I had friends over to decorated my van for Trunk-or-Treat. We were just doing the last few items when another car pulls into my driveway. I have no idea who this is. I see a boy and a dog still in the car. The lady walks up to us and proceeds to tell me that my small dog bit her dog's nose earlier in the afternoon. My dog has never bitten anyone or any thing else. Unless you count all the squeaky toys around my house. And ropes. Loves the ropes. I look at her car to look at her dog. Her dog could sit on my dog. Easily. She said her dog's nose was bad enough that she took it to the vet, she couldn't even look at it to clean it. Thankfully no stitches were needed, she just needed to know whether or not Lady was up to date on her shots. She is. She says she isn't mad and it is her fault for letting her dog get that close to my fence. And then she leaves.
I start trying to picture this incident. The only way Lady could bite anything from behind the fence would be that the other dog must have stuck its nose through the fence. Then Lady was trying to protect her turf. We have a chain link fence. Lady is a Jack Russell. Her nose through the fence isn't going to bite anything. She will however, stick her blue racquetball ball into the fence in hopes you will throw it for her. This other dog is big. Why is this person walking her dog and letting it get so close to other dogs? Was the dog on a leash? Why is she just telling me? I was home all day. It was a Wednesday which meant no preschool. I didn't leave the house. Plus I had the windows opened and do not remember hearing any barking or dog fight. Thankfully, I have witnesses who said it was her fault, not mine.
That night was Trunk-or-Treat. I ate way too much sugar and then finished off my large Dr. Pepper around 8 PM. Needless to say, what sleep I did get that night wasn't peaceful. My mind. My dreams that night were all dog related. To the point I had to check to make sure Lady was still sleeping at the foot of our bed when I woke that next morning.
One dream was that this lady sued us. And won. And the judge told me that animal control had already taken the dog from my house and put her down. While we were still in court.
The other dream was that the lady walked by our house again and opened the back gate giving Lady freedom. And Lady would run. She always does. If she gets out, she's gone. At full speed. We never found Lady in that dream. But the next day, every time I let her out, I watched from the deck.
My mind is still trying to convince me that this isn't over. That it will resurface in the next couple of weeks. My eyes are on Lady and any other dog that walks by my house. Now to figure out how to turn my mind off.
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