TOUGH LOVE THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WANT TO HEAR

1) That is not an "indoor" dog.

2) You are not in a place in life to deal with this bullshit.

3) You have had the dog less than a week.

One of three things is going to happen:

1) You move.

2) Mrs. Jenkins moves.

3) Cooper moves.

I'll bet you have a lease. Mrs. Jenkins has lived there 52 years. Cooper has been there less than a week. Seriously. All that's left is the waiting. And with the waiting, suffering.

Because you want to be nice, but you're deciding you're giving over your life to making a poorly-behaved (your own admission) rescue dog not freak out your neighbor. That's going to make you resent the dog, the neighbor and yourself. The energy you're sinking into this is energy you didn't have in the budget. Sure, you have "a boatload of time" now but what you just decided is that you never want to use that time for anything but keeping a dog under control. A dog you didn't have last week. A dog that is now fucking up the lifestyle of an 80-year-old lady that has lived in her house twice as long as you've been alive.

And you think the dog wants to live indoors? Don't kid yourself.

I recognize you feel responsible for the dog's well-being in this situation but not only is the dog a tragedy unfolding, it's beyond your ability to deal with. The longer you spend deluding yourself about "indoor exercise" the more time you're burning before you find somewhere the dog isn't busy being the irritant in a fragile relationship. Oh, you didn't think your relationship was fragile.

Wait until you've been dealing with the dog for a while.

One of three things is going to happen. Choose or have the choice made for you.