Saturday, March 01, 2008

human bastard

we came home today and found this note on the door:

" Hi, please lock the dog to the room or kitchen where you are not. It has been barking non stops and neighbours are complanng".

The english is bad, and the writer can't spell.

we knocked on our next door neighbour's door and asked if it was from him. he said yes. when we asked him which neighbours complained, he said "don't know, think it's upstairs, came downstairs to look for the dog". we asked how does he look like, he said the person plays basketball.

there are no adults playing basketball here in our block, young teenagers, yes. my opposite neighbour's son is one. my dog doesn't bark at him.

we have lived here for 5 years now. no one has complained about the dog barking. this neighbour has just moved in. the first time we met him, he mentioned he was hesitating to buy the unit because of our dog. I didn't have a good impression of him right away. you don't make comment like this in front of people who obviously love dogs, and who are going to be your neighbours, and we lived here first, if he wants to move in next door, live with what are already here!

we think he is the one who wants to complain, not others. seriously, NO ONE has complained to us this 5 years, not until now, after he moved in.

there are so many dogs living in this block, and dogs bark.
if there is a stranger lingering outside our flat, of course our dog barks at him.

it is just hurting to get such a note coming home.
it hurts to know that there are such people around. they don't understand that our dog is our family. making a note of comment like such to our dog is just like saying something bad of any of our family members, who are human beings.

if kiki can read the note, i'm sure she will feel hurt and will cry.

this makes us more determined to move away.



reader k | 3/01/2008 11:24:00 PM |
5 Comments:
Blogger Margaret said...

wa...y they like that one? sickening ppl! de ppl never consider others ppl's feelings than anyhow complain! ya...who are they to complain when others don! they got nth better to do. sry...my eng a bit weird. haha :)

1:32 AM  
Blogger Fabien said...

you should write a note back to say 'it is our dog, please do not tell us where we can and can't lock her, thank you'

be polite but make the point that they have no right to tell you what to do, i can understand since she is your family and the idea of being told is hurtful...

did you know many years ago, when i lived in gillingham (u remember the house? think you and alex came to stay then) the neighbour next door used to work night shift and whenever she left for work, the dog would bark all night until she came home the next day, we tried to talk to her but she was very aggressive, so we told the council and Environmental services came to investigate, they gave us a recorder to record the barking and to keep a diary of when it started and stopped. After their investigation, they visited her and told her to buy a special collar for the dog, which squirted lemon juice everytime the dog barked, and this made the barking stop as it trained the dog that barking would squirt water on her neck... finally we could sleep again after half a year of frustration :)

6:34 PM  
Blogger k said...

hey fabby,

tks for your suggestion...is there such a collar? hmmm, gotta check it out.

kiki does bark at strangers or when unfamiliar scent of people who may be walking past our house when we are at home, and we are here to stop here. but when we're not at home, we're not sure if she really did bark that much.

we're thinking of putting a webcam to check on her... haha...

10:18 PM  
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11:28 AM  
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