Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Dogs
I've ranted about this subject a few times in the past. Lately our neighborhood is becoming to look like a dog pound. One neighbor has two big black dogs who poop in the yard and bark and holler whenever I step outside. They in-turn bark at the dog in the house behind ours - which has finally learned not to bark too much at me after 3 years here. If you make a noise or shut a door, it will set him off. That dog and the two next door always charge towards their mutual corner of the yards and bark at each other like crazy.
Two doors down a family has gotten a small white dog which seems to spend most of its time chained outside the back door. Of course whenever there is someone home there, the dog does his high-pitched yippy bark that trails off into a whine. I don't think I've ever seen anyone play with it, which at the next door neighbor does with his two.
Across the street is a new family with two dogs kept on short chains outside the side door - at least most of the time. I think in late evenings, they let them loose and they run around from yard to yard barking at the other houses. Across the street from them yet another house has two dogs and they are often running around free. One of these days a car is going to drive by after dark and make short work of all those stupid canines running around.
And I can't forget to mention another house a couple of houses away. Up until last year their dogs were nice and peaceful penned up in their fenced in yard. And then some jerks moved next door to them. The marginally trained daughter of that family seems to delight in jumping up and down and acting like some hyperactive pre-human yelling and screaming at the dog - which not surprisingly barks and hollers and charges the fence back.
There was also one big black dog, which I haven't seen yet this year who came screaming through the neighbors fence last year in pursuit of a (one of many I might add) stray cat. That did not look like anything very friendly and I'm most happy that I haven't seen it.
And people wonder why I don't like dogs...
