Damn Dog Owners

I need to vent. This morning, Miner was out on his lead while I was putting out the garbage and recycling. I was folding cardboard, and see a woman walking down the alley. I recognize her and her two dogs, a boxer and a westie, because they are the ones with in-ground fence that never remember to put the collars on the dogs. With no collar that matches the in-ground fence, you might as well not have it. Their house is the reason Miner and I walk around the hospital now. I just don't want to have to deal with it.

Anyway, she starts letting the boxer walk into my back yard (I have no fence...that's why Miner is on a chain). I said (clearly, I might add), "Can we please not have them meet." As she is saying, "Oh, it's OK" the boxer pulls hard enough to make her fall down and he gets nose to nose with Miner. Dogs don't meet nose to nose...and especially not when they are both at the ends of their leads. So snarling, she pulls her dog away and says, "he's not usually like this." My response was, "but mine is, that's why I asked for them not to meet."

Sheesh! It's OK for dogs not to meet every other dog that passes. And what the fuck is she doing walking down people's alleys...there are sidewalks. UGH!