Registered: Feb 2004
Location: ohio/cols
Posts: 165

i live right in the heart of town neighbors about 10 feet to either side. i dont care they leave me and the dogs alone and we have no problems. if i stay here i wish they would move id buy there houses and tear them down so i could have a bigger kennel

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Registered: Mar 2004
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I live in a town of 3000 in Kansas It sucks my neigbors complain about everthing. I have 2 grown hounds and 2 pups. I keep them quiet untill the neigbors start complaing somthing thing i hit the squaller and let them rase a little cain for a couple of hours just to spite them. finnaly after 5 years of the constant complaing and me makeing them bark more they are moving thank goodness the new neigbors will probly be worse then them but i hope not

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Registered: Jul 2003
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I live a 1/2 mile from the end of the world

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: West Kill, NY
Posts: 2047

I guess I am a city slicker!
However, I split my time between the ultimate city and the ultimate country. I spend half the week in a 1 br second story apartment in Brooklyn, NY with husband and one redbone, half in the Catskill mountains bordering the Catskill forest preserve a mile and a half from a town pop. 280 with two churches, a post office, and a gas station. I keep my hound fenced in when in the country so he doesn't go bear hunting at will, and stays out of my nearest neighbor's leghold traps. In the country, we live in a one-room log cabin with a woodstove for heat.
I have never had trouble over the hound in the city. He is pretty quiet indoors, and charms the socks off city slickers when I tie him outside stores while I run errands. The NYC schools use Where the Red Fern Grows, so a lot of kids who have never seen a live hound get very excited about meeting him. He gets walked around 5 miles a day in the city, on leash or in a fenced dog run with other dogs, so he meets a lot of people and other dogs. Most city folk think he's the most beautiful dog they've ever seen. A fair number of people who have migrated from the country stop to reminisce about hounds they knew in their youth. Every once in awhile he opens on an alley cat and everyone gets an enormous kick ot of the extravagant bawl!
A couple days ago, a Con Ed guy came half up out of a manhole to pet my hound. When he came out, the hound plunged his head in the "den" and bawled a big greeting, much to the surprise of the other guys still down there!

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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: maryland
Posts: 596

I live on 50 acres 2 miles from town with 1 cross road in town, but the whole area is full of developements in different sections no matter where u turn out eventually hit a development. when my Gfather bought the place in 1952 the was hardly anyone around 2 other homes from here to town now probably 250 or so.
looking in from the drive

Now looking from porch this development kind of wraps around on 3 sides almost.

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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Bloomington, IN
Posts: 8

I dont have much of a choice in where my parents want to live, since we moved in to a neighborhood, but i make it work. I hunt and fish, we have two boats always a deer hanging in the back yard during deer season, archery targets standing in the back yard, and now a walker, which the neighbors dont care too much for but hey they will live, but i make it all work, of course there are benfits out of the city but, you cant alwasy get what you want so make it work

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I live on the outskirts of a small town, (2400 pop.) in an area west of town across a huge city park (30 acre flood plain) and across the river. There are approx 25 houses out here. About half are older homes with lower-middle class people, the other half have all been built in the last 25 years and are upper-middle class people. We are in city limits but have no city utilities so we kind of run things are own way out here. Most lots are about 1-4 acres. My lot is just shy of an acre, I'm the first place on a dead end that has 5 houses on it past me. The river is about 200ft across the road out my front door. I have a small cabin-type house built shortly after MN became a state. My place includes a 12x18 guest house, garage w/ wood stove and a unfinished 60x40 shed. Next year I plan on getting electric out to the big shed and kennels built off the back side.
My neighbors all keep to themselves but are still friendly.
City ordinance is 4 pets but no more than 2 cats or 2 dogs. Pretty stupid. I'm against ordinance with an old plott dog, young cur dog, and our little chihuahua. But so are most my nieghbors. The ones that have a dog usually have 3, 3 neighbors have horses, one has a goat.
My neighbor to the rear is a vet in town but hasn't said anything about the dogs.
I really like it out here. It is very peaceful, this is probably the closest I'll get to the country.
We were living in the very middle of a bigger city last year. All my dogs stay in the house still but here the can at least go out in the yard and run. My last neighbor was a crackhead and a real jerk. One day we'd get along great and his dogs and our dogs would play, the next he'd threaten to kill them for barking for 5 minutes when we let them out in the mornings.
I like it out here, I've got 4 good spots to turn out right out my back door within 2 miles.
Sorry for all the details.

