'Bye bye garden bed': Neighborhood dogs destroy their own garden after a clever mom uses their untrained aggression against the owners

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 9, 2024 7:00 PM EDT

The best petty revenge is self-inflicted. 

Sometimes neighbors confirm their foolishness by lacking the intelligence to better their own situation. For example, I have a neighbor who constantly pushes the pots off of their balcony, sending shards of ceramic and dirt all across the courtyard. You'd think that after the first two broken pots, this neighbor would either find a new way to pot their plants or secure their vessels more appropriately–but alas, not everyone has this kind of reasoning. 

A clever mom in our next story used similar foolishness against one of her rowdy neighbors, using their own aggressive dogs against them. For months, this mom and her young boys had to walk past a very spooky house in order to get to school every day–the reason the house was alarming wasn't because of a haunting or any other malevolence, but because of a pack of semi-feral dogs charging the fence and barking at passersby every day. In order to exact her own revenge against these folks, the mom decided to take her sweet time walking by the house, casually slowing her pace right in front of the owner's meticulously planted garden, watching the dogs bark, scratch, and annihilate each and every flower. 

Scroll for the full story of self-inflicted revenge served up at the end of a leash. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about some training….

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    One of [the dogs] really really wants to know what I taste like. So now the flower bed looks like
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    Posted by u/Unique_Ad_3752 3 hours ago Don't control your dogs, bye bye garden bed. We live close enough to the elementary school that we don't get the bus option and since we D
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    only have one car and my husband works earlier then school starts I have to walk my two boys to school and home every day. There is one house
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    where seven out of ten times the 3 dogs are either charging the fence or attacking the window in the house when we walk past and they sound and act completely feral. It scares my boys especially
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    when the dogs are inside cause one will body slam the window barking his fool head off. We try to stop talking and walk past as quick as we can normally. Well lately with the nice weather they
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    are doing a TON of gardening and have made a lovely flower bed right along the fence line. These people have been outside when the dogs are barking and charging the fence but have
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    never done anything. I still rush by with the boys when they are with me but the last few days when I am alone I have purposely slowed down alot and mess with my phone right beside of the
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    flower bed. Half of them are dead or dying now and the owners have finally been just yelling at them, but one of them really really wants to know what I taste like. So now the flower bed looks
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    like I can totally understand a dog giving a warning barking, watching us and protecting his property. But snarling and snapping through the fence is a bit excessive. It's one of those old fashion iron fences.
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    margieusana 3 hr. ago I once lived in the middle house on a street with only three houses, and the two on either side had a total of 5 dogs who barked at me
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    when I got the mail. The first day. The second day I brought a box of treats and gave one to each dog. The third day five dogs sat.
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    Liss78 1 hr. ago I hate people who allow their dogs to be aggressive like that. There's also a distinct difference in barking and aggression.
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    My neighbor used to have a barking dog. He was friendly, but barked when someone walked down the driveways behind the houses to get to the bus stop. We'd bribe Paco with
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    treats and scritches in exchange for his silence every morning. We all loved Paco because he notified the whole block and the block behind us when people were stealing catalytic
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    converters in the neighborhood. He was a good boy, just a very talkative good boy. Later on we had neighbors with an aggressive Rottweiler move in at the end of the block. I had
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    to stop walking behind the house entirely because my daughter was terrified and started to refuse to walk anywhere near the yard. To be honest, I didn't trust that dog either. He'd charge the fence like you're describing, too. Good on you for teaching them the hard way.
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    Unique_Ad_3752 OP. 1 hr. ago Like there is a total difference between the Bark Bark "I see you stranger" and the, "What the doing here get the before I tear the you" bark you away out of
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    BouncyBlueYoshi 27 min. ago My dog's Bark Bark "Throw my stick and I might not destroy your eardrums with my bark". He's a loud dog and we aren't allowed to throw his stick as he has a bad back.
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    CaiCaiside 2 hr. ago People like them shouldn't own animals. I've fostered dogs that come from bad situations and they don't ever act like that. They made those dogs that way and shouldn't be allowed to have them.
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    upset_pachyderm . 2 hr. ago This is excellent! More so because it's totally self-inflicted: you haven't done a thing (other than walking by on a public right-of-way).
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    Independent Elk_706 3 hr. ago This is fantastic because I know exactly what it's like to deal with neighbors who own dogs like these lol. And you know they probably spent a pretty penny on those flower beds!
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    I will never understand how people think that's acceptable dog behavior. And many people do NOT understand the difference of a reactive dog and an aggressive dog. These dogs are clearly aggressive.
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    Unsolicited advice: Please be careful. Dogs like these are not a matter of if they'll attack, It's when. I highly recommend at least carrying mace or a can of air that could scare them should
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    they ever bust through the window. I'd also consider making complaints to the city. Will they actively do anything? Probably not. But should the dogs get out and attack anyone,
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    there'll be a paper trail/history and showing how nothing was ever done on the owner's and city's part and could help someone's lawsuit. Keep up the great work and slow walking!
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    Kyutoko 40 min. ago. edited 35 min. ago chef kiss. perfect. You aren't doing anything, it's their own dog that's damaging the flowers. Oh well.
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