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I have been struggling with our new neighbors' dogs since they have moved in a while back and I feel we are coming to a breaking point. They have a yorkie and a doxie. Neither are kept on a lead when outside, nor are they inside a fence. Both roam freely. The dogs constantly come into our yard, deposit "items" & bark @ my dogs. They have approached my daughter when she was walking the girls on lead in our yard. They barked & growled. The girls thought they were playing and wiggled. The neighbor dogs then attempted to nip my daughter. Jazz and Gretchen stopped wiggling and went on full alert. They barked, hackles raised, and tried to defend my daughter. Jazz eventually flipped the yorkie onto its back and placed a BIG boxer paw in its chest and stared at it. She did not growl, bite, bark, etc at this dog. She just contained it. Gretchen continued to bark at the doxie in an attempt to ? move it away from my daughter? When I got to them, I told Jazz to leave it, and she backed up and off of the yorkie and sat down, looking at me. I told Gretchen quiet & leave it and she did the same. My daughter brought my girls in the house w/o further incident. Later that evening the doxie nipped my husband while he was working on his equipment. They have also harrassed my collie thru our fence, and even come to my screened porch where the boxers like to lay in the afternoon, and harrassed them. The doxie is so bold that it will come & place its nose on my screen and bark and growl at my dogs. When I shoo the dog out of the yard, it doesn't back up, but approaches closer and with more aggressive barking. I have spoken with the neighbors and they don't see the problem, as all three of my dogs outweigh theirs by 60+ lbs. The county animal contol is lax in the situation as well. The idea of boxers and a collie being harrassed by a yorkie and doxie seemed to amuse them. With all of the bad press that so called "vicious" breeds get, and boxers being mistaken/mislabeled as a vicious breed, I do not want to get into a dog war with these people. I have a feeling that my girls would get the short end of the stick. I am also worried that eventually my dogs- the collie inculded - will eventually have enough of the harrassment by these dogs, and may wind up injuring them or worse. My dogs are not agressive toward other dogs at all, and have had no problems with our many other neighborhood dogs, nor any dogs they have met.
What can I do?? It is not fair for my animals to be subjected to harrasment & I am keeping my on lead when they are out, or behind my 5 1/2 ft wood and steel fence (None of mine are jumpers). It is also not the neighbors dog's fault that they have not been properly trained or cared for. Does anyone have any advice???????
What can I do?? It is not fair for my animals to be subjected to harrasment & I am keeping my on lead when they are out, or behind my 5 1/2 ft wood and steel fence (None of mine are jumpers). It is also not the neighbors dog's fault that they have not been properly trained or cared for. Does anyone have any advice???????