I sent this to the local newspaper here in Canmore. Let me know what your thoughts are about this. I was eating a local restaurant in Canmore, when I looked across the street to see a man take his dog off leash and let him run cross 7th ave and main from the bank towards the church behind Rusticana. The dog took then relieved himself on the church's lawn, then happily ran back across the streets to his owner. The owner then gave him a pat on the back and put the dog back on his leash. The dog's remains were of course left on the lawn. Being a local owner of two dogs, I was stunned. Does the owner actually think is acceptable? Or is he just plain out of his mind? People like this should be fined heavily and shown how to properly take care of their pets.
Forget the letter, have your two dogs crap on his lawn {front step}. I doubt the police or even your local librarian would care about this at all, so trying to get him "in trouble" isn't going to work. So in a situation like this, just cause him the same grief as he caused someone else and maybe he'll at least think twice next time. P.S. I would have had a description of him and his dog in the letter so at least his friends/ family/ neighbors could give him a dirty look.
The guy is a garden variety idiot; write it off! ....til his dog craps on your lawn then pick it up and smear it in his hair!
i had a neighbour where i lived 12 years ago there garden was a picture as there dog used my garden told them about there reply it likes you and leaves you a parcel this still happened caught the dog in the act hit it with a brick ran home yelping i got reported to the police and cautioned it was still happening so collected up a weeks worth posted some through there letter box and through the rest all over the brickwork on the front off there house they then stopped talking to me but no more parcels when i moved they was happy
When we said "get a life" we meant one of your own. When your behaviour is perfect you can start thinking about tossing rocks at others. You've hired (via taxes) police and courts. Let them do take care of their business, and you mind your own business, wot? Do you take a hammer to a car at an expired parking meter? Get some perspective. It's not like this guy is planting WMDs in the churchyard, or gassing people for their religion. There are worse things in the world than dog poo. (And leash those squirrels, too!) If you don't lighten up, as you grow older you may have more worries about your own bowel movements than the local canines'. Order a bran muffin and "fuggitabowtit".
My dog has simply been taught that it's an absolutely horrible idea to take a crap outside of his own yard. No bags, no mess, no angry neighbors.. just suck it up and keep walking. When I was growing up, there was a guy who used to walk his poodles everyday (for what seemed like hours) around the neighborhood. They crapped everywhere, and he never picked it up. After a few years of this, my father and another neighbor organized a midnight run to collect as much #2 as they could find and dump it all on Poodle guy's immaculate (of course!) lawn. It eventually continued, but another year later both dogs were killed by another neighbors Akita; the neighborhood collectively breathed a sigh of relief and the dogs weren't replaced. -Chris
Who said my behaviour wasn't perfect? Haha just kidding. But I don't do dumb crap like that, or anything close to it. I agree with your 'getting older' statement. But I just really wanted to punch this guy in the head for what he did.
What did the dog do to deserve that? If anyone should have got the brick, it should have been the owner.....not the dog. Damn, I hope the the 2 year old kid down the street doesn't tee-tee in your yard....got a brick waiting for him or her too?
There's one neighbor to the East, and another to the West. The neighbor to the East has a dog, the neighbor to the West has a 348. The neighbor to the West has a problem with tops vanishing from his 348. This caper has perplexed many, until I happened to spy said Easterly neighbor's dog dragging top #5 across the road, which it prompty buried in a hole next to the house. Being the good neighbor that I am, I retrieved the tops, cleaned them and sold them on ebay.
In print it's libel. Exactly which party did I did I improperly malign? I mentioned neither my neighbor to the East nor the dog to the West...at least not by name. Perhaps Neighbor X could sue me, or even Neighbor Y. I have good lawyers, so the most they would get out of me is $348...tops!
I apologize for the confusion. The dog is either on the West or is oriented in an Easterly fashion if I am alternately facing North or South.
