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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been through a similar situation and put up with an aggressive dog for a long time, not wanting to rock the boat.  I learned the hard way that an aggressive dog becomes emboldened.  It ended up attacked my own small dog and my daughter, knocking her down and biting her on the neck, when she was walking down the street.  Animal control took it away.  Please do not wait a minute longer.  It could end in real harm.[/quote]

OP here. This is what really concerns me. I have a daughter who is very small for her age. When we were out for a walk in mid-March, the neighbor was walking the dog and I could see her eyeing my daughter and began to stand between them. The neighbor was talking about how the dog just hadn’t been “properly socialized because of Covid.” I told her I’d send her contact info for a dog behaviorist I has employed before. I sent it but I don’t think she’s contacted him or anyone else. My daughter is scared to walk out the kitchen door and get right into the car because the dog is constantly watching and barking at us in our kitchen. It can see us through the glass doors. My daughter repeats “don’t be scared, don’t be scared” to herself over and over.

I texted my neighbor as far back as January that her dog looked like it was going to get over the fence any day. A few weeks later she asked if she could try “introducing” me and the dog. I held out my hand for the dog to sniff and she snapped at my hand. I told the neighbor I was not doing that. And we have kept to ourselves and just ignored the dog. The dog has remained fixated on us.

When the dog got over the fence the other day, I tried talking to the neighbor and her husband about how very close the dog came to biting me. I asked them to seriously consider keeping this dog in a neighborhood with so many young children including their own. I was shut down and told it was their “decision as a family to work with the dog.” I think they are plum crazy. I told them they should seriously consider that the dog is a liability to their family. They were very defensive so I asked them to take a couple of days to really think on this. I told them if the situation were reversed, it would not be a difficult decision for me to rehome the dog. Today the husband started building the fence.

My husband doesn’t want me to make a report to animal control because he doesn’t want to escalate the tension. My husband and I aren’t sure it would do any good anyway. This isn’t the DMV and the city government is definitely lacking. Knowing me, I’m probably going to call AC anyway. As far as I’m concerned, the relationship with the neighbors is toast.

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