My friend has a house without a fenced in yard. She puts her small dog (8 lbs mini schnauzer) on a lead. She works from home. She leaves him out there for like an hour.
4 times now, someone has let the dog off the lead. Luckily, she find him right away because he doesn't run away further then a house or two up.
But 4 times now, someone has opened her door and put the lead and his collar (yes they are taking the collar off the dog) inside her house.
Now, I have several issues to bring up with friend (don't leave your door unlock, don't do the lead thing anymore and just take the dog out on a leash a couple of times during the day)
but can you think of the message this person might be trying to send. It just seems SO odd to do this. Is there something we aren't thinking of.
she works from home and doesn't hear someone open her door?
I just questioned her more, she leaves the door locked, but unlocked when she puts the dog outside (makes sense, totally something I do too)
I told her to clean off the door handle and never touch it from the outside so when it happens again, there is something to finger print
(huh) Or.... just stop risking her dog's life knowing someone out there is repeatedly letting him off his lead? "When it happens again" he could get hit by a car.
ETA: I currently have a loose dog sitting in our spare bedroom stressing out our cats with his presence. His collar has no phone number on it. I hope his owner turns out to be more responsible than your friend.
Hm, yah, at this point she needs to just walk the dog and lock her doors. No more leaving him out there by himself without a fence.
Lol at "when it happens again." Yah, someone else now ruined it for her but if she is that uncomfortable and for the safety of her dog, she needs to leash and walk or put in a fence.
Post by RoxMonster on Jul 22, 2014 14:27:35 GMT -5
While I don't think she is doing anything wrong by tethering her dog for such short amounts of time, this weirdo has an issue and is letting her dog get away plus entering her home! So at this point, she just needs to stop doing it. Or, try to work from a place where she can see the dog out the window and catch this weirdo red-handed/install video cameras. And lock the door no matter what.
Has she ever had confrontations/convos with people on her street about her dog? Any kid/teen that would do this as a stupid prank?
WHAT? You don't self-CSI this shit and try to catch someone with their FINGERPRINTS. What are you going to do? Get some 4th grader doing a science project to take the prints and run them against the FBI database to test the scientific method?
1. Your friend is weird. Clearly she's not watching the dog that closely since, you know, people take it off the lead and COME INTO HER HOME without her noticing either event.
2. The dognapper is weirder. You don't engage in a little B&E for funsies to prove a point about DOGS and TETHERS. FFS.
I'm trying to figure out what kind of schnauzer doesn't bark their fool head off when a stranger approaches them. And 8#? Is it a puppy she's putting outside alone?
I don't even know where to post an intro here! I was on TK/TN/TB since 2003, mostly local boards. I was m_and_m.
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1) WTF is she going to take her prints? Do the police just willingly run prints for any doorknob that walks in the station?
2) Maybe her dog is just an escape artist. HAS SHE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
LOL I was about to be all, "and the DOG puts the lead and collar inside?!" But I guess it could be someone walking by who realized the dog was gone. But it seems a strange thing to do if you just saw a leash and lead laying in someone's yard. Of course, so is letting a dog off a lead so...we're clearly dealing with someone who is, like, a WHOLE SANDWICH short of a lunchbox.
Yeah, no chance. If you realized the dog had gotten loose, you'd be all "DING-DONG OMGHA YOUR DOG IS LOOSE LET'S GO FIND IT!!". Not "sssshhhh be vewwy vewwy quiet while I return your dogless leash/collar. Because that is clearly the valuable part of the dog-leash setup and you wouldn't want something to happen to it."
Wait wait.. MAYBE.... The DOG was like "this bitch is crazy leaving me out here unsupervised. I'mma teach her a lesson!" and he put the leash inside the door (because he likes it and doesn't want anything to happen to it), and then he waits a few doors down to see how long it takes her to realize he's gone. Watch -- you'll do the cleany-doorknob bit, and it'll be a PAW print. You just watch.
Post by RoxMonster on Jul 22, 2014 15:25:26 GMT -5
I think I'm most flabbergasted that she had no idea someone entered her home FOUR different times WHILE she was in it.
Where does she work in her house that she couldn't hear her door opening and someone walking in to put something on her table? Like, I think she should change up the place in her home where she works even after she starts bringing the dog in and not leaving it outside (which she will hopefully do) if she is that oblivious to someone entering her house while she's in it. I can't think of a single spot in my home where I wouldn't hear my front door opening and someone walking in.