Parked Dog
Art imitating life here. I work above a restaurant… and there was this vehicle parked alongside the restaurant… with a barking dog BARKING for what seemed like no less than a half hour. The car was under my window and by 10 minutes in, I really wanted to go find the owner. I was pretty hot under the collar after 30 minutes, and decided to throw my energy into a cartoon. TAKE THAT bad dog owner!
Yipper dogs, or “Shit Dogs” is what my wife and I call them. This is totally a S.D. I’d squirt the dog with the water bottle. Bark! Bark! Bark! Bar-GGGGLE!
That dog’s owner is lucky they don’t live here in Phoenix. You can call the police on someone doing that. It’s animal cruelty because it’s so hot here.
Jack… Yes, I call them “little chit dogs”… hee hee… (great minds).
berry… fortunately, it’s not THAT hot here… but in Phoenix… YAH! Site the owner!!!! One time there was a car parked across the street with a little chit dog in it… and the car alarm kept going off…scaring the crud out of the dog and probably hurting the dog’s ears. I called the police as it was going on for quite a long time. That’s animal cruelty! I also went down when the owners came back and told them what was going on… (in my “nice voice”… not really).
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I live in sunny SoCal, where, for some Satanic reason, nearly EVERY HOUSE in the neighborhood owns a chihuahua. My own housemates own two, and all it takes is a pin drop to get every one of these demonic rat-critters into an hour long barking frenzy.
Yet another reason why I need to move somewhere cold, where chihuahuas would freeze like popsicles!
Yeah, I see alot of “yip dogs” at work. Sometimes they make so much noise that I have to work hard to resist the urge to kick them acros the room.
Chihuahua popcicles! That would make great treats for large dogs.
Yikes, I know there’ve been some cat dislikers who voiced their gripes when Twinkie did something vile, but I’m kinda blown away by the dog hate. Yeh, not a big fan of shivering-yelping chihuahua rat dogs, but that’s not the dog locked up in the car on what could be a hot day in a life threatening sort of way. It’s probably a pit given that urban land yacht’s giant gangsta rims and blacked out windows.
As to Randie’s question… depends partly on what’s in the squeeze bottle… ketchup, mustard, mayo, ink, paint, coffee, windex… and whether the dogs owner is packing a retaliatory strike bottle of his/her own.
What is it they say on People’s Court promos? “…don’t take the law into your own hands, take them to court.”
Dada… I’m visualizing chilly chihuahua’s now… but you know that they’d get decked out in cute little sweaters. … and matching booties.
Squid… oh my! You really don’t like the little beasts then?
stick… I think it is a cultural backlash. Seeing Paris Hilton and other “celebrities” with their little purse dogs is both annoying and leads me to eye-rolling. I can’t help but wonder why people follow such trends…? In any case, Doug Lewellin’s line is rather infamous, isn’t it? But I always found somewhat unintelligent people suing one another on that show.
A little help?
Does that sticker in the back window say, “I (heart) Lettuce?”
Incidently, I’m using a Safeway/Starbucks wifi hook up, and there is a couple standing right in front of me waiting for their coffees. The guy holding a chihuahua. The dog is well-behaved, neither shivering nor yelping. There’s also a girl holding a baby girl that is fidgeting, squirming and murmuring some unintelligible baby words. Oh, oh, baby crying in the distance. Hope it doesn’t get closer.
stick- Yes… Salinas… lettuce. and… babies just need to back off!
I don’t actually hate the “yip dogs” per say, Even small dogs can be great! It’s just that some owners, or as they say at my fine working establishment ” pet parents” let their dogs do whatever they want.
Remember I once was a dog owner as well.
I personally like most animals. That being said, I detest animals that make noise for hours on end. Sadly the apartment complex that I live in has a high percentage of noisy dog owners. Um… the dogs are noisy, though sometimes so are the owners. There is one in particular that drives me almost to the brink of homicide.
The people leave their balcony door open when they are gone so their little doggy can roam in or out whenever it wants to. Now you normally wouldn’t think that would be a bad thing, problem is they live in the building directly across from mine and it overlooks the pool.
Did I mention that the temp here has been in the high 80s and low 90s lately? Yeah, lots of children in the pool all day long. Now this little doggy has a very high pitch yap and it constantly runs out onto the balcony to bark at the children in the pool… all… day… long.
Some times I wonder why it doesn’t pass out considering it doesn’t seem to stop barking long enough to breath… now the kids in the pool make a lot of noise, but I can mostly ignore them, but this little bitty dog makes so much noise on it’s own that it actually goes above and beyond the shrieks and laughter of the kids.
And it never seems to stop… sometimes the little doggies owners don’t come home till very, very late at night (often well after 3:00 a.m.) and that little dog will just keep barking till they get home. Did I also mention just how well the sound carries across the pool? Yeah, I can usually hear the conversations of neighbors in the building across the way even if my balcony door is shut.
Those owners need to understand – most breeds of dogs simply do not like to be left alone. If you’re gone for 5 minutes, you might as well be gone 5 YEARS, it’s all the same to them. Get them a playmate or a puppy-sitter.
Also, I wonder if anyone reading this strip has tried those thumper vests I’ve been seeing advertised lately and can attest to whether they actually work or not.