Ethical

After 4 years of living next to an empty house we were excited to get some neighbors....until the dog barking torture began.  They moved in right before summer and we spend most of our time outdoors.  All they had at first was the psycho chihuahua that barks non stop for 13 hours at a time.  No joke!  I had patience in the beginning thinking that psycho dog would eventually get used to us or loose his voice, whichever came first was going to be a happy day.  The neighbors are both nurses and they are gone for 13 hours a day and they leave that little dog on a chain that is usually wound around something and it has no food or water.  Finally my other neighbor and I were at our whits end and had enough of being woken up at 6 am to barking and having it not stop until 9 pm.  I decided to leave a note on the door because trying to catch them at home was tricky.  It simply said, just wanted to let you know that while you are gone your dog barks the entire time.  This lead to her coming over and saying that it wasn't her fault and what was she supposed to do?     Um, let's see.  Not have a dog if you are never home to take care of it.  Stop buying new cars and buy a fence so your dog isn't tied to a 1 foot square area all day.  Theres just a couple for starters.  My husband offered for her to throw the dog over the fence and we would take care of it during the day to help but she didn't take us up on it.  Their solution.  Hey, if 1 dog is bad 2 dogs is better!  This new dog at least has a deeper bark but he is so stupid that he dumps his water and food 1 second after he gets it so he spends his day pissed off.  They were keeping little psycho (LP) in the garage for awhile and put butch (it seems a fitting name) right under my friends kitchen window to help cover the noise of the barking??   I guess they gave up on that idea probably because LP destroyed anything they had in the garage and now it is back tied up outside yapping the hours of the day away.  The strange thing is that we have tons of coyotes in the neighborhood that love little dogs and cats.  We can't figure out why this meat kabob hasn't been eaten yet.  I keep pondering the ethics of dowsing the dog in bacon grease and ringing a dinner bell.  Slipping a shock collar on it during the day and zapping the bajeebers out of it.  Maybe taking my dogs over there for a little "meat" and greet. :0) I asked my 15 yr old daughter if she thought I could be jailed or at the least need to repent if I just went over there and "accidentally" unhooked LP from the chain.  Unfortunately she said that I would definitely be in need of repentance.  Darn valiant youth of today!  So instead my neighbor and I conspired to take pictures and finally call animal control after our months of threats.  Guess who wont be over for a bbq this summer?  Did I mention that in addition to the guy being a nurse he is a MMA?  Ruh roh!