Small-town 61-year-old mother and daughter get revenge on their seasonal rich neighbors, who set up an ultrasonic anti-bark egg to stop their guard dogs from barking, by playing a a 12-hour loop of dogs barking: 'Maybe be overdid it?'

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jun 25, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Having inconsiderate neighbors is already difficult enough. Having an inconsiderate neighbor with a dog can mean that you don't get a full-night's sleep- ever. So, on the one hand, we get why these seasonal neighbors, who only come to their vacation home once a year, during the good season, won't be happy with their neighbor's guard dogs. On the other hand, these seasonal neighbors are rich, entitled, unaccountable, won't deal with the problems they are causing their neighbors, involve the police without second thought, and oh, have no problem scaring the neighbor's dogs. 

So, for once, we are not on the side of the neighbor who has to deal with the barking dogs, and trust us, you will not be either. And when you get to reading about the way that this woman and her absolutely iconic 61-year-old mother dealt with these neighbors, yeah, you are going to be laughing your butts off. It's a great revenge story, and we enjoyed every second of it. 

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    "[Am I wrong] for retaliating against a seasonal neighbor for terrorizing our farm?"

    LIVESTOCK GUARD DOGS AT WORK PLEASE KEEP OUT "My mother grabbed a boat horn, a bucket and spoon, and an Alexa Subwoofer to retaliate"
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  • What a rollercoaster. We have not come across a story so entertaining in a very long time. Every twist, every addition… combined with the most iconic ending (and iconic mother) that we have ever seen… thank you for writing this out. We enjoyed every second of it. 

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    Oh boy, there is a lot to unpack here. I live in a VERY small town/rural area where most of it is a pine tree forest and the other is dry desert. We are a 'tourist town' area meaning that our winters såk (8 plus feet of snow every winter) and our summers are just as bad (tourists don't pick up trash and bears go bananas to find it on top of the blistering heat from the sun, not to mention the vacationers don't know up from down and make it miserable for locals to function).
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    And when I say small town I mean there are THREE STOP LIGHTS in our whole county, and the city only has just crested 2k residents. My mom and I live just 5 minutes outside the 'city' in an AG zoned area with a small dairy goat herd, three alpaca, and chickens. We've been here for 8 years and a majority of the houses around us are seasonal dwellings for upper middle class retired people who come from the Bay Area (California's Bay Area).
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    So notably, a fairly poverty stricken area due to lack of resources and year round work with rather wealthy 'snow birds' who act like they're the hottest sh since sliced bread. Let me know if you need more clarification, cause I'm tired.
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    Onto the issue, we have a 2 acre property where our farm sits. We have 5 imidiate(ish) neighbors, 3 of which my mother and I are on good terms with. The neighbors in question are to the left of our property and are from Sonoma, CA. We shared a sad little fence line with them and about 4 years ago the fence that they built(?), apparently, folded and collapsed four years ago.
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    Two years ago we pulled up the decapitated/acordianed fencing and t-posts as the local yoge bears have smashed it further after the winter we had a record 23 feet of snow. To put it simply the fence was not fencing, so we picked it up and recycled it with plans to build a new fence. TWO YEARS AGO.
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    Just this April, these snow birds neighbors noticed the fencing was down and demanded we give it back. We explained that the fence was on our property and it was unmaintained/abandoned, so we pick it up and recycled it, again TWO. YEARS. AGO. They were pred. We apologized and said we were planning on building a new fence since the old one was on our property that we assumed it was ours and cleaned it up. They insisted it was 6 inches over onto their property line and that we stole it.
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    My happy (not really I was tired and wanted to not be involved) little a went out with a property marker and went from property marker to property marker showing that the fence was built ON the property line as well as in some places, well over onto our property and since it was unmaintained/abandoned for 2 years before we removed it was withing our rights to maintain our property.
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    This is where they started being ah les. We have two LGDs (livestock guardian dogs) that we adopted 2 and 4 years ago after we had a string of bear, coyote, and bobcat attacks that lled well over $10,000 in livestock as well as property damages from rolled chicken coops. Deperdation permits were submitted and used in this time.
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    However, we put up cattle tape electric fencing, sensor lights, noise machines, traps (the ethical ones), and even armed ourselves cause trash bears are not like normal bears and they WILL try to kill you. To our dismay, nothing worked. We pulled in feed, barned the animals, and even brought some animals inside the hose but they kept coming.
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    So we got the dogs. And when I say that NOTHING and I mean N.O.T.H.I.N.G. has come to the property for 3 years now. Not even the wolves or mountain lions has been seen on our game cams, I mean NOTHING.
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    Not one animal has ded to a hawk, fox, raccon, domestic dog, domestic cat, wild cats, bears, wolves, or even humans. I mean it. (AADHD story time, sorry)
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    So, now these neighbors have targeted our dogs. LGDs bark around the clock to detour predators. Granted we bring them in at night because we understand sleep is important which is why we have the Alpaca so at night they watch the animals while the dogs rest. Not really typical farm stuff or whatever but it works for us.
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    Mind you, I'm in school still and my mom is an ER nurse. We have a 1 plus hour commute, one way, to our jobs/school in the neighboring state. So, the dogs aren't always inside before 8 or 9 pm. But they're always in at night and go out around 6 am when we leave for work and school.
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    These neighbors called me, at 9:37pm on a Saturday to tell me they were calling the police if we didn't shut up our dogs. Mind you, I was sitting on the ducking couch WITH THEM ALL SLEEPING FOR 3 HOURS.
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    THENNNN, come two days later there's an egg shaped anti-bark device that reaches up to 100 feet right on our property line. Next to our dairy barn and chicken coop. We'd been noticing less eggs, less milk, and that our dogs were freaking out and escaping more often like the pasture was made of lava.
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    Naturally we reported the harassment to the sheriff and my 61 year old mother grabbed a boat horn, a bucket and spoon, and an Alexa Subwoofer to retaliate.
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    When she gets home she blares the horn, sets of her car alarm, bangs the metal spoon to the metal bucket, screams BEAR, and blaires 5 finger death punch until 10pm.
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    I thought she was joking, until I woke up from a nap to her cacophony of noise. I jokingly suggested that she go to YouTube to find dog barking videos, wo which we both found a 12 hour loop of various dogs barking in what I can only describe as the sounds of a shelters kennels at capacity. (IYKYK)
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  • Yes. Petty. Yes. We love it. No more hesitation. No more going to social media to ask people what to do. She gave as good as she got, and there was no hesitation about it. We are going to learn from this woman. She lives a life without any regrets. 

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    I sent out a text to our good terms neighbors apologizing for the noise, to which they just laughed, and said they hadn't noticed. So we continued until they took down the ultrasonic anti bark egg.
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    That was 3 days ago now, milk is back up, chickens are laying, and dogs are staying in the yard. I just wanted to know if maybe we overdid it? Are we the a h_les?
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    Comprehensive_Mud803 NTA. That was fun to read.
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    quietfangirl NTA and if you could prove that their little device was hurting egg and milk production, you could legally force them to take it down and probably face legal repercussions. In states with a lot of livestock and farming, livestock are more important than pretty much any other kind of property. If they retaliate with another device thingy, document everything. Standard milk and egg production vs milk and egg production when that device is active, any other possible factors and why tho
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    Laughing_Dragon_77 This was hilarious and I love your mom! However, I think you should make putting in a new fence a priority.
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