We live semi rural. One of our neighbors has chickens, another goats, we just have our dogs. We also have a rectal orifice neighbor who moved in from Houston and is complaining about everyone. Any non violent ideas on how to mess with him and settle his hash, so that he might think about selling out and go back east. Thanks in advance.

If you live on land and can shoot on it shoot all the time even into night. Get some dirt bikes. Play rap music aim speakers at his house. Buy a spotlight aim it at his house. Buy him a subscription to ghaylife magazine.

If he’s a lib demorat, have all the neighbors hang Trump flags everywhere. Or knock on his door wearing a goat man mask!

I’m reminded of that scene in Yellowstone when Kasey threw that “rancher” in the cattleguard and left him there…..that’d be epic!

Tannerite Tuesdays.

All great ideas 👍

This is a problem that’s very worthy of a solution. Give us more details. We’ll come up with something for these big city DB’s.

Play the mariachi loud 24 /7. Or as late as the law allows each night

Budget?

And how close is his property to yours?

"You're new here. You're acting like a sphincter. Shad up." And walk away.

Just today I heard about an area by me - 100+ acre tracts, but outer perimeter fence around all of them is a high fence. "The Dominion" by Cleo in Kimble County. Some trying to tell others what they can and can't shoot on their own property. 'Seems you can never escape human nature and some little Napoleon trying to control others.

Nothing wrong with just asking him, what his problem is.

Yeah, because that just might work out.

Go to the source and see what’s worth it.

Seems simple enough to me, tell everyone to ignore him and keep on doing what you have been doing.

You would be surprised what good old fashioned communication can accomplish. If not, at least you know and you can go to plan b with the mariachi band.

Agree with a chat first.

There is one in every neighborhood it seems these days, most of these folks are just little Bi##hes, talking to them usually doesn't work, there is something deeper going on with these folks..

Being an Alpha is not taught unfortunately. Good luck

As stated find out what's has his panties in a wad, at least that way you'll have an idea on what he's mad at. If it turns out he doesn't like goats, chickens or dogs remind him he's in the country and that's life.

I had a citizen one time call me out to take possession of a skunk he had in a trap, this was in the Hill Country, said he was going to rid his neighborhood of all skunks, I said, not with my assistance you aren't...he said take him off in your unit or I'll call the chief, I said "here I'll save you the trouble and call him for you, I'm not transporting a skunk." Anyway, I kept my job, and the guy had to release his skunk...

I also might not be surprised. The problem with approaching them is painting a target on your back. In an ideal world, a good ole talking to should be sufficient. That’s not the world we live in, unfortunately. Once you make yourself and your intentions known, you can’t get away with anything.

The best thing you can do is ignore them and live your life. If they complain directly to you act like you have no idea what they are talking about, "got a cake in the oven, gotta go" or whatever and close the door. Karens more than anything in the world can't stand being ignored.

For starters, a loud speaker with a recording of donkeys or mules aimed right at his house.

A good recording of mules and chickens, and etc would be pretty good. If you have money to burn, i’d say get actual mules but they might kill your dogs.

Maybe the soil at the fence line you share might need some manure. Fresh truckload of chicken sh* for the chicken sh* from the big city. Pay close attention to the prevailing winds 👌

Exactly what is he complaining about? Animal noise?

Yea, tell him nicely to F off and go about your business, if he wants to escalate, tell him harshly.

I wouldn’t do any of that, and I would not even approach him, if he approached me it would depend on how civil he was, and that would dictate on how the conversation would go.
One way or another I would let him know that he better mind his business, and not worry about everyone else’s.

The problem with any of the "nonviolent" things that you can do to him, he can do them to you.
You can be firm with him, but he can also be firm with you.
You do not have to go far and lawyers get involved.
A neighborly understanding goes a long ways. Ignoring him helps.

I don't have the time or energy to spend pranking neighbors. Just live your life.

I tried reaching over and weed-eating the fence line that I share with my whack-job neighbor, to see if I could clean up our shared fence line. 'Went about 10 yards and realized it wasn't unfeasible. Hours later I get a text from him telling me to inform him before I "come on his property." (I assume he was checking some camera.) I immediately just called him to actually talk, like a man, and explained to him that I hadn't come on his property. He started crab-crawling and apologizing all over himself. 'Haven't heard a peep from him since, and it was quite a while ago. Nice...and...quiet.

