Re: Neighbor Harassing My Household

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On 4/01/06, Sarah wrote:
> My neighbor has been harassing my family and pets. He
> doesn't like the fact that I have 4 dogs. We are very
> reponsible pet owners that pick up after our dogs.
> However, he doesn't want us walking past his house or
> walking on the common areas near his house. This is a bit
> hard to avoid since his house is connected to our house.
> He has followed my friend while he was walking the dogs on
> common ground yelling and has tried to kick our dog. He
> has made false accusations that we are commercially
> breeding our dogs (they are all spayed and neutered), that
> our dogs are making on his property and we aren't picking
> up. The health department has come to investigate and
> found no basis for the complaint. The animal control
> department has been out twice and found nothing. He has
> also called the code enforcement department stating that
> I'm doing construction in my home without a permit. They
> didn't even bother to come out because they could see that
> any construction I've done in the past, I've taken out a
> permit for while he has done work in his house without a
> permit. He claims his basis is because we reported him
> for a parking space violation to the association. However,
> it wasn't us and so his harassment doesn't stop. The
> other day, while we were at work, he had the animal
> control officer come out again and he showed him brown
> spots on the common areas and supposedly dog feces in my
> fenced (and locked) backyard. The officer told him to go
> to mediation to try and stop all this petty stuff but he
> refused to go to mediation and the officer signed a
> warrant that he took out against us for failure to pick up
> feces. Now we are going to court to try to defend
> ourselves from this fool. I'm afraid that he will try to
> harm my dogs next. What recourse do we have against this
> demented individual?
I don't think this has anything to do with Constitutional
issues of privacy. Try posting it on the "Legal Questions"
page and perhaps you will get more of response.