Barking Mad

It sucks at times having my mom live a few states away from me. Like tonight when she calls me and tells me that 3 fully grown Boxer dogs have attacked her and her little foufi dog Coco! I mean seriously, I'm totally upset and freaking out and there is nothing I can do from here. She claims they are both okay and that she's calm now and everything is okay. I, on the other hand, am in tears as they knocked her down and tried to practically eat her dog who might weigh 5 pounds total.

So what do I do? I call my sister-in-law who lives in Florida. Because clearly she can do something from there. I needed moral support dammit! Mom was saying she didn't want to call the police or animal control on the stupid owner of the damn marauding dogs, who upon arrival as my mother is laying on the ground, screaming for help comes up and says, "their just puppies". Like, oopey, they managed to get out of the yard and they were just playing...they didn't really mean to try to kill you and your dog!

My SiL and I agreed that we had to get mom to report this. Oh! AND! What I neglected to mention is that last night she was walking Coco and they walked by the house with the 3 Boxers and they tried to jump the fence - so they deliberately took an alternate route for their walk and when dogs managed to get out they came running for them on a completely different street!!!

We both said, what if it had been a child? She finally called. But because they didn't break the skin or truly bite either one, there's no real report...

I still can't get over that horrid owner! If you cannot control your dogs you don't deserve to own them. You have a responsibility not only to the people around you but to the damn dogs! It's not their fault - she's the one who can't control them! And who gets 3 freaking dogs at one time? She's probably never even owned Boxers before, never even researched the breed! Probably never owned large dogs before! She saw them on one of the dog shows on TV and thought, why don't I get three very large dogs - they can keep each other company! I'll keep them outside and let them bark incessantly, attack my neighbors and try to eat small defenseless animals!

I dislike feeling so helpless and I hate not being there for her other than on the phone. I remember when I lived in Japan and there was a HUGE typhoon coming directly for my little town...it was the middle of the night and I was freaking out so who do I call? My mom who lives thousands of miles away because if I'm going to be freaked out, well then she damn well should be too!