ARRRRRRRRRG! Neighbor issues

[Vampiric_Conure]

I'm honestly afraid the neighbor downstairs is gonna complain about me and my animals to the landlord because she thinks I make 'too much noise'. I'm trying to live my life, and she complains to her friends and family about my cats playing, the dog running after the cats, the birds chirping/singing, me snoring. The list goes on. I can't be evicted! At the same time, I've not done anything WRONG. I'm just NOT a quiet tenant. A friend of mine says what does she think the building is... a monastery? LOL..... I keep things (mostly) clean. The only thing they can ding me for is having too many animals, but I try to clean the littler box regularly aaaand they never said how many animals I was technically allowed.

JUst had to vent. I'm frustrated as heck.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Here's my ambitious solution... I have used ot in the past. I visited possible offended neighbor, acknowledged the noise, said I wanted to make it okay, brough them cookies abut once a week, gave them occasional gift certificates to McDonald's... lol...
hey, it worked!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I'm honestly afraid the neighbor downstairs is gonna complain about me and my animals to the landlord because she thinks I make 'too much noise'. I'm trying to live my life, and she complains to her friends and family about my cats playing, the dog running after the cats, the birds chirping/singing, me snoring. The list goes on. I can't be evicted! At the same time, I've not done anything WRONG. I'm just NOT a quiet tenant. A friend of mine says what does she think the building is... a monastery? LOL..... I keep things (mostly) clean. The only thing they can ding me for is having too many animals, but I try to clean the littler box regularly aaaand they never said how many animals I was technically allowed.

JUst had to vent. I'm frustrated as heck.

What's going to happen when you get Coco?

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

What's going to happen when you get Coco?

If worse comes to worse, I'll move. I'm not gonna give up Coco. I've poured too much work into keeping him and have plans to train him as a service animal. The neighbor is.... well, according to my friends in the city, she's being unreasonable.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

What kind of service animal?

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I just visited my very elderly Mom at a retirement facility and I walked up and down the halls with my budgie Joey on my shoulder. All the old folks hobbling by looked in amazement and I said "he's my emotional support bird"! Joey literally won't fly away. She clings to me like velcro and gives me kisses. At four months old she has no interest in learning to fly more than 6 feet, and then only to get on my body. Sometimes I think there's something not quite right with her. All my other budgies are accomplished flyers.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

What kind of service animal?

Anxiety/psychiatric service animal . I'm planning ot train him to say words/phrases I learned in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) classes, perform deep pressure therapy, and possibly alert me to emotional overload.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Interesting. How would a parrot perform deep pressure therapy when he weighs less than a pound?

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

Interesting. How would a parrot perform deep pressure therapy when he weighs less than a pound?

I was thinking of using him in his cage, but I might change that. I'm still researching things I don't need much pressure to feel its effects.

 

[rheashard2]

I emphasize with you. Sadly I don't have any suggestions. Hope someone can give one.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

I emphasize with you. Sadly I don't have any suggestions. Hope someone can give one.

Thanks . I'm talking to a friend who has had service dogs, and she suggested using Coco to distract me from an anxiety attack via tapping or beak booping.

 

[Pickle's Mom]

I'm honestly afraid the neighbor downstairs is gonna complain about me and my animals to the landlord because she thinks I make 'too much noise'. I'm trying to live my life, and she complains to her friends and family about my cats playing, the dog running after the cats, the birds chirping/singing, me snoring. The list goes on. I can't be evicted! At the same time, I've not done anything WRONG. I'm just NOT a quiet tenant. A friend of mine says what does she think the building is... a monastery? LOL..... I keep things (mostly) clean. The only thing they can ding me for is having too many animals, but I try to clean the littler box regularly aaaand they never said how many animals I was technically allowed.

JUst had to vent. I'm frustrated as heck.

