I read more often than post here (***seriously sad post) [View all]

[MuseRider]

but I am just devastated and wanted to come in with a PSA that none of you need but, whatever.

I spent the morning yesterday breaking through the remaining ice on my pond with my little paddle boat on the way over to find out what that lump in the ice that had been in the pond for 2 days was. We thought it was maybe one of the beavers that died and floated up and got caught in the ice but then I got a call to see if I had seen the new neighbors brindle Mastiff. We are in the country but I cannot understand how anyone who lives with a highway a block away and on a street that goes by that is not busy but higher speed than normal does not think to protect their dogs. Their goats are fenced in, their chickens too but their 2, 8 month old littermates, were not kept up and apparently one night one of them decided going after the geese on my pond was a good idea. I spent yesterday morning hauling an 80 pound, beautiful drowned puppy out of my pond. The moment I got a hold of that back that was sticking up and rolled it a bit and saw those long legs come up to the surface almost killed me.

I can tell you, that was one hell of a way to meet your new neighbors.

They can do what they want with their animals, I cannot tell them what to do and I will not but I can say that it has certainly caused my feelings looking out on my beautiful big pond to change. That was the most soul killing experience I have had in a very long time. Just a PSA that nobody here needs but I feel compelled to post. I would wish that experience on no one. We keep loud firecracker type things here just to scare off any dog we see who tried to walk on the ice, it happens once in every long while and that works well. We were not awake all night, did not hear what must have been chaos as he struggled and the geese must have raised a huge ruckus, or we maybe could have helped him. It would have been an almost impossible task and perhaps that would have been worse than just finding him but we should not have had to deal with that. My soul is heavy, he was adorable and goofy and they loved him but did not even expect this I guess. With all the horrible news out there I feel badly about this has just taken the wind out of my life. Those legs.........