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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Carthage, IN
Posts: 54

I live on an 80 acre farm 3 miles from the nearest town. My closest neighbor is over 1/4 mile away. We have a lot of City Slickers moving out here from Indianapolis.

I know this is not about neighbors complaing but I wanted to share this story. We have three Blueticks. My wife came home the other night all upset and worried. Someone had put a note in our mailbox that read:

"Hey,
You may live in the country but your **** coonhounds are disturbing your neighbors. They can be heard up to 2 miles away and they go on and on and on. How about shuting them up or debarking them?"

Of coarse the cowards didn't put their name on the note.

Now my family thinks someone will try to do harm to the hounds. I personally encourage them to try. Called the Sheriff just to document the threat.

If I ever find out who it was, the barking will be the least of their worries.

I did keep the note however, what an unbiased testimony on the volume of my hounds voice. They claim good volume 2 miles away, wow! Gonna breed my female next year and if you need a hound with great volume you better get you some of this!!!!! O ya, my house is 100 feet from the kennel and I never hear them.

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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Marshall I.N.
Posts: 642

I live so far out in the sticks thay have to pipe sunlight in have 25 acres mostly woods live on a dirt road have two small towns about 10 min away but if you want to go to walmart thats a 45min trip haven't had too much trouble with the neighbors and the best part is I live smack in the middle of a whole bunch of amnishmen so the odds of waking up in a subdivions some morning are very slim. get place to raise bluetick's and kids.

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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: ohio
Posts: 764

I live inside city limits.With my bluetick and my wifes rotty.I am a country boy.But I moved to the city.Take me out the country but can't takke the country outta me.

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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 3063

I used to live in town and i had a pleasure hunting dog chained out back and she would tree coon and possum on the chain and sometimes would catch and kill on the chain....but i have since moved...im about 30 minutes out of the nearest city....we have about 120 acres on a farm and me and my hounds like it a lot better way out here in the boonies....

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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Swea City, IA
Posts: 2898

i live in a suburb of minneapolis/st paul mn. about 4-5 million people up here. but on a good note i live in the first suburb coming in from the south-east. alot of super hunting about 20 minutes away.it hets hecktick with all the people. i grew up in the country. my wife finished college so we moved up here to make way way better money.i have a huge totally fenced in back yard with kennels. works great and dogs are super quite. take care

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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: WV
Posts: 396

way out of town

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: illlinois
Posts: 1902

2 years ago. now? still in town..but in a condo. works great. just bathe ol blue in the jacuzzi. LOL! Happy New Year ya'll...

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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: tioga co.pa
Posts: 1728

Nearest neighbor 1mi away pups & young dogs run free.. 7 mi for a loaf of bread & a qt of milk... all dirt roads...nearest tar road 2 1/2 miles see bear & deer,hear the yotes at night taxes $750 yr 20 acres ......Like being in heaven without dying happy New year ..........Home of 4 blues & 3 mules

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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: CAMPBELLSVILLE KY
Posts: 1428

I LIVE RIGHT IN TOWN 3 COON HOUNDS. ONE BLOCK FROM CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY.....BEEN HERE FOR OVER A YEAR. KILL 25-30 SQURRIELS (NOT SPELLED RIGHT) TO PUPS EVERY YEAR... ALMOST AS GOOD AS LETTING THEM RUN LOOSE ON FARM

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Come on people drop you're ego and admitt you just got beat, made a bad call, dog made a mistake, what ever.You can't get cheated that much

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