So, today, I am chatting with Dr. T. And she is out taking her dog for a walk around her neighborhood.
Have I mentioned Dr. T is a vet? Her dog is like her little right hand man, goes on client calls with her and everything.
Today was her day off, and she was walking the dog around the neighborhood.
And the dog decides he needs to go. Because dogs do that. So he goes and squats just off the sidewalk (so well behaved, so unlike Thing1 and Thing2). And as the dog is off doing his thing, Dr. T is standing there, plastic baggie in hand, waiting for him to um, finish his business. Because she is a good and responsible dog owner.
While she's waiting, some crazy redneck guy storms out of his house, shouting at her. Telling her the dog shouldn't be using the front lawn (or, the little sliver of it closest to the street) to do his thing. Telling her she is ridiculous.
All while she's standing there waiting to pick up the mess.
She apologizes, and says she already has a bag ready, and she isn't sure what the problem is.
Then, the crazy redneck asked, what Dr. T would do if he brought his dog over to her front lawn to poop.
Being a totally reasonable person, she said she wouldn't care at all if he picked it up.
Being a totally crazy redneck, he started calling the police.
Dr. T picked up the dog mess, and went on her way. (Remeber, as she saw it, there wasn't a real problem here. Dog went, she picked up the mess, and kept walking. No harm, no foul, right?)
So, what do you think? I think this person is crazy. Dr. T lives in the city, on a street with sidewalks, and it is not as if she left a pile of poo in the yard, nor is it as if the dog decided to walk to the middle of the lawn and do his thing there.
PLUS, she cleaned up the mess.
I don't really see what the issue is here, except that she should consider taking her walks with her husbands hunting guns...thankfully, there were no crazy rednecks following her home.
What do you think? Crazy homeowners over-protective of their yard? Or irresponsible dog owners?
Crazy rednecks!! That's insane. Clearly he doesn't have much to do if he's keeping watch over his precious grass!
ReplyDeleteI will admit that owners who let their dog sniff all over my yard (stupid extending leashes!) really annoy me. Even if they do clean up. Cause really, you can't pick up everything and my kid crawls/walks on my lawn and loves to stick things he finds on the ground into his mouth. However if they just stick to the edge of my lawn then I'm okay with that.
ReplyDeleteDon't even get me started with what squirrels do on my lawn...