Robyn Surely your town has a dog warden! Call him! This being intimidated by your neighbor, their dog, etc. needs to stop - and obviously they are not interested in 'working with you' in any way Joan
B. Bond wrote: > 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. ========================================================= "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.
