That must be why I love this forum ... for times when I think I have problems! I come here, and I read about other people`s problems ....... like dog poop.
If you have a small doggy woggy and it does small little poopies, and someone tells you the huge big curly turd is yours .......? or visy-versy ... but when all the turdies are the same size .... THEN you got a BIG problem!
"l lupo è giunto anche nei Grigioni: le analisi del DNA sulle feci raccolte in Val Bregaglia non lasciano dubbi"
The wolf also was in the Grigioni, the DNA analysis of the feces found in Val Bregaglia leave no doubt.
Tom
In the box of shiit, I guess?
OP, I am glad to hear that its just a temporary accomodation. Hang in there, 1st July isnt too far away.
See: "Pooprints" - http://www.biopetvetlab.com/Community.asp
or Solving a "Doggy Doo Caper" - http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/lo...-93939284.html
or a City using doggy DNA - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/0...37942520080916
Despite these societal gems, I think your dialogue with neighbors is the best strategy.
I do not think it's an exaggeration. I believe MC was talking in general about rising intolerance in CH towards dogs. CH is, am glad to say, usually very generous towards dogs going into restaurants and shopping centres, and going off leash in certain areas of parks and meadows. However, I for one would not consider buying property in canton Schwyz because of its too-rigid leashing law for public areas.
On the other hand, irresponsible dog owners make it less good for other dog owners. For example, there's a woman in our little town who lets her small grey dog run around on a long leash biting the ankles of strangers (not breaking the skin, apparently, but annoying and a rude shock nonetheless). She doesn't apologize and insists her dog has done nothing wrong. A couple of friends have had this unpleasant encounter. She had better not run into me.
Male dogs can be trained to pee 'considerately' in public (you know what I mean) - it's up to the owner to train them to do it in more 'discreet' places. Guide dogs on the other hand have to do it, if not off duty, in the gutter between the sidewalk and the road. I was once told off for letting our guide-dog pup do it there. But I was too upset to explain 'coz the guy shouted across the road from a bus-stop, "Oh, that's disgusting!"
Talking about 'everywhere': While saying hello to our dog, her huge Malamute friend pee'd long and generously against a huge pillar and it ran down a few steps just outside a supermarket across a paved footpath. "Wow! So much!" I joked to the Malamute's owner but she merely shrugged unabashedly.
(Sorry, KenFranzösisch, for going off topic. I appreciate that you addressed the problem directly and positively and have let us know the outcome. All the best in your next neighbourhood.)
My ex wife lived in a smart suburb of Bern, on the ground floor including a walled garden with five cats.
A next door neighbour could see into her garden and went to the police & accused her of maltreating her 5 cats. (Totally unimaginable, the kids and the husband, but never the cats!)
The Cantonal vet called round unexpectedly and asked to come in. She refused and told him to come back with the police. They came back after a few days and asked to come in. She again refused and demanded a court order. (Now you can begin to understand why she is my ex-wife)
They came back again with the paperwork. The vet quickly checked all the cats and they all left.
Later the neighbour was prosecuted for wasting police time and had to pay the ex-wife CHF 300 compensation.
The real reason was probably that the 5 cats were crapping in his garden, but to complain to her about this probably never crossed his mind.
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I doubt your vet would have registered your dogs with the Gemeinde as that is the responsibility of the dog owner. Often when persons register they routinely ask if you a dog.
The animal protection people have raised the level of awareness of keeping dogs to the point where everyone things they have an interest in the well being of other's dogs. Sometimes this is warranted and intervention is jusified.
I can almost bet you can expect a visit from the animal protection people any day now given your situation. You are on very thin ice here, tread carefully.
I remember saying in your other thread that this was going to make it harder for you to find somewhere permanent if your new prospective landlord decides to ask your current landlord for a reference. On the basis of your post that has just become even harder.
I hope for your sake that your relo consultant has her wits about her and knows her job, because I firmy believe that in your case she is going to have to earn her fee more than once over. This is not a judgement on you I hasten to add, but a statement of fact based on what you have described.
Good luck, you are going to need all you can get.
I feel for you Franzie... My neghbour was complaining about E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G when I first moved into the building, including my dog being so loud with all that tack-tack noise her nails made when she walked around the floor (I also walk to loudly around the flat apparently).
Well, didn't stop until new neighbours moved in... who play loud heavy metal for the whole building to hear, fight all the time, smoke inside the elevator, etc etc... ah bless them... weird to say bless them, but at least Teckla and I have no more troubles from the neighbies...
Everyone settle down and get out of the jungle with the crime investigation jazz.
This is the real world here not a U.S. crime show.