My dogs are LUCKY they're not dead - instead they are confined to crates indefinitely.

[Madrone]

It was that or beat them to death.

My elderly neighbor watches the dogs every day while I go to work. Yesterday he was kind enough to take in (as a foster) another friend of mine's young cat while she deals with some traumatic stuff in her life and moves away into a new apartment. We discussed the dog situation this morning, but he decided he didn't want me to leave them crated, and he'd watch them all carefully. Introductions were made between the animals - I went to work.

Sometime around 3pm my neighbor calls me crying and tells me I have to come home. The dogs have mauled the cat to death. I guess everything was great all day, no issues whatsoever - and because everything was so great he decided to go down the street to lunch. The cat was upstairs so he blocked the stairs off with some boxes. When he came home he found the dogs locked upstairs in a room with the dead cat.

He's traumatized, my friend that's been dealing with a horrendous amount of drama now has to be told (by me) that my dogs killed her cat, and the dogs are in HUGE trouble. I've never EVER laid a hand on either dog. Until today. They are barred from the neighbor's house for the foreseeable future, and will probably be spending the night in their respective crates.

Shit - she just called and I had to tell her. :cry: