I’m struggling right now, I just had a bad confrontation with my two neighbors over their dog and I can’t shake this guilty feeling for losing my temper at them, even though I still feel they were in the wrong.
I was taking my infant daughter for a walk in her carrier through our alley one when I noticed one of my neighbors dogs who I already had concerns about based on how they reacted to my own dogs, zero in on my infant daughter and start chasing us along its fence line, the owner was in the yard so I assumed they had it under control, but they the. Let the dog slip through a gap in the fence and charge us, stopping just short of me and my baby due to their leash running out in the middle of the street.
After jumping back to protect my child, I looked at the person in the yard and said “Get your fucking dog”who was still pulling towards us in the street, their response was to say slowly get up and say “fuck you”, which to me is an insane way to respond to your pet trying to attack your neighbors pet.
I ended up swearing a storm at them after that, I was so angry they didn’t care about their dog threatening me and my child. I ran into their roommate and got into it with them too when they also tried to act like it was no big deal.
I ended up calling animal control, bc they refused to take responsibility but I still feel awful for letting myself yell and curse at them because it’s too women and I’m a large scary man when I’m angry.
I didn’t let myself get carried away but I still don’t want to have problems with neighbors and want to control my anger better than that but I got so scared for my kid especially once the dog jumped the fence and was wandering around after us even after I told them to get it back in their yard. It’s a big enough breed to really hurt an adult let alone a baby. AITAH?