BethMH
02-17-2006, 07:41 PM
Today, coming home from picking up the kids at school - my daughter notices a golden retriever walking on a busy road just outside of our neighborhood. I turn around and am able to corral the dog with my car back into the neighborhood. He was obviously someone's pet. He had on a collar and a tag. I keep bones in the car for this very reason (sad story behind how I came up with this idea). Once back in the neighborhood, I throw a bone out the window and he comes and eats it. I show him I have more bones - trying to get him to come to me. I open the door and am talking to him when a car pulls up and the driver opens her window. I ask if she has seen the dog before. She says yes - it belongs to them - and she points at the house across from where I am stopped. Their garage is wide open. She tells me the dog gets out all of the time - is left outside a lot - and has even been left outside in the freezing cold rain and snow (when we've actually had that here in N. Tx.). She said she is a dog lover, has dogs of her own, and it breaks her heart that they let this dog run.
While talking to her, the owner comes out into the garage. The lady who had stopped, tells her I found the dog out on the main street. Now, I'm pissed. So I tell the lady that her dog is going to get killed if it is allowed to run out in the street like that. She said - well, he ran off while I was putting groceries in the house. I wanted to say - you dumb a**, close your garage and he won't get out. Did she thank me for saving her dog - no! The lady who stopped to talk to me said thank you. She was so very appreciative. She was glad I cared enough to stop and assist the dog in finding his home.
Our monthly neighborhood meeting happens to have on the agenda this month the topic of animal control and the leash law. I am sure these people won't be attending this meeting. They have been very good neighbors. I don't know them personally, but they have lived here a while and have done a lot of good things for the neighborhood. But I am absolutely pissed beyond pissed that they let their dog roam like this. Their house backs up to this main street. We don't have a ton of traffic on it, but it is a main entrance in and out of this neighborhood.
I just cannot let this go either. I feel like writing her a letter, stating the leash law, and telling her that if I see her dog out on the street again, I am going to take him and call animal control. I believe the neighbors have reported them already.
I need some advice from you all. What would you do? Anything? I am just so pissed! To be so noncaring or concerned. UGH!
While talking to her, the owner comes out into the garage. The lady who had stopped, tells her I found the dog out on the main street. Now, I'm pissed. So I tell the lady that her dog is going to get killed if it is allowed to run out in the street like that. She said - well, he ran off while I was putting groceries in the house. I wanted to say - you dumb a**, close your garage and he won't get out. Did she thank me for saving her dog - no! The lady who stopped to talk to me said thank you. She was so very appreciative. She was glad I cared enough to stop and assist the dog in finding his home.
Our monthly neighborhood meeting happens to have on the agenda this month the topic of animal control and the leash law. I am sure these people won't be attending this meeting. They have been very good neighbors. I don't know them personally, but they have lived here a while and have done a lot of good things for the neighborhood. But I am absolutely pissed beyond pissed that they let their dog roam like this. Their house backs up to this main street. We don't have a ton of traffic on it, but it is a main entrance in and out of this neighborhood.
I just cannot let this go either. I feel like writing her a letter, stating the leash law, and telling her that if I see her dog out on the street again, I am going to take him and call animal control. I believe the neighbors have reported them already.
I need some advice from you all. What would you do? Anything? I am just so pissed! To be so noncaring or concerned. UGH!