Neighbour Problems

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Hi I have a neighbour and I am quite frightened about her. I have been in hospital for a month with postnatal depression and other problems. However, I feel that she has deeper problems than even I do. We have 2 children aged 5 and 21 months. A girl and a boy. We also have a beautiful dog who everyone we meet says how well she looks. The person who gave her to me is dying of cancer. Her mother in law lives close by and we have met another dog that was in the same litter as my dog. Every time my dog sees her brother she gets all excited. The mother in law has commented that the dog looks well looked after, her coat is shiny and if anything she looks spoiled which is not a bad thing. She passed this message on to the lady dying of cancer who gave us the dog and she is very pleased the dog went to a good home. However, here is the problem. I love the dog with all my heart and she has helped in my recovery. Unfortunately, due to me being in hospital for a month I was unable to see her. Since I got out of hospital I have taken the dog for 3 walks every day. Sometimes I am out for an hour with her which is also nice for me because it gets me out. Whilst I was in hospital my husband looked after the dog and she probably got about 1 or 2 walks a day. However, she was walked which was difficult for my husband because he had to visit me and look after 2 children. My next door neighbour stepped in and said she wanted to take our dog for a walk. Before I went into hospital my neighbour said she wanted to take our dog for a walk and that she really loved our dog and wanted to dog sit some times. Seeing that our neighbour was lonely and on her own we let her take care of our dog some times. It was only once or twice a week. When I was in hospital my neighbour tried to take our dog off us by telling my husband she wanted to take her until things had settled. My husband said the dog was ours and we wanted to look after her. We thought she had got the message and let her take the dog for walks. I got discharged from hospital a week ago. I continued to take the dog for walks every day after I got home. A few days after returning home my neighbour came over and asked to walk the dog. When she returned with her she was acting all caring. She stroked me on the cheek and then proceeded to tell me that the dog was not being looked after properly. She said that she wanted to take the dog until I was properly better. I said that I loved the dog and wanted to keep her because she helped my recovery. My neighbour said that I was being very selfish. I said that the dog loved being with me and that I looked after her. My neighbour said the dog was not being looked after that I didn't take her for walks even though I took her for 3 walks daily. I said the dog was very happy with me and she said the dog wasn't happy that if truth were known she was not happy. At this stage I couldn't take it any longer and went upstairs to tell my husband to talk to our neighbour. At this stage our neighbour left our house with our dog. My husband discovered the dog was missing and went round to our neighbours. My neighbour tried to keep the dog quiet, but my husband would not leave the property until she had given us our dog back. At this stage our neighbour was on the phone to my mum because she had got the number off me saying she wanted to talk to her about the fence. My parents are the landlords of our property. Foolishly I'd given the number to her. She phoned my mum and my mum said to her to give the dog back because it was ours. My husband got a little annoyed which isn't like him and said how dare she take our dog. My neighbour told my mum that my husband had been aggressive towards her. A few hours later my husband tried to go round to my neighbours to apologise, but she wouldn't open the door to him. She would not open the door on numerous occasions so my husband being the good man he is bought a bottle of wine for her and left it on her door step. At the same time I left a response about a free dog to a good home on an advert with my neighbour's contact details thinking it was a good thing to do seeing as she wanted a dog. My neighbour phoned my mum and said that a bottle of wine was left on her door step and that she had thrown it down the drain because she thought it was poisoned. She also said that she had been inundated with phone calls about a dog she was selling. This is a lie because I only answered one advert on a website I trusted that will only be in response to the dog wanted. Only 1 person will receive that response. As for the bottle of wine, it was sealed and if she didn't think that it was from us why did she phone my mum? Sorry this is so long and if I seem annoyed. I'd love your opinions even if you are having a go at me. Who is in the wrong here? Is there anything that I can do to rectify this? My neighbour has tried to let herself in to our house with a screwdriver before and this is very worrying. What can we do?