And can I just add, while I’m on my rant today – I am so thrilled that our neighbors have gotten a new puppy. A poodle puppy that I can pretty much guarantee is not neutered yet, already looking like a matted disaster, and that they let run loose all over the neighborhood. If you KNOW that your dog doesn’t come back when it’s called, don’t let it off the leash. It’s going to run into my dogs, who are leashed, and get it’s little ass kicked. Why do that to your dog? To me? The wife keeps the dog leashed, the kids keep the dog leashed, the dad though, he’s just a gem. Not only does he turn it loose to run all over, and then pleads with it to come back, he taken to TYING IT UP IN THE FRONT YARD. Yes, yes, tying it to a tree, in a condo complex – this is not his private yard, but community grass. Ties it up out front, with a pile of Kibbles and Bits on the grass next to the tree. Awesome. Just awesome. So not only are you leaving crappy food out that will attract ants and all manner of bugs, you are also not cleaning up when your dog shits by the tree, AND the dog is out there unattended, meaning my dogs flip out when we walk by, and you are putting the dog at risk of being stolen. Because a LOT of little dogs have gone missing around here, even stolen out of garages.
Wow, that is ever so cool. The crappy thing is, there really isn’t much I can do. I can email the HOA, but all they’ll do it send a letter and maybe fine him, big woop. I can call animal control, but they don’t care unless the dog has been tied for more than three hours, then it’s illegal. I could try talking to the guy, but I don’t think they speak much English so that could go horribly wrong. And I come off like the bitchy neighbor. Really, all I want is to be able to walk my dogs without being accosted by off leash dogs, or dogs left unsupervised and tied to trees. I am so frustrated with the people that live here. Can you tell? Is it so hard, so hard to respect other people’s rights? And never mind me, what about the seniors in the neighborhood that are so afraid of dogs and are continually getting jumped on and harassed by loose dogs? That just sucks.
My dogs now are never off leash. Not even to go from the car to the house. I won’t risk it. We’ve been attacked here so many times that I am afraid to leave my house. Because other people can’t put their freaking dogs on a leash. People wonder why I’m so pissy.
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by michelle
Filed under: Not my dogs, Random run ins, The Naked Part
I thought maybe we lived in the same neighborhood til you mentioned condo-complex.
Once, when I was hiking up Cowels (back when I did that pretty regular), I had my dog Lana the greyhound /lab mix with me. We were hiking along just fine, she was happy and super well behaved. All dogs are supposed to be leashed there.
Just as we are approaching the last quarter, a Dalmation runs straight uphill at us with no apparent owner. Ears flapping, making a bee-line towards Lana. Lana gave Dalmation a warning bark, it keeps coming. Lana gives another warning bark. Then a man starts yelling at Lana and looking at me like I’m an idiot for letting Lana yap…. “Hey, Hey, HEY” like Lana is doing something wrong. I had my dog on a leash, I had control of her.
So as, he runs past me, trying to catch his dog, and other dogs are barking at the “in your face” dog, I mention rather loudly that “that is why your dog is supposed to be on a leash”.
I almost wished he’d bring the dog back down so I could bark at it too.