I think my neighbor is a Rover sitter, is there anything I can do?

[Anonymous]

If she is keeping other peoples' dogs at her house during the day for pay, she should fall under the DC Code provision regulating Commercial Pet Care Facilities (which includes day boarding). She would be requierd to a have a business license and be inspected:

§ 8–1821.02. Commercial pet care facilities; rulemaking.
(a) No person shall operate a commercial pet care facility without first obtaining a basic business license with an Inspected Sales and Services license endorsement pursuant to Title 47. The Mayor shall issue rules to establish the standards for the care and management of animals in a commercial pet care facility.

(b) For the purposes of this section, the term “commercial pet care facility” means a facility that provides day or overnight boarding, or provides pet-related services, including feeding, exercise, training, bathing, or grooming, but does not include an animal facility as defined in § 3-502 [repealed] or a licensed pet shop.

[Anonymous]

Are you paying her mortgage? Then STFU

[Anonymous]

Mind your own business you absolute horror of a human being. Your neighbor is trying to earn a living. Unless you plan to support her financially in perpetuity, butt out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business you absolute horror of a human being. Your neighbor is trying to earn a living. Unless you plan to support her financially in perpetuity, butt out!

So you wouldn't mind a hair salon, nail salon, bakery, personal gym in a home next door to you?

[Anonymous]

I suppose technically there may be licenses required to do this (even a BBL) I doubt many/any do that for Rover and similar side hustles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy OP you're a real curtain twitcher.

I love that term!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, it depends on zoning. It may not be legal. We had a woman proving private personal training in her basement studio. She was shut down and fined. Residential means residential. That being said, you sound like a busy body neighbor.

It's impacting her day-to-day life. That's not being a busy body.

She doesn’t own the street parking and she’ll just have to cope with the “trauma” of seeing dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business you absolute horror of a human being. Your neighbor is trying to earn a living. Unless you plan to support her financially in perpetuity, butt out!

So you wouldn't mind a hair salon, nail salon, bakery, personal gym in a home next door to you?

NP. No, actually, I wouldn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s nice, but she constantly has a stream of random dogs at her house, plus two of her own. Most of the time, she has two visitors, so four dogs total. We are in dc and have tiny yards. The dogs are outside multiple times per day, often barking at anyone who walks past. The dogs are all kinds of breeds, including pit bulls.

Is this legal to run a business like this in your home?

Whats wrong with having pitbulls?

Because they are genetically the most dangerous, violent, and unpredictable breed of dogs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she is keeping other peoples' dogs at her house during the day for pay, she should fall under the DC Code provision regulating Commercial Pet Care Facilities (which includes day boarding). She would be requierd to a have a business license and be inspected:

§ 8–1821.02. Commercial pet care facilities; rulemaking.
(a) No person shall operate a commercial pet care facility without first obtaining a basic business license with an Inspected Sales and Services license endorsement pursuant to Title 47. The Mayor shall issue rules to establish the standards for the care and management of animals in a commercial pet care facility.

(b) For the purposes of this section, the term “commercial pet care facility” means a facility that provides day or overnight boarding, or provides pet-related services, including feeding, exercise, training, bathing, or grooming, but does not include an animal facility as defined in § 3-502 [repealed] or a licensed pet shop.

This should be enforced. A commercial pet care facility is a commercial pet care facility.

[Anonymous]

I am really surprised to hear this. We live in a more rural part of Virginia and all of the Rover homes are people who live on 10 acres and you send your dog there and he runs around like a lunatic with the other dogs and maybe barks at the horses and cows. I am really surprised that Rover is a thing in urban areas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, it depends on zoning. It may not be legal. We had a woman proving private personal training in her basement studio. She was shut down and fined. Residential means residential. That being said, you sound like a busy body neighbor.

It's impacting her day-to-day life. That's not being a busy body.

She doesn’t own the street parking and she’ll just have to cope with the “trauma” of seeing dogs.

+1 you can’t live in DC and complain about street parking or hearing your neighbors. OP should move to the burbs. Then she’ll end up next to someone like me - with 3 kids who are outside yelling and screaming all weekend, and yes. Our dog barks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am really surprised to hear this. We live in a more rural part of Virginia and all of the Rover homes are people who live on 10 acres and you send your dog there and he runs around like a lunatic with the other dogs and maybe barks at the horses and cows. I am really surprised that Rover is a thing in urban areas

Of course it's a thing. People live in apartments and it's great to drop off an energetic dog at a home with a backyard and doggie friends while you go to work. You aren't going to drive hours into the country. You want someplace really close to where you live. People aren't using big commercial facilities because of the canine flu that's going around. It's better to have your dog play with 1-2 friends than 30+.

[Anonymous]

Do you actually know it's Rover or could she be fostering for a rescue? She could be the person who intakes and screens the dogs before they go to a longer term foster. You'd still see people dropping off and picking up dogs regularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, it depends on zoning. It may not be legal. We had a woman proving private personal training in her basement studio. She was shut down and fined. Residential means residential. That being said, you sound like a busy body neighbor.

It's impacting her day-to-day life. That's not being a busy body.

She doesn’t own the street parking and she’ll just have to cope with the “trauma” of seeing dogs.

+1 you can’t live in DC and complain about street parking or hearing your neighbors. OP should move to the burbs. Then she’ll end up next to someone like me - with 3 kids who are outside yelling and screaming all weekend, and yes. Our dog barks.

I’d take barking dogs over an army of landscapers with leaf blowers any day.