Stories About Dogs

 Stories About Dogs  

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Aggot

When we first moved to this home we were greeted the first day by our neighbor's dog barking

at our front door.  Our neighbor apologized and told us the neighbors before us treated the dog with biscuits.  We asked if we could give the dog treats and they were ok with it.  We really didn't have any problem with the dog visiting and we gave him a treat, we did this for many years.  We cared about  Aggot (his name) and we were very careful when we pulled out of our driveway because he would always be there when we would leave or come home.  We were afraid of hitting him with our car.  He did this with all visiting his home as well.  Sometimes he would be very close to the edge of the road and  I would try calling to him because I was afraid he would get run over.  We didn't want anything to happen to Aggot.

There were only two times I remember him pooping in our yard. I understood that's what happens
sometimes when a dog is around.
Though if it would of been a regular occurrence, we probably would have become unhappy about it.
The neighbor came to clean it up, but did a very unusual thing.  While I was speaking to him
he acted as though I spoke rudely to him.  He even made movements and looked shocked as though I was
being unkind to him. My back was turned to the hospital which stands in front of our home and I was wondering who was he putting a show on for and wondered if we were being watched from the hospital.

 It was kind of what they do at the football games. ( a fake play.)

After our neighbors moved away we heard from our neighbor's dad that
 Aggot was run over and died after moving into the new place.
We felt sad for our neighbors and also for Aggot.

Susan Nikitenko

                                                     A Ruined Garden

 A few years ago I wanted to plant a vegetable garden but had nowhere to plant one.  I asked my Son in-law if I could plant at his grandfather's property.  I planted a few things and they grew and produced vegetables.    I grew some squash, tomatoes and peppers.  I had helped other people in my childhood in their gardens but never tried growing vegetables myself. 

   Something happened though that was a disappointment to me.  The neighbor's dogs didn't use the bathroom in their own yard.  I would go to check on the few vegetables I had planted and I would find  the dogs had pooped right by the vegetables I had planted.  The man who lived next door owned a mowing service, maybe even did landscaping.

 I was happy I was able to grow vegetables and I gathered the vegetables but we didn't eat any of them.  Knowing the garden was pooped and peed on was not appetizing at all.

Susan Nikitenko

Maggie

I don't know if you remember me talking about Maggie, Maggie was one of our neighbor's three dogs.  Maggie was a Rottweiler.  One day while I was about to work in one of our flower beds, which is located out by the road.  I said hello to our neighbor and Maggie was standing beside of him.  Something very unusual happened.  Every time  I stretched my hand to touch one of my flowers in the flower bed, Maggie would growl.  Every time I withdrew my hand, Maggie would stop growling.  I tested it by repeating the same movement.  Maggie would growl each time and would cease to growl when I withdrew my hand.  Maggie was telling me not to touch the flower.  I thought to myself, "Why would Maggie tell me not to touch the flowers in my own flower garden?"  She must have known something  I didn't.  So I started to observe the flower  I was about to touch.  I noticed at the very top of it was an earwig.  I wondered if Maggie knew there was an earwig on the flower and how she would know one was there.  Maybe Maggie saw something that made her know it? or maybe it wasn't the earwig at all.

Maybe she thought for some reason those were her gardens.  

7/6/2017


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Millie

Millie

This week I was thinking about one of the last things I had written called "Pointing Fingers".

I remembered something that happened a few months ago.  I went to take a walk at the park and right away I noticed a man wearing what seemed to be a vest a city worker would be wearing.  The vest was both the neon yellow and orange.  I thought to myself maybe He's the dog catcher.

I was paying attention as I was walking towards him.  I noticed a huge white dog loose and confronting another dog who was on the leash of another walker.  I could hear the reaction of one of the dogs growling.  I noticed the apparent, city worker ,walking a smaller black and white dog and was trying to put the big dog on a leash, but the big dog came prancing quickly towards me.  

The man said nothing as the dog ran towards me.  The white dog was a very tall dog, with long legs and had a huge tongue flapping around as it was quickly getting closer to me.  I wasn't sure what to expect, a dog wanting to play and lick my face  or a dog ready to tear my arm off.   Which ever,  I knew not to run because dogs like to run down their prey.  I was calm and I didn't react. I knew if the dog went to bite, not to pull away, knowing that dogs will bite and pull harder at resistance. 

 I raised my finger like a mother does when she tells her older child," no" firmly.  I told the dog "No" "Stay" Nooo",  with firmness and I shook my finger at her.  She did not listen.   I stood very still as the dog grabbed me by my right hand and clamped down just hard enough to cause a slight discomfort. I talked to the dog gently and said,  "Oh, you just want to play."   "That's too rough, let go, let go."   She finally listened and calmed down. All the while the apparent city worker said nothing.

Almost as if  nothing had happened, I asked the man if He worked for the city?  He was about ten years or more older than I am.  He said, "Yes, I do on occasion."   After questioning him, I learned the dog was his and her name was Millie.  I noticed that Millie was wet from jumping into the creek and I told the man, "It looks like you're going to need to take Millie home and give her a bath."    He bent way down to pet his smaller dog and said  "this is the baby".  Then the man stood up, firmly looked at me while putting a leash on Millie. Then He started walking towards his vehicle.

I can't really say I was being threatened, but I felt threatened.  I was hoping it wasn't some kind of game to get me to react.  I couldn't understand why he did not tell his dog to stop.  In any case I did not have any visible reaction.  This was one of several episodes, I have felt threatened by somebody's dog.  Now I'm gun shy around dogs all together, though I do not hate them.

Susan Y Nikitenko

May 3rd, 2015

Just a Little Note

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What Would You Do?

What Would You Do?

What would you do if:

1. A man refuses to put a leash on his dog in a public place?

2. If the dog made you feel threatened?

3. If the dog seems to be trained to scare, but not to hurt someone?

4. If a person's pet is used to discourage  someone from going to a public place?

5. Is it right that a dog should make someone fearful to go to a public place?

6. What if it seems to happen with more than one dog with various owners?  (As though it were planned)

7. Would this be considered harassment if a person was using his dog as a way of controlling another person's actions?  

Susan Y Nikitenko

December 27th, 2014

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