And I thought once the Ranft's moved the feuding would stop. But nope--it's still going on with the new neighbors. Last week Atlanta (our youngest dog) came up in the backyard just barely moving and crying out. We brought her in the house where throughout the night (I slept with her) she continued to cry out when she would try to move. She was also breathing very shallow and rapid. The next day I took her to the vet and he said that she had a fractured pelvis or bad deep muscle trauma (Bruising) caused by a blunt object. Well the day before the neighbors two little boys (2nd and 4th graders) were up against our fence aggravating the dogs in the pen by swinging a golf club at them. Atlanta continues to dig out of the pen so she went into their yard. We think they either hit her with the golf club or kicked her.
Well Sunday morning the father called and said two of our dogs chewed the toes off their rabbits. I don't know why they don't have their pen built further off the ground. When Kayla raised her rabbits for 4-H, her pens were way off the ground to keep varmits from getting them. The two dogs that he said chewed the toes off won't stay in the pen--they dig out like Atlanta. And one of the dogs is not really ours--she was a stray that decided to stay at our house. So to keep peace in the neighborhood, Doug agreed to pay for the rabbits,$200. The family was about to leave for Lufkin where their oldest child was in the hospital with a broke leg from being thrown from a horse. Doug told Don just to call when he was home and he would bring him the money. He has yet to call.
But now the saga continues. Yesterday our crippled dog, Buster wouldn't come home (he was laying out in their field). Doug gets him home and puts him in his dog house. He refuses to eat. He appears to have been poisoned. He made it through the night and the other loose dog also appears to have been poisoned. The reason those two are not in the pen is because of Buster's broke leg--the other dogs would jump him and Brownie will climb out of ANY pen you put her in. Today Buster is barely hanging on and he finally drank some water and he really drank the water but then brought it back up. I just went to check on him and I can't find him anywhere. I'm afraid he went off to die.
Before this last episode happened--I told Doug if I took the money to the neighbors--I would only give them $70. Because I only feel like we are half responisble because only one of the dogs really belong to us and I would take out the $30 I had to pay the vet for Atlanta. But Doug said if we can find out for sure that the dogs were poisoned--he wouldn't pay a penny.
So the feuding continues......
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11 years ago

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