My neighbor doesn’t care if her dog gets out and it’s starting to become a problem.

Hi friends.
I’m not going to disclose where in Columbus I live, so please don’t ask.
This post is kinda for a rant and mostly for advice 😭

Just wanted to say that I’m all for a cohesive neighborhood, but I’m on my last straw with this woman.
She has a rottie-mix and beagle, both are mostly left outside and are able to get out of the fence. I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve returned her dogs to her, or told her about her dog roaming. She doesn’t care. No thank-you, no addressing the issue. Just a rude individual.
I bring the dogs back because it’s not their fault she sucks, and I would hate to see them get hurt because of her negligence.

Story time:
This morning I was taking my dogs for a walk (5mo Shepherd/Mal & 9yo Golden retriever). Just as we passed her house, which is a couple away from mine, the rottie busts through the door and runs after us. I hear her yelling inside the house for the dog to come back, but that’s the extent of her effort to contain her dog.
I’m nervous because my golden does not like other dogs. She’s very well behaved and keeps to herself, but will snap when another dog enters her space, or runs up on her like this dog did. My puppy isn’t as well composed and gets very excited. Luckily this rottie wasn’t outwardly trying to attack, but he was posturing at my golden who wasn’t giving him the nicest of looks.
I do the dance of trying to contain my two dogs and keep this other dog away, luckily he was friendly enough to let me hold him by the collar. I put my two in a down-stay (thank the mother that listened) and sat there with this lady’s dog waiting for her to come and get it.
Then a minute passed.
Then two minutes.

Like are you kidding me???? She knew her dog got out, and refused to come and get it. I checked again to make sure my dogs would stay (so proud of my puppy, he did so good) and walked her dog the half-block back to her house. Knocked on their door. Waited. And waited. Knocked again. Finally she comes out all annoyed, didn’t say anything. Puts the dog in the house and shuts the door.

My dogs got big big praise for being so good. But what if they wouldn’t have listened?? What if it wasn’t me but someone with an actually aggressive dog? What if it was a kid or someone who’s scared of dogs??

If you have any advice on what I can do, I would love to hear it. I don’t want to involve myself more, but I don’t think I can keep doing this either and my heart is too big to just let the dogs roam and get hurt or hurt someone else.

Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

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