Woof woof woof
I am officially annoyed by schnauzers.
I am a dog lover, I am happy to pet any dog and I think most of them are adorable. However, we have 2 shnouzers living in the house behind us...
Every morning at about 7:00am I take Brutus and Toby to play in the back yard. Our back yard butts up against our neighbors. Now I can't say every morning, but I can say about 80% of the time that we go outside the shnouzers are out in their yard. And the territory wars begin.
One of them starts barking at Brutus and it all turns to loudness in about 2 seconds. Brutus rushes to the very end of the yard and lets it roll. Woof wooooooof wooooof...
Now I don't blame him, this is his yard (poor Toby). He has every right to bark away, as they are only instigating. In the meantime I am petrified, it is only 7:00am, what if people are sleeping. Mind you this is not quiet barking, so the entire neighborhood must hear it.
Yet, I look at Toby who is desperately trying to catch the toad in the pool, even though there is no toad in the pool, and he stares at me with a look of "who cares, what is all the fuss about?" As I think to myself, you have got to be kidding me, you are looking for a toad that is not there... So after minutes of barking I yell at Brutus to come back. Now, the one thing that does annoy me is that it takes the schnauzers owner another 15 minutes before blowing his whistle to reprimand his dogs. In the end I end up feeling miserable, maybe I should just let Brutus go at it. Let him bark till he comes back with a smile on his lab face.
I guess dogs will be dogs... or Brutus will be a dog and Toby will be a strange dog.
I am a dog lover, I am happy to pet any dog and I think most of them are adorable. However, we have 2 shnouzers living in the house behind us...
Every morning at about 7:00am I take Brutus and Toby to play in the back yard. Our back yard butts up against our neighbors. Now I can't say every morning, but I can say about 80% of the time that we go outside the shnouzers are out in their yard. And the territory wars begin.
One of them starts barking at Brutus and it all turns to loudness in about 2 seconds. Brutus rushes to the very end of the yard and lets it roll. Woof wooooooof wooooof...
Now I don't blame him, this is his yard (poor Toby). He has every right to bark away, as they are only instigating. In the meantime I am petrified, it is only 7:00am, what if people are sleeping. Mind you this is not quiet barking, so the entire neighborhood must hear it.
Yet, I look at Toby who is desperately trying to catch the toad in the pool, even though there is no toad in the pool, and he stares at me with a look of "who cares, what is all the fuss about?" As I think to myself, you have got to be kidding me, you are looking for a toad that is not there... So after minutes of barking I yell at Brutus to come back. Now, the one thing that does annoy me is that it takes the schnauzers owner another 15 minutes before blowing his whistle to reprimand his dogs. In the end I end up feeling miserable, maybe I should just let Brutus go at it. Let him bark till he comes back with a smile on his lab face.
I guess dogs will be dogs... or Brutus will be a dog and Toby will be a strange dog.
posted by elaine at 10:12 AM
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