We had “the rooster people” across the road a few years back. They were raising fighting roosters. The problem was that the several dozen roosters crowed constantly all day everyday. It’s not illegal to raise fighting roosters, but it is illegal to sell them. And they had hog dogs and plans to run them. It was a problem. They had come here from East Texas, due to legal issues. I suggested that hog dogs tended to disappear around here and that selling fighting roosters was against the law, and I’d be watching. Finally they went back to East Texas, thank God.

Cue the "East Texas is no different than anyplace else" set.

You should come be my neighbor and I’d let you weed eat my side all you could stand! Weed eaters are the devils tool, I absolutely hate using them.

Yep, they are probably not used to people being direct without being confrontational. Then there are the just plain crazy types, best thing is for all the neighbors to COMPLETELY ignore them.

Let me ask again - what is he complaining about? Makes a difference to know that

Personal problems can be solved by a simple application of HE. If you know then you know.

He borders me on the North side. My Great Pyrenees has no problem climbing the fence. He's ahole enough to shoot my dog. I'd end up in jail on a variety of charges including arson.

He whines about the dogs barking, But the dogs only bark when he, or his stupid little nephew are out close to our back fence. Dogs only doing what they get fed for, to guard my land and house.

Well, barking dogs are annoying as hell.

Weed eaters and all hand earth working tools are proof that the story in Genesis is true and we’re living in a fallen world

I agree with you totally - having to live next door to dogs constantly barking is fun -

One of my friends lived next door to people with dogs and they would bark all night long and there bedroom was right across the fence from the neighbor - they literally had to sleep with ear plugs - ridiculous

Yes, yes they are. My nextdoor neighbor has a little pizz ant mutt that barks at us every time we’re in the back yard not even making a sound. I just yell at him to “shut that f-n mutt up” and he’ll put it back inside. What really pizzes me off is when the mutt is barking and I can smell the a-holes cigarette smoke so I know he’s right there. He doesn’t dare reply! Some people!!

Yeah. People who won’t stop their dogs from incessantly barking are such great neighbors.

Plot twist. As someone who worked a lot of nights and tried to sleep during day. Dogs can be an unending torture. Them and lawn guys.

An exodus from cities to the country during COVID changed a lot of landscapes. You will never know if you can get to a place where you see eye to eye before you talk about it face to face. Most city folks are unaware of how people and things in the country differ from the city. Extend the olive branch and see what happens. You will probably have to be very plain spoken, which is how men should talk to each other anyway. Some adapt and learn to fit in. Some never do. Good luck.

I don’t like to hear mine bark, I have bark collars.

Very wise words.

At the last house, we had neighbors with generations of dogs that would become neurotic with the barking. 'Pretty sure they were picking up the stress inside the house. (Lots of issues, culminating with one of their grown sons committing suicide by cop.) In retrospect, I should have been more direct. Not rude, or vulgar, just direct. They don't seem to understand anything else.

My neighbor has goats and two Pyrennes on 26 acres. If they’re at the front, her male will spend 10-20 minutes barking at me from the other side of the FM road. I mostly ignore it, but I’m not there everyday. It does grate at times.

On the neighbor’s part, he needs to realize that dogs bark, especially guard dogs. If it stops after a few minutes, he needs to get over it.

On your part, you have a working dog in non-working conditions, not the best of choices. You have some ownership in this situation.

I realize your argument will be ‘my land, I get to choose my dog’. His argument is ‘my land, I deserve some semblance of peace.’

Y’all should have a talk and try to reach detante.

In the city, I had a neighbor behind us that had an old blind dog that barked endlessly when we went in the back yard to use the pool. I finally threatened legal action, knowing that wouldn’t work. So finally I said I’d buy a shock collar for the dog, but he said he’d buy it, and he did. But the dog kept barking. I asked if the dog collar was defective, and he said that the dog collar hurt the dog. I said it was my thinking that the hurt was why the dog collar worked, and by the way how do you know it hurt? He said he put it on HIS neck and barked like a dog, and it hurt.

