Jeff and I haven't met any of our neighbors yet. I don't understand this because sometimes I see our neighbors milling about outside while I'm peering at them from behind the curtains.
I'm afraid this is why no one has come over: It's late at night and I am checking the mail when I hear a horrible snarling sound and a dog running towards me. I'm nervous because I've seen a pit bull in the neighborhood so I am ready to run back to the house when the light hits it and I realize that it's our neighbor's schnauzer.
Now I'm not worried at all because, hello, schnauzer, when it runs up and BITES me. The dog bit me! And not nipped me, no. It left teeth marks in my boots. I can SEE the neighbor's shadow on the back porch. I keep trying to shoo the dog nicely since I KNOW she can hear me but nothing is working.
The whole time I am thinking "Great, now the neighbors think I hate their dog. I don't want to start off being the neighbor that hates dogs. I like dogs! I HAVE a dog! WHY IS THIS DOG BITING ME?!."
I'm firmly telling the dog to GO HOME! as it keeps trying to bite me
and so finally I give it a soft little nudge with my foot and it
starts whimpering and runs off like I beat it with a rock or something.
If I was on television, this would be one of those moments where they edit the clip to make it look like I kicked an innocent little dog with nothing to provoke me.
So now I have no idea what to do. On one hand, the neighbors think probably think I beat up their dog. On the other hand, why in the heckfire didn't they call their dog off when it was BITING ME? And how do I meet the neighbors now? "Hi, I like your jacket, I live next door and by the way your dog bit me?"
What would you do?
(Thanks for all the votes so far! Please continue to vote each day so I can afford to build a fence if this whole "neighbor" thing doesn't work out.)
