I have 3 dogs (30,50&60lb). The neighbor has 2 (can't be more than 20lb each). They share a 6' plastic fence.. it is a nice fence... but when a 60lb dog throws her weight at it, it does tend to bend/give way.
It is getting old because neither of us want to let our dogs out at the same time. If I am out there with my dogs, I can control this. They run for the fence when they hear one of hers barking and dive for the bottom as if to dig to the other side. But I can imagine being that woman thinking "OMG her dog is huge and vicious!". Because she has little dogs. It would be the same if a Rottweiler moved in next door and was almost breaking into my yard all the time. I would not really be happy.
I have talked to this neighbor and she is like me... embarrassed. Because her dogs bark so much... and me, because my dogs act like lunatics when they hear that barking. She is a dog person and understands and is not mad (Thank God).
I just want to know what I should do. What I want to do for the future is have a designated dog area fenced off but that is nothing something we can afford until ATLEAST after our wedding (In April).
I try to tell the neighbor to go out with her dog so she can correct them. As I try to do mine. But of course sometimes we both just happen to let them out to pee and then I hear her dogs barking and mine flipping out. And we both run out there and have to make sure my dog has not got through the fence.
2 of my 3 dogs are very dog friendly. But 1 is not. I really do not believe she is trying to harm this dog, rather trying to protect the yard. However if SHE were to get over there one day, I trust her the least. She is the type of that dog takes about 1 hour of being with a new dog because she OKAYs them and in this scenario I would think she would be in protective mode and could harm that dog if she wanted to.
What do you suggest?
It is getting old because neither of us want to let our dogs out at the same time. If I am out there with my dogs, I can control this. They run for the fence when they hear one of hers barking and dive for the bottom as if to dig to the other side. But I can imagine being that woman thinking "OMG her dog is huge and vicious!". Because she has little dogs. It would be the same if a Rottweiler moved in next door and was almost breaking into my yard all the time. I would not really be happy.
I have talked to this neighbor and she is like me... embarrassed. Because her dogs bark so much... and me, because my dogs act like lunatics when they hear that barking. She is a dog person and understands and is not mad (Thank God).
I just want to know what I should do. What I want to do for the future is have a designated dog area fenced off but that is nothing something we can afford until ATLEAST after our wedding (In April).
I try to tell the neighbor to go out with her dog so she can correct them. As I try to do mine. But of course sometimes we both just happen to let them out to pee and then I hear her dogs barking and mine flipping out. And we both run out there and have to make sure my dog has not got through the fence.
2 of my 3 dogs are very dog friendly. But 1 is not. I really do not believe she is trying to harm this dog, rather trying to protect the yard. However if SHE were to get over there one day, I trust her the least. She is the type of that dog takes about 1 hour of being with a new dog because she OKAYs them and in this scenario I would think she would be in protective mode and could harm that dog if she wanted to.
What do you suggest?