Post by kasha on Jul 9, 2019 14:02:42 GMT -5
Our neighbors live right across the county road from our garden/pasture. Our house is set back in the woods a little further. So, they have probably about ten dogs. Two of them are the big white guard dogs (great Pyrenees?) that they got last year to breed and sell puppies. (Only their labradoodle got to the female first so they just had a huge litter of crossbred pups).
Anyway, they've been letting several of their dogs just roam freely. Which I get. We have a dog and she is free. But we were very careful to teach her the boundaries and to stay at home and not chase cars, etc.
So this summer, Every. Single. Time. I go to work in the garden, their dogs come running into the road barking at me and the male Pyrenees has actually come into my garden many times to bark at me. (Trampling things on the way). A good friend of mine gardens with me and she said one day she was out there he went into the pasture with the cows/calves.
If the neighbors are at home, they all start hollering the dogs names and tell them to knock it off, etc and they'll honk their car horns. Eventually, after the peace is completely ruined, the dogs amble home and leave me be.
Last night I went out in the peaceful, breezy evening after a hot day and was looking forward to working for awhile without mosquitoes. Well, dog comes running out across the road barking at me. I always tell him Go Home in a loud firm voice which he completely ignores. He stayed on the road barking at me until a car drove by and honked at him. Then he went into his yard but continued barking at me across the road for at least twenty minutes until someone finally came out of the house and called him off.
It is just such an annoyance to me to be barked at in my own garden. He's a huge dog and persistent and has a loud bark!
It seems like he thinks the garden and pasture are his domain and he's looking out for them and I am an intruder.
Is there anything I can do, or his owners can do to help train him to think differently? My garden has been my haven where I go to be in nature and think. But lately it has been anything but!
Anyway, they've been letting several of their dogs just roam freely. Which I get. We have a dog and she is free. But we were very careful to teach her the boundaries and to stay at home and not chase cars, etc.
So this summer, Every. Single. Time. I go to work in the garden, their dogs come running into the road barking at me and the male Pyrenees has actually come into my garden many times to bark at me. (Trampling things on the way). A good friend of mine gardens with me and she said one day she was out there he went into the pasture with the cows/calves.
If the neighbors are at home, they all start hollering the dogs names and tell them to knock it off, etc and they'll honk their car horns. Eventually, after the peace is completely ruined, the dogs amble home and leave me be.
Last night I went out in the peaceful, breezy evening after a hot day and was looking forward to working for awhile without mosquitoes. Well, dog comes running out across the road barking at me. I always tell him Go Home in a loud firm voice which he completely ignores. He stayed on the road barking at me until a car drove by and honked at him. Then he went into his yard but continued barking at me across the road for at least twenty minutes until someone finally came out of the house and called him off.
It is just such an annoyance to me to be barked at in my own garden. He's a huge dog and persistent and has a loud bark!
It seems like he thinks the garden and pasture are his domain and he's looking out for them and I am an intruder.
Is there anything I can do, or his owners can do to help train him to think differently? My garden has been my haven where I go to be in nature and think. But lately it has been anything but!