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I'm renting a home in Italy, and while the rules here for renting are slightly different, most are exactly the same. You can't break contracts, the landlord has to handle all repairs and landscaping, etc.
C = Landlady's son, whose house shares the plot of land with mine.
B = Landlady's father
Well, some nitpicks before I begin:
1. B is using the water from my spicket to water C's lawn daily. This is raising my water bill costs by about 15%.
2. B and C are burning trash early in the morning and late at night; the smoke is filling my house on a daily basis as the doors have no weather stripping.
3. B and his wife are constantly peering in through my doors and windows.
4. B tried to tell me not to walk the dog on the lawn anymore. I guess I have to walk 1/2 mile with a puppy to the next patch of public grass so he can pee? I ignored him and he walked away.
5. I don't have trash service. At all. We have to literally sneak any non-recycleable trash to the next town to the public dumpsters because our landlady doesn't want us to sign up for the service...
6. ...because the house was built illegally and isn't registered with the city. And there's not a thing we can do about it.
I haven't seen my landlady recently, except when she discovered I'd gotten a dog, and decided she needed to approve it. She then tried to tell me not to let it attack C's toddler. Which leads me to today.
I took out the puppy to do his business while C was outside with his toddler. Now, mind you, I'm trying to teach the pup not to mouth things, much less bite them, or jump on people. Basic polite dog behaviour. I'm also trying to teach him to do his business when we go outside, even with distractions.
C brings the toddler over to play with the dog while I'm trying to get him to eliminate, thus ending the "go pee" session.
The puppy starts mouthing him and I tell C, "If he does that, tell him NO. I don't want him to bite people."
He then proceeds to STICK HIS HAND in my dog's mouth and praise him when he bites.
WTF.
So much for concern about the well-being of their child, what with them teaching my puppy to bite people. I immediately took the puppy inside.
14 months left to go, and I'm out of this god-forsaken house.
I'm renting a home in Italy, and while the rules here for renting are slightly different, most are exactly the same. You can't break contracts, the landlord has to handle all repairs and landscaping, etc.
C = Landlady's son, whose house shares the plot of land with mine.
B = Landlady's father
Well, some nitpicks before I begin:
1. B is using the water from my spicket to water C's lawn daily. This is raising my water bill costs by about 15%.
2. B and C are burning trash early in the morning and late at night; the smoke is filling my house on a daily basis as the doors have no weather stripping.
3. B and his wife are constantly peering in through my doors and windows.
4. B tried to tell me not to walk the dog on the lawn anymore. I guess I have to walk 1/2 mile with a puppy to the next patch of public grass so he can pee? I ignored him and he walked away.
5. I don't have trash service. At all. We have to literally sneak any non-recycleable trash to the next town to the public dumpsters because our landlady doesn't want us to sign up for the service...
6. ...because the house was built illegally and isn't registered with the city. And there's not a thing we can do about it.
I haven't seen my landlady recently, except when she discovered I'd gotten a dog, and decided she needed to approve it. She then tried to tell me not to let it attack C's toddler. Which leads me to today.
I took out the puppy to do his business while C was outside with his toddler. Now, mind you, I'm trying to teach the pup not to mouth things, much less bite them, or jump on people. Basic polite dog behaviour. I'm also trying to teach him to do his business when we go outside, even with distractions.
C brings the toddler over to play with the dog while I'm trying to get him to eliminate, thus ending the "go pee" session.
The puppy starts mouthing him and I tell C, "If he does that, tell him NO. I don't want him to bite people."
He then proceeds to STICK HIS HAND in my dog's mouth and praise him when he bites.
WTF.
So much for concern about the well-being of their child, what with them teaching my puppy to bite people. I immediately took the puppy inside.
14 months left to go, and I'm out of this god-forsaken house.
(Kidding of course. I would never condone mistreating a pet in that, or any other, way.)
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