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| Log 2008 |
| October 26, 2008 - I finally did it! I drove down the road with my camera and got pictures of the pens and Chloe's walk-through house. Nobody barked! Then I saw their car, and beat it out of there. Didn't get the boxes east of the pens. Recently saw, while driving by, two reddish tan pups side by side, on cables, outside of a pen. Maybe from last spring litter. Creamy's brothers? A motor home was pulled in over there recently. I hope it's not going to become a kennel. I keep wondering when the Mrs. will put someone in that old car that sits in front of the trailer. Sure death! I hear muffled barking sometimes, maybe in the tool shed. November 17, 2008 - Late news on TV, Moundsville has passed a limited tether law. Great!!! May Coshocton county be next! 25 degrees tonight; Chloe is still using the wind tunnel. Gun season, deer - Group of hunters down the road to the west. As I'm driving the other way, to work, another one is walking toward me. Creamy in the road barking at him. I had to stop and lay on the horn until the dog got out of the way. He's been coming into my yard, too. Not wearing a collar. November 29, 2008 - Lots of racket next door. I see two puppies outside of Star's pen! One is white with spots, one is black and tan. Fuzzy, cute, curly tails. But, more puppies? WHY??? Bubblegum in my yard, digging by the dog fence, under the dogwood tree, Snoopdog observing. December 9, 2008 - Chloe has a new dog house! With shingles and paint! It's behind the walk-through, but she can reach it. Complements of her owner, I'm sure. Unk date - Lots of racket. Creamy loose again and harassing a cat. Tan dog with dark saddle, I'll call him Brownie, is tied to pen with box inside; fence is pulled up at bottom and he goes in and out now. He's having a conniption. Later, I look again, and he's back in the pen. He runs over to the corner and climbs the fence! Now he's hanging out over the top of the fence, barking, and trying to decide what to do. He's teetering there without enough cable to make it to the ground. The cable is tied outside, but his end is under it, so there isn't enough. If he jumps or falls, he'll get flipped over on the way down, maybe breaking his neck. Or he'll be hanging with feet away from fence and unable to get back up. I'm mortified by this possibility. Finally he backs down and he's safe. What keeps these dogs alive?!!! Lots of disturbing sounds next door these days, crying, yipping, yapping, howling, wailing, and anxious barking. One night we had a minus 15 degree wind chill factor, and Brownie had to sleep in a box facing the wind; no protection at all. I wondered if eveyone would survive the night. December 27, 2008 - Creamy in my back yard with black and tan puppy. I get a photo. They're rolling around in the grass under the suet feeder; exploring along the fence; around the garage and back again; Creamy poops and puppy scratches. Puppy has big tummy, as in roundworms. When I return from Coshocton later, Bubblegum is peeing on my mailbox post. Comes into the yard. Has red rope hanging from collar. December 28, 2008 - Creamy in my yard again. Bubblegum comes a few minutes later; still has his red rope. While I'm in the side dog yard, Red Dog barks at me. He's on a short tether. Must have a tight collar - I hear him gagging. I see three puppies in their front yard playing; spotted one, black and tan, and a grey/tan one. Probably no one home and dogs are getting loose right and left! Bubblegum comes back, with a conglomeration of ropes hanging from his collar. Has runny poop on my front steps, and then goes into my building. Later, he's back again. Hanging around the fence under dogwood tree. Won't let me get a picture of his trappings. I wish those idiots would come home! January 2009 - Creamy coming over daily, usually with one or two of the fall puppies. One cold misting morning, he and b&t puppy are lying under the pines with cats. I see them roaming around on the hill behind us often. January 6, 2009 - Cat food dish vanishes while I'm at work. Switch to heavy crockery bowl. Also, find a toy Indian on the floor. It had been with other small toys in a container on the floor. Don't know what else might be missing. January 7, 2009 - Find missing cat dish by my tire. Almost ran over it! Spotted dog in back yard this evening. January 8 or 9, 2009 - I'm on my way home from work and two puppies are on the road at the curve. I lay on the horn and they beat it for home, crossing the road to get there. January 10, 2009 - Creamy and b&t puppy in back yard, then up the hill and into Arnold's woods. January 11, 2009 - Brownie in pen with hole in fence. Goes in and out under fence. Doghouse facing into the wind. Caught on fence; going in and out trying to get free. Big ball of cable. Collar looks pretty tight. I get ready to make a phone call before he strangles himself, and he gets loose. Chloe's walk-through house has been moved back against the pens with the plywood at the back of it. She can almost reach it. I wonder how anyone else will use it without them getting tangled up. Yesterday I saw her trying to play with someone, but all I could see was a white head. It may be the spotted pup I haven't seen since last summer. January 12, 2009 - Today I catch Creamy and grey puppy in my garage eating cat food. They take off around the garage, but later, I walk into the garage and meet the grey one coming out. I grab her, find out it's a she, rub her big fat wormy tummy, and contemplate turning her over to Heaven To Earth rescue. But, no, the Mrs. would be over here pounding on my door. January 13, 2009 - I'm worried about extreme cold on its way later in the week, so I call the pound to tell the humane officer of my concerns. Former dog warden answers and I hear one of them say, "Is this about that woman out there with all those dogs?" Then the humane officer comes on the phone and reminds me that she's been here several times and it does no good. The dogs are fed, so she can't do anything more. I tell her about the near-hangings, the wet boxes, dogs who can't get to the boxes, etc. I tell her I have lots of pictures and documentation. She tells me that if I see a dog in a life or death situation, I should go onto the property to save it. She asks me for the address, mentions a search warrant, tells me to hang on to my stuff for when we go to court, and says she'll bring straw and food in the morning. January 14, 2009 - I hear a commotion as I'm leaving for work, and see a big pickup truck pulling out of the drive as I'm going down the road. I follow it to the intersection. Assume it's the humane officer. It was nine degrees last night. Getting worse every night. Daytime highs below 20, and falling each day. Snowstorm closes school early today, and we close the library, too. January 15, 2009 - I get a snow day today - library closed. I see a small spotted dog at the walk-through box, but it isn't the boy. This one has big boobies. I have not seen this girl before, unless it is Creamy's sister and I didn't notice the spots last spring. I wonder where she's been. Tool shed? She obviously has puppies somewhere. She's loose now, and I see the Mrs. catch her and try to tie her broken cable together. Now she's loose again. I wonder how she got pregnant, stashed in the tool shed all this time. Mrs. is feeding. I see her open the tool shed and then Creamy runs across the yard. Don't know if she was in there or not. I can only see top part of door because of the privacy fence. Later, I hear puppies in the shed. The dogs look pretty miserable. Yellow Dog has cold feet. Spotted boobie girl is scratching constantly. I want to help the dogs without harming the humans, but it may not shake out that way. I don't want the dogs to be euthenized either. It will be on my head and on my heart. What an impossible situation. Each day, when I hear a ruckus over there, I wonder if the trucks have arrived to haul everyone away. This later proves to be an unfounded fear. By my calculations, there should be: two yellow males (2005), two spotted males (2005), one black and tan male (2005), one black female (2005), one red male (2005 or 2006), one spotted male (2007), one light brown dog (2007), one brown male with saddle (2007), one black and tan (2007), one or two cream, or one cream and one spotted (2008), two or more darker pups, maybe the red ones(2008), one spotted puppy (2008), one black and tan puppy (2008), one grey female puppy (2008), spotted female's litter (2008). |