I thought about how I might shoot the dog when they weren’t home, but that was a non-starter (blood, ya know). I did try a few other things, but you dog lovers might be unhappy, so just use your imagination. The old furbag finally died, but it wasn’t my doing.

The guy’s wife asked me one day if I had seen Sissy, their cat. I had not, and had nothing to do with Sissy’s disappearance. The woman said that Sissy had just had a litter, and was suffering from post partum depression, and they had the cat on Prozac.

They were really nice people, but still a bit odd, as you can see.

That is why I pressed the question to the OP - I figured his neighbor probably had a legit reason to not be happy - I sure wouldn't be

You can take the boy out of the city, but you can't take the city of of the boy.
He's probably coming from a HOA.

Had a barking dog next to us in town one time and I fixed it. Kept a log of when, what time and for how long it barked. It was the last thing i heard befor i went to sleep and the first thing I heard when i woke up. When I had about 4 pages of a legal pad full, 6 police responses to my place for a barking dog and the barking dog city ordinance in hand I went and saw the city attorney who ruled in my favor and the city wrote my neighbor a $300.00 ticket. Before all of this one early Sunday morning I was up because of the dog and saw Mr. & Mrs. Neighbor leaving and asked him again if he could do something about his dog. His response was "Hey man you need to call the police". At this point for me was Game on!
Oh it gets better, after the $300.00 ticket it was fine for awhile then one night Mr. & Mrs. Neighbor were gone and the dog barked for 3+ hours. I called the local PD and they responded after checking out their property and seeing no one was home they stopped by to let me know they were writing them another $300.00 ticket. Not long after that they moved to Phoenix and by chance I ran into them returning to Dallas when my flight stopped in Phoenix. I was all smiles and asked them how they were doing and I could see Mr. Neighbor blood was boiling just looking at me.

This was in Frisco, TX.

That’s textbook on handling it in the burbs. I had a back neighbor many years ago that I called the city on and they advised the log keeping. I went one step further by placing a note on his front door outlining my intentions. I also was given an anti-bark untrasonic Egg from my daughter. Never heard another peep from said dog.

I’m highly disappointed in how this turned out. I’ve always thought highly of deerfeeder, and I’m not saying that I don’t still, but it just goes to show that you can’t trust anyone. I assumed that he had a bad neighbor based upon how much I respected him. Turns out he is the bad neighbor. He is the one disturbing the peace and blaming it on his neighbors for being close to their property lines. It’s THEIR fault for being near the fence line. How F’ed up is that?! And why does he have this mentality? It’s his profession. I’m convinced of that. They just can’t help themselves.

Yes sir, you were on the right track, for sure. This is something that should always be asked, but some of us didn’t because we trusted the whole serve and protect nonsense.

I was disappointed but not surprised by a thread about how to seek revenge against a neighbor from someone who posts a daily praise thread almost every day. I’m not much of a thumper but I’m pretty sure the handbook has several sections about not behaving in such a way.

Then he should start knocking on his door with the good book in his hand that will surlily run him off

OK, I'm dealing with this right now. And I'm also the guy with the dogs who has a new neighbor. My new neighbor is from a little farther south than yours. We live semi-rural, on 200'x495' deep lots, on two different parallel roads, He's right behind me.Sounds like we're in a similar situation. Dogs aren't used to activity on the adjacent property and raising hell. Even my dogs fighting with his thru the fence occasionally. Blood has been drawn on both sides.

My thinking is, while my situation could get worse for reasons not pertinent to this thread topic, My dogs are causing more of the ruckus than his, and he should be able to move about his property without constant harassment the same way I should be able to move about mine. I get on to my dogs for it because it bothers me when they are constantly raising hell. I'm making progress with them, now it's more reactionary until the wife or I get involved and they remember he's not the devil. He notices our effort and waves at us.

And believe me, there's several other instances where he truly has been the bad neighbor, "most" of which we've found common ground on but i can't just blow it off and let him deal with it either way. It's just not right. He bought his property like I bought mine. I don't want to be bothered on mine any more than he does on his. I don't want a neighbor with whom I'm constantly at odds either. I also don't need him to be my best friend. We'll find our balance eventually.

