Posting here for traffic.
We've been having issues this past week with kids in the street knocking the door and running away.
Yes kids will be kids and previously this was every so often so we ignored it and I wouldn't care, but now it's becoming nightly and on occasion several times on an evening and is driving our dog crazy.
Last night husband caught them peeking round the wall and told them to knock it on the head. I said acknowledging them encourages them but here we are. Tonight I could hear them coming so I waited by the door and opened it as soon as it went which they didn't expect.
I then took the dog out and on my way back there they were wandering about. I went over with the dog and told them they had been asked to stop and yet kept doing it.
Explained that whilst I understood it is a bit of fun it was driving dog mad and they have already been told to stop. I said if they are caught again I will inform their parents and school. One seems to be the ringleader, attitude and an answer for everything "you don't know where I live", "you don't know what school I go to" plus the usual "it wasn't us". I don't know where that one lives but one of the others lives across the road.
Do you think this will even make any difference? I know when I was a kid just the suggestion of anyone going to your parents was enough to get you to wise up.
If not, has anyone had success with speaking to parents in these situations as my husband said he'll go over tomorrow if it happens again. I feel like they'll just say kids being kids....they're not the one who has to deal with the dog going stir crazy.