important updates for inquiring minds

[mrissa]

I discovered the source of the vomiting noise in the backyard!

It is the backdoor neighbors' dog, who was vomiting.

So this is really not so hot for the dog or the neighbors, but far better for us than fighting raccoons or opossums or what have you.

Also we will now refer to that dog as Pukeybird, so there's that. (These are neighbors who let their dog out to barkandbarkandbark at all hours of the day or night, so we are not constrained by our usual sense of neighborly courtesy. Oh, wait: our usual sense of neighborly courtesy would only dictate that we not call the dog that to their faces. So never mind then.) (Seriously, when you put a dog door in so your dog doesn't wake you up when it barks in the night, and then it wakes up all the neighbors when it barks in the night? Neighbor fail. And when your dog barksandbarksandbarks but my dog barks once and your kids scream obscenities at my dog? Neighbor fail. These people do not get a plate of cookies at Christmas, I tell you what.)

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering if you'd figured it out!

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I hope the dog is OK :( I don't think it's a good thing if he/she is vomiting that much.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, as I said, really not so hot for the dog and the neighbors.

On the other hand, some dogs vomit pretty casually, particularly if they are given to eating things in the yard that disagree with them, so three times in a week is kind of a lot but not as automatically bad as it would be for a human.

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

An interesting piece of trivia is that vomiting is a completely voluntary action in a dog, unlike humans, who vomit involuntarily. Also unlike humans, apparently it is not wholly unpleasant. Some dogs do it to relieve a stomach ache. Some dogs do it, apparently, for fun. Bleh.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

SOME dogs that I had do it for fun so that they can enjoy the same food again. Man, that was nasty. I'm deliberately not using the icon of my current dog here to avoid any guilt-by-icon-association.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for that poor creature.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is bouncing around its yard barking at squirrels even as we speak.

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

You know, if the pukeybird dog were to appear one morning painted purple with green polka dots, they might rethink the dog door thing...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I am fine with the dog; it's the monkeys I would like to paint purple with green polka dots.

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

See, that's the beauty. The dog would probably be most content to be decorated by friendly humans in the night. The humans--probably not so amused. ;-)

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

Of course much as I am entertained by the idea, it's something I would never do, alas...

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

it's the monkeys I would like to paint purple with green polka dots.

Hee. That is such a genteel response to this problem. I like that even when you reach the heights of irritation, this is your response.

[brooksmoses]

Well, at least it's a solved mystery.

There's a town law here that a dog is not allowed to bark (nor a cat meow) for than ten straight minutes across a property line. Not that I suspect dogs pay that much attention to it by themselves, though I have threatened our cats with it on occasion.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are laws here about noise as well, but it's not a battle dog owners really want to get into with their neighbors if we can at all avoid it. Do we try to keep our dog from making a nuisance of herself? Absolutely. Can we guarantee that she won't pick a time when timprov is out taking pictures of something, I'm in the shower, and markgritter is on an unexpected call for work to go nuts over a squirrel? No, we really can't--and if we haven't started a war with the neighbors, we don't have to worry about that, as long as it's not a consistent pattern.

If I thought the neighbors were abusing the dog, I wouldn't hesitate to call the cops. Instead, I think the neighbors are abusing my wish to get along with my neighbors, which is not at all the same kind of abuse.

[brooksmoses]

Oh, I thoroughly agree. Mostly I'm just amused at the "meowing across a propertly line" phrasing of it, and find it sort of useful as a codified "people agree that this is unacceptable, it's not just my own annoyance limit" thing.

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

I now feel much better about being the type of neighbor who runs out into the backyard in her pjs and her husband's shoes, filled with mortification that the pug just barked twice and it is after 8pm, neighbors I am so sorry...

[papersky.livejournal.com]

No plate of cookies? Oh my goodness. You'll be building the Maginot line next.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't mind being firm when it's called for.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

We have made efforts in that direction. Ista occasionally decides that their back yard is fascinating and tries to dig a hole under the fence. So there are fortifications (i.e., rocks) preventing her from doing so.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

They are "not okay."