Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Day Twenty Three – Ready for a five day weekend.

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I am home for the next five days!  I am so excited to be off of work and to finally have a little time to myself to relax.  My work gives us tomorrow off, and I took Monday and Tuesday as vacation days.  Since my daughter is home on leave and is leaving on Monday it works out just perfectly.

I have been busy this whole year and this is the first time that I can sit down and think that I don’t have to be somewhere or preparing to do something.  I hope to feel refreshed and ready to tackle some issues tomorrow but for right now, I have to sign off.  Peace out.

Day Twenty Two – Are our banks corrupt?

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Imagine traveling to your vacation home and finding that your locks had been changed and your belongings removed.  Think it couldn’t happen, think again.  That is exactly what happened to Mimi Ash when she visited her mountain retreat in Truckee, California.  They took all of her belongings including her pictures and her husband’s ashes.  Could this be the work or robbers? In a sense yes; the culprit in this instance was her mortgage holder, Bank of America.

Scenarios like these are happening all over the country, in some instances the consumer is behind in their payments and the banks illegally foreclose, but there have been instances when the property has been paid in full and the bank has still gone in, changed the locks, removed belongings and shut off electricity.

According to the National Association of Consumer Advocates “Every day, smaller wrongs happen to people trying to save their homes: being charged the wrong amount of money, being wrongly denied a loan modification, being asked to hand over documents four or five times.”  I know this for a fact, because it has happened to me.  We were denied a loan modification by Chase Bank.  I have all of the documentation and I plan on writing a book about my experiences.

The gist of it is that the banks earn an enormous amount of profit by loaning money and they want to have “bad” loans so they can off-set the money they earned.  In my opinion most of the banks out there are not much better than a petty thief that picks your pocket on the street.   The bailout of 2 years ago established that while some of these banks were crying “poor mouth”  they took the TARP money and used it to pay bonuses to a lot of executives who make enormous salaries to begin with. And yes, you can argue that they have no responsiblity to help you with your finances, but the bottom line is they have a responsibility to be human beings.

Day Twenty One – Responsible Dog Owners

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I had a blog all set in my mind tonight but something happened when I was walking my dog and I need to vent.  We have neighbors that live across the street and two houses down that have three Italian Bulldogs, once they attacked my neighbor’s dog and once while Chet was walking Sampson one of them attacked him.  Tonight their target was Delilah who happened to be walking with me and who also happens to take no shit. 

The truth of the matter is that Delilah has become a little aggressive with dogs when she is on the leash and I have been taking her to obedience class and trying to learn how to stop this behavior.  Delilah is a chocolate lab, while she probably only weighs about 30 pounds  more than the bulldog, she is MUCH taller.  Now normally if she becomes aggressive with no provocation, I will correct her, but I am not correcting my dog while she is being attacked.

So Chet and Sampson are ahead of us and Delilah and I are walking slowly up the street, literally two driveways away from our home.  From the left side of me, I heard the neighbor yell for his dog, there was a car coming down the street and as I looked to my left I saw these two Italian Bull Dogs running at us, they ran in front of the car and I guess that is what really made me freeze was thinking that these dogs were running in front of a car.  My dog had been sitting because we make our dogs sit when cars approach, so we were just waiting.  Well these two dogs are attacking my dog and I am doing my best not to lose her leash, but still stay out-of-the-way of three snarling dogs, because oh yes my dog is defending herself.  I heard the neighbor as he was approaching and shouting for his dogs, say something about the dogs and I said, she will not take it, she will let them have it.  Well he managed to get to us and get one of the dogs away, but the other one came right back at her and again I did nothing.  Finally he got his dog under control and said, “Sorry.”

As soon as I got her back to the house I checked her out and she has a little irritation on one of her elbows, but otherwise seems fine.  Here is my big gripe, why doesn’t this neighbor keep his dogs on leash, especially when they have gone after three different dogs?  These dogs don’t even have collars on them.  To top it off these neighbors are related to one of my daughter’s friends so I don’t want to rock the boat.  But I think I am going to have to say something to them about their dogs as nicely as I can, before I have to call the dog warden.

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