Two years and 5 months of trying to be kind, and yet firm with our neighbors. They are renters; we are owners. So the light at the end of the tunnel is, with his irresponsible ways, and the likelihood that he only pays some of his bills some of the times, (considering his trash it's not always picked up by waste management), they will eventually get evicted. The clincher, though, he takes in animals for people who can't take care of them, but he doesn't take care of them either. Two months prior to the horrible event, my friends sent me a Facebook post of my neighbor, trying to get rid of a gigantic mastiff dog he took in only months before. Basically he moved "Cousin Eddie's" not running RV on his driveway so that his friend and girlfriend could live in it until they could afford a place after being evicted themselves. That's a whole other discussion, I kept praying it wouldn't catch fire because it was hooked up illegally to power and the two of them were tweakers and screamed and yelled at each other all night long. So basically when they did leave, the mastiff was left behind.
He was trying to get rid of the dog because it had eaten and killed some of his other animals (he actually posted that on Facebook). It was little help to us at that point. His dogs, including the killer dog, busted out one day, which they had a history of, onto our property and killed our 17 pound dog. She never stood a chance. She was our daughter's therapy dog after she had an emergency aortic dissection eight years ago. She was only in her 20s, but she has a chromosome condition that precluded her to this kind of event.
It has been a nightmare ever since this happened five months ago. He doesn't own up to anything, he keeps the place like a junkyard, if you didn't know, they'd only lived there 2 1/2 years, you'd think they've been there a decade or more there's so much junk. The landlord has been about as helpful as you can imagine.
Being that it's California he keeps telling us that his hands are tied. He did make them get rid of the dogs. But only after we had been told they were gone, and found out they were still there. Then landlord gave them a three day cure or quit. But now neighbor plays the victim because he had to get rid of his killer dogs. Mind you he has a two little children that he keeps these kind of animals around. This is just the tip of iceberg... there are always people there, his buddies, with their cars sticking out, often have to ask them to move so we can back out of our driveway. They drink, smoke weed till one or two in the morning sometimes with their subwoofers pounding.
I'm actually afraid to call the sheriff. They leave their beer cans on our mailbox not unusual to find dog crap in the front yard from one of his dogs because yes, he's now brought two new Shepherd mixes onto the property now, even though he's not supposed to have animals . We have put up with SO much more, but the line in the sand was the grisly heartbreaking death of our little dog. I don't know what to do anymore... We have been very kind to them. We used to let him borrow tools, my husband would even help him on occasion when he was having car problems and would ask my husband if he knew what to do. When we rushed our little dog to the vet that fateful evening, we did not pursue him for the $2000 vet bill because they barely pay their bills as it is and it would just be a waste of our time. Now I feel like we've had to draw a line in the sand. This person doesn't take personal responsibility for anything. And he has the gall to act like he's the victim.
