Did he ever come back?

She was telling me some story and licked my face to punctuate some point or another. Kinda took me by surprise. Many years ago though, pre sobriety days I'm certain.

Thanks, I like!

I'm officially a sucker. And it is in part because my parent's neighbors are pieces of shit.

I've written about these people before. The house consists of the worthless hoodrat mother, 33, and her six worthless hoodrat kids - ages 15-20. Yeah, do the math. I should say the kids are there when not in jail or juvie. I think the two youngest are pregnant. These are the people who have stolen my mother's purse twice (including $3,000 worth of hearing aids) and showed up to her house using her own cell phone - that was last seen in her stolen purse.

They have had this sweet wonderful dog chained up to the condemned garage for a few years now. He is fed and watered when my parents do it, and he has never had a bath. He sleeps under the floorboards to get away from the weather, because there is no roof on most of the structure. When he does roam free, he always stops to see me when I'm in the neighborhood, kisses my face, rolls over to let me rub his belly, and is basically the sweetest thing I have ever seen. Unfortunately, he has real shitty people.

Well, here's what happened - they are moving out. The mother already left two weeks ago, leaving her unincarcerated kids in the house with no electricity - one has cerebral palsy and at least one of them is pregnant.

But fuck them - the dog is of course still there. Well, was still there. My mother finally cracked and took him. (She's usually so offensively law abiding - she said it's the first thing she's ever stolen. I'm so proud of her.) She bathed him, brushed out his many mats, put salve on a few open sores he had on his ears, gave him a flea treatment, and lots of love. He wouldn't leave her side all day. But she's right next door to the house she took him from - even though the former boyfriend of the mama and several kids have told her to take him, stating that the mother will just keep him like that until he's dead. So we smuggled him over to my house this afternoon. The mother has previously turned down our offers to take him, stating how much she loves him and takes care of him (BULL-SHIT!!!) but what can she do now? And with my father being the local police lieutenant, what's she going to do - call the cops?Trust me, the last thing that woman wants is for police to show up at her door.

So now I have another dog. He's so calm and well behaved, and my dogs are totally cool with him. (The cats are kinda pissed off, but cats do that.) He's very eager to please and insists on being right next to us at all times, which makes me kind of sad to think how many years he has been ignored. I'm still not sure of having three dogs, but I do feel totally right in what we did. My folks are going to offer the mother some money for him if she says anything - it should be enough to get some cigarettes or some crack. Either way, both of them agree that she will NOT get the dog back.