They're Called Companion Animals for a Reason

Dear Neighbor, I understand and appreciate that most American families now have canine companions amongst their treasured members, however, I feel I need to inform you of a few key components of pet ownership that you seem to have grossly overlooked.

1. Pets are alive, and although they are still legally classed as 'personal property', they can feel things physically and emotionally much in the same way that your children can. Friends do not chain friends. Additionally, I doubt you would leave your kids in the yard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ignoring their existence and needs completely. I could be wrong, but I doubt it since I have actually witnessed you outside playing with you kids, and yet never walking either of your 2 dogs.

2. Without some kind of interaction and stimulation other than being confined to your yard, your dogs are going to become anxious and destructive. Their constant fence fighting with any other person or dog that happens to walk by the length of your fence is evidence as such. Your neglect is literally driving them crazy.

3. I live across the street from you. If I can hear your dogs barking all night long, I know you can too. Get your lazy ass out of the bed and let them in you selfish jerk. They are nervous or disturbed by something they have seen or heard during the night and as a result of number 2, this is how they deal with those emotions. Don't make the entire neighborhood suffer at the hands of your neglect. When your two 'outside' dogs bark, it disturbs my four inside dogs, waking them up and making them nervous. They, in turn, come and wake me up because they know I give a shit. If it's 4am and your dogs have been barking since 2:30, do something. Maybe they are trying to alert you to an intruder or something suspicious. Stop being such a selfish jerk and get up and check it out. If you aren't going to do it for your dogs, at least do it for your neighbors.

4. The way you treat your dogs makes me sick. They are living, feeling beings who deserve more than to be resigned to a life imprisoned in your backyard. Why even have dogs? Get a gnome.