[Gogar]

i only have a few neighbors but the new one is a piece.
here is what i think has fueled the fire.

We recently moved into our new house; we had to do a lot of work on it. while working on it, we were forced to leave some construction trash outside. Apparently our neighbors dogs are -very familiar- for some reason with our house, and wander over here all the time. They're nice dogs, and we pet them, but it is a bit tiresome every single day. i guess you know where it is going, but, the past few mornings we've woken up and the garbage has been strewn all over the property. I'm not sure if it's wild animals or my neighbor's dogs. One thing I do know, however: It's not MY dogs. I just feel that the road to a solution for our garbage predicament starts with ALL the neighbors controlling their dogs for a while.

I walked over to the neighbors and tried to explain my feelings to the neighbor boy. He's only about 12 and he just stared at his shoes and then ran inside. Apparently his parents weren't home, otherwise they would have come out to talk. I hope to try again in a few days.
So, the next night, guess what? Garbage cans turned over again and styrofoam all over the yard. My neighbor with the dogs running loose denied everything, of course, and blamed the other dogs across the street. Again, I'm not sure yet, but what I DO know is that it's not MY DOGS. I DON'T OWN ANY DOGS. I'M TIRED OF DOGS EATING MY TRASH and making a mess all over the yard. I don't want to buy a $500 lockable dumpster when my neighbor could just control his dogs.

Funny thing is, we've tried to be really accommodating to this neighbor. He asked if his girls could cut across our property to get to the bus stop, and we said "of course, that's just fine." Unfortunately, we need to wake this guy up about the dog problem, so for now we have told him the kids can no longer go thru our yard. In addition, I don't feel comfortable with the girls walking through the woods; If they get hurt, I could have an insurance problem. There's also another neighbor girl who cuts through the yard to get to the bus stop, so to be fair we've had to put a stop to that for the time being as well.

Yesterday this neighbor from hell and his wife were walking down the road with their dog and, what do you know? The dog immediately started walking through our yard, headed straight for the trash cans. Neighbor didn't think anything of it, and gave me a nasty look when I went outside and asked him to control his dog. It's almost like he's just being a prick and doing it on purpose now.

We've only lived here a week but the stress is overwhelming. I feel like everyone hates me. In fact, the dog-neighbor lady came over here and was telling me about all the things the previous owner had done to damage the house. It was a really strange conversation. I thought it was so strange that I mentioned this to one of the other neighbors.

Apparently the dog-neighbor man was also talking to my fiancee' and complaining about what a bad person I am. I guess the other neighbor I was talking to must have told the dog-neighbors how upset I was. So maybe we're about even in that regard. I feel like this is some fcked up version of "Desperate Housewives." I don't understand how grown people can act like this to each other, regardless of fault or blame.