When it comes to pet ownership, responsibility is key, but these neighbors seemed to have missed that memo.

Their lack of supervision led to an unexpected visit from their dog and some unplanned puppy drama.

Read on for the full story!

AITA for not paying my neighbors for their lost dog?

I have a now 6-month-old male dog that I adopted. I was told by the people I got him from to get him neutered when he turned a year old, because of his breed.

I always keep a watchful eye on him when I take him out and my yard is closed off, so there should be no reason for dogs to get back there, or so I thought.

Our next-door neighbor adopted a dog around the same time we did, female, from a different foster group.

Although, this dog has a very different home life.

They are not great with this dog. She is constantly getting out, they’re always chasing her up and down the street, screaming her name.

They haven’t made any attempts to train her (they admitted this to me) and they don’t even take her for walks, they just let her out into their backyard, which overlooks our yard.

It’s clear the author took many preventative measures to prevent their dog from causing trouble.

I do take my dog for daily (sometimes twice daily) walks but I do send him into the yard to do his business outside that. He can’t escape, because it’s completely fenced in.

We have a doggy door so he can let himself out as well.

But that didn’t stop the inevitable…

Anyway, one day I look outside and realize the neighbor’s dog is back there with mine…doing the devil’s tango. I go out there and bring the dog home.

The neighbor’s are intensely apologetic and I manage to build something to make sure that their dog can’t go into ours ever again.

You can guess what happens next.

A bit later, the neighbors come to me and tell me that their dog is pregnant. She didn’t do anything with any other dog and they’re sure it’s his puppies.

I said that I will help find the puppies homes, but we’re not interested in more dogs at the moment.

I guess the foster home they adopted the dog from found out that the dog was pregnant and took her back due to breach of contract.

I guess due to the pet population, they have to promise to make sure that she wasn’t getting pregnant and while they didn’t do it purposefully, they didn’t get her spayed when they were supposed to either.

The neighbors are furious.

Now my neighbors want us to pay them money for the dog that they lost, because they’re claiming it’s partially our fault.

I told them to get lost and said they were irresponsible dog owners, plus the dog jumped into our yard.

They’re angry and said it’s the least we could do, plus we got to keep our dog.

They claim we should’ve lost ours too.

AITA?

The irresponsible dog owner needs to understand the consequences of their actions.

What did Reddit think?

The dog owner did their part. Their neighbors needs to do theirs, too.

There was a clear pattern of the dog’s bad behavior.

This redditor has questions, but regardless, the author is NTA.

It’s a clear cut case of negligence.

Their neighbor’s negligence shouldn’t fall on their shoulders – especially when their dog waltzed into their yard uninvited.

Their dog barked up the wrong fence.

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