Surviving the Domestic Jungle

Pet peeve alert!! As most of my readers probably know, I walk every night with my girls. Now that the time has changed it is a little darker but that’s not my issue. My issue is people allowing their dogs to roam free in the neighborhood. Why is it so hard to keep an eye on your pet? I understand that sometimes dogs get out and that’s understandable but the night I was walking and had two pit bulls coming after me and my kids is completely unacceptable. If you have a dangerous breed, make sure you keep them safe and the neighborhood moms and kids safe. Last night there was this black dog that was running around and he started to come to me with it’s tail between its legs and I started screaming at it because it is me and my baby and what the hell am I supposed to do should this dog decide it wants to bite me? I know the Mama Bear would come out in me and I would rip that dog limb from limb should it attack me or my children but why should I, an innocent exerciser, be threatened? I constantly see this white little poodle, or some breed close to that, roaming and that’s the kind of dog that ends up squished because people cant see it as well. I don’t understand having pets and not actually taking responsibility for them. For example, I live in cookie cutter suburbia and the people behind me have a dog and that dog has ruined 2 pieces of our fence. In suburbia there is a little code when it comes to the fences which is you fix the planks that face you while the neighbor fixes the ones that face them. Easy enough except that this dog has ruined two on our side so does that make me responsible? Why would it be my problem? I don’t have any dogs. Its not my fault that they got ruined and broke off, its that neighbors fault. Makes me mad to look at these planks everyday, which I have not fixed on principal alone. And I wont fix. If my dog did that, I would either just fix it or knock on my neighbors door, apologize and then proceed with fixing it. Having an animal is like having a child. Would you let your kids roam free to get run over? Would you be OK with your kids destroying your neighbors stuff? Probably not. All I can say is please please please be responsible when it comes to your animals!! They are YOUR responsibility!