[Dailydrool] Upsetting the neighbors OMG

[Bob]

Excuse me???????
THey have asked you not to walk you dogs cause their ill mannered dogs bark
at you..maybe if they exercised there dogs some they wouldnt be so jealous
as to have a cow everytime you walk by.
I would call your police and I would tell them that people are yelling at
you and screaming and stuff.
that is just the most outlandish thing I ever heard of...where in the world
do you live?  Is it a neighborhood with sidewalks and stuff.  Are children
allowed to walk by?  I am just flabbergasted at what you say..and your dogs
acutally manage to behave during these walks cause mine would be barking
back.

As I see it they are lucky you are consiterate of the times you go walking
cause to me you should be complaining about there dogs and them barking
back.
Have to say iffen it was me I would start walking 4 times a day but i would
also carry a cell to call the police if i needed to

Weird werd people

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Subject: [Dailydrool] Upsetting neighborhood norms
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 I am trying to figure out whether I should keep upsetting neighborhood
norms where I live. I walk my bassets three times a day.  Walks take maybe
20-30 minutes.  I do not walk before 8 AM or after 9 PM in order to be
considerate to neighbors.  I always clean up after the dogs.  They do not
make a sound.  We do tend to mosey along slowly, as the boys like to sniff,
occasionally go flat basset, and I am on the far side of middle age, with
arthritis.
   Here is the problem.  Every house in my neighborhood has at least one
dog; some have as many as eight (ten per household over 4 mos. of age are
legally allowed in our state before one has to apply for a kennel
license).   However, I am the only person within 4 blocks square who walks
her dog.  The others are all tethered or confined and do not leave their
yards. This is the norm.  Needless to say, when we walk by, a cacophony of
barking erupts as we pass some of the other houses, although it does not
last long and I have not really thought it a problem until recently.
(Nuisance barking is legally defined here as ten consecutive minutes, or
thirty intermittent minutes at a stretch).
   Two different neighbors have asked me not to walk my dogs at all anywhere
in the neighborhood.  I do not usually have access to a car, so it is not
usually possible to drive my dogs out of the neighborhood to a welcoming
spot (like the dog park 12 miles away) to exercise us all, and there is no
route that bypasses all of the other barking dogs.   I do vary my route so
as not to pass any one house more than once a day, and do respect daylight
hours.
   Even so, a couple of days ago one of the complaining neighbors came out
to scream at me at length about "loitering" along the street, "disturbing
everyone", and added a few unfortunate invectives about my skin color and
gender.   My pointing out to her that my dogs were not making a sound (while
hers were) did not help matters.  I came home shaking and have been a little
fearful of walking the dogs since, although I do not really think we are in
any actual danger, but my emotions are shook.
   I apologize to moderators who rejected my initial post, written just
after the incident, which was overly--well, whatever--expressive of some of
my opinions about having been on the receiving end of the verbal abuse.
   I honestly don't know what to do.  I do not think simply caving in to
norms and stopping walking the dogs is the answer.  (One of my neighbors has
done this).  So, what I am currently doing is walking in the direction away
from the cursing neighbor's house (but this means passing the other
complaining neighbor's house more than once).
   Any suggestions?  Thanks, Val
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