Yeah, I don't really think you have a bad neighbor

I could show you some real retard neighbors of mine on our place in Oklahoma that'd blow this guy out of the water...

I’m not taking sides here, but if any of you have never contemplated revenge on a neighbor, you haven’t had a real bad neighbor. I sure have.

In thinking about a couple of bad neighbors from the past, I just realized that almost every problem was noise related - dogs, roosters, loud teenagers.

I have dogs next door that bark all the time and bite at the fence when I'm outside...I ignore them...

I feel for you, a relative of mine has a new neighbor who has called animal control, the ordinance officer, the police and the City Manager to complain on her dogs saying they bark contently, which is Not true...we set up cameras and the dogs come out once or twice a day (they can access the house and backyard). The cameras also caught the neighbor on her property without permission after he was given notice by police to stay off...The fact is some people just can't mind their own business and get their entertainment my complaining and causing problems. I have dogs on both sides of me who bark all the time, I ignore them, even one who runs and bites at the fence when I walk by the fence, I value being a good neighbor more than I desire to complain.

I just don’t understand why anybody would move away from the city, and then try to involve themselves in their neighbors business. Half the reason I didn’t buy a cheaper home in a subdivision is to get away from prying eyes and city officials. Maybe ya’ll could discuss that over a couple of beers. Does he really want to play HOA out there? Maybe he should have bought a home in one.

Personally, if I can’t piss off the porch while I am waiting for my dog to do his business, I will never be happy. I like to shoot, I like tannerite, etc. That is the kind of seclusion I require. I trust city officials and city cops even less than I trust the feds. And the sounds of farm animals and scent of manure- as long as it’s not overpowering, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Neighbor should have bought a bigger and more remote place, or moved into an HOA.

Sounds like a good way to get shot.

"And the sounds of farm animals and scent of manure- as long as it’s not overpowering, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside." My wife has a friend whose father owned a cattle feedlot, he always said "Smells like money to me."

So it’s the neighbors fault he doesn’t like Deerfeeders dogs barking at him while he’s on his own property and he should just deal with it?

Personally if I’m on my own land and I have a neighbor whose dogs come up to the fence and bark at me I would get aggravated at well. This sounds like Deerfeeder is more the issue here and wanting to be an even bigger PITA by having revenge on someone. I’d hate to be his neighbor

There needs to be some common ground. Maybe the neighbor moved out for a little more peace and quiet. Who don’t want peace and quiet?

Someone mentioned an anti bark device. May be worth investment in one, for the neighbor who gets barked at.

“Messing with him” until he thinks about moving may not be the best solution, especially if some of the neighbor issues have validity.

None of them bark just to hear themselves. If they are barking something is out there that stirred them up.

Like the moon?

Harriet was next door, one of 3 Boxer/Rottweiler mix. She'd stand in the middle of the yard and just bark night after night after night, to 11pm or sometimes later. There was nothing. They were the neighbors' grown son's dogs. He thought they made him a badazz.

So the neighbors shouldn’t be outside on their own land?

If he keeps his dogs on hid own place, what is the harm?

My experience is that dogs that incessantly bark typically bark at anything. Rain, bugs, being lonely, pretty much anything. It’s not the dog’s fault though, it’s the owners who won’t put any effort into correcting their behavior.

When they constantly bark at neighbors who are doing their own thing on their own land, that’s super annoying. If they are barking at neighbors across the property line in guard mode like they are fed to do as deerfeeder said, then that’s a sign of a dog that could potentially be aggressive to people it shouldn’t be.

Maybe the neighbor should befriend the dogs. Feed them and pet them.

The harm is that the neighbor has to put up with their constant barking while on his own property. Let's pretend you have a neighbor playing loud music on his own place while you are trying to sleep so that you can drive safely the next day. It's being played on his own place, but you can hear it. Geeze Gomer...............

It wasn't Junior's fault he punched a cop, he was provoked. Doesn't that sound ridiculous? Come on, manage your dogs so they don't annoy people.

I was going to mention that, but was afraid I might get dogpiled on. Lol.

