I am nice, too.

Pet Peeve #10
Aggressive large dogs who habitually roam the streets.

What are these pet owners thinking?
Do they think?
Maybe they think it might cramp their puppy's style to keep the thing pent up in the house or on a leash.
I have a message for those types of people:
Keep your dog in your yard. If your dog harasess me or any children on the street, you may find one day, your dog accidentally on purpose gets ran over, three times, in rapid succession.

There is a pit bull on our street, the people who live katy-corner to our house own this animal. This dog comes into our yard in the early morning and barks at my husband.
Okay, fine and dandy, my husband is 6ft tall 190 pounds and has a concealed weapons permit. If the dog charges him it will be quite literally dead meat. However, if the dog is fearless enough to come in MY yard and bark and growl at a large unintimidated man, what would happen to little kids out in the yard? For sereral weeks now, I no longer send my little guys out to dump the trash alone.
Today:
All the kids had just gotten off to school and my husband was loading his work stuff into the van. I follow him out to the front yard to finish a conversation we were having and this large, crop-eared, pitbull is in my (MY) yard barking at us.
Derek is totally undaunted because he's packing heat, besides, he hasn't shot a deer or bear for several seasons, an aggressive dog might satiate his desire to shoot some warm blooded, four legged, beast.
I, on the other hand, am purely pissed off. So, I start yelling, with considerable volume in a fake southern accent so the neighbors will hear and maybe think I am a dangerous hick. Maybe I am.
I gues if my light blue, fleece, Christmas, pengiun pajama pants coupled with my biker tank top doesnt set off some warning bells in his head about my mental stability than nothing will.
I say, "I'm thinkin I'll go get me my shot gun and shoot that thing. Or maybe, I'll jist git in my car and run that nasty puppy over."
WEll, well, well... I gues the nieghbor could hear all the commotion after all.
That gets his attention, somehow he missed his dog barking and growling at us, in our yard, but boy did he hear me threaten his animal.
First he tries to call his dog back. The dog does not listen, AT ALL. Instead it casually pees on a rock, then it heads down the street to terrorize another yard.
This dog has about as much respect for his owner as I have for cake without icing.
Then the guy turns to me and says, "she is a really nice dog, she just likes to do that."
What's "that"??
"That" obviousley means: go into other peoples yards and threaten them without backing down.
So I say, "I am really nice too.
I just like to drive my van right over dogs that run around in the street"
That was the end of our exchange.