Okay, let me start this off. Yesterday, a neighbor boy who lives 2 houses away is throwing rocks into our yard, and they are big ones. They are hitting a roof that we have built over the dog houses to protect the dogs from rain, snow, etc. He's like 9 or 10 years old, so he's old enough to know better, but young enough to play dumb. So my mom saw him and told him to stop and not come on our property anymore. Well, when I came home from school and she told me about the incident, I told her she should go to his house and tell his mom about it. So she did, and his mom apologized for it and scolded him. So we though, hey! Problem solved!
NOT SOOOOO!!!!!
Today during school, I was in the middle of one of my classes and I am told to come to the office. My mom was on the phone and told me one of our nice neighbors had called and said both Zoey and Dolly were running loose, but she had managed to catch Dolly, but Zoey was GONE! So I leave school, come home, put Dolly in the yard, and look for Zoey a little bit. Then I came inside and checked the anwering machine, hoping the ID tag on Zoey's collar had come in handy. It did.
I am so happy it did. But animal control had her at the shelter, so I had to go get Zoey and pay $10 since they had to pick her up. Turns out the dog's had both been running loose since at least 9:15 this morning, and I came home to get Zoey at 1:00!!! So they had been out for awhile. But they are safe is the main point.
Here's the thing. Does anyone think that it's a coincidence that the very day after we tell this boy to stay off our property that our dogs are running loose?!?! There is no hole in the fence and the gate is working properly. That little boy let them out on purpose, I'll bet you anything!!!!
If either of them had gotten hit by a car, errrrr!!!!! I don't know what I'd do!!!
I'd be so sad. But I'm glad they're safe, but I'm upset that now we have to deal with this kid!!! How can people be like this?!