First off, I'm already intensely freaking out that people won't talk to me. And I say this because for the past week or so, the only people who have had conversations with me are Mike and K, despite me sending texts, discord messages, and plurking.

I feel like a ghost, and because of current therapy things, it's super triggering.

That's not the vent. That's setting the stage for the actual vent.

...Actually, I'm gonna CW this

ANIMAL ABUSE ITP. Close out now if you're reading and can't.

My neighbor keeps her basset hound in a crate in the garage all the time. She's a doctor, she works a crazy schedule, I don't know WHY she got a dog in the first place, and if it wasn't for the fact that my other neighbor goes and walks him / plays with him, I'd call the county.

You cannot. Keep a dog. In a crate 24/7 in a place that isn't climate controlled.

That's fucking cruel.

STILL NOT THE VENT.

HERE'S THE VENT.

She was just outside with him and I don't know what happened, but he started wailing. Like, the kind of wailing a dog does when it's in EXTREME pain. You know how I know this? Because when I injured my own dog so badly I had to put it down, it made that noise.

I can't deal with that noise, and I definitely can't deal with the owner fucking IGNORING that noise. I looked out the window and she was just carrying on her conversation while the dog cried

Even if it wasn't like in mortal agony, comfort your fucking dog?? Take it inside and take care of it? CALL A VET?

This went on for so long

at least five minutes, maybe longer. Long enough for me to decide today is fired

I have tried to be okay with this woman because Mike (and most of my neighbors) adore her, but every time I see her there's something new that makes me wish she'd move. (And makes me consider stealing her poor goddamn dog.)

So yeah I was already dealing with triggery anxieties and now I'm livid and what I need is someone to just. Speak to me. And tell me I'm not in the wrong about this.

TBH I need people to talk to me, and I don't know why no one's responding to anything I send out other than I must be that repugnant.

And also could use some advice about whether I should call the county on her, or if what she's doing to the dog is just. Not bad enough to warrant intervention.

I don't think you're in the wrong at all

that's super upsetting

hugsyou and I don't mean to be ignoring you, I've just been super swamped with Stuff

Thank you for saying; I know rationally it's a busy time and people just. Are out of energy. And - yeah, I??? Dogs making that noise and people abusing dogs is an actual flashback-inducing, panic-attack driving trigger for me

huuuuuuuuuugs

get a cat if you don't have time to spend with a dog

or a fish

or a fish

what kind of person can just listen to that godawful noise

and be chill

God why are people??? like this?? That poor thing.............

The last neighbors who lived there had this little uh schnauzer thing

and it like. yelped once because the girl stepped on it, and she PANICKED. Like, brought him here and begged us to look at it, make sure it was okay

which. Yes, that's an overreaction.

but at least she gave a shit

...also and this is just a "wow what the fuck" kind of thing? This woman has like six baggies of dog shit on her front step which is right next to my garage because townhomes

she won't put them in her garbage can ??

or walk them to the public wastebin across the street

she just left them there.

six bags of dog shit is at least three days.

I'm baffled.

.........

Right? It's foul. Just throw them away? If you're worried about them touching the inside of your trash, put them in their own trash bag ?

I don't. ???

that's so nasty WHAT THE FUCK

I am not the cleanest person on earth but I don't leave dog shit lying around either

is... is she from this planet

I want to just reiterate that the person doing this nasty shit

is a doctor

I ordered some chipotle and I'm drinking gin and honey so maybe today has that little improvement hey.

...what the actual fuck that's. fucking rancid holy shit. i'll say more over on discord, but no, that's fucked in the first place her crating the dog in a garbage all day like even if the. garage has been refitted for temp control that's?? what the fuck?? and hoW on the howling and carrying on like oh it is fine like??? that is. not fucking fine. fuck. :|

she's the one who lets her dog bark and bark and bark all night too

iiiiii wondered about that :|

he is back to barking which means he's back in the garage so ig whatever it was wasn't too serious or she doesn't give a flying fuck

I am getting to this after a weekend away--yikes on a bike. That poor dog.

time for an update!

She has had industrial rat traps sitting outside her house on our shared stoop for a week now

c:

and her dog has been barking and barking for four hours

so I'm about to call in a noise complaint.

how can you be so fastidious that you won't let your dog into your house

but you leave potentially used rat traps outside for a week