It was a Friday afternoon and I was about to have Mom swing by to check up on the situation at Snuffer's house
but after seeing an ambulance and a cop car at the house I didn't stop by. Not thinking to much of it I planned to
stop by the next day and inspect things to see if they had made an effort to get the dwelling and back yard ready
for two rambunctious pups. This time I took the Captain with me who donned his cowboy hat and was
masquerading as "The Animal Cruelty Inspector". When we pulled up to the house Snuffer and two friends were
marching down the street barefoot.
" Hey what are you guys doing?" I asked
"Trying to find a bow and arrow so he can go out and get us some meat" Snuffer said seriously and pointed to
some kid dressed up as a deer hunter.
"Well that's nice but where is your boyfriend(the actual owner and tenant)?" I asked
"He had to go to the mental hospital.....went crazy last night" she answered
I was a little taken back and thought about what to say as I looked around back to see if anything had been done
and it hadn't.
"I'm sorry to hear about that but don't you think that kinda shows you that it might be a bad idea having two little
puppies?" I gently asked her.
"Why we aren't hurting them and my kid loves those dogs" Snuffer said with some agitation.
"Listen you haven't done anything I asked, your man is off in the loony bin, and someone told me they saw you
kick one of the puppies the other day. Its not a good idea for you to have dogs." I told Snuffer as she started
shaking her head.
"You stole that dog and we want her back! That's why he went crazy" she snapped
"Well I just don't think it is a good idea.....let's wait until he gets back home"
"Get the f&*@ off this property and when he gets back we are gonna have you arrested for this!!" Snuffer
screamed as me and The Captain high tailed it to the truck.
After that little tift I decided that I wasn't taking the dogs back, regardless of the legal consequences. I doubted it
would ever amount to a prosecution and started to think about how to get this mess cleaned up. After talking to all
the professional animal people around(dog control officer, SPCA, animal cruelty inspector, and Dr. Lopez) we
decided that we had two avenues for getting the pups out of the situation.
1) Get the guy who was in the mental hospital(for bi-polar disorder) to sign the pups over to me so I could legally
sign them over to the SPCA.
2) Take the dogs back and have the the authorities follow closely behind to take the dogs away.
So a few days passed and finally Mr. BiPolar came down to the bar with Snuffer to discuss the situation. I laid it
out to him plain: either sign them over to me or your gonna have them taken away and have to pay the
fines(money motivates). Snuffer immediately went off the handle, yellin and cussin with plenty of tobacco juice
flying out the corners of her mouth(you really gotta see this 'lady' for yourself to believe it). She eventually
stormed off and me and Mr. BiPolar were able to have a sane conversation, well half sane, well somewhat sane
anyway.
" You don't need these dogs and you can't care for them properly, admit that." I told him
"I know Ace but its just that I love that dog and her kids love that dog" he whimpered, "plus I just spent fifty bucks
getting them rabies shots and paying the fines on em".
"Well buddy you and her just aren't gonna get them back for more than a few hours, then the dog police are
gonna take them away. Then your kids and your woman are just gonna get all upset and you don't need the
stress from what I can tell" I explained.
"First of all she ain't my woman, we split up a few weeks ago. I just don't have the heart to kick her out on the
street. But we aren't sleepin with each other or anything......" Mr. Bi Polar explained, proving that he is not totally
crazy.
"OK that is cool but we gotta get something figured out with these pups. Why don't you sleep on it and let me
know tomorrow what you want to do" says I.
"Alright Ace I'll get in touch with you tomorrow" he said and walked away.
The conclusion tomorrow.............