About 5 weeks ago we rescused a stray beagle-mix. He is a inside dog except when we let him out to goto the pee/poop. He is not housebroken yet so if we have to leave for few hours, we leave him outside...access to greenhouse with rug, chew toys, bones, and freshwater. A few weeks caught our neighbor in our yard. Times that we come back home and dog is not on his chain...can't prove she did it. She was complaining that dog does not have adequate shelter and water...it was very dark outside. She has now called animal control 3 times, complaining of barking and inadequate conditions. They have come out and seen our yard and greenhouse and state it was very adequate. Animal control admits everytime they came to investigate our dog was not barking at all. Neighbor has driven her car around to the back when my kids our outside with the dog. Dog only backs when he sees new dogs walk by but stops after about minute. Barks when ready to come in. Never barks at night or when people ring door bell. No complaints from any other neighbors. What are my rights? I feel like I can't let my dog outside? Live in Washington
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It was SUCH a creepy feeling. My dogs do NOT have a barking problem and now its a really big deal (theres a lot more to the story). SOmething happened with the ultrasonic bark stop, so she got a whistle. We can hear it from inside with the TV on! She would shout over the fence for us to shut our dogs up, when they would bark once or twice for me to bring them in or play with them. She screamed at my mom that she was leaving them outside for hours on end, unattended, they never stopped barking, the three other dogs in the nieghborhood (who bark a lot) never barked and our dogs always did. My mom told her she was crazy (she really is its kinda scary) and that my mom was always home when the dogs were out, which shocked her. Now we take our dogs outside through a door that she wouldn't be able to hear and she is out there in less than 10 seconds and she can't even see us put them out there. So she might have a camera on us! She sits outside the whole time our dogs are outside writing in her journal and holding a tape recorder! We can see her from our second story windows. She climbs her children's play structure when we bring them inside to see if they are gone and now she straps the recorder and a ?cinderblock? to the thing before going inside. Our dogs barely bark, and only when they are alerting us, she used the whistle on Pearl when she was barking at a stranger in our yard and when my mom told her that and asked her to stop, she blew it at my mom 3 times! 