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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-04-04 08:25 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-04-04 08:25 pm
Cy is one pooped pitbull
We had a busy day - or at least by Cy's standards, lol.
We headed out to a little open space park (one that's actually only about a mile from my office, ha.) It wasn't a strenuous hike, but it was a nice walk out a ways and back. Not wildly exciting terrain either, but it's wide and open enough that we can let Cy off-leash to chase a ball.
Cy!
Staring at said ball, held by Alex.
He had a great time chasing the ball and running around, but he does get tired pretty quickly.
Next up was the pet store, which is always thrilling... except we betrayed him by taking him in to get a bath. (The self-wash there is so much easier than the tub at home, it's worth the cost.) As usual, he was sure he was being murdered the whole time, while also not actually doing anything to resist. (Except bite at the air from the dryer.)
Then he got a toy and a bag of treats, so it was the best day ever again.
When we got back to the apartment we ran into our neighbor. She's always been really sweet to us, and she loves Cy, but is also the kind of person I feel like it would be a nightmare to deal with all the time. She has a completely untrained six-month-old puppy that she takes everywhere. I was cringing through her talking about how, teehee, he's so loud and obnoxious when she takes him into Walmart and the grocery store with her. (A major pet peeve (no pun intended?) for us. While Cy is pretty much "retired" now, he was a service dog for Alex for several years. People bringing badly-behaved pets in places that pets aren't allowed causes so much harassment and frustration for people who have legitimate service animals. Including the time Cy was attacked by a dog-aggressive dog at a pharmacy.)
And then she complained about how the apartment manager gave her a warning because her dog peed in the elevator and she didn't clean it up, and they caught her on camera. Yike.
BUT, as untrained as the puppy is, he is at least friendly, and while he was initially scared of Cy, the two wound up playing in the hallway while we chatted. That was just about the last of Cy's energy, so he definitely was getting ready to be done.
One interesting bit of gossip from the neighbor, who knows more people in the building than we do...
A few months ago, maybe back in late summer or early fall, we ran into a guy dressed in basically hazmat attire near the elevators. Based on that and some other stuff, (the amount of activity in the apartment, the general bearing of the guy we ran into) we did conclude that there was someone on our floor who had died. We didn't know the man in question, and didn't hear anything more about it.
Apparently, according to the neighbor, it was a homicide! So that's... good fun.
A more minor apartment crime: someone stole the hitch off of our truck?? What the fuck? Why? We did report it to management, but for something of low value, they don't have time to search the garage cameras, especially since we don't know exactly when it happened. But why?
Cy is now very soft and clean, but so very tired, lol. He will sleep like a rock tonight.
We headed out to a little open space park (one that's actually only about a mile from my office, ha.) It wasn't a strenuous hike, but it was a nice walk out a ways and back. Not wildly exciting terrain either, but it's wide and open enough that we can let Cy off-leash to chase a ball.
Cy!
Staring at said ball, held by Alex.
He had a great time chasing the ball and running around, but he does get tired pretty quickly.
Next up was the pet store, which is always thrilling... except we betrayed him by taking him in to get a bath. (The self-wash there is so much easier than the tub at home, it's worth the cost.) As usual, he was sure he was being murdered the whole time, while also not actually doing anything to resist. (Except bite at the air from the dryer.)
Then he got a toy and a bag of treats, so it was the best day ever again.
When we got back to the apartment we ran into our neighbor. She's always been really sweet to us, and she loves Cy, but is also the kind of person I feel like it would be a nightmare to deal with all the time. She has a completely untrained six-month-old puppy that she takes everywhere. I was cringing through her talking about how, teehee, he's so loud and obnoxious when she takes him into Walmart and the grocery store with her. (A major pet peeve (no pun intended?) for us. While Cy is pretty much "retired" now, he was a service dog for Alex for several years. People bringing badly-behaved pets in places that pets aren't allowed causes so much harassment and frustration for people who have legitimate service animals. Including the time Cy was attacked by a dog-aggressive dog at a pharmacy.)
And then she complained about how the apartment manager gave her a warning because her dog peed in the elevator and she didn't clean it up, and they caught her on camera. Yike.
BUT, as untrained as the puppy is, he is at least friendly, and while he was initially scared of Cy, the two wound up playing in the hallway while we chatted. That was just about the last of Cy's energy, so he definitely was getting ready to be done.
One interesting bit of gossip from the neighbor, who knows more people in the building than we do...
