Yesterday while I was on the school run my dd left for college in a hurry and didn't close the front door properly nor did she close the gate. Our front door automatically locks from the outside so we always just close it and not lock it. If it doesn't click in properly the dog can open the door from the inside this has happened twice before now in 4 years, this is the only time it's happened while no one has been home.
So I get home and my dog is In the front garden and my front door wide open just as im going in my house my phone rings. It's work. " you need to go home straight away"
"I know" I said "I've just got home my door is wide open, how did you know"?
"Your naighbour phoned work"
I thought what a lovely naighbour, nice to know someone would do that rather than take the opportunity to rob me blind
So I knocked on a few doors because I wanted to thank them. No one knew anything.
So this morning my next door neighbour said " I know who phoned your work. It was Jane doe from the next street.
I spoke to Jane this morning who told me my dog was running in and out of the road causing cars to swerve and restricting her from walking past the house with her dogs
She said she had to barricade herself in the naighbours garden because my dog kept going to attack her. She said she was outside my house for 20 minutes shouting and screaming but no one came out. So she phoned my work but I wasn't in so she phoned her sister, her sisters husband is my window cleaner so knows my dog they managed to get him in the garden.
I explained what had happened and apologised but explained my dog was only protecting the house and was probably scared.
Anyway I go in work this morning to find she phoned work shouting and swearing at my colleague. My colleague is only young and still training and was pretty upset
She said my neighbour said " I don't know whether she's been robbed, but I'm going to kill that fucking dog and give her a piece of my mind"
So now I'm really annoyed 1 because she thought I had been robbed and never bothered to phone the police and 2 the way she spoke to my colleague it was nothing to do with her and certainly couldn't do anything about it and most definitely doesn't get paid enough to deal with kind of abuse.
So basically there was a dog in danger if she was so concerned about him going for people maybe the next person who walked past wouldn't have been able to run to another garden. He has never bit anyone though not ever but he obviously felt threatened and I do know he can appear aggressive and he been known to fight with other dogs in the past not often but if they go for him he will retaliate I imagine if a dogs owner felt threatened by a dog they would attack.
So should I go round and have words or just leave it?
Anything could have happened like she said someone could have broken in robbed me, or even worse they could have broken in while me and my daughter's was there and hurt us and my dog was trying to raise alarm.