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lizblackdog) wrote2006-05-19 05:56 pm
lizblackdog) wrote2006-05-19 05:56 pm
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Oh, this is an old story
I AM SURROUNDED BY TEH STUPID.
Remember the idiots with the dogpile and the inability to work out what a leash is for?
Well, I just ran into Puppything on the lam while walking my dogs (fortunately I saw it before Spike did). Being the good neighbour I am, I nipped home to put my dogs away and nipped back out with a leash to take Puppything home. I'm not the only good neighbour round here, because I got back out there just in time to see my friend Mo, the owner of Spike's mini-Border Collie girlfriend Ella, had beat me to it and returned Puppything home already.
Ella's owner has lived across the road from The Idiot Family for some time (and has returned their continually-straying dogs more often than I have) and she was even more ranty about their pet-owning habits than I was.
Turns out they're backyard breeders. Why am I not surprised? Apparently, their last dog was kept only long enough to breed and sell a litter of puppies before they gave her away. Puppything appears to be destined for the same fate - I hadn't realised she was even female (I guess Spike never got close enough to check, because he wouldn't have barked at her if he'd known that) but she's in season already. She's less than a year old. I'm taking bets with myself whether they're going to mate her deliberately - but it's probably academic. Their dogs escape three or four times a week anyway. If their Jack Russells haven't already gotten to her it's a dead cert that something will.
It gets better. They used to have rabbits too. The rabbits had babies - as they tend to do if you don't speuter or separate them. (Who'da THUNK it??)
Guess what they did when they couldn't cope with the rabbit explosion? They set the whole lot of them loose.
Yes, I did hear this second-hand, but I did see a loose rabbit two or three times near the hollow oak tree on Woodbury Avenue back when I first moved here. Of course, this is prime suburban fox country round here, so at least the poor creatures probably had a quick death and benefited some other animal - but still...
Remember the idiots with the dogpile and the inability to work out what a leash is for?
Well, I just ran into Puppything on the lam while walking my dogs (fortunately I saw it before Spike did). Being the good neighbour I am, I nipped home to put my dogs away and nipped back out with a leash to take Puppything home. I'm not the only good neighbour round here, because I got back out there just in time to see my friend Mo, the owner of Spike's mini-Border Collie girlfriend Ella, had beat me to it and returned Puppything home already.
Ella's owner has lived across the road from The Idiot Family for some time (and has returned their continually-straying dogs more often than I have) and she was even more ranty about their pet-owning habits than I was.
Turns out they're backyard breeders. Why am I not surprised? Apparently, their last dog was kept only long enough to breed and sell a litter of puppies before they gave her away. Puppything appears to be destined for the same fate - I hadn't realised she was even female (I guess Spike never got close enough to check, because he wouldn't have barked at her if he'd known that) but she's in season already. She's less than a year old. I'm taking bets with myself whether they're going to mate her deliberately - but it's probably academic. Their dogs escape three or four times a week anyway. If their Jack Russells haven't already gotten to her it's a dead cert that something will.
It gets better. They used to have rabbits too. The rabbits had babies - as they tend to do if you don't speuter or separate them. (Who'da THUNK it??)
Guess what they did when they couldn't cope with the rabbit explosion? They set the whole lot of them loose.
Yes, I did hear this second-hand, but I did see a loose rabbit two or three times near the hollow oak tree on Woodbury Avenue back when I first moved here. Of course, this is prime suburban fox country round here, so at least the poor creatures probably had a quick death and benefited some other animal - but still...
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Unless they could see you doing it of course.
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I've been wondering if there's anything I can actually DO apart from sitting here fuming and retrieving their dogs when I see them. I don't think there is. They're not - legally - abusing their dogs. They're fed, they're sheltered, they're not being kicked or beaten. I'm not at all sure the law can do anything.
I might phone the dog warden tomorrow and have a talk about it though. There might be something.
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I'm not sure how much of a nuisance they are. They're not barking at all hours, but they do escape a LOT, and I'd be willing to bet actual money that at least half the unscooped turds I see round there come from their dogs.
I'm fairly sure it IS a council house, because they've just been ahving their kitchen redone by the same council contractors that did mine.
You know what, though - I'm very very reluctant to drag the council into it, mainly because it would be SO damn easy for someone to do the same to me. It would only need one or two complaints about my dogs to get me evicted. Call me superstitious, but that gives me a strong glass houses/stonethrowing feeling.