August 30, 2026 at 11:24 am

Her Dog Used to Love the Yard. Now He’s Terrified to Step Outside Because of the Neighbor’s Aggressive, Untrained Dogs

by Matthew Gilligan

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People…

Let this story be yet another reminder to TRAIN YOUR DOGS.

And even if they’re not trained well, at least make sure that they’re not running wild and terrorizing people and other pooches

The woman who wrote this story has had it with her neighbor and her dogs…and for good reason.

Take a look at what she had to say.

My neighbor is a horrible dog owner.

“I (55F) rescued Cleo, a 2 year old mutt, in 2018 from an abusive household and have done my best to give her a good home.

Even though we have given her so much training she is still shaky and reactive around other dogs. We built a small area in our backyard for her because she got too scared/hyper in the large backyard.

She’s one of THOSE dog owners…

Last year my neighbor (50sF) adopted/bought two large Rottweilers and I don’t believe she did much to train them.

They are given all day to run in and out of the house and bark.

Cleo can no longer use her backyard space because the second she goes outside the dogs rush to the fence and bark at her.

The neighbor doesn’t do anything to quiet her dogs or control their outside access and it is freaking out Cleo.

I have talked to her about it and even though she says she’ll change it never does. I don’t know what to do and I just want Cleo to have her space outside back.”

Now let’s see what readers had to say about this.

This person had a lot to say.

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And another individual weighed in.

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As a dog lover, I’m not a fan of this!

In fact, I’m pretty fired up about it!

Oh, hell no!

Her poor dog is scared out of his mind!

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