Filing Complaints on Neighbor's Pets?

The thing that annoys me in this situation is that the guy should deal with this without being asked.

You are now in the position of feeling guilty about trying to rstore your home environment to a state that it should always be in regardless.
 
You are projecting your sanity and common sense into this situation who obviously has a different and more tweaked value system than you. This is equal to having a conversation with a Sooner or Aggy and using facts in your conversation to illustrate a point. Useless.

I totally agree with not confronting this guy. Warn or inform the authorities who will approach him of his oddness and to prepare maybe for negative behavior. That way when he does they will eat it up and make it personal. Also, if he only shows them a little of this it may stand out as more than what it is since they go in sort of biased.

If he handles himself accordingly then their bias will be defused and you are hosed if he does not change things.
 
Thanks for the advice. The dogs were barking constantly from 7:30-9:30 last night. I am not certain what the address of the owner's house is as we are seperated by the creek. I will drive by this weekend and verify. I am defintely going to contact HPD and BARC. Will update.

Thanks again!
 
Sounds like this guy is an overall nuisence with the dogs and his house being an eyesore. He is probably the kind that does not care and will hold a grudge if he thinks that you reported him. I would anomymously report him.
 
I am praying for the home building industry to recover so a developer can buy his eyesore and tear it down.
 
Sorry I'm late to this, but I too live in the City of Houston and our neighborhood has had a problem with the German Sheperd that lives in the house across from us (we live on a corner). We got a new puppy a couple years ago and about a week afterward another ajacent neighbor comes over to tell us about this particular Sheperd. Said it had gotten out before eand attacked at least two other ogs and on another occasion killed this particular mans week ol little of 4 kittens when it got into his garage. He told me several people had approached the owners about it but they've completely blown everyone off.

At any rate, about a wek later this same dog gets out again and irectly in front of its house, attacks what appears to be a very young stray puppy. Another neighbor sees this happen and interceeds, running the Sheperd off. He calls both the cops and animal control, but the Sheperd ha gone back into his yard. When the authorities show up, they said b/c the dog is in the yard and now out and hasn't attacked a person, there is nothing they can do. They tried to talk to the owners as well but they simply wouldn't come to the door. Complete chickenshit. Terrible owners.

Just wanted to let you know there may not be much they can do.
 
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It was a German Shepherd that killed the people's dog I was talking about earlier, too...They were walking the little dog on the leash when it happened. The dog was taken away and euthanized shortly afterwords...
It is terrible that animals fall into the hands of people completely unfit to have them, and that situations have to escalate to such a traumatizing event in order for anything to be done.
 
finger likcin, it quite possibly is illegal. regardless of how many dogs are making the noise, or what time of day they are making the noise, it is against the law to keep an animal that makes any noise that unreasonably disturbs the peace. (for example, a rooster)

time of day is a factor that might be considered, but is not itself determinative. the number of dogs is irrelevant, only the noise that they make. granted, more dogs are likely to make more noise, but three or six dogs are plenty capable of unreasonably disturbing the peace.
 
Either that or strategically place about half a dozen antifreeze soaked biscuits in his backyard.

We have a winner. Biscuits, meatballs, whatever works. It's a jungle out there.
 
If you end up talking to him, I would approach it as a what can "we" do to help us keep the dogs more quiet outside. Not "shut them damn dogs up or I will get them out of here with the city."

Call the houston SPCA and talk to one of their dog behaviorists. They may give you some tips that you could pass on to this guy to help quiet the dogs when they bark for no apparent reason. If you do some legwork on how to quiet the dogs, you can possibly make the entire situation go away without causing some neighborhood war.

This guy could be a complete dick and nothing you say or do with help the situation but at least try to head off the problem first. If anything, it gives you the feeling that tried to resolve it peacefully.

However, if your decision is to do nothing, you should go ahead and decide to move. Doing nothing will just keep everything bottled up and then you will explode on the guy.
 
"I've found that most people that let their dogs bark excessively are not the type of people that are going to be receptive to a "neighborly discussion" about the problem."

Bingo
 
I used to have a couple that rescued larger breeds, the noise was ******* endless. They were nice but the dogs were a pain. I was SOoooooo happy when they moved away. He was nice, but they had a blind spot for the dogs. Brought his tree limb crusher around after I did a major trim job that saved me hours and hours of breaking limbs down.

So they are not all crazy, and once he was a "dog rescuer" I was sort of... well crap... guess I can deal with it.

They were not horrible, but a possom, rat, coon or something would occasionally set them off at night. They were worse when the folks were out of town...
 
GT WT is correct. Anyone advocating killing someone's pets it a sick twisted individual.
The problem needs to be addressed either through discussion with the neighbor or by calling city authorities who will address the problem.
 
I just realized that the best path forward is to write the owners an anonymous letter politely voicing our concern. Maybe that will help...
 
If it's tongue in cheek, he should have used a smiley, but it still isn't funny to someone who had their dog poisoned by a neighbor as a kid.
 
anyone that has a dog that barks constantly at night to all hours and is left outside is mentally disturbed in some form or fashion. They lack a general consideration for their fellow man and probably deserve something bad to happen to them. i have 2 dogs, i let them out at night to pee and take a dump, if they bark, i shout at them and they are then quiet or i let them back in.

another big pet peeve of mine are people that allow their dogs to take a dump in your yard and dont pick it up. this is the worst kind of dog owner because it is an intentional invasion. one time i caught this ******* walking his dog and allowing his animal to take a dump in my yard. i took out a shovel, picked up the turd and threw it at him. if i had known where he lives i would have taken it to his house.
 
The guy two doors down from my house takes his dog out late every night to poo in everybody else's yard. And, its a big dog, which = big poo.

His house has no fenced in yard, but does he really have to WALK the dog to other people's yards? I cannot understand why he would not put the dog on the leash and walk it around his own backyard. The man has no shame.
 
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