Pets and Responsiblity
Aug. 17th, 2003 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anysiaAlmost had a tragedy outside. My young cat/kitten, Keito, isn't allowed to run free. He is put on a nice, comfortable harness and clipped to either a lead outside, or a leash and we take him for walks. My older one, Affy, hangs out under the shrubs.
One of my neighbors, who owns a Staffordshire Terrier, refuses to restrain this animal. When I see her walking the dog, she holds an empty leash, and the dog runs free.
This dog saw my cats, and came running up my driveway, barking and snapping. Affy ran up a branch up to the roof... and there was Keito, tied to his lead. My son dashed past me, almost hurdling over the furniture, and started shouting and stomping the ground in front of the animal, bellowing at it, while it was snarling and barking at him. Keito was "furry horse-shoed" up against the wall. I went out there, Keito saw me and pressed up against me for protection. I pressed the quick release catches on his harness and put him in the house fast.
The dippy owner of the dog came traipsing up *my* drive way, empty leash in hand, making sweet talk to her dog, while it was barking at my son. I looked right at her and said "Why the hell isn't that damned dog on a leash?!?" This dozy wench just flitted on home with her dog without even bothering to answer.
Two days later, there is this same stupid woman, with her dog running free again. I have held back from calling the rangers on her only because I don't want a Neighbor VS Neighbor thing going on. But I have had ENOUGH of her dog terrorising my cats, crapping in my yard, and her not giving a damn about what kind of destruction this animal could do.
One of my neighbors, who owns a Staffordshire Terrier, refuses to restrain this animal. When I see her walking the dog, she holds an empty leash, and the dog runs free.
This dog saw my cats, and came running up my driveway, barking and snapping. Affy ran up a branch up to the roof... and there was Keito, tied to his lead. My son dashed past me, almost hurdling over the furniture, and started shouting and stomping the ground in front of the animal, bellowing at it, while it was snarling and barking at him. Keito was "furry horse-shoed" up against the wall. I went out there, Keito saw me and pressed up against me for protection. I pressed the quick release catches on his harness and put him in the house fast.
The dippy owner of the dog came traipsing up *my* drive way, empty leash in hand, making sweet talk to her dog, while it was barking at my son. I looked right at her and said "Why the hell isn't that damned dog on a leash?!?" This dozy wench just flitted on home with her dog without even bothering to answer.
Two days later, there is this same stupid woman, with her dog running free again. I have held back from calling the rangers on her only because I don't want a Neighbor VS Neighbor thing going on. But I have had ENOUGH of her dog terrorising my cats, crapping in my yard, and her not giving a damn about what kind of destruction this animal could do.
