OMG, YNBU.
I cannot believe what a hard time you are having on here op and am shocked and saddened by the extent of the intolerance and unkindness on here.
Your neighbours are retired. Your dogs are normally never there.
They like to sit in their garden all the time. For one day, one you have your dogs at home and they are barking.
Fair enough your neighbour comes round after we presume a while to ask you to stop them BUT the way they did this was not nice.
Once you apologised and explained you would deal with it after the meeting and apologised again, that should have been enough but no they can’t accept your apology or explanation.
If they really couldn’t stand it then yes they could have all gone in for half an hour so that your dogs would quite down and you could finish your meeting. This would have been a kind neighbourly reaction, not shouting at you.
Chasing your dog round a large garden is a fun thing to do. Don’t stop this.
Your dog is not yet an adult and lots of dogs don’t come straight in when called.
Your neighbours cannot expect to sit in silence all day. Goodness knows what they would be like if you had noisy children or dogs barking every day. I saw a similar thread here last year about children making noise in a paddling pool on a very hot day last summer, having fun and the ops husband got home from work and went mad in case the neighbours were disturbed. Where has kindness gone and tolerance.
So many people on here shouting you down being unkind, it’s sad.
You sound lovely and a very kind concerned neighbour, your neighbour is lucky to have you.
Stop beating yourself up about one not ideal situation that your neighbour was so intolerant of, I also note that the neighbour banging and shouting was a man, I wonder if he would have shouted at your husband in the same way.
I have an 8 mouth old Labrador, he rarely ever barks, never has, just the way his breed is but labradors do jump up. I am working on this and trying to train him as best I can. All dogs need off lead time and to play with other dogs, there’s a field next to where Dogs are walked. The difference in people’s attitudes is incredible and this has been a real eye opener but the biggest thing I have noticed is that women in general have been more tolerant and less judgemental than men (particularly older men) on the whole men have been much much less nice and very judgmental, very quick to shout, tell you off, speak down to you in a way they would never speak to another man. I can go for a dog walk and either come back stressed and upset or happy and uplifted dependent on the interactions I have with fellow mankind. A friend of mine, a long term dog owner commented tgat it’s amazing how quickly a good dog walk can be ruined by others, ie) by unkind words from others and this is what is happening here.
Please continue to enjoy your dogs, it sounds like you are a lovely dog owner and a lovely neighbour and it’s sad so many intolerant people have come on this thread to have a go at you.