ticks me off too - ‘specially when, upon encountering dogs in the yard, where they were legally allowed to be untethered, Mr. Intelligent didn’t use his govt-provided cell phone to call the house phone to announce his unexpected presence and to give the owner time to secure the pets. My dogs are my furkids. I’d be in a major bad mood if one of my kids was murdered by some pansywaist quickdrawmcgraw.
...and it didn’t occur to him to just close the damn gate? Fing Barney Fife!
Ditto.
Our Yellow Lab, Honey, will be 5yo in a few days -- she is family. And she 'protects her property' (our yard and house) by barking at strangers. But she wouldn't bite anyone if she had to -- the UPS Truck and Delivery Guy really gets her off for some reason. Yet he knows how to make a delivery to us with out a problem (In and out pdq and he closes the gate behind him).
So I'd be in a REAL, major league, bad mood too if a Barney Fife 'did something' to her. And when I get in a bad mood like that, bad things usually happen.
(I'm a peaceable person but I don't suffer fools or idiots when they start sh.. 'stuff' with me and/or mine. No matter who or 'what' they are.)