We recently had a new neighbor move into the house next door to us, a rental property that has caused us problems on and off since we bought our house three years ago.

Just a couple of days after he moved in, we found a strange Australian shepherd dog wandering around the alley.  We didn’t recognize the dog, but we knew the new neighbor had dogs, because we saw the movers take dog stuff (bowls, dog food, and a big dog bed) into the house.

Sure enough, when we walked past the new neighbor’s privacy fence, we saw an Aussie nose similar to the loose dog’s poke out between two boards, and the dog whined pitifully.  Obviously we had her buddy, and she wanted him back.

We helped get the lost dog back into his yard, and let the new neighbor know that the dogs could apparently get out.  The neighbor turned out to be kind of creepy — an older fellow who was confined to a wheelchair, and who constantly complained about his daughter abandoning him here.  (Apparently he didn’t want to move into this house…?)

Anyway, those darned dogs got loose several more times before he had his daughter figure out how to seal up all the spots in the fence where they were getting through.  They don’t get out anymore, though, which makes me glad — because I don’t have to take them back and deal with our creepy neighbor!

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