Moms/Parents, loose dog wwyd?

My perspective, I've been on the other side of this so I've been your neighbor except I don't have to be captain of the neighborhood and all that . We have had issues, many, many issues with our neighbors dogs. I won't go into all the details unless you just want them but at it's worst we called Animal Control and our Village Township  to file formal complaints. She/they wrote us a letter which probably started out as an apology but ended up blaming their dogs behavior on us and my two young children who at that time were 3 & 5. The "apology" was completely false and the situation would have been much better if they would have just shown respect for us as neighbors by managing their animals and saved us the fake apology.

What I gather a little from your post is you already do not have a great relationship with your neighbors. I don't think you going over to apologize again is going to fix anything. It will probably just give her another opportunity to yell at you and you will end up feeling more frustrated. If you truly feel sorry just make sure you show it in your daily actions and if she chooses not to see it then the frustration is all on her.

Thanks for that.  I did want to hear "the other side" story.  

In a bright moment of perhaps restoring my faith in humanity, I must say I heard from the husband (a/k/a captain of the neighborhood) who actually had emailed me the complete story and had a very calm demeanor about it and I decided to call and speak rather than the email volley-- which I think gets misconstrued-- and he was very level headed and all like "this is between us" and "it hap'd, it's over"  I was very very very surprised as often it appears they like to knit and afghan out of a sock.

But anyway let's just say, the hubster and I will be on high alert from here on out!

Good job with the phone call. The only thing I can suggest in addition would be taking a look at your fense, where the dogs escaped and how, and fixing it, publicily, when they are home and can see. This shows you take their concern seriously and want to do the right thing, making sure they see it, without having to bug them etc.

For what it is worth, I used to have an escape artist dog so if one of your dogs is that type, proofing the fence against them takes a LOT of work.

that's good the husband was cool about it.  sounds like it was really a one-time thing.

if they would have given you more lip, i would gone billy madison on them and put a flaming bag of poo on the front door and rang the door bell.