Bark, bark, bark continuously!
First off, I am a dog owner, have worked with dogs for years, play with dogs and love dogs. Currently in an Elite RV resort in central FL with about 300 sites half of which are privately owned and ...
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1L243 wrote:
I think every RV park or campground I have stayed at has a rule about NOT leaving dogs alone in a RV when gone...
I do not recall any park I stayed at had such a rule. Just a generic no barking policy.
We stayed at an Oregon park once near Bandon. We specifically asked if we could leave the dogs unattended and the management said yes as long as they do not bark.
Well, they generally don't. We close the shades, turn the radio down low, and they usually curl up and go to sleep. So we went into town to shop.
Just as we were finishing the shopping the cell phone rang. It was the park manager calling us, to come back and take care of the barking dogs. A neighbor had complained.
So we returned as fast as we could, and found the dogs sleeping as usual. We only had had one neighbor, so I asked him and he scowled and scolded me for the dogs. I apologized and left it at that. Meanwhile DW took the dogs for a long walk to try and tire them out more.
The next morning at 5:00 the same neighbor fired up his Harley and let it idle for a solid hour before he hopped on and rode off to wherever he was going. People familiar with motorcycles in general and Harleys in particular know there are two ways to use the throttle and gears -- one reduces the noise and the other maximizes it. He intentionally chose the latter -- at 6:00 AM.
He eventually returned that afternoon, hooked up his TT, and left. As soon as he left another camper came by to talk to me. He told me the neighbor was a grumpy complainer that yelled at kids riding their bikes and the horseshoe pit was making too much clanging noise. He then told me he watched the neighbor go to the side of my rig when we were gone and hit it several times making the dogs bark. They quieted down again in a few minutes and he returned to my rig and hit it again and again several times until he went to complain to the park manager about my dogs.
Instead of getting angry I laughed. I was on vacation and I refuse to let a jerk ruin my trip.
