Municipalities across the country are increasingly offering mediation services to resolve noise and other neighborhood disputes.
A woman in San Francisco was able to use mediation to convince her neighbor to keep his border collie inside in the mornings. The dog had been waking her with its barking at 6:30 every morning.
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It’s not just the neighbors who appreciate mediation. Dog owners who’ve been fined say they wish there had been other options before neighbors filed complaints.
Not everyone is a fan, though. Some anti-barking activists don’t think offended neighbors should have to compromise with the owners of noisy dogs.
