Aggressive Neighbor Dogs
Soon after training the dogs to invisible fence I left them in the front yard (the front is only fenced by invisible fence), while I was in the house watching them. We still had the flags up so the dogs knew where the line was and a neighbor decided to amuse himself by walking his two large dogs right on the edge of our property. His dog was close enough to touch the flag, and did. He walked his dogs around our block four times, each time making sure to be just as close as possible. Petie (my very dominant Malamute) stayed as close to the line as he felt comfortable, but never left the yard nor even got close enough for a warning beep.
Two months later that same neighbor’s wife let their dogs out in their front yard (they normally keep their dogs in the fenced back yard). I saw her dogs leave their yard, she called to them, and they came back, but she didn’t take them in or anything she stayed in her front yard with them. I didn’t want to take any chances so I opened the garage door and called for my “kids” to come in, and then there they were, the neighbor’s dogs on our property. I yelled at them to go home and they both started to leave, then one of them turned back around. Petie and that dog got in a fight. I yelled at the dog to leave and he finally did. Petie didn’t even try to follow the other dog out of our yard, even after being attacked! I wasn’t going to do or say anything to the neighbor but then Petie went to the center of the yard and started yelping in pain. I guess his adrenalin had worn off. I checked him out and didn’t see anything. She asked if he was ok and I said he looked fine…she apologized…several times, and then we noticed that his ear started bleeding. I was angry, but tried to hide it, and told her it was no big deal. He’ll be fine. His ear had just been punctured; no chunks were taken out or anything. I didn’t want to make a big issue about this. I don’t want to have enemies for neighbors, since we plan to live in this house for a while. Once is forgivable, but if it happens again…
Both of her dogs are about two years old and she told me that she used to try to socialize them with other dogs until the one that attacked Petie pick up a puppy and started shaking it, which is when she decided to get him neutered. She made the comment to me, “I knew this would happen.” And she made comments about not being able to control her dogs, which made me feel like she had them off leash in the front yard on purpose. I feel like this was her way of trying to have me stop letting my dogs in the front yard, even though I only let them into the front when I am home, so that I can keep an eye on them. Later another neighbor told me that their little dog was attacked by this woman’s dog too.
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