AITA for refusing to move when my neighbor asked me to because her dogs wouldn't stop barking?
I live on the corner lot of a T-intersection. Along the top of the T runs power lines and a long half-mile walking path with open fields on either side.
Yesterday, I cut through my neighbor's yard (with their permission) to play fetch with my 1-year-old Belgian Malinois. As I was passing through to the public area, the neighbors to the right have a metal see-through fence with three small, yappy dogs. Those dogs were already barking at people walking down the path that runs along their backyard. The owners were sitting on their back patio.
I proceeded to play fetch with my dog, who paid zero attention to the yappy dogs about 50 feet away. For the next several minutes, those dogs continued barking nonstop. I figured since their dogs were the ones causing the problem and I was in a public area, it made the most sense for the owners to just put their dogs inside.
After about 15 minutes, the owner called out and asked if I could move further down the stretch of open area so her dogs would stop barking. I said no, and that my dog wasn't the one causing problems. Theirs were
I don't feel like I'm in the wrong here. Yes, I could have moved, but my dog and I were not the ones causing the disruption. Their dogs were. I was in a public place. The public area behind their house shouldn't be treated as an off-limits zone. Moving would have been an inconvenience for me, and the bigger issue is that their dogs bark at anyone walking by, not just me.
AITA for not moving down?
Drawing of layout for refrerence: https://imgur.com/a/BhKXFta