An issue with the neighbours. Kind of.

FreshKnickers

Now, generally we get on well with the neighbours. The family on one side of us are from a different country and they wouldn't have the best English but they're friendly. They've borrowed cups of sugar off us and us off them in the past. Maybe not "a cup of sugar" but like a phone charger or a bit of a loaf of bread and the like.

So, the neighbours asked meself and herself to keep an eye on their dog and water their plants while they went off for the week, I think they were heading home for a bit. I can't be certain though but I don't speak their language very well. We said we would, no bother, and they showed us where they left the dog food. They also asked us to put the lights on in the front room at night so it'd look like someone was home, you know yourself. I'm nearly sure that's what they wanted anyway.

Then the day that we thought they were meant to be back came. And went. Eh, okay, maybe we'd got it wrong and they meant they'd be gone for two weeks, people go away for two weeks, right? We'd fed the dog all of the dogfood but sure we must've been giving him too much. So we bought some more dog food and fed him a bit less the next week.

Then the day that we thought they were meant to be back came. And went. No, I didn't post that twice by mistake, after the two weeks they still didn't come home. I'm fairly sure that they didn't leave enough dog food for three weeks. They have one of those meters that you put a card in for the electric and it's run out too. The plants look okay but sure gardening wouldn't be my kind of thing at all so I don't know. (It's a tomato plant btw.)

I was hoping the sensible, level-headed AH crowd would know what to do. So at what point do we report these people as missing? A month? 6 weeks? Do we have a dog now? We don't want a dog but if we get the dog a new home they'll probably be back the next day asking us where their dog is (however you say that in their language.)

Sir Arthur Daley

Did the neighbours give you any phone number or contact details or are you friends with them on facebook?

Sulla Felix

Free dog, free tomatoes, what's not to love?

srsly78

Rent out their gaff!

GhostInTheRuins

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Free dog, free tomatoes, what's not to love?

Probably the free dog that you didn't want.

Did they not leave any contact details at all?

Fr_Dougal

You have a dog and a second house now.

Who's walking the dog and cleaning up after it?

frag420

That's ruff op!!

Frosty McSnowballs

Start renting their gaff out to Spanish students.

corner of hells

FreshKnickers wrote: »

Now, generally we get on well with the neighbours. The family on one side of us are from a different country and they wouldn't have the best English but they're friendly. They've borrowed cups of sugar off us and us off them in the past. Maybe not "a cup of sugar" but like a phone charger or a bit of a loaf of bread and the like.

So, the neighbours asked meself and herself to keep an eye on their dog and water their plants while they went off for the week, I think they were heading home for a bit. I can't be certain though but I don't speak their language very well. We said we would, no bother, and they showed us where they left the dog food. They also asked us to put the lights on in the front room at night so it'd look like someone was home, you know yourself. I'm nearly sure that's what they wanted anyway.

Then the day that we thought they were meant to be back came. And went. Eh, okay, maybe we'd got it wrong and they meant they'd be gone for two weeks, people go away for two weeks, right? We'd fed the dog all of the dogfood but sure we must've been giving him too much. So we bought some more dog food and fed him a bit less the next week.

Then the day that we thought they were meant to be back came. And went. No, I didn't post that twice by mistake, after the two weeks they still didn't come home. I'm fairly sure that they didn't leave enough dog food for three weeks. They have one of those meters that you put a card in for the electric and it's run out too. The plants look okay but sure gardening wouldn't be my kind of thing at all so I don't know. (It's a tomato plant btw.)

I was hoping the sensible, level-headed AH crowd would know what to do. So at what point do we report these people as missing? A month? 6 weeks? Do we have a dog now? We don't want a dog but if we get the dog a new home they'll probably be back the next day asking us where their dog is (however you say that in their language.)

For shame on you , for shame.They've clearly left you a dog and a tomato plant to feed him and you wander in here asking for adv..... have you had a root in her knicker drawer ?

131spanner

Has the dog any English at all?

Ruu

Stage an open house.

