Leash Law

We live in a fairly good size city. If it were up to John and I we would live in the country, but the opportunity for our house was too good to pass up. It still is a good deal and we love our house and the neighbors who own are wonderful.

Living in a city means we have a leash law. A leash law simply put means that any time your dog is not on your property he must be on a leash. I support this law for many reasons: it keeps your dog from getting hit by cars and it keeps dogs from getting spooked and hurting someone. I understand sometimes a dog slips out, I've had dogs do everything from brute force to outsmarting me to get out of the house. I understand it happens.

Leash laws are good for another reason. People (esp here) think it's fun to keep dogs that shouldn't be breed as pets. I'm talking about pit bulls, boxers and rottweilers. This dogs are all aggressive and really serve no purpose for anyone who is not looking for dog fights. Pit bulls are notorious for not letting go in a fight until they or their opponent is dead.

Why am I going on and on about leash laws? For a very good reason. The Boss and I went for a walk today to run some errands. The weather was beautiful (in the 70s) and it was a glorious day. We had only gotten a few blocks from the house when I noticed something not right on the sidewalk ahead. I noticed a group of people in the way. Not unusual, people like to walk and talk, or in this case, curse. As I got closer, I realized it was a group of about 4 people trying to break up a dog fight. Since I had my baby with me, I didn't get closer than 10 feet. I've been in the middle of a dog fight before and I know that's one mess I don't wanna get involved with.

As I watched them try to break the dogs apart, I realized both dogs were Pit Bulls. This made me really glad I was so far away. I even saw someone get a baseball bat to try and pry the dogs jaw's apart. I also heard a lot of cussing (I don't know if the dogs understood, "get the f*** off" or not, but they kept saying it).

It took about 15 mins of us watching (the dogs had already started fighting and being pulled apart by the time we had walked down, so who knows how long they were fighting) before they finally got the dogs apart. As the one that was on the leash was walking past, I looked at the dogs face. The dog was originally white, but one side of it's face was pink. One of the guys' hand was completely bitten up.

The dog that I presume started the fight was not on a leash, which makes me believe that either the owner thought his dog was "well behaved" or it escaped. Like I said, a dog that wants to escape will escape, but I really think that Pit Bulls really should be put down or done something so that they won't attack (or in the case of that one place of Florida, eat the toes off a 7 month old) others. I also feel that chihuahuas should not be breed, but that's just b/c I find them stupid and well, stupid.

The Weather and more

John always makes fun of me for my ability to freeze in the summer (really, anything below 75 degrees is freezing). He usually kicks up the teasing in the Autumn. I think I might not survive this winter. It's the 2nd of October and it's already getting down to 40 degrees at night. Usually there is a slow downgrade to freezing, but not this year.

One bad thing about cold weather, it makes me not want to move. Maybe I'm part reptile, or @ least something cold blooded. The only thing that gets me moving faster is the call of my alarm clock aka the Boss. The cold weather also has me worried about her being too cold. Since she can't have a blanket (and not that she'd allow one to stay on her for longer than 5 seconds) we've turned the heat on earlier for her. We also bought her her own carbon monoxide detector since we use natural gas heat.

On other news (besides me freezing to death), the Boss is starting to be more mobile. I can put her under her play mat and walk out of the room. When I return 5 mins later, she'll be almost 2 feet away. She's not crawling, but she's scooting. She's been rolling around for a while, so that's not a big deal.

She also might be teething. She had a low high grade fever. For those of you who don't understand, according to the Boss's Dr, a high fever is 100.5 degrees and her fever was 100.9. It went down and the dr checked her for swine flu (doesn't have). The older women @ church have decided that means she's teething.

While she was sick (and her mama) her papa was trying to entertain her and accidentally taught her to blow raspberries. This is now her favorite thing to do now. She blows raspberries to everyone. Naturally, John hands her to me a lot and complains about how she's spitting on him.

This weekend I'm going to be making her Halloween costume. She's going to be a duck. She won't be getting any candy, but we'll be showing her off to some of the people in the neighborhood. I'm actually really excited about Halloween this year for that reason. It's interesting to see the holidays thru the eyes of your child, even if they don't know what's going on.