Our neighbors are moving!
This is good news on at least a couple fronts, both relating to their dogs.
They have two dogs. One of them is a
large dog (looks like a dalmation/dane mix to me). She spends almost her entire day either inside or in the tiny (~20ftx8ft) back patio that our condos have. This is a trapped, frustrated dog. So I don't blame her for barking. But that doesn't make it any less of a nuisance. She barks at
everything. She barks at anyone who walks by the back, she barks at us every time we enter or leave. She even barks at us while we're in our own kitchen.
Thankfully, she's brought inside at night, so that doesn't tend to be an issue. But CP, who takes her bike out the gate and parks in the carport right by their yard, gets "assaulted" every single morning. It grows wearisome.
She had a conversation with them recently, which wasn't particularly encouraging. After first making, "She just needs o get to know you," excuses, they eventually said, "She used to be better when my mom would come by and walk her more often, but she doesn't any more." When CP suggested that they might look into training, the response was, "Oh, you can't train for barking, can you?"
I feel very sorry for these dogs, it's no life to be stuck in that little cement box. But we were coming very close to contacting the association and finding out what our options might be.
So I was very happy to get an email from CP saying that our neighbor came into the library today and told her they'd be putting the condo on the market within the month. Their main motivation being to find somewhere with a yard for the dogs.
I'm happy the nuisance will be gone (presuming a new one doesn't move in *crosses fingers*). And I'm really happy the dogs will hopefully be much much happier in their new home.