Sorry to hear of your dogs ordeal.
The thing about the “yard work noise pollution” aside that always cracks me up is: what do you want people to do exactly? You cannot just NOT mow your lawn or take your leaves. In Richmond, it’s literally a civil violation and they’re going to send DPW out to do it and bill you.
So many people hate the sound of yard work and I guess I get the specific complaint if someone is doing it at 5am but it’s literally an unavoidable evil until silent lawnmowers are made. It’s not someone specifically being a jerkass.
Here, there are certain times when yard noise is allowed and when yard noise it not.
We have neighbors who used to let their barking dog(s) out at 6:30 every morning, even on weekends. They ALWAYS woke us up. We anonymously left them a note with the quiet hours, and it's been fine since.
What my wife doesn't get is that EVERYONE does yardwork. And everyone does it at differing times. That's why it's going to be nonstop.
Of course, different people do different things. I have a very quiet push mower and rake my leaves. Some of these tiny dick guys around here use a riding mower to mow their quarter acre yard.
My wife thinks raking leaves is completely unnecessary. She thinks if you just leave it, it will all turn to mulch. While that may work if you have one small tree, I probably have the most leaves of anyone on my block. I literally bag up by hand 25+ tightly packed bags a year from my one small lot. And of course she says since it's "unnecesary work," it doesn't count when she says "I do way, way more housework than you."
