I Hate The Upstairs Neighbors

[telophase]

They have a dog.

They keep this dog on their balcony at night, and when they're not at home.

The planks that make up the floor of the balcony are designed to have space in between them.

You can guess what my porch looks like now.

I took photos. I went by the apartment office, but no one was in, so I just left a strongly worded, but polite, message about the situation. I don't hear back from them today or tomorrow, I go to the office after work and bang some heads.

Comments

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

ewwwwwwwww reason # 39890543 why i'm caninefree.

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

you so need to move.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The lease is up June 26. I am OUTTA HERE. :)

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

You can probably complain to the health department, too.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If the complex fails to respond in a satisfactory manner, that may be the next step. Wel, the third step. I expect the next step would be complaining to the neighbors directly, if the complex doesn't contact them.

I find it ironic, since I can tell the people upstairs are fanatically clean - washing 1 or more loads a day, vacuuming every day, sometimes twice leaving their dog outside all night so he won't mess up their apartment.

[chisotahn]

Blegh! That's just foul... and rather not fun for the dog, either, I'd imagine. Our dogs have a gravel-based run outside that's fenced in from the rest of the yard. I know you couldn't do that in an apartment, but good lord, at least get a canine litterbox and train the dog to use that... it's not that hard... >_

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know! I feel vaguely guilty enough about leaving my cat inside 24/7 (too many cars and people out there - if I moved to a house in a quiet neighborhood, I might let her out, but not in an apartment); I can't imagine confining a dog to a small space like that. (Uh, yeah, crate training kinda wigs me out, although the people I know who do it give excellent care and lots of attention to their dogs.)

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

If you are just keeping your dog in a crate all the time, you are not crate training. :)

At the moment, both of my dogs are in their beds in their open-doored crates, because they choose to be there. :)

ETA: I keep pulling the little dog out and making him sit with me and he sneaks back whenever I stop paying attention.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know. :D Just confining an animal to a cage that small for *any* length of time wigs me out. I know I'm probably overreacting, too. XD

[cofax7]

Dogs are denning animals: they like having a cozy place to go, usually. Reasonable crate use isn't cruel, so long as the dog gets enough exercise and social time, and isn't kept in the crate so much it is forced to foul it.

[celestriad.livejournal.com]

ugh. >.>; sounds like yet another reason to dislike your upstairs neighbors. -_-;

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

That poor dog. :( Wonder if the ASPCA would get involved with that or if it's way too minor.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

They've got much worse things to worry about than a dog that's allowed to go outside during the day, brought in at night, and isn't actually living in it's own feces.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They're better than the neighbors 2 years ago, who shut their dog in the bathroom and ... either took a long vacation or moved. I dunno which. After three days of ARFARFARFARFARFARF every time I made a noise in the vicinity of the bathroom, I called the apartment complex that night and told their answering machine about it. I think they came out and got it first thing the next morning, because I didn't hear it again.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Wretched people. Good for you.

Yeah, this sounds nowhere near a horrible case of apartment-dog neglect, but still it doesn't sound ideal for the dog to be living with neatfreaks that try to keep it away from most of their living area-- or ideal for you, obviously. Good luck with that.

[cofax7]

... WHAT?

That might conceivably be an animal code violation, depending on where you live. That's just wrong.

Housebreak the dog, walk the dog, crate the dog if it can't be left loose in the apartment. You don't lock the dog on the outside porch so it can poop on the neighbors!

Some people should not be allowed to have pets.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

[xebra42.livejournal.com]

Ok so I'm VERY bitter about balconies and upstairs neighbors. I lived downstairs and had a fenced (6 foot) yard of sorts. I had placed a bag of stinky trash on my porch and was going to go dump it in the dumpster with the 4/5 full bag in the kitchen was also ready for transport. I got written up and fined $25. My upstairs neighbor dumps her trash on her FRONT DOOR balcony- it drips ON MY HEAD as I enter and exit...I complain to the office and they TAKE HER TRASH OUT FOR HER...(and tell me about it, and mention she's not being fined.)
gggrrrrr.