"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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I grow a garden for pleasure,

You don't sound like you are very happy if you constantly complain
about everyone who doesn't share your ideal view of what it means to
be a "good neighbor"

1) "everyone doesn't share", correctly defined: Neighbor says I have a nice
garden. I offer to help them if they want to create one. They say "Nah...I
don't think I have as much patience as you do". We have a beer and I send
them home with some tomatoes.

2) "everyone doesn't share", INcorrectly defined: Neighbor is informed that
their dog is damaging my garden. They do nothing to stop the problem.



Oh....and let me shut down your "build a fence" bull**** once and for
all.
During my last two years in my house, I added certain vegetables to the
front flower beds. Some vegetables are quite attractive alongside
flowers.
Our zoning laws prohibit building fences within a certain distance from
the
street. That leaves no options except to deal with the dogs in various
ways,
beginning with the legal system.

Then put your garden in a place which allows fences.

How long did it take you to look up that statute to use as yet another
excuse?

We put up a partial fence in the back so we didn't need to look at our
neighbor's rusty swing set a dirty underwear on the laundry line. Every
fence contractor we called explained the zoning law for our particular
location, in case we were thinking of taking the fence further toward the
front of the property.

Any more stupid questions?