Sorry to all in advance for the rant I am about to go on...

As most of you know I live in an apartment complex, and it is a very dog friendly apartment complex. Every single one of my neighbors has a dog so I am not the only one experiencing this problem. About a week ago, we all got notices on our doors imforming us of pressure washing going on outside of our buildings (or so I thought). The notice informed us to move small items from our balcony as they would be pressure washing that as well. I (like an idiot apparently) assumed that this would be from the outside. Apparently that was infact wrong. i pulled up to my building a few moments ago to the sound of all of the dogs in the building going crazy as I saw the pressure washing van. I assumed that the loud whizzing of the machine (it is very loud) was causing them all to react.

Well  that is not the only thing causing them to react. The pressure washers have come INSIDE our apartments in order to clean the balconies. I'm not sure if this is within my right, but I am extremely upset with this. CoCo is having (or was before I got here) a nervous breakdown. She is not used to strange men in her home, leaving the doors open, using loud machines and worst of all screaming at her to shut the F*** Up. I walked in and there were two men in my apartment, one was pressure washing my glass and laughing and the other was screaming at my dog. They had my door wide open as well as my neighbors. I walked up and CoCo is shaking and barking to the point of near hysteria. I was so upset when I walked in to see this and they were completely rude to me and rude about my dog. I asked the man to leave her alone, and he told me I had a horrible dog and that she tried to bite him.CoCo is confined/crated when I am not home and I am thankful for that, because I asked the man 1. what the hell he was doing INSIDE my apartment? 2. Why was he anywhere NEAR my dog? and 3. What the hell he thought he was doing to her? I am beyond livid right now. I called my building manager on them and caused a scene and I do believe the men have been fired or sent home now because they were only supposed to enter the apartments if any windows were open and mine was definitely not. I also called my neighbor and have gone and gotten his schnauzer because they were doing the same to his apartment. The pressure washers even had the nerve to tell me I couldnt go into my neighbors aprtment. I was MAD and told them off.

Now my main concern is CoCo. She is barking and growling every time there is even the slightest noise at my door right now. I have calmed her down, but I am so afraid that this is going to make her react to the door even more than she had before. She has been a little bit protective of the house and wary of people that enter until I have made it clear to her that they are invited. I am now afraid this behavior and scared aggression is going to worsen or continue. I thank the lord that I came home when I did, because who knows what those men would have done. but for right now she will not calm down, and neither will Trapper (my temporary dog). Both of these dogs are not used to anyone treating them this way and I just don't know what to do now.....

OMG!!!!  there was no telling what I would do.....  i probably would've looked for a baseball bat and tell them to *(^%%^#$&^Y*(&^(*&^.......  

I don't blame you for one bit for what you did, Oh gosh!!  poor dogs!!!   OMG!!!  I probably would try to find everything that they have done wrong, and press charges on them even though they were fired......  

This would be too hard to shake off.....   and hard to trust anybody too.....

Maggie,

I am so sorry for the terror your dogs went through. Please be sure that they do not suffer from long term effects like fear of loud noises... I would recommend that you look at your lease agreement about people entering your apartment and how having your dog efects that. If there is any thing that does not add up to what the sgreement says and what happened please, please contact your management company. If something did happen that should not have and it is let go then your on site manager might think that they can get away with it again. Please be safe for you and your dogs!! 

thank god everything is okay! my katie would of bite them she is really protective and if i dont tell her someone is okay she will bark at them and let them know they better not be mean lol!

Poor Coco