should I tell

Surfer said:
wait wait wait. if you politely mention it to the neighbours thinking they will then go

"ohh we arent allowed to own a dog here?" "crikey we better get rid of little rover then, thanks for letting us know m8"

hehe thats not gonna happen. A dog is like a family member : any overt attempts to remove said member is likely to be met with violence and/or threats.

If you remind them and then tell the landlord. Landlord tells them. They will immediately realize it was you who told the landlord. Neighbourly relations will deteriorate at a rapid rate after that.

Be sneaky : anonymous call to landlord. The offer a sympathetic ear to the weeping neighbour when they send off rover to the dog home...."ayeee its such a shame that landlord is a heartless b******"

All the while you'll be giggling inside at your own deviousness. :D
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that's spot on what i'd do, everyone wins :D (Y)
 
Is your house nicer?

If so then thet may be the reason why you aint allowed a pet, he may be broadening his arrisons allowing some houses to have pets and some not... easier to get tennants..

James.
 
I'm surprised at so many people being by the book.
Personally I'd have a polite word with the neighbours first, but that's how I've always gone about my business.
 
If it gets to be too much of a pain, then yeah I would report it.

As has already been mentioned, if you suggest it to your neighbours before you tell your landlord, then they'll know it was you.
 
I've been in my new rented house for nearly 3 months now, and when we moved in we found fleas in the lounge. The contract says no pets, but it doesnt take a genius to work out where they came from. Tell.

PK!
 
NokkonWud said:
I'm surprised at so many people being by the book.
Personally I'd have a polite word with the neighbours first, but that's how I've always gone about my business.
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But that is inevitably going to backfire massively isn't it?

Two outcomes to talking to them

1) Dog is removed

2) Dog stays and carries on barking. Training the dog to shut up will be a hard task if it's seemingly only doing it while the owners are not there.

1) is exceedingly unlikely to happen, as mentioned above, no one will turn around and just get rid of the dog because it's annoying you.

Which leaves us with option 2, ie. where we started, except now the neighbours know you specifically have a problem with the dog being there and enough so that you complained to them.

So the only way left to resolve the issue is by contacting the landlord. How do you think they are going to react to having to give up the dog / move out when they will be damn sure you are behind it? They're going to make your life as miserable as they can, to return the favour.

This is one of few instances where anonymity is favourable. Loud music etc. is different, as the resolution to such a problem does not require the giving up of a loved pet or leaving the house.
 
James07 said:
Is your house nicer?

If so then thet may be the reason why you aint allowed a pet, he may be broadening his arrisons allowing some houses to have pets and some not... easier to get tennants..

James.
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All the houses are identical and all just a year old.

Also as the neighbours are polish they don't speak to us any way. so no great loss there.
 
The reason i mentioned they were Polish was because I did wonder how much of the contract they understood, they don't appear to have much spoken english.
 
Jolly_Jason said:
'that sort of people':rolleyes: Are you implying that ALL polish people are violent thugs:confused: If so what an absurd thing to say!!
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I'd say 95% of the ones where I was living last year were, so from my personal experience I would be very wary of upsetting Polish/Eastern European people.
 
divine` said:
Wonderfully constructive input. Have you lived in or near a largely eastern european 'ghetto' (for want of a better phrase) in a british city lately?
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I have had eastern European friends when I lived in Germany, including Poland, all of ex-Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Russia and even Kazachstan. When moving to Greece, in addition to conversing day to day with people from these locations, I also encountered Albanians and Bulgarians. This continued to the UK, where again I met people from these locations, and even more Eastern European countries (Czechs, Slovaks, etc.) With work, I met yet another bunch of Eastern Europeans (mostly Baltic people) - to summarise, I have met people from pretty much most of the Slavic countries. During my various stays in different countries, I had both native and non-native neighbours, including Eastern Europeans. The sort of people I met ranged from tiny pre-school kids, to school children, to university students, to professionals, to blue collar/working class people.

Guess what - I got along amazingly well with most of them and I managed to make the Nobel Prize-like deduction that nationality has nothing to do with what sort of person someone is. You are guaranteed to run into trouble if you live in a working class neighbourhood, regardless of what nationality or colour the people there are. A thug will always be a thug, whether he is English or German, Black or White. Incidentally, I find English working class thugs easier to provoke than Polish or German ones, esp. when you know what switch to throw, but this is merely anecdotal.

The reason for your laughable prejudice most likely stems from the fact that Poles, like most Eastern Europeans, tend to be loud and outgoing (similar to most Europeans, actually) and you find this intimidating since you have no idea what they are talking about and since they are a lot more direct than a comparable Brit would be. Since you can't deal with that mentality, you feel victimised.

Dobroij djen!
 
My personal prejudice extends from my experiances showing them to have little respect for people or property in comparison to the british and asian populations that live close by.

I'm not the only person around here who feels like this either, a large portion of people here do, from students to muslims.

edit - either way, being known to be the reason behind someone having to give up a pet or leave their house, is never going to go well for you.
 
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