I totally agree I think you made a mountain out of a molehill and have only succeeded in drawing attention to yourself.

What she said ^^^^

I'm sorry but those two letters are worlds apart! One letter is a threat! Andy's letter says he respects his neighbours, intends to work on his dogs barking and hopes he hasn't upset his neighbours! Give the guy a break! He sent it to 12 neighbours, so it isn't like he singled out that neighbour he suspected. I also think a letter can be less confrontational than a face to face knock on the door!

Also, in cases like this, the police can be pretty much useless!

Andy, I think your letter was great and was extremely reasonable, especially after it was suggested that harm may come to your dog... I don't think I could be that composed if someone threatened my boy like that. I hope everything works out ok for both you, and your dog (who is beautiful btw!).

The thing, Andy and us saw the first letter, so we know that the second one is nothing in comparison.

Imagine you had no idea there was anything going on and Andy's letter drops onto your mat with talk of prosecution and fingerprints, from someone clearly very angry (we know its justifiable anger, they don't!)

He sent this to 12 people, 11 of them haven't done anything wrong, I completely understand the impulse to leap to the defence of your dog, but it doesn't really seem to have helped, instead its got his next door neighbour gunning for him.

Been there done that. I sent letters to them asking if they would monitor my dogs as I was concerned for their saftey because of my neighbours
I asked them what the regulations were and I got nothing
Until my neighbours asked them to monitor

Now I never got the same answer twice from people, because the log of my dogs showed them barking for less than 5 min a day averaged over 9 days - sometimes I was told that was OK other times I was told there was a problem!! - but then I heard nothing again

But I was told
During the day excessive noise is considered as volume 41 decibles or over averaged over 5 min
But I wasnt told how often before that would be an issue because it is quite a low level really and my neighbours hoover is 41 db in my house
(you can get an app for the i phone to get an idea what the levels sound like)

I would totaly advise filming your dog when you are out - getting as much evidence as possible then you know if there is an issue you can work on it and if there isnt then you can prove it

I was very lucky when I was looking after my friends dog my neighbours called the SSPCA to say the dog was howling and very distressed all the time I was out
But the time of the complaint I was actually recording
The fiilm showed the dog squeeking a wee bit, giving a couple of little howls and then going to his bed
The lady from the SSPCA watched the film and said that was just a normal settling down (I was worried because I have filmed my dogs and when I go out they just go to sleep so I wondered if the squeeking and little howls were a bad thing)

Ummmm, forensically speaking its very difficult to get fingerprints off paper. Fingerprinting is only usually effective on surfaces such as glass, PVC stuff like that. Fingerprints also degrade over time.

So why did none of the other neighbours react in such a way? Surely, we must assume, that they didn't take any offense or anger towards Andy's letter?... Funny how one person did, and that one person actually admits that she has joked about poisoning Andy's dog She sounds like a smashing person.

im her defence i have joked about poisoning the dogs next door and even my own dogs lol, a joke it a joke

It is one thing making a passing comment but the thing is she actually wrote it down, in a letter to the person who's dogs she was 'joking' about poisoning! To me when it gets to that then it's no joke (and yes I do have a sense of humour!).

When I had a complaint about my dogs I VISITED all my neighbours to have a chat, I am lucky enought to know the names of the majority of my neighbours too, but perhaps that is because I like to develop relationships with people.

If I was sent a letter (especially if it was addressed to "neighbour") I would treat it with the same concern I treat unsolicited mail, file under B.

And I would have thought the writer was a bit of a nutter!

If I had suspicions about a neighbour I would certainly speak to them directly and not via a round robin letter.