2005-07-19 - 12:41 p.m.
I still hate chickens.
I hope those of you who got to see the puppy pictures yesterday enjoyed them, isn't she an original!? So far so good with the house training. She had an accident in the house, but she was by the door so I'm thinking she wanted to go out, but didn't tell me in time. Or else she was just being a dog and decided to shit on the floor. Who knows.
However, this morning there was a chicken out of the coop running around the yard and I let Sassy out to chase it. Fucker, it deserves to get chased. Also, I found a new reason to think even less of Madonna . See, she uses the nasty creatures for a photo prop, disgusting.
Doesn't it always seem when you feel that your prayers aren't answered because what you want doesn't come to fruition when you want, and then out of the blue it can be dropped in your lap. Almost a year ago I had talked about opening an in home daycare but as it ended up nothing happened. Over the past few days I've been approached by several neighbors about watching their kids. If everything happens like I hope then I could be at home FULL TIME within a week. That would be so awesome. I'm always afraid things don't happen for me because I get too excited and make too many plans. I hope this happens, I pray this happens.
In other news, last night I took the girls for a walk. My parents have a rental property just two blocks away and they, along with Chance, were doing some work after we ate dinner. I put them into the double stroller and headed down the street. Now I knew there was a pitbull living in the neighborhood and that it wasn't always chained up. And last night was no different for the dog. It came running towards us barking and growling, and to make things worse it was almost 9:00 pm., so it was too dark for the dog to really see us. I learned a long time ago that when a strange dog is coming at you, that a good way to make it stop it to yell at it like you are the owner. So I yelled at the dog to shut up and lay down, this at least made it run away, but it continued to bark and growl from it's own yard.
I'm not a hater of pitbulls. We owned a pitbull for 13 years, and she was my dog. She was never aggressive towards any person as long as they weren't black and weren't in uniform (why she didn't like those two things I'll never understand). However I can not tell you how many times she killed our own cats, the neighborhood dogs and cats and anything else of an animal species. My mom drilled into my head that we had to be responsible with Rosie, and if I took her on a walk I was never under any circumstance to let go of the leash, this included when she was killing another dog. Mom told me that if I let go, even if the fight wasn't Rosie's fault, they (the police, dog catcher, the MAN in general) would take my dog and kill her because of the type of dog she was. Rosie never started a fight, got out of her yard, and I never let go. Once when a dog got into our fence and my dad wasn't home to make Rosie let go, my mom duck taped the dog's mouth shut so it couldn't scream while Rosie killed it. Dad taught us that nothing will draw a crowd like a screaming dog.
So knowing all of this, and how pit bulls can be my dad is planning on shooting the pitbull. Any dog kept on a chain will become mean. End of story.
