How not to meet your new neighbors (funny dog related)

They must have thought you were nuts.LOL.

Great Story! Love it!

Had a Dalmatian/Lab Mix that was an escape artist.

New neighbors had bought house just down the road and moved in.

Due to my rotating shifts I had NOT had time to properly meet them......small grouping of homes out in the desert so everyone knows each other.

They had been moved in for about 2 weeks....had set up and stocked their chicken coop and were setting in to a rural lifestyle.
Until one morning around 2AM I hear a commotion going on/yelling/hollering and one clean distinct sentence comes thru "Get the GUN...I'm going to shoot that dang dog"

Oh-oh
I check around.........my dog is gone.
Jump in truck and race down the road. There she is in the headlights with a big old white chicken in her mouth
Call...she comes and jumps into truck bed.....I lay chicken down by tailgate/snap her into front leash and drive over to 'introduce myself to new neighbors'

Guy was pretty reasonable considering and we settled on me replacing his chicken.

I go back out to truck and the 'dead chicken' is standing there looking at my dog which is leashed and can't reach it....looking around for an escape route/pressing against tailgate as tight as it can

I grab chicken, walk back up to house, ring door bell and when guy answers I hand him the chicken and smile.

Two weeks later we are having a BBQ together.......laughing about the 'new neighbors welcoming' and eating grilled chicken :B

Great stories!!

When I bought my house at the time unknown to me my new elderly neighbor was outside in her backyard and was giving me funny looks and finally dollars I'm right here!? Well I'm calling my dog in from my backyard only to find out that my dog Ruby and my new neighbor was also Ruby ?? it was definitely a interesting way to meet her.

campinginthewoods wrote:
When I bought my house at the time unknown to me my new elderly neighbor was outside in her backyard and was giving me funny looks and finally dollars I'm right here!? Well I'm calling my dog in from my backyard only to find out that my dog Ruby and my new neighbor was also Ruby ?? it was definitely a interesting way to meet her.

I once had a Collie named Lady. One day a group of ladies were walking down the street out of view of me behind a large pine tree in the yard. Lady (the collie) was taking her time sniffing and I wanted to go back inside. I yelled out (Lady get your arss back inside) about the same time as the ladies were coming into view. If looks could kill I would not be here now.

colliehauler wrote:

campinginthewoods wrote:
When I bought my house at the time unknown to me my new elderly neighbor was outside in her backyard and was giving me funny looks and finally dollars I'm right here!? Well I'm calling my dog in from my backyard only to find out that my dog Ruby and my new neighbor was also Ruby ?? it was definitely a interesting way to meet her.

I once had a Collie named Lady. One day a group of ladies were walking down the street out of view of me behind a large pine tree in the yard. Lady (the collie) was taking her time sniffing and I wanted to go back inside. I yelled out (Lady get your arss back inside) about the same time as the ladies were coming into view. If looks could kill I would not be here now.

:B

These stories are great...

I've told this before, but maybe have a new audience. We adopted a rescue Cattle Dog. His name had been Jake, but the neighbor's dog was named Jake, so we changed it to Jack. I also have always used the command "off" meaning to get off something, rather than "down" which is an obedience command to lie down. So sure enough, a male friend from church shows up while we're out in the yard, and Jack, my social butterfly, runs up, jumps on our friend, and I yell "Jack, OFF!" I'm glad it was a friend and we could giggle about it later, but I was mortified.....