Dog Bites and the Under Educated

So, I know a lot of Vietnamese people. Everyone knows this. I know a family that lives in an area I used to live in. They are nice enough people. They are generally under educated and over religious. They are Catholic. What that has to do with the story I’m about to tell? Not a damn thing. It’s just an observation. It’s really irrelevant to the entire thing; I should erase it so it doesn’t seem like I’m picking. I’m not. Get over it.

So three children are at my house, one is older and he comes over often to hang out and play video games. It’s cool, he’s a cool kid. He doesn’t have much of a father figure, so I guess he likes hangin’ at my place because he gets some fun and some leadership and advice that he can’t get at his own place. His mother is cool, but she’s a girl and boys don’t want to talk to their moms about “boy stuff”. I know this, because I didn’t want to talk to my mom about the boy stuff. Anyhow, his two younger siblings want to hang out with my spawn. No problem. I pick them up bring them to the house and when we go inside I say sternly, to be careful of the dog. “Please be careful around the dog. Don’t chase the Spawn around, don’t act aggressively toward her, and make sure you don’t I don’t know stomp all over some body part of hers because you know she’s old and can be ill-tempered when provoked. And when I say provoked, I mean having her tail, feet, body, or other various areas of her being abused.

First 15 minutes these little rug rats are here, one of them steps on my dog’s tail. Not, “Oh man, I almost really stepped on you.” It was more like “I am grinding my foot into your lower vertebrae, how does that feel, bitch?” So Powder, my 9 year old dog bit him. She didn’t aggressively bite him. She gave him a warning nip while yelping. I patched the boy up, and took all of them home later.

Long story short, his mother wouldn’t listen to me. Now I have to take papers to the city animal control office so they can see that she has her shots. This is after I explained to her three times that Powder wasn’t attacking him. She wasn’t unprovoked. Her child stepped on my dog and my dog defended herself from the viscious onslaught of a child that did not obey what I said. I sleep during the day because I work nights. Guess how happy I am to be taking papers to the animal control facility. Yah. Exactly. The reason she took him to the hospital? Oh I asked..yes…I did. Not because he was bleeding profusely or in serious pain. She took him because back in Viet Nam she heard about a stray dog that bit someone and he died later (probably from rabies). I was extremely thorough about explaining this to her.

On top of that AT&T still doesn’t have a good Android phone. Fuck AT&T. You hear that, AT&T? Die in a fire!

I’ll post a picture all by itself tomorrow. I’m too annoyed to search.