There should be a test people have to take for pets and babies — am I right?

Read this Reddit post about how one neighbor is fed up living next to lazy dog owners and how landscaping solves it all.

Check out all of the details below!

Another irritating neighbor story

My neighbors have two, sometimes three, untrained dogs that live in their backyard.

A couple of years ago, the dogs started digging under the fence and escaping into my backyard.

At first, I would catch the dogs — they are friendly, just untrained —and return them and tell the neighbors there was another hole under the fence.

The neighbors didn’t see a problem because, “the dogs could just stay in my backyard until they wanted to come home”.

That is so presumptuous! The audacity…

This didn’t work for me. At all.

So, I took out one of my gates, which I had been planning to do for unrelated reasons. [I] told the neighbors that the dogs weren’t safe in my yard. They didn’t care.

So then, I bought a bunch of landscape timbers and placed them along the bottom of the fence row to stop the dogs from escaping.

And the neighbors were still irritating in other ways, so I started planting along the fence row, just to create a barrier for noise and stuff.

Wow, this must’ve gotten pretty bad if noise is an issue.

Long backstory, but that brings us to the present day.

Along the fence row, I have ivy, honeysuckle, a couple of trees, two fig trees, and a pomegranate bush.

My neighbor hates — hates — this. They ***** about every twig that grows over the top of the fence.

During the heat of the summer, I do minimal yard work. So things along the fence row can get bushy.

Makes sense — what could be the cause for the drama now?

A few days ago, I got a visit from the city. They were very nice. Told me my neighbors had complained about my “overgrown, unruly” yard.

They very nicely explained that they only regulated lawn and weeds. They do not regulate landscaping.

I can grow anything I like in my yard, but there needs to be a clear boundary between landscaped areas and grass/lawn.

I can solve the problem by simply outlining my flower beds, etc.

Wow, calling the city into this has definitely escalated things.

Tomorrow, I’m solving everyone’s problem by pulling out the landscape timbers along the bottom of the fence and placing them in front of my plantings to mark off the landscaped area.

I’m torn about the dogs, though. I’m sure they will have a fun day exploring the neighborhood and there’s very little traffic. But I’m pretty sure they will get picked up by animal control.

Maybe they will appreciate the flea baths?

What’s so hard about respecting people’s property?

Let’s see what Reddit has to say about these detestable dog owners.

One commenter introduced the idea of motion-activated sprinklers for bathtime.

Another one fixed the problem of the bored dogs.

Finally, a Redditor devised a workaround to get the dogs out of this neighbor’s hair.

Pet owners need to stop making their animals other people’s responsibility.

This neighbor has every right to keep their backyard dog-free.