I was home for lunch. I let the dogs out of their kennel so they could run around, relieve themselves, etc. After about a half hour, one of them starts barking, then finally raising hell. I look out the door and see movement on the other side of the fence, the neighbor's backyard. I have Leyland cypress trees lining my backyard, so I can only see legs over there. Because the dogs are now barking like mad, I decide to put them back in the kennel. I have to return to work soon, anyways.
I go back inside and have just enough time to research August Ames'es career. A few minutes later, I hear a loud pop. Did a transformer just explode? I glanced out of the kitchen window. The chickens seemed freaked out a bit. The dogs were looking towards my neighbor's house. Hmm. Curious. About a minute later, another pop. Nope. No doubt about it. Gun shots.
Who is shooting? What are they shooting at? Did someone just die? What's going on?
I lock up and leave for work. As I'm going by my neighbor's house, he's in the front yard, raking leaves. I pull into his driveway and alongside him. I ask if he's okay. He says yes, then asks if I'm talking about the shots fired. I said yes.
Turns out, the dogs were barking at him. He says the brown one scared the crap out of him. He just knew he was coming through the fence. He said he felt like he couldn't even walk through his yard any more, so his fix was to shoot his gun in the air to scare the dogs. The problem is he let at least five minutes elapse between the dogs barking and him firing shots in the air. Also, there was at least a minute between shots. I told him the dogs were in their kennel when he came back out. His response was he just wanted to let them know he was there.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. Introduce him to the dogs so they can bond? Say F him and let the dogs bark? Put up a barrier so the dogs can't see him?
I go back inside and have just enough time to research August Ames'es career. A few minutes later, I hear a loud pop. Did a transformer just explode? I glanced out of the kitchen window. The chickens seemed freaked out a bit. The dogs were looking towards my neighbor's house. Hmm. Curious. About a minute later, another pop. Nope. No doubt about it. Gun shots.
Who is shooting? What are they shooting at? Did someone just die? What's going on?
I lock up and leave for work. As I'm going by my neighbor's house, he's in the front yard, raking leaves. I pull into his driveway and alongside him. I ask if he's okay. He says yes, then asks if I'm talking about the shots fired. I said yes.
Turns out, the dogs were barking at him. He says the brown one scared the crap out of him. He just knew he was coming through the fence. He said he felt like he couldn't even walk through his yard any more, so his fix was to shoot his gun in the air to scare the dogs. The problem is he let at least five minutes elapse between the dogs barking and him firing shots in the air. Also, there was at least a minute between shots. I told him the dogs were in their kennel when he came back out. His response was he just wanted to let them know he was there.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. Introduce him to the dogs so they can bond? Say F him and let the dogs bark? Put up a barrier so the dogs can't see him?