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I took Cooper and Chase to the trails by the woods.  This set of trails are right by the Civic Center where the skating rink, hockey rink, skate board rink, police department and City Hall are.  I thought I let them run free in the woods.  Off the leash and into the trails we went.  Chase loves the trails.  This is the 3rd time he has been in the woods.  This is a small little trails.  I took my usual route in the trail and went down the little path and Urghhhhhhh………@#$%$.  All the effenheimers came spilling out.  Cooper stopped and looked at me.  At least he knows I’m in some sort of trouble.

See that green wire string in the above picture?  Thank goodness for camera phones.

Here is another view of the string or whatever you called it.  That string was tied onto two skinny trees between the path.  I obviously didn’t see it and since I’m short, it caught me right on my throat.   When I got myself back on track, I looked around to see if there were anyone around but there were none.  If there were, the two boys especially Cooper, he is actually a good guard dog, will growl.  I walked away hacking away but then I thought I should take a picture to show it to DBs what I encountered in the trails.  So I did and walked away still rubbing my throat.

Came home, told DBs about it and he said I should call the cops to tell them someone put up the string with no signs of warning.  It was a prank obviously.  He called the cops for me, told them where it was and they said they will go check it out.  I then went out again to walk Ranger, the slow coach, not on the trails coz it was already getting dark by the time we got done with the call to the cops. 

When I got home, DBs said the cops called twice: once to see if I’m OK, if I need to go to the ER and then he said they drove by the trails and saw nothing there.  Hello, we already told them it’s inside the trails.  they have to walk in to the trails to look for it.  Darn cops.  I will go out there when I get off work tomorrow to see if that string is still there.  What an experience!

A lady who walks her dog every day stopped me one day asking me if I have seen the German Shepard that lives in the corner house on 130th Street.  I know which house she was referring to and she continued to tell me that her dog was attacked by the shepard.  Her dog is slightly smaller than my two older ones, well, probably her dog is about 60+ pounds.  She and her dog were walking passed the house and the shepard was in his outside kennel, scooted right out, grabbed a hold of her dog’s neck and not letting go.  She said she was screaming for the shepard’s owners and eventually they came out.  The shepard is a big dog too, I think that shepard is about 10 years old, always barks each time someone with a dog walks passed its house.  The lady said she called the cops with her cell right away.  The cops came and wrote a ticket to the shepard’s owners for not securing their dog from the public.  Since the dog is an outside dog and withno fence, owners need to supervise their dogs when the dogs are unleashed.  The lady’s dog is traumatized by that incident.  Each time they are near that house, the dog will stop short and will not move.  She is carrying a bear spray with her at all times.

Then, she told me a Pit Bull ran across the street and was about to attack her dog couple of days ago.  What bad luck and the owner of the pit bull needs to be shot or hung.  The owner was out on the driveway fiddling with the car and his dog was not leashed.  The lady used her bear spray, sprayed the pittbull in the eyes.  She said the pittbull was ready to charge her dog, bearing its teeth and has a very eerie growl.  Damn, that’s really scary.  The cops came and gave a warning to the owner, only a warning because it was the first offence.

All these routes she takes are the routes I take every day or every other.  Where else is safe for the public to walk?   I walked passed the shepard’s home every other day lately and I have not seen the dog anywhere.  I am wondering did the owners put him down because even if the dog is in the house, he will bark at me and the boys.  I still do not carry any pepper or bear spray, just my cellphone.  Maybe I should get one since my boys are always too friendly with strangers.  They are not guard dogs like shepards, rotweillers, pitbulls or dobermans.  Definitely no walks for me in the crack of dawn since DB told me he don’t feel safe with me walking the boys at 3:30  or 4 am.   I have yet to see the pittbull the lady was telling me, but I am keeping my eyes open each time I am out on my walks.

I took this picture on Saturday on my walk with Chase. 

This afternoon at 2:50 p.m., it’s this ungodly price….

Let’s say goodbye to $3.09/gallon from now on.  I pumped 1/2 a tank of gas yesterday at $3.89 and it cost me $27+ which is usually the total I pay for a full tank.  Time to think of car pooling which mean no flex hours of 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.!!