Omg you two are diabolical

Casadena

Dear Prudence,

My husband and I are retired, and we were enjoying our lives until our next-door neighbors moved away and a couple with three beagles moved in. These dogs bark practically 24 hours a day. Asking the neighbors to control their dogs has earned us nothing but being cursed out and having the door slammed in our face. Our complaints to the city have just resulted in a few citations that obviously have had no impact.

At this point, my husband and I could not sell our house to move away, even if we wanted to; no one would buy a house that sounds like it’s next to a dog kennel. My husband has gotten to the point where he says he’s ready to lace some raw hamburger meat with chocolate and raisins and throw it over their fence. Ordinarily, I would be appalled, but the endless barking has gotten to the point where I’ve developed hypertension that I’ve never had before. Assuming he’s serious, do I have permission to look the other way?

banana468

What?!? 

Are you asking if you have permission to look the other way while your husband poisons the dogs?  

You haven't looked into other options including noise canceling ear plugs or white noise while sleeping??  

You suck and  your husband is worse.  

VarunaTT

No one is going to validate murdering someone's dogs and I hope he gets caught.

MyNameIsNot

Here's what you do. You get some hamburger meat and put arsenic in it. Then you make your husband a hamburger. 

charlotte989875

I mean why stop at raisins and chocolate for the dogs- add some rat poison and arsenic and make your neighbors cookies. Just do away with lot them, amirite?

ei34

Yikes.  Non-stop barking is annoying but murder is an insane answer.  What'd I just read?!

mrsconn23

I can’t gauge from the letter if they’re outside all day or not.  If they’re not, then LW is being extra and is making hay out of a few times a day that the dogs are out making a racket. If they are, report them for neglect (especially if/when the weather is shitty).  

But good god lady, don’t let your H poison them. That’s such a ridiculous solution and you’d only be doing it because the neighbors were rude when you complained to them. I bet if you’re willing to take the leap to puppy murder, that you did not show up ready to make peace/build a relationship. 

Also, hypertension is not caused by a dog (or dogs) barking. Talk to your doctor about it and stress management.

levioosa

As someone who was nearly driven insane by our neighbor's dogs barking, I sympathize with the feeling of wanting to snap if you have one more sleepless night. We are animal lovers and it honestly almost made us hate dogs. We added extra curtains, we ran fans, we wore earplugs, but it was incessant and less than three feet from our window. But there's zero excuse for planning to poison an animal. Call animal control every day, call the non-emergent police line for noise disturbance. Record the barking. Call until it becomes such a nuisance that the city finally makes them do something about it. But you don't fucking poison the dogs.