1-31-10...PETS AND THEIR POOP
I have always had a dog. The only time I remember not having one was when I lived in town where you couldn't let your pets be free. You could only have 1 and it had to be penned. I had a little dog in the house but I also had an outside dog when we moved there. I had always lived in the country where my dog could run free and I just couldn't stand to pen her up. I left her with my Brother in-law in the country because I knew she would be so unhappy penned. My little dog was old and I had to have him put to sleep that winter.
Some little kittens showed up on my doorstep. I am not a cat person I've always preferred dogs but they were cute and I decided to feed them and claim them. I hadn't heartd of any ordinance on cats but to have appropiate shots.
Now My neighbors who lived almost at my back door had two dogs which they kept penned. NO Problem until I noticed that she came home from work every evening and let her dogs out for exercise. Of course there was no way that they wouldn't get in my yard which I didn't mind at all till I started stepping in poop right in front of my steps. I knew she couldn't do anything about the pooping but I saw her cleaning it up in her yard and the pen so I mentioned to her that they werepooping on me too. If we were going to be friends that put a stop to that. She didn't pick up the poop at my house and said it wasn't her dogs that did it so it kept up and I picked it up or stepped in it (even though I had seen her dog do it several times). . Whichever came first. We lived up on a hill that had a vacant area down in front so I threw the poop down there even though I wanted to deposit it on her steps.
Now back to the kittens. They started sitting on her porch in the evening where she had a rug. I saw her kicking them several times and I was beginning to steam at the mouth trying to keep quiet. One night we had company and we were all in the kitchen eating and visiting when there was a knock on our door. I went to the door and she stood there with one cat in each hane. She tossed them inside my door and said, “Keep these cats in the house and off my porch”. Ok now I've had enough of this crap so I said, “Keep your dogs in the house and don't let them poop at my steps anymore”. Oh My goodness. This would probably have been an all out war except that I never saw poop again and I gave the kittens to my Preachers kids. I never saw her pick up the poop but I did notice that she made sure her dogs were in the front yard from then on. Why didn't she do that in the first place I don't know. In her front yard they had a big area to run and poop. GOOD GRIEF!!
