The letter to a mother-of-two on the Sunshine Coast threatening to kill her barking dog was anonymous.
Her polite response was not.
“I would [like] to firstly apologise if my dog has caused an inconvenience to you and your family. He is just a puppy and still learning the ropes,” Kirra-Lee Laverty posted to the Sunny Coast Community Board, alongside a photograph of the note.
Her politeness is in stark contrast to the tone of the letter, which in all capital letters states: “There are some pretty angry people in the neighbourhood so I advise you take action before poisoned meat is thrown into the yard.”
Laverty said she is disciplining the pup, but also suggested the unnamed accuser might have mistaken her dog for another.
"I can guarantee you that while I am home I pull him up the minute he barks," she wrote.
"He does not bark at night, as he sleeps inside with us. I myself have a sleeping baby and toddler and he has never woken them or myself (an extremely light sleeper)—so you may have the wrong house there."
"My partner has assured me he will door knock when he gets home and apologise to the neighbours in our street!"
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Call them gutless all you want. The anonymous person(s) and others like them are rightfully pissed off. Nobody has a right to inflict a barking dog on their peace. And by the way, contacting the dog's owner, in my experience, is asking for misery because dog owners get defensive and ultimately fight back with more barking from their animal - or worse.