Open letter to the neighbors

[mrissa]

Dear neighbors:

You need to stop letting your dogs out to barkbarkbark at 5:45 a.m. No, really. You need to stop. It is not a friendly thing to do. It's getting old. Do you know how old it's getting? The last two mornings, my dog has made the exact noise a junior makes in a squirrelly freshman dorm. The, "arrrmmmmmmfffff," noise. The, "Can't you stupid damn kids just go back to sleep?" noise. My dog is bored with your dogs running around barking this early. Dogs never get bored by other dogs running around barking. So there you go: you are tedious about this as well as unpleasant. They are the dogs. You are the monkeys. Deal with it.

Nolove,
mrissa

Comments

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Do those people leave for work early?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't know which set of neighbors it is. Why?

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

That's the only reason I can think of to let dogs out at that early in the morning, is if they're leaving 15-30 minutes later.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Even then, if your dogs are going to bark, you don't let them out, you take them out. It's annoying to stand in the backyard holding the leash while the dog does what needs doing, but it's the responsibility you take when you buy a dog: that you, not the guy two houses down, will be the one inconvenienced if inconvenience is needed.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

If they are barking, they are done making poo poo and can come back in the house. My guess is the dogs were making a nuisance of themselves indoors and got put out so somebody could go back to sleep.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

That is remarkably close to my First Rule of Parenting.