This is a good point. I prefer to be on good terms with my neighbors. I am always willing to make some concessions to my neighbors to be on good terms. In my mind, that means i mind my business and don’t bother folks about what they do on their own place.

Sounds more to me like he and his neighbors got along fine until the new guy moved in. He should have taken these things into consideration before buying. But we are only getting one side.

The new guy was supposed to know that deerfeeders dogs would bark at him before he bought the place? One of us is misunderstanding something. From what I see, deerfeeders dogs are bothering his new neighbor by barking and deerfeeder thinks it’s their fault by getting to close to the property line.

Just because it is country does not mean that all neighbors are great, they are just further part.

I had a good friend got sued over his dogs barking on his 50 acre track. He was sued by the neighbor that also had a 50 acre track. He had to pay $500 and get rid of the dogs.

Haven't heard enough of particulars on situation, sounds like properties are close to each other, is this inside city limits. Personally I could care less about dogs being dogs behind their own fences and during daytime hours or early evening. If barking during nighttime sleeping hours, that's an entirely different situation that most municipal or other jurisdictions ordinance control. So what situation is this one?

Last sentence was a joke…guess you didn’t get it.

They are watch dogs and that is what they do. I have never had Fi Fi dogs. Roll-Tide, I don't want that mofo anywhere near me, my fence, or my dogs. Arrogant big city know it all. He can live where he wants to, do what he wants THERE, and stay the F away from me and mine. At 75, going on 76, I ain't budgin'.

Think you've answered all questions, good luck pardner!!!!

Well that is the Christian approach! Funny how in your original post you forgot to add what the neighbor was griping about - as many on here have stated already having and letting your dogs bark enough to ruin a neighbors enjoyment of THEIR property is just flat out wrong - would YOU complain if a neighbor next door was blasting music at all hours of the day and night? Of course you would

You left out "Praise the Lord".

This story has all the trappings of a future Dateline episode, "Elderly man in rural USA gets beat down by neighbor after repeatedly being warned to control his barking dogs", in fact pretty sure I've seen that one before. Lol

I think the “bad” neighbor has been identified.

I don’t know all the particulars but it sounds to me like the city boy is the problem. Most folks that live in in the country have and want a dog that barks if something or someone is outside. Don’t dismiss the fact that this same neighbor also has a problem with goats and with chickens. My assessment is the neighbor needs to adapt to the reality that people in the country where he moved have animals on their property. He might be happier living in the city with homes shoehorned on top of each other and HOAs dictating what you do with your land. It doesn’t work that way in the country. I didn’t understand that there were any problems until the vegan from the city came to the country.

Op indicates "semi rural" so guessing he lives in a little rural town or municipality and not the actual "country" as many have jumped on.

Yep!

Make him an offer and buy the place.

Do yourself a favor and don't bet a whole lot on that ever happening.

3 homes facing the highway, two on the ridge to the northwest, one of which faces the highway, and the arrogant city boy behind me and below the ridge. Probably about a 1.1 mile out of what one would call the unincorporated town.

Yeah. It seems pretty clear to me. The bad neighbor bought a place where people can have animals. The people living there have animals. He needs to buy a place where people can’t have animals if he is bothered by living around them.

you got that right. And as a reminder to our OP who talks about faith. Ever heard of this?? “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you”

I might have missed it, but how close is the neighbor? I live in a 1/3 acre lot in town with neighbors on both sides or me. We have chickens and in passing I’ve mentioned it to both neighbors at one point or another and neither of them even knew I had chickens. They’re all laying hens and I have no roosters but they can still squawk sometimes.

Sounds like to me you just have a neighbor that wants to complain about everything and is picking whatever he can to complain about with all the neighbors yours just happens to be your dog.

I also have a a German Shepherd with a really mean bark. If anyone gets close to our fence or gate he’ll to ballistic, that is what he is there for and none of my neighbors are bothered by it or if they are they’ve never said anything about it. But again if they weren’t by my gate or fence he doesn’t bark.

Where's BigfootWallace?

Double Secret Probation

All the one's that keep us entertained, get run off.

BLKT2 should be back, but nothing from him.

Just don't say the name three times.

