So I just took Leeta out for a walk and as I'm getting out of the elevator I see some old lady and her fucked up poodle. It's a fat black poodle-esque dog about the same size as Leeta, but with serious territory mangement issues. Every time I see it, it barks and snarls like crazy, and the owner jokes “oh, just ignore him, he thinks he owns the place.”
Now, that's fine when the dog is leashed, but she decided to not bother even leashing her dog so it of course came straight at Leeta, all-teeth and a fog of blood-starved saliva. I kicked the attacking dog in the gut and it hit the wall a few feet away. It jumped back up and came at me and Leeta again — the owner was just standing fifteen feet away doing nothing, not even telling her dog to stop — so I kicked the poodle again, throwing it into the elevator when it stayed.
The dog's owner was yelling at me, “why did you have to kick my dog?”
I simply replied deadpan, “if this happens again I will kill your dog in front of you,” and walked off.
And I meant it.
“Yeah, well you own a pitbull,” was her brilliant retort after I'd rounded the corner.
Because there is a chance I may actually be put in a position of having to make true on my threat (if she doesn't start leashing her psychotic dog), I've placed a pre-emptive call to building management filing a complaint against the woman and her dog. I don't care if she wants to have a violent dog. That's her problem. But she can't have it running off leash when there are responsible pet owners in this building… to say nothing of the dozens of babies and small children that live in this building. Make all the noise about mastiffs, rotties, pits, but the fact is it's these little dogs that mutilate children statistically.
And before anyone points out that I'm a vegan and a pacifist, let me point out that I barely keep my violence under wraps, and it is my capacity to do great harm to others that draws me to pacifism. If someone invades my space or puts me or someone or something I care about in harms way, I am more than willing to temporarly ease the restraints.
Not that I have any desire to kill some dog that's effectively being abused by its owner! Personally I'd rather gut, skin, and butcher the owner and cook their flesh into soup for homeless people Rakowitz-style, but they tell me that's not permitted. Hell, they've shown me that even talking about it too seriously gets you put on a lot of unpleasant drugs and strapped to a bed.
End of entry.
