Thursday 18 September 2008

Another Hound of the Basketcases!

Thursday 12:15 p.m.
Trying to get to my jobbie yesterday, I came upon a boy with two dogs in the lobby, one of them, a big black dog, going completely ape. I asked the kid to take them outside so I could get by. As soon as I opened the outside door, the big black dog flew at me and managed to nick my upper arm. It torn the winter jacket a wee bit. I was bloody furious.

Anger really is a problem for me, Jack. Did you go back home for a knife and cut the dog's throat, Hotboy? No, Jack. Well, it's not that much of a problem.

Anyway, I couldn't meditate on the bus going to work due to the mental agitation. I wrote a letter to the owner of the dog. I would post it, but I can't find the copy I kept at the moment. The sensei showed me a copy of a letter he sent to the owner of dogs which molested him in Tennessee. It was a much better letter. In it he said he was going to get his Bulldog 44 and shooty shooty the fungers if they did that again.

Anyone was owns a dog which they can't bring to heel on command deserves to be shot. I would like to apply for that job. There are no sentient beings! Fung them anyway!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I say!

Did the dog have a green tab on its collar? If not, it may not have had its rabies jag. I advise you to get a rabies vaccination immediately. They used to inject directly through the stomach, but now its much less painful.

MM III

Hotboy said...

Mingin'! The Medicine Buddha is all the medical juju I need! Hotboy p.s. due to the background in martial arts, the dog missed my throat anyway and only got a grip on the jacket. Throat height on a josephine! Hotboy

Anonymous said...

Dear Sir/Madam,

Today, Sunday May 1, as I was walking on Moccasin Bend Road, I was
attacked by three dogs. I believe that at least one of them belongs to
you.

These dogs went into hunting mode, showing their teeth and emitting
low growls. This was not territorial barking, but rather vicious pack
mode, and I have no doubt that they would have seriously hurt me if
the owner of one of them (perhaps you) hadn't come out and called them
off - without any acknowledgment or apology to me.

I know that there have been similar incidents involving other people.
That's none of my business. But it became my business today.

This is not going to happen again. Let me explain why:

This week, I am going to obtain a permit to carry my handgun, and I
intend to shoot any dog that behaves aggressively towards me. Please
take this seriously. I have no desire for such a thing to happen, but
if you do not take seriously your responsibility to control your dogs,
I will take extremely seriously my responsibility to protect myself.

I hate to take such an attitude towards neighbors, but feel that I
have no choice.

Currently Alec McClochendichter said...

I'm happy to say I can always control my dog, except when a dogfight's already under way.

Currently Alec McClochendichter said...

PS At first I thought your title was referring to Wall St basket cases. Did you instruct your brokers in time?

ion said...

According to 'Dogs Today', a monthly publication to which my dear mum subscribes, 'there's no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners'.

If a big dog attacks you, you're supposed to grab their front legs and pull them apart forcefully, bursting the heart. Hope this helps.

Currently Alec McClochendichter said...

ion, I suspect that's an old spouse's tale.

Hotboy said...

Doggy! That did make me a laugh all over again. Happy 20th Birthday for Of Darkness and Light. I'm going to start cleaning my room today (3 years since the last attempt!) and when I find it, I will re-read it. I thought it was great the first time.Hotboy
Ion: This dog unfortunately came teeth first, but I'm confident that in hand to hand combat the fungers mince, partly because it doesn't have any hands.Hotboy
Albert? After the things your dog must have seen, I'm surprised it gets out of its kip at all! Hope this helps. Hotboy
All: The owner says the dog will be muzzled in future, so if it comes at me again, I should be able to strangle it. Hotboy

Anonymous said...

I say!

Hereabouts, if being threatened by dogs, we bend down and make as if to pick up a rock (if a rock is actually at hand, all the better). The dogs usually back off at that point, because they know what may happen next.

If they don't back off, a kick to the privates usually does the trick.

If you remember that sequence, it should help considerably.

Of course, if faced with a pack of wild dogs, as I once was in the mid-to-late nineties up at Isiolo, a gun definitely does help.

MM III

Anonymous said...

I say!

If all else fails, you could always throw the sandals you got off a dead person 15 years ago at the dog. The dog would probably find them quite interesting, I would expect.

BTW - how did the person in question die?

MM III

Hotboy said...

Mingin'! The deid person who had the sandals originally fell out of the loft while blotto and died from his injuries. Let this be a lesson to you! Hotboy