He's too busy playing ninja out in the Orient or mercenary out in Africa....

I have a bad neighbor. I had camera footage of somebody pulling up in a old silverish-greyish pontiac and rummaging around in my Amazon drop box. I could not 100% identify them because it was at 2 AM and the headlights were aimed right at the camera (Ring doorbell). Welp I only knew of one person that drives a car like that.

One day they left it parked on the hillside right where you could look into my window perfectly from the road. It’s a gravel road and a steep hill, nobody has got no business parking here and driveways/entrances are typically 1/4 mile apart minimum. Normally further. But theirs is about a quarter mile away.

Welp I drove out there and pulled up nose to nose to that car and studied the front end real good, watched those videos. And once I had my mine made up I didn’t call the police. They are no use here, they warned is about this weirdo and pretend like they can’t catch up to him. So I went to his home and confronted him there.

I did not threaten the man, I just told him he’s not welcome on my place or my neighbors, he’s got no business whatsoever and if I catch him or anybody associated with him around here for any reason I would hold him personally accountable. I also let him know I have camera footage of his activities at 2 am on August 18th 👌 I was so mad i could feel the flush in my face, I wanted to kick his a-word so bad but i restrained myself from doing or saying anything real stupid. Not a single curse word, either. The age of the smart phone a sly trickster can mess your life up real quick.

I also let him know in no certain terms that I don’t call the law, and have no faith in them to help me. And by now he surely knows I am a gun guy because I shoot out here all the time, and i love to play with some good old fasioned HME.

I haven’t had any more problems. He used to snoop around my neighbors place. He stopped. My neighbor credits me for that because you have to cross my place to get there. All I did was talk to him 🤷

But your situation is different. Your neighbor seems like he is probably not a criminal, probably abides by the law, I bet you can work it out.

Nice!

Well, I only have one dog, stays in my house, if he barks, he gets put in his inside dog room...most nights he sleeps at the foot of my bed. I have found that most dogs who act out have owners who act out or simply don't take care of their animals. The dog next door who bites at the fence and barks at everything, has an owner who plays loud outside music and his truck is also super loud, he is loud too, I just choose to ignore and get along. There are situations like my relative I described whose neighbor never made it past high school mentality and calls the police every time he hears a noise. When I go to my farm there is peace and quiet except when the coyotes are yelping, hogs are grunting, birds are signing, or frogs are croaking on the tank...sometimes the wind is irritating and the rain pizzes me off too, but somehow, I overcome, and life goes on...people.

I keep my dog inside too. And he gets in the trash when we take a family outing, and tears stuff up when we leave him by himself. He takes revenge for being left alone. he’s a rescue. I don’t care. If he runs off somewhere out here a farmer will kill him if he molest the cattle or a bigger, badder predator might get him. I have some neighbors that let their dogs run free, well they probably won’t last long around here.

They can be outside all day and not make a sound unless someone comes up the driveway or is moving around beyond our north fence line. They don't bark unless there is something there.

Would this include your complaining neighbor while they are on their own property?

I have really enjoyed this thread. It is very similar to what has happened and what is continuing to happen with my parents on the property around their 25 acres.

My parents built on a portion my great great grandfather’s original homestead in the edge of the family pecan orchard. There were only 4 houses on the mile long parish (county) road for almost 100 years. Their house (and my great grandparents house) were the last houses going south so no houses for at least 3/4 mile. They never thought anyone would ever want to build on the wooded property next to them. I grew up being able to walk out the back door and hunt squirrels, rabbits, and deer. We shot crows out of our pecan orchard and shot skeet and doves in our pastures. It was a dream for a country kid.

Now, the land has been cleared around our family homestead on 2.5 sides and houses and neighbors are everywhere. The neighboring property is now incorporated into the city. Its hard for a man to take a leak on our property without somebody looking to see what you are doing. It is a major and drastic change that my parents (same age as OP) don’t like. My Momma actually has contemplated moving because she has “neighbors so close”.

How does this relate? The bottom line is the OP is 70+ years old and never thought the property north of his fence line would sell or at least never thought anyone would live there. Now he has a neighbor and just that fact alone irritates the piss out of him. What probably adds to his irritation is that the OP probably could have bought the property in the past for a reasonable price but didn’t. My parents could have bought the neighboring too but thought it was overpriced. (Maybe not but that is often the case with lots of landowners I deal with on my job.).

