Comments on: A Sad Day In Schnauzerville

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 22:08:52 +0000

In reply to Olga. Olga, thank you for your encouraging comments. I agree with you about how it could have been handled better. I appreciate your visit here, and that you took the time to say what you did! God bless... xo

By: Olga

Olga — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:23:28 +0000

Im sorry … 🙁
This things happen when people dont have an open heart; and love and compassion is not what moves them in their actions. Thank God that they showed themselves and now you know what they really are. This lets you know what kind of neighbors you have. Dont feel bad because this is a blessing!!! You dont need dense, ugly, selfish problematic people near you. A good neighbor, a good evolved person, knocks your door a let you know in a polite friendly way what bothers them about your fur babies.You are not loosing. You are gaining. Dont forget that what goes around , always comes back around.

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:12:39 +0000

In reply to Ganeida. It sounds like we both have some interesting neighbors Ganeida. Thanks for rooting Edith and Mildred on!

By: Ganeida

Ganeida — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:47:24 +0000

lol At least your neighbours are complaining about your dogs. Mine complain about the cat I no longer own ~ still! Because their dogs ~ STILL ~ refuse to walk anywhere near our place after Iss beat up on them. Personally I find it hilarious. Yours & mine. I say, Go Schnauzers! Your neighbours need to get a life. I'll send Iss over. I'm sure he has an incarnate form. :D

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:54:31 +0000

In reply to Ember. Ha! Will you please give my husband a call and tell him I'm politer than Jesus, Ember? He would be so surprised to know that. :). If I ever get a chance to speak to Burt and Arlene in person, may I quote you? Thank you for being on my side. Sending love AND a grin today...can you see it?

By: Ember

Ember — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:37:53 +0000

Our neighbours two doors along have Dogs That Bark. It’s hilarious. I don’t know who makes more noise, the man or the dogs, because he barks right back at them! They explode into the yard shrieking and yapping and he tries to quiet them down by threatening them in quite long sentences as if they were human (at the top of his voice). Things like “If you don’t stop that noise you’ll go right back indoors!”
I don’t know what he did to them the other day but in the midst of all the yelling and yapping he roared, “THERE YOU ARE -TAKE NOTE!!!” And I was imagining the dogs licking their pencil ends and industriously writing down what they had to remember.
I say to your dear neighbours what perhaps I should not commit to public record: “Oh, tough titty! Grow up, get a life and get over it!”
You were politer than Jesus!

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:27:49 +0000

In reply to Savannah. I will try not to crumple to the floor in a heap when I see our dogs' first reaction, Savannah...thank you for telling me about your experience! Xxoo

By: Savannah

Savannah — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:06:57 +0000

So when I first got my bear, Malachi (who is a lab mix I got from a rescue), he would growl and bark at people at the dog park. He would chase people going by on bikes, growl at kids, and stick his nose in the trash. No amount of authoritative “noooos” or anything would work.
So I borrowed a shock collar.
It was hard… I thought I was being a horrible mother. The first day I put it on him, he kept going into the trashcan. So…. I pushed the “vibrate” button, which is the warning, after I had said “no”. (They say to always give the vibrate as a warning before the first shock). Still in the trashcan, so I pushed the very lightest shock.
He scared both mom and I to death. Yelping, screaming, sliding on the tile floor, rolling around, etc. I thought he was having a seizure. After that he responded JUST FINE to the vibrate warning one.
There was one other time at the dog park where he was actively particularly bad… so I shocked him again. And he didn’t respond the same way at all.

So. The point of my whole story, is that when they get that first little shock… and they freak out… and you think you are the worst dog owner in the world, and go lock your doors to keep local PETA members at bay… you really aren’t that bad, and it really didn’t hurt them as bad as you think it did. =)
Just feed them cookies.

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:30:00 +0000

In reply to Christy.

Why is it that you can leave a very casual email and have me laughing my head off at things probably no one else would get? These words: noble, Sootervising, and “as are my dog nieces, Mildred and Edith”—hahahahaha! That did me in, in a very good and needed way today. Thank you dear sister I never had…. xxoo

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:22:54 +0000

The “Noble Pokey” rarely barks as he is usually too busy “Sootervising” but our adjacent property owners have a barking golden retriever. They live 6 acres away and what is really annoying is that she stands on her side of the tree line and barks at me if I even open my back door. When I work in my garden, she barks until I go in the house, perhaps 3 hours later. Non-stop barking. Her owners are home and both retired so I know they hear her as well (or better)as I do. They never, ever make an effort to stop her.I guess because I’m more tolerant of dogs than people, I blame them…..not her.She’s just being a vigilant watch dog doing her job. As are my dog nieces, Mildred and Edith.