#Barrier reactive dog mods#

It hasn't helped (outside of no more injuries which is positive). They have put up a huge fence structure to keep the paws out and remove any visibility. Unfortunately, my neighbour has gone to extreme lengths just to avoid any kind of training. I've done extensive research on training for this. Except the dog was scratching my dog's nose through the fence, causing injury. I'm frustrated, embarrassed, angry, and tired. And now we can't even use our own fenced backyard. We take him on one routine walk every afternoon. It's difficult for him to go on walks because he's so fearful and reactive. This situation makes me want to move, but I'm not sure how I'll find another landlord that will approve a reactive dog. We both have upstairs neighbors, I was so embarrassed that she was yelling at me at 7:00 AM. We gave her a timeline (which hasn't passed yet). We already promised to be as cooperative as we could. I can relate to her frustration over her dog not being able to handle a situation - but my dogs aren't reacting. But there's no overnight fix, if there was I would jump on it. Am I the asshole? I just wish she had a little more empathy having a reactive dog herself. I almost feel like posting this in r/AmItheAsshole. I immediately apologized but she started yelling at me from the other side of the fence, things like, 'keep your dogs away from my fence!' 'This is not okay!' 'They can't be at the fence!' It was too late though, her dog was already riled up and started with the usual barking, growling, and jumping. This morning I had the dogs out in the yard, and when I heard her door open I ran to scoop them up. We promised to try to construct a barricade, and that we would spend our weekend working on that. The other day she came over and was very polite and asked if we could block our dogs from running up to the fence because her dog gets so upset. He's just afraid and I know we need to move at his pace. I don't want him attacking someone's dog that I barely know, I don't want any trouble, I don't want anyone telling us to have him euthanized. We are trying to socialize him with my families dogs and our friends dogs, and every single time - he tries to fight them. I get the reasoning, and we let her dog meet our older dog, we are not comfortable with our new boy meeting her dog just yet. At first she just asked us if they could meet because her dog wouldn't bark if she knew who was on the other side. They run over to the fence, and sniff but they rarely bark back. My dogs feel quite safe in the yard so they don't really react. Every time our dogs are out in the yard at the same time as her dog, her dog goes ballistic at the fence - scream growling, barking, jumping up and pounding on the fence. My neighbor got a puppy about a month before we adopted our boy.

#Barrier reactive dog mods#

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