NDN's dog has been problematic for years, she accepts the dog is mental but has done nothing to improve the situation, or the impact on us. It attacks the fence everytime our dogs set foot in our garden and makes it impossible for us to spend any time out there, our dogs obviously feel threatened and can't relax so we've spent the last few summers stuck in our (boiling hot) house, unable to use our garden.
Some things have changed for us recently, Ddog1 sadly died and Ddog2 has struggled so we've been trying new things with him to cheer him up, new toys and training techniques to stop him getting bored and pining now he's an only dog. We've been playing a particular game with him in the garden lately and found he loves it so much he completely ignores the dog next door, even when it's going absolutely wild at the fence.
And the (unintended, honest!) result of that is that her dog is now causing absolute havoc in her garden and means NDN is forced to make it go inside where she usually just turfs it out into the garden and leaves it to make other people's lives a misery. It's obviously really pissing NDN off that her own dog is now inconveniencing her rather than us and I'm struggling not to laugh everytime she has to come out and sort her dog (and the mess it's made of her garden) out.
I should add that NDN is in general a nightmare neighbour who causes us and the other neighbours a lot of problems so I guess I'm taking pleasure in just a tiny bit of that backfiring on her. It's not in my nature to laugh at others misfortune but I can't seem to help it in this case, is that really bad?