I don't have much experience with dogs, much less untrained off leash ones. One is pretty big (a lab maybe?) and always runs right up to me and my wife barking territorially whenever I'm out in my garden, and doesn't stop until one of my neighbor's kids comes and gets them. I've had dogs try to fight me before and they make me really nervous. I just want to touch grass :(

How should I be responding to the dog when this happens?

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      2 years ago

      When my old dog was a puppy, she would run along the edge of the fence and jump so she was just out of reach for the neighbor's mean hunting dog. She just enjoyed taunting him, I guess, because she almost got her head snapped off so many times but she kept on doing it.

      My sister would sneak onto that neighbor's property and free all the squirrels he was using to train the dog to kill. I don't know if he ever figured out who was doing that.