I think it was totally her fault. If you can't control your dog regardless of WHAT is outside, yapping or not, get a leash. If the dog had run out and been hit by a car because it ran in the street, would that have been your fault too.
Don't feel bad, I am having a tift with my neighbors too, so I can sympathize with you. Different scenario though. We live in a garden home...lots of houses close to each other. There are about 5 cats that the neighbors refer to as "outdoor cats:" meaning they are out ALL OF THE TIME, unattended, and usually in someone else's yard or worse, on someone else's car!! (Usually mine!) I don't have anything against cats, but if I wanted one pooping on my porch and sleeping on my car, I'd get my own. One of the owners had they nerve to laugh and joke and say the poop on our porch probably came from their cat. I asked how they would like it if I let our 70 lb Basset sit on their car or let her poop on their porch. I told them to remember, BIG DOGS=BIG POOP! |