Dear Robyn, When you originally posted this, I wondered if this woman was also the type who blamed everything their kids did on the neighbours children. Everyone has had a neighbour like this at one time or another. I take back my earlier suggestion to pay half of the original bill. Don't pay a cent. Next you would be paying her kids doctor bills because they caught a cold. Yeast infections are all too common in long eared dogs. An allergy is highly suspect.
I could trade you neighbours. Ours leave their dogs tied up all day and then leave for the day. Now, this is not their fault. It is ours. Why? Because we "complained" (phoned them) when they let their dogs loose and they were running all over the highway dodging traffic. One was a 4 mth old puppy. They couldn't leave them in the house because the puppy would chew the furniture. I might add that the neighbour delivered this message when she came home and found my husband checking on the puppy because he had been howling and crying for over an hour( it was a hot day and he had dumped his water). He told her it was cruel to treat the dog this way and she let go with this blast. These neighbours also stacked their wood pile right next to our fence and then tied their other dog up so that she could climb the woodpile and loom over our fence and glare at our dogs.I have to go to the expense of installing a privacy fence now. Last week I had to phone all over town looking for them because their male dog was loose. He was challenging me in my driveway when I came home. This would have been a lovely dog for someone but being tied for three years of his life has made him territorial. I couldn't let my dogs out in our fenced yard because he was jumping up on the woodpile and could easily jump into our yard. I have no doubt he would attack our cavaliers. He had already made several aggressive moves at our golden who was out at the time. Of course this is a small town and we are between dog catchers at the moment. I finally found a relative who was willing to come put their dog away. My next phone call was going to be the police to have them come and get the dog. That might have been the best course of action because I don't think they would have paid the fine and then the dog might have a chance a being adopted by someone who would really care about him. It is such a shame to see a nice puppy turn into a dog you can't trust. Some people are just not too bright.We have untangled their dogs, given them water and even tossed them biscuits when they have been out for a long time. I kept hoping they would get the message to be kinder to their dogs and leran by example. I don't know who has a few crayons missing in their box.. them or me! Now I'm venting! Barbara ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