The dogs barking are annoying. Most people won’t tolerate that for long. Whether he admits it or not the OP is legally or morally responsible for the situation. He admits he trained/encouraged his dark to bark at anything around his north property line. I get it. Protect the property from all enemies foreign and domestic. But now the property dynamic has changed and the OP refuses to change.

I will not bash the OP for not liking his neighbor or the situation or even reacting out of character. Most people are emotionally attached to what they have worked, sweated, and bled to own and maintain. No Christian always acts or reacts like Jesus would. We should but we don’t. We are just fallen people that have been forgiven by a perfect Savior.

Jesus said to love our neighbor. Thankfully He never said I had to like them ... LOL!! I have a difficult neighbor that drives me nuts with some of the crap she pulls. But at the end of the day I have to be the better person and make the effort to show her love, grace, and mercy as much as I want to strangle her sometimes … The struggle is real!

This will not end well for the OP and his dog especially if, like he states, his dog eventually climbs the fence and gets aggressive with the neighbor. Idk about Texas but Louisiana law allows you to put down any dog that acts aggressive toward you on your own property. You can also sue the dog’s owner for real or “emotional” damage. The liability coverage that is part of homeowner’s insurance may not cover you if you have an aggressive, large, or dangerous dog breed and didn’t disclose it especially if your dog climbs the fence and attacks an innocent person on their property.

Instead of blaming the neighbor it is time for the OP to take reasonable action to rectify the situation. It is not the dog’s fault. From the narrative given it is not the neighbor’s fault either. The OP has to adapt. Adapting is tough.

Just my 2 cents.
Big Hutch

I didn't understand that the new neighbor was a vegan. Well, that there's the defining fact on who is to blame. Clarity at last.

Most thoughtful post on this yet; captured many of my thoughts but in a real life, understanding way. Great Job!!

The vegan comment was tongue in cheek, in reference to the type of individual that buys property amongst 3 landowners with animals, then bitches about their animals. Folks moving to the country to get out of the city complaining the country is not like it was in the city…

Spot on. “Don’t California my Texas”

It's not just in the country. Beethoven Hall in the King William District of San Antonio has been around for a very long time, outdoor beer garden, German music, etc. Some people buy a historic home down there and start complaining about the noise, petition the city, yada, yada, yada.

You can't ever get away from certain people that are going to always bitch that everyone should do everything exactly the way they do it and say. In other words, there will always be miserable people.

Simplest solution is for neighbor to get treats for the dogs, show them they are not a threat. When they bark, feed them and make friends.

I certainly understand. We moved here (middle of nowhere) after 35 years in Houston, so I was the city boy new to the country. After some time here, I met an old timer former cowboy. We hit it off and he taught me a bunch. It was a synergistic relationship. I finally had to make one significant change, which was to fill the workshop fridge with only Budweiser, to keep Pete happy. He hated Miller beer.

I’m mostly country now. Was just in Waco, and the noise and traffic were awful. Totally quiet here. And no Vegans here. And I finally have good neighbors. The problems with neighbors are gone for now. Stress free heaven…

Thank you for the kind words. I don’t know if they are deserved but they are greatly appreciated.

Big Hutch

I just feel like you should learn something about your neighbors before you buy a home. If you move in next to a meth lab, that’s your fault. The police are not gonna help you, they play cat and mouse with criminals and extort normal citizens. They sure will tax the heck out of you one way or the other.

How big is the place? Cyclone fence?

Have some signs made up that advertise your place as the future home of Porky's Pig Farm, coming soon. Put one on all sides of your property and a couple that face the Houstonite. Might go as far as buying a pig or two and having one of your other neighbors pull up with a trailer and load it up as if the pig was being purchased. Things may look bad to your neighbor, but remind him that things could always get a lot worse.

^^When we sold my mom's house in Castle Hills and after the wonderful City of Castle Hills refused to even consider changing the zoning, I was sorely tempted to put up a sign that said "Exotic Dancers Coming Soon!"