Let me start by saying, I am a huge dog lover and have a large breed myself who is well trained and socialized (goes to doggy day care and dog parks etc)
My neighbours have two GSD type dogs. They moved in about one year ago.
In that one year, the dogs have escaped their garden multiple times (I would say once every few weeks). I am not sure if its over the fence or another way, but their fence is only waist high (and I am small!) so small work for a large dog to get over if they wanted to.
The dogs seem grand with other people but they don't seem to like other dogs.
One of the times, one of the dogs was half way over my gate, aggressively snapping and trying to bite my dog in the garden. Owner sent their child out to get the dog, and child clearly couldn't handle such dog, being only about 6 years old! Had to try and get my dog into the house to calm the situation down.
Then yesterday, walking down the street and one of them is being walked back up to its garden by someone down the end of my street. The dog, sees my dog, and immediately runs towards my dog, jumps on top and starts trying to attack her.
Luckily, my dog is large and was able to wrestle the dog off and escape unharmed, without harming their dog also. The person then dragged the dog up to its garden where the owners were nowhere to be seen and they just had to open the gate to let it back in. If this dog attacked a smaller dog, it would have stood no chance.
They seem to have these big dogs, but never walk them, and they are left outside in the garden with a small fence despite escaping multiple times. I have also seen them keep the dogs in this garden and go away for a few hours also!
Being fed up - I have contacted my dog warden and council to make a complaint.
AIBU for this and is there anything else I can do if this happens again? I know you can get deterrent sprays etc but not sure if they are reliable.