Can anyone suggest what my mum can do?
Next door (young guy, house owned by his parents who live elsewhere, house stinks of weed) has a medium staffy type dog that would often jump my mums fence and started barking at her in her own garden. My mum is terrified of dogs so my mum got someone in to build a 6ft fence.
This guys girlfriend moved in 2 weeks ago with 3 of her dogs. 2 are huge bullmastiff type things, they are never walked and bark non stop. Any noise sets them off. My mum thought the 6ft fence solved the problem but yesterday the biggest dog has jumped her fence and was in her garden barking and shitting on her lawn. I was over at the time so i knocked on next doors and explained my mum is terrified of dogs and afraid to go in her own garden. He just said sorry and hopped the fence to my mums to get the dog back as my mums gate was locked and I told him I wasnt going in to the garden to unlock the gate with the dog barking. He could hardly drag the dog back and was properly out of breath. I asked him how he got over and asked if he had his bins against the fence and thats how the dog got over maybe. He denied this and said no but there is a slide at the bottom of the garden he could have gotten over on. My mum looked out her side of house window and lo and behold the bins were against the fence. The bottom of their garden is full of crap (as is the whole garden) stacked up on top of eachother so the dog could have gotten over either end really.
This afternoon my mum has noticed a chewed up tennis ball in her garden, flower pots knocked over and soil all over the patio and flowers trampled so the dog (or one of them) has been over again.
My mum is now scared to go in her own garden. What can she do? The neighbour doesnt care and seems on another planet. She is planning to move because of the scuzzy neighbour but that is going to take time.