Menas

If they don't pay the rent on time the landlord will evict poor Fido.

They didn't mention flying from Malaysia to China, did they?

FreshKnickers

Sorry I probably should've said, we do have a mobile number and we rang that but it rang out. One day herself rang it when she was in the house and heard it ring. So they've obviously left that phone behind. We're not friends with them on Facebook. Neither herself or meself do much facebooking and it never even occured to me to ask them if they're on Facebook themselves.

Renting out the gaff made me laugh now :P. But they've locked the kitchen door so we couldn't get into the rest of the house. We'd have to change the locks. Not a bad idea though. For rent - 3 bed house, fully furnished, free dog.

Cantremember

Obviously aliens. The dog IS monitoring you.

Slicemeister

FreshKnickers wrote: »

Sorry I probably should've said, we do have a mobile number and we rang that but it rang out. One day herself rang it when she was in the house and heard it ring. So they've obviously left that phone behind. We're not friends with them on Facebook. Neither herself or meself do much facebooking and it never even occured to me to ask them if they're on Facebook themselves.

Renting out the gaff made me laugh now :P. But they've locked the kitchen door so we couldn't get into the rest of the house. We'd have to change the locks. Not a bad idea though. For rent - 3 bed house, fully furnished, free dog.

And freshknickers next door!

Sir Arthur Daley

It all sounds very suspicious, what is in the locked kitchen i wonder?

corner of hells

WikiHow wrote: »

It all sounds very suspicious, what is in the locked kitchen i wonder?

A cooker , some presses and a table ?

Frosty McSnowballs

Search the house for any documentation belonging to them. I assume they are renting, look for any info on the landlord or if it's a council house, contact the council.

No "normal" person fcuks off for a few weeks leaving total trust in a loosely familiar neighbour.

Are there any personal belongings....apart from the dog? Is there anything in the house that they would/should come back for?

Check the normal "hideyhole" places for money/drugs. It's a possibility you are being set up for a fall. Your prints are all over the house now. "I was just mindin' de dog occifer" doesn't wash!

Info AGS, they *may* be familiar with the people, if you find anything with their name etc on it, they can dig deeper if needed.

If you do nothing else, at least look after the dog best you can.

FreshKnickers

The dog says a feckin' lot alright but no, we can't understand any of it!

The missus cleans up after the dog. I don't know how many times she's picked up his sh*t off the floor and I don't really want to ask her right now because I'd say the answer would be a long one! We're not walking the dog but they don't walk him either. I've never seen any of them walk him anyway. He has the run of a nice big garden.

Mr. Pants, we can't get into the house to search it, we'd have to knock the door down. I don't know if they're gone long enough for us to be breaking stuff. Maybe in their culture it is normal to take yerself off for a few weeks and they could be back soon, looking at us as if we were the mad ones.

The Backwards Man

What's the dog's name?

corner of hells

FreshKnickers wrote: »

The dog says a feckin' lot alright but no, we can't understand any of it!

The missus cleans up after the dog. I don't know how many times she's picked up his sh*t off the floor and I don't really want to ask her right now because I'd say the answer would be a long one! We're not walking the dog but they don't walk him either. I've never seen any of them walk him anyway. He has the run of a nice big garden.

What's the dogs name , could you put up posters offering a reward for finding the family saying the dog misses them?

Charlie19

Having a bunch of Basta keys, numbered 1-16 in the man press always comes in handy for getting into the neighbors locked rooms.

sopretty

Honestly, I'd probably ring the good old gardai. See what they say. They're usually a fairly cliver bunch to deal with. If nothing else, something needs to be done about the dog.

michael999999

Your probably looking after a grow house for them!

14 weeks for the plants to grow and then its killing time. They'll probably be back in 11 weeks.

corner of hells

sopretty wrote: »

Honestly, I'd probably ring the good old gardai. See what they say. They're usually a fairly cliver bunch to deal with. If nothing else, something needs to be done about the dog.

That's about the best idea , every time I report someone missing they turn up shortly afterwards.

sadie06

The mobile being left behind is quite odd too. I presume it's plugged in, as surely it would have died by now.

