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Shunned by neighbors
Hello Oregon nesties! We moved to Cottage Grove a month and a half ago and are officially being shunned by our neighbors. They ignore us when we talk to them, they talk about our dogs barking; loud enough so we can hear it. Someone puts cones in my driveway every night blocking my car. All I heard when we were moving here was how nice people are. I must've moved in to the jerk part of town. We'll be buying in Eugene in about 6 months, but that's going to be a long 6 months. Any suggestions?
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Re: Shunned by neighbors
Sorry to hear about your situation. ?Do they complain that your dogs bark when you're gone? Have you tried white noise to help?
Sorry I don't have any advice on how to smooth things over with the neighbors other than to decrease your "dog impact" with the barking. ?Hopefully the 6 months will be quick.
Just curious, who is and why are they putting cones in your driveway? ?That's a bit silly/petty. ?
You know...we had trouble with some of our neighbors when we first got here...they would make loud comments about Californians right outside our window (I think our license plates gave us away).
But other than that, my top floor neighbor and her DH have become one of our best Oregonian friends and have introduced us to many other nice Oregonians. You will get good and bad everywhere. I have found that people who are judgemental and critical are only playing on their insecurities. Maybe you just need to comfront them in a positive way or introduce yourself to them and find out what the problem truly is. Sorry about that.
I don't think it's even worth my time to try. Oh well. LC are back in SoCal yet?
Oh that sucks, I'm sorry. I would seriously camp out one night and wait to see who is moving the cones, and when they put them in the driveway, jump up and say "Hi, what are you doing??" I bet it's probably kids...then you could bust them to their parents!!
Have you tried approaching your neighbors and being really friendly? Maybe they think you are "rude Californians", since you think they are "hillbilly WT"?
For the dogs barking, I bought a little thing at Petsmart that is AMAZING. It was about $45 and looks like a birdhouse, it's about 4" tall, you just hang it in your backyard, and when ANY dog tries to bark, it sends out a little noise to discourage their barking. It's worked great with my 2 dogs and all of our neighbor dogs. Now none of them bark anymore.
I agree, camp out and check out who's moving the cones.
We had a neighbor on our floor slip an anonymous letter complaining about the dogs barking (mostly when they pass our door or they dogs hear them talking the in the hall) so we decided to keep a radio on whenever we leave them. We've had no complaints since then and we asked the neighbor right next door and she said she hasn't heard a peep in about 3 weeks (just about the same time we implemented the white noise). Good luck!?
How could we be rude...we are trying to say hello and they just turn around and walk away. We live in a weird part of town, there are much nicer parts but we had to find a place in a month so we didn't really have a chance to scout out neighborhoods. My sister's friend is from Oregon and she said that she would always play pranks on people from CA for a few months. So if it's a hazing/initiation I will just wait it out. I guess it really could be worse, they aren't causing any damage just being annoying. Thanks for all of your suggestions.