Only On 2: Westside Resident Receives Threatening Letter Promising Action If She Can't Quiet Her 3 Dogs

WEST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An angry neighbor wrote a woman that they'd take action if she didn't get her three dogs to quiet down.

The dog owner says she's worried about what that unidentified person may do and shocked that police aren't able to help.

"I was kind of shaking. I've never got such a threatening letter before," said the woman, who didn't want to be identified over fear of retribution.

In the typed letter, the neighbor writes: "I am sick and tired of hearing your yapping [expletive] dogs bark ... This will stop immediately. We are not asking rather telling you ... If you fail to shut your dogs up there will be no second letter. Instead we will just begin taking matters into our own hands."

The author goes on to say: "… If we have to mess with your place or your cars to get the peace and quiet  we're prepared to do that. You do not want it to come to this. Trust me …. Test us. I [expletive] dare you."

The woman who received the anonymous letter says it was addressed to her condominium unit without a return address, but she does have an idea who may have sent it.

CBS2 reporter Serene Branson spoke to several people on the street, not one of whom admitted to writing it.

The woman Branson spoke with says she's worried about her dogs and car downstairs.

She says she never allows her three rescue dogs on the balcony when she's not home and that she disciplines them: "I understand if a person's dog is barking an hour straight. That's ridiculous. My dogs don't bark every five minutes or an hour straight."

Another neighbor, who also asked to not be identified, says the dogs are a nuisance and wasn't surprised by the letter: "The dogs just go insane all the time in front of the building, they go insane."

But neighbor Grace Wang says she's heard the dogs bark and doesn't consider it excessive.

"Every morning when I walk my dog I hear them, they're not very threatening," Wang said. "They're communicating that way, communicating by barking, not threatening. That's what they do."

The woman who received the letter says she took it to police but they said they couldn't take a report because a specific threat wasn't made. They told her the author was exercising his right to free speech.