Does anyone else on the road know them?

Sir Arthur Daley

sadie06 wrote: »

The mobile being left behind is quite odd too. I presume it's plugged in, as surely it would have died by now.

Does anyone else on the road know them?

It could be a samsung builders phone, they have big battery life.

Pumpkinseeds

I think you need to call the guards. They asked you to take care of the dog and left a week or so worth of dog food. It's very odd that the rest of the house is locked up and the number they left you is not being answered. If they're gone 6 weeks the odds are that they aren't coming back.

If they were doing a runner from something and anyone came asking about them a neighbour looking after the dog and watering plants gives the impression that they're coming back. Sounds very iffy to me tbh OP.

Missyelliot2

sadie06 wrote: »

The mobile being left behind is quite odd too. I presume it's plugged in, as surely it would have died by now.

Does anyone else on the road know them?

I think I would ask around too. Has there been any post for them? Would that help you identify/trace them?

evolving_doors

They is goooooone OP.

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woodoo

If you don't feed their dog, water their plants, pay for more electricity and look after their house OP then you are clearly a racist.

FreshKnickers

Dogs name is Burek. We could put up posters but sure I don't see how that would work unless they were in the local area somewhere? And if they were surely they'd be at home?

I'd say the phone must be plugged in, maybe they meant to take it so charged it up then forgot about it. I've done that meself but I've never been gone for weeks after doing it so I don't know.

michael999999, 11 more weeks?! I hope feckin' not.

michael999999

FreshKnickers wrote: »

Dogs name is Burek. We could put up posters but sure I don't see how that would work unless they were in the local area somewhere? And if they were surely they'd be at home?

I'd say the phone must be plugged in, maybe they meant to take it so charged it up then forgot about it. I've done that meself but I've never been gone for weeks after doing it so I don't know.

michael999999, 11 more weeks?! I hope feckin' not.

Maybe there lazy bastards and still living in the rest of the house. And your feeding there dog and topping up there electricity!

Sir Arthur Daley

Can you go through their phone there might be messages or other contacts you could ring to solve this mystery.

LynnGrace

Yes, I think it's one for the guards at this stage.

Merkin

Do the 'tomato' plants have special bulbs by any chance?

Ken.

Tell you what you do. Start digging up there floors and see if you find a safe.

jane82

This reminds me of a chap finding a safe thread followed.

FreshKnickers

We could go through the phone or the post but we'd have to break doors. I wasn't sure they'd been gone long enough for that. It's not been 6 weeks, we're into week three now.

Thanks for all the suggestions, we're not topping up the electricity .

john the one

This is creeping me out. What if they have traps laid out throughout the house like in saw???

For example, Larry Murphy waiting to put you in a bathtub full of petroleum fully submerged with a breathing tube, the petrol is alight but only the top of it burns but eventually it will burn away, what do you do, stay in and burn to death or jump out and burn but maybe save yourself somehow, live or die, your choice OP.

Either way your f**ked

Arthur Beesley

OP, if you don't call the cops soon, they will think you killed and disposed of your neighbours. Did you?

jane82

If you need light bulbs for your house you know where to swap.

Arthur Beesley

jane82 wrote: »

If you need light bulbs for your house you know where to swap.

Have they installed water meters yet, OP?

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Keep us posted.

Mickey Dolenez

How's the dog's English?

I still can't work out where in the house you have access to. Where's the dog located?

Missyelliot2

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I still can't work out where in the house you have access to. Where's the dog located?

Me too....how come you can't get to the post? Isn't the letterbox in the front door?

Chet T16

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I still can't work out where in the house you have access to. Where's the dog located?

Back door access to kitchen which has the internal door locked I would guess

amkin25

How do u turn on the lights if the doors are all locked ?

But it sounds to me like they are gone and figured you were a decent couple to keep their dog.They probably loved the dog
and figured he was worth a bag of dog food to get a decent owner.

Oh dear, OP no longer responding. Methinks the dog may have ate him.