Oooo! A Big Doggy!

When I was little we lived next to an interesting guy. He was a manly man, as I remember it. He worked construction, drove a big truck, drank in the evenings and more on the weekends. And he had a couple of the biggest meanest dogs ever. They were wolves, literally. Maybe not purebred wolves but at least they looked like wolves. He always kept them on a chain. Not a rope because they would have chewed a rope off. I know they could have chewed a rope easy because they chewed through our fence. We had a wooden fence; the kind that gives you slivers if you're not nice to it.

One day the dogs broke loose from their chain! It was night time and they jumped our fence. Then they jumped our other fence into our other neighbors yard. Our neighbors had two nice little bunny rabbits. I say had because the dogs ate them. What amazed me was that the dogs then jumped back over both fences and went back to their own yard. Before those dogs ate those rabbits I thought that all dogs where nice. It boils down to a lack of education. After that I knew that dogs could be mean.

Another time I was playing in the back yard and one of those mean dogs jumped over our fence. Lucky for me it was still on it's chain so it hung from the fence. It didn't die. We ran next door and told the man that his dog was hanging and he came to our side and threw his dog back over the fence. It was a lucky day for the dog and me!