fur. Do you think my skin cares if the dog that jumped on me was mad or happy? Maybe I just don’t like contact with pets at all and letting your dog run up to random people is asshole behavior.

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      Honestly it could also be excitement for exemple.

      But yeah dogs need their space and some need their humans’ continued presence which make them unsuited for living in an appartment with folks working 9 to 5.

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      I have animal control, SPCA, and animal hospital people in my family. Strangely, they’ve all heard a variant of “my dog would never” to which they’ve wanted to reply “then why is your dog here today?”

      Telescoping leashes, while I have you. The hardest lesson for a dog owner is learning why they’re not compliant with leash laws. In the city, too.