"Keep your fights in the ring", my former coach used to always tell me... and I'm trying. Still waiting for KBC/KBA to get their act together so that I can get back into the ring to fight. Until then though, I'm experiencing the equivalency of "blue balls" for a boxer!!!
Fourteen separate sparring matches tonight and I get into a fight outside, as if there weren't enough fist flying and hooks being thrown inside Hulk's.
Those random food-throwing, dog-teasing people who randomly and spontaneously come along and bother my four-legged friends drove me bonkers today and I took matters into my own hands, as did Snickers too actually. I tell you, touch, tease or feed our dogs and we will break out a crazy like you've never seen before. Tonight four people can testify to this. The first were three high school boys who decided to randomly throw rocks at our pups. Throwing rocks was their first mistake, Snickers happening to catch word of them doing this was their other mistake. Out the club ran Snickers, fully dressed in his sparring gear, training clothes and boxing boots. Next thing I know it, I'm witnessing him grabbing one of the kids by the scruff of his collar and bopping him on the head with his sparring glove. He bopped him just like you bop those toy groundhogs at the fair. You know, the ones who pop their heads out of the hole and you have to hit with the rubber hammer before they disappear. It was both amusing and a bit scary at the same time, not knowing if the simple bop on the head would escalate into a fight or perhaps Snickers throwing a fist. Snickers IS the Hulk, their similarities are so in sync it's not even funny. And although his extreme strength has served him well in the ring, his anger is very much like a switch. You flick that switch and woozers, look out! Thankfully, those kids never did flick the switch and the confrontation ended with a few more bops on the head and them saying sorry.
I think I'm becoming my own version of Hulk -- the She-Hulk. I say this because there's this particular older Korean woman who most randomly shows up and throws food scraps at my dogs despite me continuously telling her not to do so. Tonight I watched as she picked up some food she had tossed at them, food that had bounced off the pup's corridor fence and landed by her feet, and throw it back at them. I saw her from my side office window and when I caught sight of her I banged on the window and out the front door I flew. By the time I reached the side of the building she was down the street running... so I chased her. I've never chased her before (have chased others) but instead have always been polite with reminding her to not feed my dogs. I was out of reminders and out of being polite; tonight I was going to end this. I had picked up some of the food scraps she had been trying to feed my dogs, it was some kind of bread with cream on it, so when I caught up to her I opened my hand and revealed it to her. "You dropped this", I told her. She took the bread and when I turned to walk away she mumbled something nasty under her breath. "Next time maybe you'll be more careful not to drop things by my dogs" I snapped back with, "I would hate for the fence gate to open and my dogs mistake you for food". And with that I left her curbside with a dumbfounded look on her face.
OK, so perhaps it was overly dramatic of me to say such a thing and ya, sure what are my pups really going to do?! Lick her to death?! They could seriously careless about some older lady but I care. My four-legged babies aren't the ones you have to watch out for, it's us two owners who protect them.
Common sense would tell you not to feed someone else's dog or not approach someone else's dogs, especially considering one is bigger than the average child and there are three of them. Unfortunately I've found that common sense isn't so common and that there's really nothing to do but take matters into your own hands. Tonight I made a sign to attach to the pup's fence, a little warning that isn't really rude but is rather a stern warning. Let's hope it works because depending on what random people feed my pups, it could be a serious matter.
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