A few months ago, maybe back in late summer or early fall, we ran into a guy dressed in basically hazmat attire near the elevators. Based on that and some other stuff, (the amount of activity in the apartment, the general bearing of the guy we ran into) we did conclude that there was someone on our floor who had died. We didn't know the man in question, and didn't hear anything more about it.
Apparently, according to the neighbor, it was a homicide! So that's... good fun.
A more minor apartment crime: someone stole the hitch off of our truck?? What the fuck? Why? We did report it to management, but for something of low value, they don't have time to search the garage cameras, especially since we don't know exactly when it happened. But why?
Cy is now very soft and clean, but so very tired, lol. He will sleep like a rock tonight.
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Part of me is hoping that your neighbor with the untrained puppy has a relative or a friend or someone who will intervene and get the puppy trained; more for the puppy's sake than the neighbor's. ^^;;
Too bad about what was stolen, whoever took it probably knew they could get away with it because it wouldn't be considered valuable enough. :(
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Unfortunately, it sounds like she pretty much only spends time with her sister, who has a similarly untrained dog, and she thinks the dogs being untrained is "cute" because training them would be "mean." She even complained that her sister and her sister's dog are teaching him bad habits, but... she keeps bringing him over.
The neighbor has allegedly been looking for someone to train the dog, but hasn't found anyone... and it kind of sounds like she'll struggle with being consistent with any training she does get. But I hope she DOES get the dog some training, like you said, for the dog's sake if nothing else!
Yeah, probably. That seems like such a silly thing to bother stealing (it's a small truck, so a small hitch), so I assume it was just because they wanted to take something.
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People feeling entitled to take their pets everywhere are the worst. We have a problem with fake service animals here in little vests bought off of Amazon.
Ooh, a homicide right there? That's unsettling to say the least.
Sorry about your truck. Some people will steal anything not nailed down.
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Ugh, I get SO frustrated by people bringing pets with them places they don't belong. And yes, so many fake service animals. I have lost count of the number of people who either said to our face when Cy was with us in public, or have just said in passing, how they were totally going to order a vest so their little fluffikins could come everywhere. Alex is so ~lucky~ he gets to bring Cy with him places.
Worse are the people with fake "registry cards" (which sometimes come with the fake vests)... because there ISN'T a service dog registry, and too many people now think that a specific "ID card" is required.
Yeah, the homicide is super unsettling, in part because we were almost certainly here when it happened. (If it happened during the day, I may have been at work, but Alex would have been here.)
Ugh, right? What a stupid thing to steal, too. I mean... glad it wasn't something worse, but... the rusted hitch off a tiny pickup? What the hell?
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That's wild about the death in the building! Yikes!
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Ugh, the fleas sound like a nightmare! And yeah, feral cats/squirrels/rabbits/anything else that lives in the yard could very well keep the fleas around.
Yeah, the death in the building is a bit disconcerting. If that really was what happened, it's especially creepy because we were almost certainly here when it happened.
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At least, he got treats for being 💀 🤣
She shouldn't be allowed to take that puppy into places if said puppy isn't a service-in-training dog. Aren't there signs about that somewhere or just here? 🤷♀️
Those silent murders will get ya every time. Unlike, Cy, who voiced his.
Who would want a hitch? You wouldn't happen to live in Peru, Indiana, would you? Because they'd do that here.
Sleep like the dead, Cy. The Goodest Boy.
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(Though the treats at least made up for it.)
Oh yeah, there are signs on most businesses that service animals are the only ones allowed in, but people seem to habitually ignore them. And a lot of businesses don't want to fight about it, so they don't say anything either.
Yeah, the idea of the murder happening just a few apartments away, likely while we were home is a little off-putting!
Apparently Indiana and Colorado both have people who would want to steal a rusty truck hitch. Lol, so dumb.
And yes, Cy slept VERY well last night. The sleep of the goodest boy, indeed.
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And selectively blind.
I bet it is off-putting. We had a girl killed not too far from here. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. That should be a book title 😂
Apparently so! Those hitches are so cool 😎
hahah, the goodest boy !
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Yeah, there've definitely been plenty of awful things happening in the world. There was a mass shooting a few months back that killed a friend-of-a-friend, and also another person just a few miles from my apartment. Pretty terrible.
Lmao, yes, truck hitches will be the new craze!
Cy is the goodest of boys.
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He at least grudgingly tolerates baths (and at home will even get into the tub on command), but he makes it clear the WHOLE TIME that he is miserable about it, lol.