4:04AM PST
My next door neighbors recently got a dog (I'd say 3 months ago, but not 100% sure) and about a month ago this dog started to bark in the middle of the night at 4AM like clockwork. It's some kind of pit bull mix and I'm not really sure why a month ago it started barking at this time so consistently, but my window faces their house and I hear it every night.
About half of the time the neighbors come out and tell it to shut up, as I expect it to since they live closest to the barking dog, but the other half of the time they usually don't hear it (not sure how this is possible) and it barks for hours on end preventing me from sleeping the rest of the night.
I'm a pretty calm and reasonable human being but I also like to think I deserve some respect and rights, like getting a good night sleep and not being woken up every day at 4 in the morning. Some of you may disagree about my mental state of health after I am about to tell my plans to you, but I still must stress that I am not a fringe psychopath; but I must resort to these measures.
I have tried to talk to my neighbors. Initially they were apologetic, telling me they are sorry and would get it under control, but since then (after my 3rd time coming to their house) have been rather dismissive and non-cooperative. Thing's didn't get any better after I phoned the city and filed a complaint and had the health inspector come to their house to make sure nothing strange was going on and they now treat me with contempt and scowl at me whenever they see me.
The city didn't really do anything except make the neighbors hate me more, and I have asked people around me if barking dogs bother them, but no one besides me seems to hear it (this house is on the corner of the street and I am the only one that directly next to it). The strangest part is dealing with the city, since there are laws about this exact situations, yet instead of sending police they send a health inspector. On my follow up call telling them that the health inspector didn't solve the problem at all and just made the neighbors pissed off at me (it's obvious that I called them in), I got some mumbo jumbo to the tune of - "Hey buddy, we're in a recession right now! We've got more important things to worry about, leave us alone, there's people getting murdered in the streets and you're wasting our time complaining about a dog. Yadda yadda."
Regrettably this is my last resort: to poison my neighbor's dog.
Yes, I have tried diplomacy. I have tried sleeping facing away from the neighbor's house and used professional grade ear plugs. I'm a pretty light sleeper so I guess this is my fault in that regard. Still, I don't see any other solution to this problem. The neighbors seem to be some kind of uncivilized hillbillies that are involved in construction work, meaning they are gone during most of the day and come back exhausted to the point where they can sleep through their own dog barking through the night, and don't respect people around them.
I have done the research and figured it would be fairly simple. I would need to either buy a ton of rat poison and cook it into meatballs or just mix it in with raw meat, or soak some french bread in anti-freeze. Just for good measure and to guarantee a clean death I would probably do both. During the day that dog is chained in the back yard (and this is a miserable, neglected dog, so I think it would be a blessing for the animal), so I think I could quickly climb over the fence and do the deed while they are at work with little chance of being seen or caught while doing it.
But like I said, I still consider myself a reasonably sane person so doing something like this or being forced to these kinds of circumstances doesn't really quite align with my morals. Not to mention it would probably be pretty obvious that it was me who poisoned their dog, if they find out that the dog was actually poisoned and not died of natural causes. But what else are my options?
My next door neighbors recently got a dog (I'd say 3 months ago, but not 100% sure) and about a month ago this dog started to bark in the middle of the night at 4AM like clockwork. It's some kind of pit bull mix and I'm not really sure why a month ago it started barking at this time so consistently, but my window faces their house and I hear it every night.
About half of the time the neighbors come out and tell it to shut up, as I expect it to since they live closest to the barking dog, but the other half of the time they usually don't hear it (not sure how this is possible) and it barks for hours on end preventing me from sleeping the rest of the night.
I'm a pretty calm and reasonable human being but I also like to think I deserve some respect and rights, like getting a good night sleep and not being woken up every day at 4 in the morning. Some of you may disagree about my mental state of health after I am about to tell my plans to you, but I still must stress that I am not a fringe psychopath; but I must resort to these measures.
I have tried to talk to my neighbors. Initially they were apologetic, telling me they are sorry and would get it under control, but since then (after my 3rd time coming to their house) have been rather dismissive and non-cooperative. Thing's didn't get any better after I phoned the city and filed a complaint and had the health inspector come to their house to make sure nothing strange was going on and they now treat me with contempt and scowl at me whenever they see me.
The city didn't really do anything except make the neighbors hate me more, and I have asked people around me if barking dogs bother them, but no one besides me seems to hear it (this house is on the corner of the street and I am the only one that directly next to it). The strangest part is dealing with the city, since there are laws about this exact situations, yet instead of sending police they send a health inspector. On my follow up call telling them that the health inspector didn't solve the problem at all and just made the neighbors pissed off at me (it's obvious that I called them in), I got some mumbo jumbo to the tune of - "Hey buddy, we're in a recession right now! We've got more important things to worry about, leave us alone, there's people getting murdered in the streets and you're wasting our time complaining about a dog. Yadda yadda."
Regrettably this is my last resort: to poison my neighbor's dog.
Yes, I have tried diplomacy. I have tried sleeping facing away from the neighbor's house and used professional grade ear plugs. I'm a pretty light sleeper so I guess this is my fault in that regard. Still, I don't see any other solution to this problem. The neighbors seem to be some kind of uncivilized hillbillies that are involved in construction work, meaning they are gone during most of the day and come back exhausted to the point where they can sleep through their own dog barking through the night, and don't respect people around them.
I have done the research and figured it would be fairly simple. I would need to either buy a ton of rat poison and cook it into meatballs or just mix it in with raw meat, or soak some french bread in anti-freeze. Just for good measure and to guarantee a clean death I would probably do both. During the day that dog is chained in the back yard (and this is a miserable, neglected dog, so I think it would be a blessing for the animal), so I think I could quickly climb over the fence and do the deed while they are at work with little chance of being seen or caught while doing it.
But like I said, I still consider myself a reasonably sane person so doing something like this or being forced to these kinds of circumstances doesn't really quite align with my morals. Not to mention it would probably be pretty obvious that it was me who poisoned their dog, if they find out that the dog was actually poisoned and not died of natural causes. But what else are my options?
