Blasted Neighbours!!!

[Foxglove]

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Don't know how to tell you this after me being SO excited over the past five weeks or so but I can't have the whippet pups

Our neighbour downstairs - when she heard that we were getting pups got rather sniffy and said that if she heard even so much as a squeak from them she would report us to the Housing Association! We were really angry at this and a few cross words were said and this morning we got a letter from the HA saying that our neighbour had made a complaint against us Neil rang up about it and we put our side across but the upshot of it all is we cannot have the pups here because I am not allowed to make a small lawn because of it being a shared courtyard! I tried to reason with neighbour and HA and explain that what I planned to do was move my pots from the side of the drying area where I have them and put a piece of turf down (with a few pots full of winter pansies and cyclamen around it to make it inconspicious and not in-your-face) ONLY for a few weeks (3 or 4 max I think it is!) until the pups had finished their inoculations and I could then take them into the outside world. But no, neighbour said she didn't want germ-ridden dog muck (as she put it!) everywhere. I told her NOT to tar me with the same brush as the guy who used to live in the flat opposite who DID neglect to clean up at times. I told her I ALWAYS carry poo bags with me and ALWAYS clean up and worm/vaccinate/neuter my animals AND train them to be perfect members of society that can be taken anywhere and not upset or offend anyone.....but no, that wasn't good enough and the heartless old dragon is staying firm on this :angry:

I feel SO angry and fed up about this....off to eat a GIANT size bar of chocolate now!!! Oh, and put the radio on LOUD!!!!!! :rant:

 

[nicky12]

aww thats awfull i feel your pain wev had terrible neighbours move in next door to us 6mths ago there finaly being evicted today (w00t) so we get some peace and quiet again ,hope your neighbour comes around so you can still have your puppys some people can be so unreasonable

 

[WIGGY]

thats realy unfair, could you ask the breeders if they could keep the pups for you untill they have had all their needles that way you could take them straight out for walkies xx

 

[~Annie~]

Oh that's awful ... I do feel for you :huggles:

A bit late now ... but could you not have house trained on to puppy pads until the pups were old enough to go out. Maybe just one pup dealt with that way would win all parties over ??

 

[k4tie-d]

so sorry gill

having had 2 pups in a flat with a "shared" garden i know the problems it can cause.

i would suggest speaking to HA again and asking if you could have the pups once they have been innoculated so they wouldnt need to use the garden. sorry to say, but i do think though that you will be pushing your luck asking for them to let you have 2

i cant see any reason on your neighbour complaining if they are not using the garden, but then my neighbour complained even when they were in my garden :angry:

so sorry gill, its just horrible when its to do with your home and neighbours

 

[Noise]

I agree with others, surely you can find a way so all parties are satissfied even if it means you only have one puppy. I live in a flat and got Kennett to use puppy pads until he could go out, and a big plus is that whippets aren't very noisy. you're lucky that the HA hasn't banned dogs altogether.

 

[Janimal]

Im so sorry, I dont really know what to say....I know how much having this puppy meant to you

after all your heartbreak..

do you think they may have a change of heart... :unsure:

 

[Foxglove]

GREAT NEWS!!!!!

On Thursday we had an appointment with the Housing Association at their HQ in Gosforth. And, to cut a long story short, we can have a dog!!!! (w00t) Our neighbour downstairs had originally complained when she heard we were getting a couple of pups and had gone straight to the HA instead of speaking to us!!!! :angry: She was worried that she would be constantly kept awake by puppies barking & howling and there would be poo all over the place etc

Well, as I told the HA, I am the one person who ALWAYS cleans up after their dogs and always have pockets/handbags full of poo bags....in fact, I often had to check the pockets of jeans etc for the blooming bags before I put them in the washing machine!!! :lol: And as to noise, well Diva HAD howled a couple of times when she was left when I went to work at 5.30am but we hadn't realised because neighbour didn't tell us!!! Diva was quite sneaky...she would be quiet for the first five minutes or so of me going out and not utter so much as a squeak so even if I stood outside the front door for a few moments I'd just assumed she was ok being left and had gone to sleep. Unfortunately what she DID do was howl the place down until she heard Neil drive the car into the courtyard at approx 7am and THEN she would shut up!!! And that was why Neil had never heard her make a sound either! Our neighbour hadn't told us this until a fortnight later and after that Neil took Diva to work with him on the two evenings when I was on early shift the next morning and that solved the problem. But oh, if only our neighbour had spoken to us first...we are the sort of folk who are absolutely mortified if we cause any disturbance to anybody :b

So THAT was the reason neighbour had complained to HA and because of this we have had nearly 3 weeks of stress and worry about the thought of not being able to have a dog.....not least losing the chance of these two whippet pups from my friend that I had been so looking forward to As soon as I heard we couldn't have a dog I told my friend because I didn't want to mess her around by letting her believe the pups could come to us and her turn down other possible good homes in the meantime (does that make sense?).

Of course it didn't help either that Neil started to get 'cold feet' about having another sighthound....I think he was terrified that they too would have accidents like Tina and Diva had but I think, after sitting him down and getting him to tell me what was wrong, I've convinced him that what happened WERE just freak accidents that could have happened to a collie...or a pug..or a GSD...any number of breeds!!! I'm sure he had it in his head that hounds are impossible to train and never come back too.....yet I had had no problems with our two girls I think they just didn't take Neil seriously and would DELIBERATELY keep just out of reach :lol: I certainly never had any problems with them and only had to flick a finger and say ''Here'' and they would come galloping back to me!

But it IS a huge weight off my shoulders knowing that we ARE allowed a dog after all.....I just felt empty and as though life had lost all meaning when it seemed I wouldn;t be able to have one (or two!)

Just need to find the perfect girlie (or boy!) now

 

[~Annie~]

Oh that is great news

 

[Janimal]

Gill I am so relieved and pleased for you.... :thumbsup: :luck: Brilliant news....and

I really wish you the best of luck in your search for your new whippet :luck:

 

[Foxglove]

I really wish you the best of luck in your search for your new whippet :luck:

Now WHY would you assume it will be a whippet? :lol:

*answer: because anything else is JUST a dog!!!*

 

[Nicola]

Good luck in your search.

I was up in your part of the world last weekend, and loved the beaches close to your town. Fabulous spots to run whippets on. We popped into Alnwick too on the way up to Banburgh (visited Barter Books too...what a great shop).

Anyway I digress....glad you managed to get things sorted with the HA!

 

[Foxglove]

I was up in your part of the world last weekend, and loved the beaches close to your town. Fabulous spots to run whippets on...

Awww what a shame I didn't know you were up here But yeah, the beaches are the whole reason we have decided to stay in Northumberland instead of moving to Cumbria :lol: There's so much more space to let the dogs run up here.....in Cumbria there seem to be sheep round every corner PLUS....after our break there in September when it rained monsoon-like for the six days out of seven we were there, and it rarely rains over here on the east coast in comparison, we decided to stay put!

Is that a mad reason to stay? :lol: One of my customers thought so......just looked at me as though I was mad But even Neil feels the same way....the Lakes IS gorgeous but Northumberland is just SO much better 8)