Planet Glass
05-06-2008, 09:29
My neighbors bought a golden retriever puppy last summer.
Anyone could have seen this coming a mile away.
FTR I live in a somewhat uppercrusty neighborhood. They left the dog out on a leash in their unfenced yard (unfenced from my yard in fact) for hours, alone. The first leash they had was just a cheap rope, and the dog kept breaking it. It was too long and he kept getting tangles around the trunks of my bushes.
The dog supposedly belonged to the youngest kid, a daughter, but really, it's the mother that wanted the dog. At first, the little girl would hug the puppy, play with it, and she was "responsible" for untangling the dog from the tree trunks in the yard. Her older brothers were not interested, it wasn't their dog, it was "her" dog.
He'd bark from the loneliness. I didn't complain, but some other neighbors did - to the police! So they'd leave him out, and bring him in when the barking would be too much.
Since they rarely walked him, the owner (the mother of 3 young kids) would pick up dozens of frozen poopsicles in a plastic bag throughout the winter. This spring, the yard was a mess of burnt grass (from urine) and the flower beds completely trampled.
They never trained the dog not to jump excitedly on people. He grew big; when standing, this dog was bigger than her two youngest kids. He would stand on his legs and hump the youngest kid, the daughter. And her middle kid, a boy, would actually hump the dog. I'm not kidding.
The kids were no longer allowed to play in the backyard, I suppose on account of the contamination by large dog feces. So they played only in the front. When they interacted with the animal, the dog was jumping on them, and wanting to chew their clothes, and they'd cry and whine and push the dog away.
The dog is gone now. They got rid of it.
Anyone could have seen this coming a mile away.
FTR I live in a somewhat uppercrusty neighborhood. They left the dog out on a leash in their unfenced yard (unfenced from my yard in fact) for hours, alone. The first leash they had was just a cheap rope, and the dog kept breaking it. It was too long and he kept getting tangles around the trunks of my bushes.
The dog supposedly belonged to the youngest kid, a daughter, but really, it's the mother that wanted the dog. At first, the little girl would hug the puppy, play with it, and she was "responsible" for untangling the dog from the tree trunks in the yard. Her older brothers were not interested, it wasn't their dog, it was "her" dog.
He'd bark from the loneliness. I didn't complain, but some other neighbors did - to the police! So they'd leave him out, and bring him in when the barking would be too much.
Since they rarely walked him, the owner (the mother of 3 young kids) would pick up dozens of frozen poopsicles in a plastic bag throughout the winter. This spring, the yard was a mess of burnt grass (from urine) and the flower beds completely trampled.
They never trained the dog not to jump excitedly on people. He grew big; when standing, this dog was bigger than her two youngest kids. He would stand on his legs and hump the youngest kid, the daughter. And her middle kid, a boy, would actually hump the dog. I'm not kidding.
The kids were no longer allowed to play in the backyard, I suppose on account of the contamination by large dog feces. So they played only in the front. When they interacted with the animal, the dog was jumping on them, and wanting to chew their clothes, and they'd cry and whine and push the dog away.
The dog is gone now. They got rid of it.