kim963•5d ago

I was the bad neighbor with the barking dog and didn't even know it

So my dog, a little terrier mix, would bark at everything. I mean, the mail truck, a leaf, you name it. I just thought 'that's what dogs do' and ignored it, especially since I work from my grooming shop a lot and wasn't home. Then my new neighbor left a note that said, 'Your dog barks for 3 hours straight every afternoon. It's driving us nuts.' I was honestly shocked. I had no clue it was that bad because I wasn't there to hear it. I set up a cheap camera to check, and sure enough, he was going nuts the second I left. I felt like a total jerk. I started taking him to doggy daycare on my long shop days, and it fixed everything. Has anyone else been totally clueless about their own pet being the neighborhood nuisance?

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milestaylor5d ago

Oh man, been there. Good on you for fixing it.

gavinw455d ago

My buddy Dave had a leaky faucet for like six months before he did anything. The drip was so loud at night it drove his wife crazy. He finally watched a YouTube video and bought a three dollar washer from the hardware store. Took him twenty minutes and he felt like a genius for fixing it himself. Said it was the quietest night of sleep he'd had in half a year.

tylermartin3d ago

Ugh, the slow drip is the worst. I had one in my old apartment that would hit the sink just right and sound like a tiny hammer. You get used to it, then you have a guest over and they're like "is that normal?" That moment of quiet after you fix it is so good.