week updates

Over the last few days, our neighbor issues have only gotten worse. Panda and Lola dug under our fence and were both running in our neighbors yard...and they have chickens. We didn't know that this was going on, as we were both inside with the puppies, and all of a sudden we hear our neighbor screaming at us and banging on our door. He had Lola in his arms and had 'caught' Panda and had her locked in his house. No chickens were killed or anything, but he was soooo mad. Obviously we didn't mean for this to happen. It is a complete accident...we didn't put our dogs in their yard and say "go to town". Our dogs know that there are chickens there because they are constantly up at our fence line or flying into our yard.

Anyways, he was going to call the police on us because Panda is a husky and could apparently hurt people. She is 5 months old, give me a break. We heard her crying in his house the whole time, and he wouldn't give her back to us. He wanted us to tell him that we will get rid of her. He practically wanted it in writing or else he wanted her put down for running after his chickens (the 2 dogs were in his yard for about 20 seconds because he was outside with the chickens). After about 30 minutes of back and forth with them, they finally relented to giving her back. She was so scared being locked in a strange house in a small crate.

For those of you that have met Panda, you know that she is not aggressive in any way. Chickens and dogs are another story. Panda did catch one of their chickens but didn't hurt it, and our neighbor apparently grabbed her and held her down to 'get her under control'. Our neighbor has been violent in the past and we have seen him throw things at our dogs and yell at them. I have no doubt that he scared her to death and she scratched him. Now he is worred about Panda attacking their 3 yr old neice. If you think that a husky is vicious, you don't know the breed. They are an amazing breed, great for families (minus the hair!), and very social dogs. Panda is just a puppy. My baby. I do not worry about her with people or children.

With all of this going on, we have made a really tough decision to find a guardian home from Mackenzie and possibly Lola. Sounds weird because it's not Panda! But after Jake and I have talked, and we just can't move this year, we think that it would be better to have one less doggy here. Our neighbor is constantly harassing us about our dogs. It is so hard to deal with him because he screams right in our face. Our dogs are not barking all of the time, or left outside in the rain, left outside when we aren't home etc...they are our pets. For the most part, if they are outside for a pee break, we are with them. Unless I have to do something quickly with the puppies, run in for water etc. I don't leave them outside for hours and say "keep yourselves occupied". We live in the city, and my dogs are HOUSE DOGS. They stay in our house with us, but of course they have to go outside at some point during the day! Our neighbor thinks that we have too many dogs (we are still following city rules here), and that we have a killer husky. It just makes me so mad that someone would keep one of my dogs locked in their house like that. Way to build neighbor relations!

Well, if you have gotten this far, here are some photos of Jersey's puppies!

Male 1

Male 2


Male 3

Female 1

Female 2

Female 3

Female 4

Female 5

Female 6

Tomorrow, 2 of Blaze's puppies will go home. Major (male 3) will be going to his guardian family and Male 1 will be going to his new family as well! Most of the other puppies are leaving on monday or tuesday because of the G20 summit.