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So, everything has been going great living back at the mothers. All except one thing. The neighbor that has a thing for killing and poisoning animals. Ok, so we all know, I love my dog to pieces. He is with me everywhere and is with me constantly, unless i'm at work or something to that effect.

let me try to explain this to the best extent, without making this too long. We were out yesterday raking leaves, and getting ready to burn them. I told Reaghan, lets go close the gate so the boys (Boudreaux, and his brother CoChise) won't go to the road. Lets just face it, CoChise loves the ditch outside the fence, and he will sometimes go down the road if he sees a dog. BUT we always watch him, and catch him in the act. We walk out there and are trying to get to the gate, and the dogs took off to the ditch. CoChise instigates, and Boudreaux follows. This is how it goes about 99% of the time. Get the dogs in the fence, and close the gate. Well the neighbors across the street were seeing us struggling with the dogs, and of course I think they did it on purpose, hung around the edge of their property, and talked loudly and got our dogs attention. I'm at the back with the burn pile, I see whats going on, I take off the the front yard, and CoChise barrels and busts through the gate, Boudreaux follows. Im darting up there, and I get to the gate, and unhook things, and get it undone, and the 'man' is talking loudly so I can hear him. He says, "They are such stupid people, that gate has never held any dog in it, and they are morons for thinking it will hold those dumb dogs." The wife is saying just poison them with those hot dogs like you did the others. He says, no I will just get my rifle and take care of them. I get out the gate, the boys are barking at them. They scuffled trying to 'scare' them away. I get there and I try to get them, then the man is very ugly to me telling me to keep them off his land or he will kill them, yada yada. I'm fed up, I say "You know what!? I'm sorry, you see me struggling, you see me ATTEMPTING to keep the dogs out your yard, this is the first time I have seen them go to your yard, and I appologize!!!!" Well you need to keep them in your yard. Yall have way too many animals to begin with. I was thinking whats your def. of too many animals? I mean I can say you have TOO Many gray hairs, which is both in the minut. You get the drift. I tell him, I have tried to be nice to you, I have tried. But I am curious why every other dog in the neighborhood is allowed to roam free, but my dog darts out very quickly and you raise hell? Well, my wife is scared of labs. Well I am sorry, I will try to keep him out of yalls yard. He said you better because I have a rifle. Meanwhile, he is holding it over his right shoulder. I turned and got the dogs, who were still barking. and turned around. I was fuming. You have no idea. As I am walking back to the house dragging on 50lb lab, Reaghan grabs CoChise, the one who won't even acknowledge that you are there. They are both whimpering, and whining. I wasn't showing any mercy to either of them. They knew they did wrong.

It was much worse than just reading this, it really was. They were yelling and saying obsurd things, and saying they would kill the dogs while I was walking up there, and walking back to the house. I am not dumb, and it took everything within me to be civil to them. This man has lied about numerous things in the past... he is a different breed of person that what I am. Not a nice breed either. I wanted to tell him the reason the boys were barking at him is, they aren't used to ugly, and unjust people. But I didn't, haha.

Anyway.... yeah, it all makes sense about the lab years ago that was Poisoned. Through the grapevine, it is said he put poison in the ditch that he would drink out of to kill him. Very clever and very slick. His daughter spilt the beans on that one. I'm very uneasy right now. He has killed several animals, and where will it stop? I mean I can name 3 off the top of my head that have died in his yard, or crawled to ours and died. One being Tyco, the beautiful lab a few years ago that passed. I was heartbroken. What can be done about him killing animals? As far as I know, there is no law about the leash law in Livingston? What can I do as an individual to make sure he doesn't kill any more animals and get away with it? I am concerned about the other lab dogs down the road. They obviously don't like labs. Not that any of them have been ugly. I mean, I am concerned about these other dogs too. I don't want these people to one day wake up to a lethargic dog, clenching for its life, and them have no idea what kind of neighbor it is that poisons animals, particularly dogs, esp. labs.

New topic... I got my volunteer application in for Baton Rouge General. I will be volunteering at the MidCity Hospital in the ER. I am so excited, but very nervous. Not only the location of it, but the crowd I will be dealing with. If you know what I mean. But the lady said she thinks I am fit for it, and thinks I would make a difference there. We will see what she sees in me. She is super nice, and I am very excited.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. Mine has been very relaxing despite the rude words from the neighbor.

-xo