My husband works construction in the City of Chicago and he loves to come home and give me the daily Yorkie report. He cracks me up with his reports of long coat, short coat, tinies, teapots, latest doggy fashions~it just so cute how excited he is to share his stories.
He loves our three
almost as much as I do.
So when he came home yesterday and shared a story with me I was expecting it to be my (almost) daily report but it was far from his usual cute Yorkie report.
It's never good when he starts with-"WTH is wrong with people" followed by a deep sigh.
He's what he witnessed yesterday while at a job site in a neighborhood.
He sees 2 dogs standing on the sidewalk LOCKED together butt to butt. One is a small Chi and the other he just called a "very cute fluffy small dog". People are actually walking around these two tied/mating dogs who are on the sidewalk in the middle of construction activity and about 15 feet from his cement mixer
He's looking around and there are no owners of their 2 mating dogs who are struggling to get apart
So he takes the water hose and tries to separate them with a squirt of water but they are just a little too far away.
Then he calls out to some of the other workers and all this does is call attention to what was going on. Now a crowd gathers to try and figure out what to do and I guess with all of the added interest the dogs break their tie and the male dog runs off. But the Chi is still there and ALONG COMES ANOTHER MALE who wants to mount this little girl!!!!!
He used his water hose again and chased the second male away and the Chi ran off but obviously the damage was already done.
When he was retelling the story to me he was just furious at the irresponsible behavior of the people that let these dogs out to roam the street. I don't think I have ever seen him so angry over pet owner's irresponsibility. It is lack of responsibility that causes the shelters to be full and millions of dog to be PTS every year. I was so disgusted by this entire scenario and the irresponsibility of numerous pet owners it feels defeating. In the City of Chicago and the surrounding communities there are so many low cost spay/neuter opportunities there is no excuse to not take advantage of them to prevent things like this to occur.