Hi, Barbara,
It never ceases to amaze me. We had a similar situation when we first
moved in to this farm, though it surrounded the "accidental" beating of
one of my children by one of the neighbor's children "in play". My
child came home and not wanting to get his new "friend" in trouble, he
told me he had been jumped and mugged by a teenager on a bike. He
LOOKED it. Black and blue face, black eyes, the works. Of course,
hearing that story I called the police. He had gone to bed, and when
awakened in the morning and told that the police were involved, he
admitted it was his new "friend" who had done this. Well.......we still
had to go to the police....no WAY I could send him to school like that.
Child abuse would certainly be suspected! So, he told the police who
hurt him and they went to that family.
Sometime later, I'm in the garden with the dogs when a roaring angry
mother comes storming the gates. She scared the bejeesus out of the
dogs. I put the dogs away and asked her what was her problem? "How
COULD you call the police on my child!", etc........
I asked her if she had been THERE at the time. "Yes" she answered.
I asked her if she had been supervising and seen this happen. "Yes", she
answered.
I then went in and brought out my child (who looked like he could appear
on Law and Order SVU) and said "and you didn't think to CALL me about
this?"
She was shocked seeing my son. Clearly, she hadn't a clue what had
actually transpired even if she had been home.
We both agreed that it was a BAD idea for our children to play together.
She slinked home without a word.
These days when I have problems like this with kids or dogs I go to the
effort of making ONE contact. If that isn't satisfactory, I do call in
some authority. I'm tired of neighbors who aren't neighborly, and of
people who don't care very much for kids or dogs.
WHY do they have them if they don't WANT them??
GRRRRR
Suze
>>
>> 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.
--
Suze at Llawen Cavaliers
"...I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man
to depend simply upon himself." -Isna Ia-wica
"Thought comes before speech" Luther Standing Bear
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