[Nzmoafzn]

Any chance she was trying to work her dog somehow? Maybe she wants to show or somehow compete with her GSD and it needs to be desensitized to other dogs and barking/growling. Maybe training amid distraction?

I'd go down and ask her about it Tell her you had a horrible headache and were trying to nap it away until the meds kicked in when her and her dog got your dogsbarking and woke you. Ask if she is training and tell her to either not use your dogs or to get permission first.

[lh88gFzI]

I'm of the mindset she was trying to work her dog. J is such a brat he will act up if we pass a dog who's acting nasty, and I have to stop and make him behave before continuing, though if an owner is out I will tell them why I've stopped.

I suggest you talk to her, nicely, and tell her your dogs are dog aggressive, and you would REALLY appreciate it if she didn't stand in front of your house anymore...

[Assunkkensatt]

I often stop in front of houses with crazed dogs for a quick obedience lesson in ignoring and a sit or down and then move on, guess it depends on how long she was there.

[slimsex]

Seeing as my neighborhood is not the best, and dogs have been stolen right out of people's yards around here, if I see someone just standing in front of my house staring at either my house or the dogs for more than a minute, I let them see me standing in the doorway loading my shot gun.

No one stands in front of my house anymore BTW. Also no one trains their dogs around here, so I know for a fact that standing around my house has nothing to do with that.

[DurryVony]

Update:
She was walking today but it was minus the GSD.
I didn't stop her because I've been in a bad mood all day (partially still mad about yesterday and upset over some other things that are going on) and it would have only took one wrong word from her for me to open a can o' whoop ass so to speak, so I am just going to let things settle and see what happens.I don't know what her motives where and I won't know because even if I asked her she wouldn't tell me truthfully. I'm just basing my impression of things on the fact she had placed herself out of my field of view behind a shed where I couldn't see her from the door but the dogs clearly could and she only starting walking again once I opened the door, she was standing there with the dog a
good 5-10 seconds before I opened the door. All she had to do was say, "Kia I'm trying to get (insert dog's name) to be calmer around dogs" or something like that and I would of even offered to help her with the training by taking Nala or Dolly (two of the calmer ones) out and on leashes and walked them towards her.
Also, my dogs are not dog aggressive. They don't like people messing around on our "property" especially Deisel. He will bark if anyone dilly dallies to long in the road outside our houses and it all stems from several years ago we had some problems with some guys that assaulted my brother in a restaurant threatening/harassing our family.
They would park in the road at night (because that's public property ) and shout things at our house and even shoot at our house. Deisel was about 12 months old I believe at the time, still a baby mentally but it really affected him....he is VERY wary of people walking or stopping in the road or pulling and stopping in the driveway. Then a couple years ago one night this guy my mom was dating one of his crazy ex-girlfriend's parked in the road and had her son run up our driveway and busted out his window and keyed his car. So Deisel is especially wary and very vocal to anyone stopping or lingering in the road outside our house and when he goes off barking the others follow suit.
Please note I am not saying Deisel is human aggressive! He is not! I've had people that don't know him from Adam's house cat walk up to him on his chain without me there and pet him (although I've told them how utterly STUPID that move is) but he is not a human aggressive dog.

[sirmzereigMix]

I'm sorry this happened to you. Sometimes you have to confront these people in the nicest way. Maybe you could say something like I saw you standing in front of my house the other day while my dogs were barking. Was there something you wanted? It puts her on the spot, let's her know that you know what happened, and hopefully embarrasses her enough not to do it again. Dumb people.

[M4tHkBw2]

Well after reading your response it is clear that you have a kooky neighbor? Aren't they the best?

Sorry this happened to you. We are in a constant state of being po'ed at our kooky neighbors over dog issues so I can relate. Best of luck!

[BPitt]

That sucks. I hate neighbors. When Pandora was in heat and Nate and I were outside with her. Our neighbor's son two german shorthair hunting dogs were off leash (and of course not fixed) coming right up into our backyard and onto our deck. Pandora being dog aggresive was not having any of that. I am sorry that you have crazy neighbors but I would confront her in the future if I saw her doing it again. Or even ask her what the hell she is doing. I love how neighbors think that all dog laws apply to everyone else but them. Or at least that is how my neighbors think it is.

[IrrettelatWet]

If you can confront her AND be polite, try that first. You can be assertive, save aggressive for later That way you can judge if she's just ignorant and needs information, just stupid and needs straightening out or a full on a$$ wipe and needs a beat down. Always try polite first and save the rage for shocking them later
I have people with and with out dogs stop to stare down my drive way at my barking dogs, it's like they have never seen dogs before!!! I have a privacy fence going up in June...

[WGfg4CCZ]

I hate that.