I think having the service animal gives you some protection from being evicted...I would mention it if they bring up eviction. Hope you don't have to go through all that though. Piccolo and I send hugs

 

[rheashard2]

Service animals will give you protection. Most areas, states have legal protection. I have a great one (except when he got skunked a few weeks ago.) In some areas mental support quaify just as much. There's a tighter control on them. Different animal species are being accepted (slowly). Met a mass transit travel compain. She was w/c bound. She got tired of dogs. So she trained a large cat. She was happy. Cat used toilet, didn't have to me walked, stayed in her lap. Yes it always had outdoor harness. She carried chemial pet spray for strays. I considered trading in my 65# pup for a 12# easy to carry cat. But (always is) I'm severely allergic to cats.

 

[rheashard2]

Forgot about the most important thing about service animals. They are consider a medical aid. Therefore it's NO ONES'S business about specific info. The only question allowed..is that a service animal/breed? Yes preferable response. Mental support and therapy is a bit murky. I anticipate change there. Read about an avian rescue institution for non rehomable parrots. They're aggressive and mistrust meters were clicking off the chart. Those birds were used to handle badly traumatized soldiers, law enforcement, victims of violence. The success rate was two sided. Both avian and human benefited. They saw a need in each that only they could help.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I love emotional support animals but there are a lot of entitled people out there who take advantage and just say it's an emotional support animal to avoid hiring sitters, using doggie daycare, and just want to bring their pet everywhere. That's not fair to people who really NEED their support animal and casts suspicion on them. I don't like leaving my birds home but I don't need them to get through the day.

 

[rheashard2]

I love emotional support animals but there are a lot of entitled people out there who take advantage and just say it's an emotional support animal to avoid hiring sitters, using doggie daycare, and just want to bring their pet everywhere. That's not fair to people who really NEED their support animal and casts suspicion on them. I don't like leaving my birds home but I don't need them to get through the day.

1000% agree. The looks dog and I get because a 'service dog' is growling, barking, spraying store annoys me to no end.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

1000% agree. The looks dog and I get because a 'service dog' is growling, barking, spraying store annoys me to no end.

YES! TOTALLY! Fake SD handlers are SUCH a problem

 

[Terry57]

I'm so sorry you're going through this! If people don't want to hear noise they should just move to a single family dwelling rather than expecting everyone around them to be quiet all the time.

With the dog and cat running that they're complaining about, do you have rugs on your floor? Even if you have carpet, adding rugs on top could help muffle the noise.

I can't believe she's complaining about you snoring. If she mentions that to your landlord he'll immediately know what a loon she is.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

I'm so sorry you're going through this! If people don't want to hear noise they should just move to a single family dwelling rather than expecting everyone around them to be quiet all the time.

With the dog and cat running that they're complaining about, do you have rugs on your floor? Even if you have carpet, adding rugs on top could help muffle the noise.

I can't believe she's complaining about you snoring. If she mentions that to your landlord he'll immediately know what a loon she is.

Thank you

A friend of mine said the same thing about the critters running around and said she had an area rug I can have. THAT should drown out some of my problems. . Thankfully the neighbor's been quiet lately, though when someone asked her how she was doing she gave a catty 'How do you THINK I'm doing?'. Oy.

I'm not the quiest tenant, I admit, but I'm not one to party or play music at 3 am. Or deal drugs. Just me and my animals.

 

[rheashard2]

Remember the 'love to complain factor'. I worked night shifts 99% of my career. I've had neighbors complain because of me walking across floor at night. No TV, music etc. Then during day, their kids, music, TV, dog barking and more. Noise is two-way. It only got bad once. I recorded their noise, my noise. I went to management. Pointed out that they were guilty of false, misleading advertisements, not following no children, and more. More importantly if I couldn't sleep, utilizing the facilities at need, cook, use steps, I couldn't work. If possible start an audio record both ways. Reasonable silence doesn't mean sound proofing your apartment! Sadly private home renters, owners are just as bad. Been told that their dogs could bark 24/7 because it was their yard. That their dog could climb fence, attack lawn service because he was using a weed eater. Even started yelling at cop because no permissions were granted to do work in my yard. Hang in there and remember to keep smiling.