Zurf wrote:jerome.oneil wrote:A little schadenfreude is normal, but as I get older, I have less and less tolerance for degenerate slobs that don't clean up after their animals.
I had a dog for fifteen years and made a habit of cleaning up after her each time we walked her. Our neighbors across the street do the same thing. And our neighbors beside us do the same thing. So on this street, there are/were a fair number of dogs. We see folks from other parts of the neighborhood walk through here and allow their dogs to do their business without picking it up. I have taken bags out to them before, because I've been caught without accidentally and hate having to go back to get it. But they seemed confused about what the bag was for. Pitiful.
I'm a dog guy. I don't have one now because I don't have the time to dedicate to caring for one properly, but I generally like dogs. We have a couple of "problem" owners in the neighborhood, and because our house was previously owned by a problem dog owner, every other animal in the neighborhood comes by to visit. I spent the last two seasons repairing animal damage on the lawn (urine, etc...) and after delivering some leavings to the guilty party, it's gotten better.
I'm amazed at how ignorant these folks are about their pets, though. I was sitting on my back porch once this summer when a small Boston Terrier came waltzing through my garage and out on the back porch to visit. My house sets back fromt the road a bit, so it wasn't just a matter of the dog getting away from a walker. I picked it up and took it out front to try to find the owner. All the way at the end of the block I could see the folks out in their yard. I took the dog back. I mentioned that I don't own dogs, but I'm having problems with them using my yard for the bathroom and could they please keep better tabs on him.
Do you know what she said to me, as I'm standing there holding her dog that I just removed from my porch? She said "Oh, he's never out of the yard. We make sure of that." :-/
Someday we'll win this thing...
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