My boyfriend's brother wonders why our dogs bark "so much". His dogs run up and down the property next to ours, so, they are barking at them, genius. Properly contain your dog. Grr. (a little off topic, sorry. lol)

[DurryVony]

I am wanting to invest in some 6 foot high wooden privacy fence...
I'm becoming more and more antisocial...lol

[Nzmoafzn]

I am wanting to invest in some 6 foot high wooden privacy fence...
I'm becoming more and more antisocial...lol

Me,too. Maybe the same species aggression is contagious or something. I am totally HA. I want a privacy fence so my nosy ass breed hating holier than thou neighbors can't see into my yard or to move out to the middle of nowhere. Whichever happens first is fine with me.

Maybe I have less patience or maybe the cool personalities of my breeds of dog and their good owners have gotten me thinking, but I really believe most of the human population should be mandatorily spayed or neutered! Starting with a few of my neighbors!

[WGfg4CCZ]

I think if NCpbm didn't really know the neighbor or their personality, then yes, she is over reacting, because it could have been anything that others have mentioned, but when you know the person, and you know how they do certain things, and often do it just to "push buttons", then you get a bit angry over it.

[Avaboormavoro]

Yet another reason why I would LOVE to live out in the middle of nowhere.

[DurryVony]

Me,too. Maybe the same species aggression is contagious or something. I am totally HA.

My HA had gotten better and I was more social even liking to be around other people but over the past few months I've been screwed over so many times I'm just ready to say forget and "close my circle".

I think if NCpbm didn't really know the neighbor or their personality, then yes, she is over reacting, because it could have been anything that others have mentioned, but when you know the person, and you know how they do certain things, and often do it just to "push buttons", then you get a bit angry over it.

Exactly. This woman and my cousin got into a fisticuffs a year ago over some childish BS because she seen my cousin with her children in the car and she purposely tried to run her off the road over he said she said mess. She is a VERY immature and I actually believe is mentally unstable.

Yet another reason why I would LOVE to live out in the middle of nowhere.

In a perfect world I'd live in the middle of Wyoming on like 100 acres. Me with my dogs and a huge ranch with horses and cows and chickens.....

[IrrettelatWet]

I want to move to Montana...

[hexniks]

not to, ya kno, stir the fire, but the reason you're still upset about this is probably because you're passive aggressive... better start letting out that steam before you give yourself an ulcer

[DurryVony]

I GOTTA VENT before I EXPLODE!
I've been stewing over this all day and it's just not getting any better!
*takes a breath*
This afternoon about 3PM I was awoke (yes I was still in bed because I woke up earlier with a bad headache so I took medicine and went back to sleep) by the outside dogs, Deisel and Nala, going OFF at something. I looked out the window and couldn't see anything so I just assumed it was the cats and dozed back off. About 15 minutes later I got up and let Samson, Daph and Dolly out and went to the bathroom. Again I hear the dogs RAGING just completely going balistic over something. I jump up, grab my shoes and open the front door, what do I see?
This chick that lives down the road (not actually my NEIGHBOR per se she lives like three houses down) is standing in the road outside my house with this German shepherd just standing there. And my dogs are having a FIT! She is standing were I can't really see her but she is in direct eye sight of Deisel's chain spot and were the dogs in the fenced yard can see her. I open the door and she starts walking again.
My car stays at my grandma's house because the window is broke and its been raining so I stow it under her carport so I guess she didn't think anyone was home so she was trying to show how big and bad her GSD was????
The next time I see her walking that dog I'm going to just stand in the door and watch and if I see her doing it again I'm going out there and I'm going to confront her....be it good, bad or ugly.
I am so a calm, even tempered, passive aggressive person but there are three things you don't fvck with in my world: My mom and grandma, my nieces and nephew and my dogs and she is trying to antagonize my dogs and get them ralled (sp?) up. Why? I don't know. But she's got ME ralled up now, stupid bitch. OMGGGG I am so PISSED!

[bWn4h8QD]

lmao. That's pretty hilarious. Why not go stand in front of her house with a couple of your dogs and when she opens the door start walking??

[DurryVony]

And I think I know why i am so pissed.
It's because if something were to happen, say Deisel's hardware failed and he got a loose and attacked the GSD or Samson escaped from the backyard and got into it with the dog, they wouldn't care that she had been walking up and down the road antagonizing my dogs on nooooo all they'd see is Pitbulls getting out of their yard and attacking a woman and her dog(and OMG using that term to describe her makes my fingers wanna dry up and just fall off).

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lmao. That's pretty hilarious. Why not go stand in front of her house with a couple of your dogs and when she opens the door start walking??

Because I'm not that immature and childish to do something like that. This "woman" is like 34 years old and still doing stupid stuff like this. I guess she thinks I'm suppose to be impressed cause she has a German shepherd....
Everybody around here knows I love dogs...that's cool. If she wanted to show me her dog okay...why not do it like a normal person, come to my door knock and say I wanna show you my dog.