Ok so the short story is we have moved into this house we bought an year ago, and the neighbour is divorcee with 3 sons who work as tradies. He has 3 big dogs 2 Dobermans and a Rothweiler with poor socialisation. As they bark at everything that moves past their house and they are a corner house. He does backyard breeding how do we complain without them knowing that we have done it.
And the long story is, when we moved in I went introduced myself, as I wanted to talk about replacing our boundary fence we share with them as it was in a very bad state. He was very cold and reluctant to talk at first, however after a couple of tries he agreed and asked me to get some quotes. So I did, get 3 quotes for timber fence, however once I went and got them he completely changed his view and said he wanted to go the colorbond way and his sons can build it at the same cost. I reluctantly agreed, he said he had some money issues and can only get it done around Sep 2016. Weeks passed, months passed and could not contact him as there is no access to his house with the crazy dogs. Tried contacting his tradie sons to no avail.
In the meanwhile he atleast had 3 litters we know of all from the same Doberman female in the 12 months we have been in the house. Me and my wife contemplated a number of times whether to complain to the council about the noise of the dogs or to RSPCA about his backyard breading, however we resisted for 2 reasons. One was we went and got a Germnan Shephard puppy of our own so weren't sure how noisy our own dog would be and also didn't want him to turn hostile if he found out that we were the ones who complained.
So its been more than a year since I spoke to him about the fence, lost any hope that he would pay his half for the fence, so basically when we can afford we will just have to fork it all ourselves. Now with the dogs and his backyard breeding what do you guys think we should do. I still do not want him to find out we were the cause of shutting down his puppy factory if actually somebody does take action…
Replace the fence, put a copy of the invoice with your bank details attached asking him to pay half. If he doesn't, take him to court.
As for the dogs, if you think they are being grossly mistreated, call up the rspc and share your concerns. If you're worried this may invite retribution from the guy, perhaps investing in security cameras would be good idea.