Putting out Fires

Awe come on, don’t pretend that you don’t love Harry Potter.  YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT!  Well even if you haven’t read the books (shame on you!), this movie looks like the best yet.  I got the chills!  I’ll be the first in line. 

WANNA SEE THE TRAILER?!

Mika The Devil Dog almost died today.

Or new neighbors to the North have a wolf ‘hybrid’ who is so tall that she can get her whole head and both front feet over the wall between our houses.  It is terrifying to go in the backyard and hear that ferocious bark and look over and see a monster looking over the wall.  And if that dog is hybrid of anything, its wolf and WOLF. 

That dog goes especially crazy when my poor pups go outside to do their business.  Naturally Karma and Mika are curious about the dog intruding their space, so they go over to the wall to inspect.  However, neither one of them can get withing a foot of the top of the wall, even if they jump. 

Today I came home from work and let the dogs out as usual and the next thing I know there’s yelping coming from the backyard.  When I run outside to see what was happening, I see poor little 40lb Mika HANGING BY HER CHEEK from that beast’s mouth!  I had to run over there and threaten to hit the dog to get it to let her go. 

Well, once I made sure that Mika wasn’t bleeding or missing an eye, I stomped straight over to the house next door.  Boy are they lucky that they weren’t home.  I was fit to be tied and raring for a fight.  Would the police do anything?  What’s wrong with these evil people that they can’t manage their dogs?  Don’t they have any respect for their neighbors.

After getting calmed down by my dad on the phone, I went back over and left a note for the neighbors to call me.  When the woman did, I went over and tried the tactic of ‘I just want to keep your dogs and our dogs safe’ instead of being mad.  I was expecting a fight, but instead I found a woman who had been dying to meet me and didn’t know how.  A woman who was mortified by what happened to my poor pup.  A woman who gave me every single phone number she could think of to get ahold of her….just in case. 

So the moral of the story:  If you give people the benefit of the doubt and let them have a chance to be good people, you might be surprised.  But I’m still going to carry pepper spray whenever I go in the backyard.