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There's this woman that lives in our neighborhood. I work part time for her and we know her pretty well. She lives alone. Her 10 yo daughter stays with her every couple of weekends. She owns 3 businesses across the state and FREQUENTLY (many times weekly) travels from one side to the other in a day, leaving early and coming home late. She had a 18 yo Yorkie mix kind of dog that weighed about 2 lbs, blind, lame and incontinent. She kept the dog in a spare room with a cardboard sheet across the door while she was gone. About a month ago she gets home... the dog is gone. Apparently the furnace vents in this room were never covered and the poor animal fell down the vent and perished.

End of rant 1, that's just stupid/ridiculous.

Begin rant 2.

A week ago she ran across a couple of rescued dogs that she took a shine too. Saturday, while driving back from Ann Arbor she decides to stop and pick one of them up. Welcome to the neighborhood, Horton. Horton is 11 mos old Husky mix. Not a 2 lb Yorkie that couldn't walk or see so good and pooped tiny brown crayons. Brilliant!

So what does she do Sunday, but drive 1/2 way back across the state to pick up rescued dog #2. Welcome to the neighborhood, Sadie. Sadie is 1.5yo GREAT FRICKIN' PYRANEES. Beautiful, but definitely not a 2 lb Yorkie that couldn't walk or see so good and pooped tiny brown crayons. Beyond Brilliant!

So my wife and kids went down the block to see the dogs yesterday afternoon to find the owner at work and the dogs apparently with the run of the house which they had utilized as their backyard, being as they were unable to get outside at all BECAUSE THE KIND WOMAN WHO RESCUED THEM HAS BEEN GONE ALL DAY, and thus they littered floor with 2lb-blind-Yorkie-sized bombs all over. Apparently a sheet of cardboard across the door doesn't have the same effect upon 160 lbs of Husky/Pyranees that it did against poor Chelsea.

So my wife cleans up for her , and she and the girls walk these great dogs that I fear are in for something of a miserable experience in their new home.



End rant 2.

TabascoElvis wrote:e. About a month ago she gets home... the dog is gone. Apparently the furnace vents in this room were never covered and the poor animal fell down the vent and perished.

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Good rant,

In my townhome community, this couple adoped a mid sized mutt that they keep cooped up in the garage for 12 hours a day while they are gone. So for 12 hours a day, you hear an ear piercing bark every 5 seconds. Then when they do get home, the hose out the garage and it flows to the community drain in between everyones garages. When it is below freezing, the water and dog excrement will freeze on the driveway so everyone gets to drive through that right before pulling into their garages.

I think this is related to bad pet ownership:

I've ranted about this before and I'll do it again: it confounds and disgusts me how many people here in Chicago let their dog take a crap on the sidewalk. It is revolting. For people who do this it should considered acceptable to grab them by the neck and stick their face in their dog's crap.

There is a block next to me where people have put gravel in the sidewalk planters, I guess so they don't have to maintain plantings. This gravel is replete with piles of dog poop. It's nasty. But then there is still dog crap on the sidewalk. Then people step in it and you get the worst, the dog poop smeared across the pavement for 5 yards.

I'm betting there are repeat offenders to blame for this stretch of sidewalk. I want to set up a camera to catch who it is and sue them. But at least that is a quiet stretch of residential side street. You'll see the same thing on a street like Diversey. Who the hell is walking a dog up Diversey?? That's just cruel to the dog. There is no greenery anywhere on the stretch of road.

Find out who left the poop on the sidewalk and mail it to them with a little note.

reboot rant

I get a call the night before last, right around dark. The person she had conned into letting her dogs out while she was at work lost them both. Her ex-BF found Horton, but Sadie was gone. I got called to help try to find her. Spent 2 hrs driving around, calling, looking, calling, watching. She was out all night. My wife finally see's her yesterday morning and calls her but she doesn't know ANYbody and runs off. So wife calls the owner who's says... I was just getting in the shower, I'll be down there in a few minutes. WTF? You could be there in seconds... she's less than a mile from your house. Get in your effing car.

At least she's home now. But I'm pissed.

G. Keenan wrote:I think this is related to bad pet ownership:

I've ranted about this before and I'll do it again: it confounds and disgusts me how many people here in Chicago let their dog take a crap on the sidewalk. It is revolting. For people who do this it should considered acceptable to grab them by the neck and stick their face in their dog's crap.

There is a block next to me where people have put gravel in the sidewalk planters, I guess so they don't have to maintain plantings. This gravel is replete with piles of dog poop. It's nasty. But then there is still dog crap on the sidewalk. Then people step in it and you get the worst, the dog poop smeared across the pavement for 5 yards.

I'm betting there are repeat offenders to blame for this stretch of sidewalk. I want to set up a camera to catch who it is and sue them. But at least that is a quiet stretch of residential side street. You'll see the same thing on a street like Diversey. Who the hell is walking a dog up Diversey?? That's just cruel to the dog. There is no greenery anywhere on the stretch of road.

The nice thing about most major European cities (and probably why taxes are so high!), they have pooper scooper crews. They drive around in little golf cart like vehicles and pick up the poo! Maybe our cities could pay homeless people to pick up poo in a designated area?!

Both rants are good...the poo people and the ditso dog owner. Both types drive me nuts....and I'm a dog owner.

When you adopt formt he humane society, they check to make sure that you can take care of the dog...that lady needs to be left in a room all day...If we do over 8 hrs at work with ours at home, we adjust our schedule and get them out...

Simbagal23 wrote:The nice thing about most major European cities (and probably why taxes are so high!), they have pooper scooper crews. They drive around in little golf cart like vehicles and pick up the poo! Maybe our cities could pay homeless people to pick up poo in a designated area?!

I think that would be a good type of community service to sentence white collar criminals to.

NOTHING frosts my cookies more than irresponsible pet owners.

tobasco, too bad you couldn't corral Sadie, kept her then done the same for Horton. That witch has no business having one dog much less two