I want to start off by saying our backyard neighbors are vicious bastards. I was friends with their daughter Lisa when I was preteen, but that was a lifetime ago, and since then I've even had to take the father of the family to court for his constant harassment every time I father or I would go into the backyard a few years ago.
That said, they finally have a legitimate claim against us -- sort of, kind of...
You see, my dog Steven is very talented.
When he has to take a shit, he squeezes up against the backyard fence as close as he can lengthwise and then climbs the fence with one rear leg until his ass is pressing against the holes in the wire fencing -- AND SHITS THROUGH THE FENCE!
Now I thought this was hysterical the first time I saw it all those years ago when we first took him in off the street. Especially since you wouldn't expect a dog with the occasional obvious memory problems due to epilepsy to be quite so clever. Since then, I just filed away along with the other amazing bursts of intellect he's had between bouts of forgetting everything he knows.
Apparently, our neighbors don't know about this.
I was just informed by my mother that the mother of their family has confronted her about the dog shit in their yard. Now I haven't had much contact with this woman, but if she's anything like her husband, it must've been an interesting scene. According to my mother, the woman implied we were throwing the dog shit in her yard!
Now I just don't know what to say......
First of all, according to the arbitration her husband signed a long time ago, anything they say to us is supposed to be transmitted by mail and mail only. But in any case, who'd believe the truth?
And besides, I've been out right threatened by the husband so many times I've got to admit I'm secretly thrilled. The last time I spoke to the husband was the arbitration where he repeatedly threatened me and called me a bitch. He even threatened to get together with another neighbor named Joyce {now deceased} and actually said he would deliberately lie about my family and she agreed to back him up. {Her son, decided to chop everything off our over hundred-year-old Pinetree six feet and below, and then brought back a couple of friends to finish the job a week later -- who while we were waiting for the police chased my near 70-year-old father was a chainsaw. Not exactly an unbiased witness to put it mildly ;-)
Anyway, I figured everyone could use the laugh
I'm also kind of curious on how to someone else would handle the situation, because I'm at a complete loss... ...
That said, they finally have a legitimate claim against us -- sort of, kind of...
You see, my dog Steven is very talented.
When he has to take a shit, he squeezes up against the backyard fence as close as he can lengthwise and then climbs the fence with one rear leg until his ass is pressing against the holes in the wire fencing -- AND SHITS THROUGH THE FENCE!
Now I thought this was hysterical the first time I saw it all those years ago when we first took him in off the street. Especially since you wouldn't expect a dog with the occasional obvious memory problems due to epilepsy to be quite so clever. Since then, I just filed away along with the other amazing bursts of intellect he's had between bouts of forgetting everything he knows.
Apparently, our neighbors don't know about this.
I was just informed by my mother that the mother of their family has confronted her about the dog shit in their yard. Now I haven't had much contact with this woman, but if she's anything like her husband, it must've been an interesting scene. According to my mother, the woman implied we were throwing the dog shit in her yard!
Now I just don't know what to say......
First of all, according to the arbitration her husband signed a long time ago, anything they say to us is supposed to be transmitted by mail and mail only. But in any case, who'd believe the truth?
And besides, I've been out right threatened by the husband so many times I've got to admit I'm secretly thrilled. The last time I spoke to the husband was the arbitration where he repeatedly threatened me and called me a bitch. He even threatened to get together with another neighbor named Joyce {now deceased} and actually said he would deliberately lie about my family and she agreed to back him up. {Her son, decided to chop everything off our over hundred-year-old Pinetree six feet and below, and then brought back a couple of friends to finish the job a week later -- who while we were waiting for the police chased my near 70-year-old father was a chainsaw. Not exactly an unbiased witness to put it mildly ;-)
Anyway, I figured everyone could use the laugh
I'm also kind of curious on how to someone else would handle the situation, because I'm at a complete loss... ...