Neighbor: Are you OKAY?! Me: "No." Neighbor closes door.

[KurtNYC]

I live above a store which is owned by a couple. The guy is usually fine but the woman is a piece of work.

We share a backdoor and last night I'm coming in as he goes out. He left the door open as he went out so my dogs want to go back out and I'm stuck on the stairs until he comes back in. (he was taking out trash). He talks to the dogs in this goofy voice and always (no matter what they are doing and what gender they are) says "Good boy! That's a Goooooood boy!"

So he comes back in. Starts with his "good boy" stuff and the dogs start pulling toward him. I am grabbing the handrail with one hand and holding 2 leashes with the other. My dogs are 100 pounds each and very sweet and mellow until they want to get to someone or something and then they are still sweet but strong as hell. So he says "you're gonna pull Kurt down the stairs" and does nothing to prevent that. "Gooooood boy." And sure enough after 10 seconds I lost grip on the rail and went down the stairs on my tailbone coming to a stop at the bottom with my hands on the dogs' collars to keep them from going into his stupid stinky cheese store.

I'm in pain, dazed and still holding my dogs back from this idiot. He looks at me. Says "Are you OKAY?!" Me: "No." So THEN he closes his door and leaves me there. (!)

I moved out of NYC for a while so that I could have dogs and more space and all. And most of the people up here are very, very nice but just my luck these bozos leased the space underneath me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear KurtNYC!

Omigod. Now he's a piece of work too.

I think I would seriously think about finding a different place to live.

Just the fact of sharing a back door creeps me out. And the rest is just the icing on the cake.

Either that, or let the dogs run in his stupid store.

What a mess...

:hug:

[KurtNYC]

4. Thanks. I am looking and will continue

options are tight when you are bringing 2 dogs to a rental but they are out there. I'm in the Catskills near Woodstock and have been looking to rent one of the small inactive farms around here. The government gave farms to vets after WW1 but you can't farm many of them because the catskills aren't farmland. Had a horse farm lined up back in December (2 acres next to open trails, 6 sweet stalls, side paddocks, turn out, huge enclosed dog run... but it fell through.

[AngryAmish]

2. How does "sit" work with them?

[KurtNYC]

5. generally pretty good

but they are 10 months old and when someone asks them to jump up on them, they will. Enthusiastically.

There are people who will un-train your dogs for you (if you let them) and this guy is one of them. He is praising "Gooood boy" as he asks the dogs to jump on him.

Here is "sit" at the Post Office:

[siligut]

3. On your tailbone, ouchy!

Coccyx pain, just awful. Try not to sit directly on it, ice your butt and try OTC pain meds. So sorry you have idiots for neighbors. Stop being nice, sorry, but that is what seems to work, treat them the way they treat you and be done with it.

[Duer 157099]

6. Next time call him a bonebag

That'll get him.

[Ikonoklast]

7. You are being waaay too nice to a dumbass.

I'd be polite, but firm in telling him that I don't want my dogs jumping on *anyone*, as I'm never sure if they might knock that person down and then I'm going to get sued.

[KurtNYC]

8. This is the short version -- this couple controls my thermostat but they

don't live here (there is one thermostat and it is in his space). Their store has 4 big fridge cases and a stereo right below my bedroom. The fridge cases run all night and sound like trucks idling (and screws up the thermostat so the heat doesn't click on). Left the stereo on overnight twice. Shut my water off for a day. Stole my flag, lied about it. On and on. Today his contractor set up in the backyard (shared) and totaled my container garden -- just buried my organic romaine in sawdust. Meanwhile my landlord is in Africa.

And I have thought about the lawsuit thing. He wouldn't have a case because he has done this stupid untraining thing in front of many other people but if they jump up on someone else....