5 Pit Bulls

[Jon Klaus]

Email exchange today

Prospective tenant:
What all do u need to rent I only make cash I have been in the house I'm at for a year now I'm looking to downsize but need space for my dogs
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Me:
Good landlord reference, evidence of income and ability to pay, and that you will take good care of the home. Outside dogs OK, no "dangerous" breeds.
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Prospective tenant:
Thanks for the reply I have 5 pit bulls and they are inside outside dogs. Thanks anyway and the pits love my newborn baby so ppl make a dog dangerous not it's breed it's as bad as racism thanks anyway
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Me:
I understand. I had a lab/wolf mix for years and 3 Great Pyrenees now. Neighbors, and especially those insurance actuaries don't get it.
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Any good dog stories to share?

[Timothy W.]

Originally posted by Jon Klaus:

Any good dog stories to share?

I have one that occurred like a staged Marx Brothers bit. I was on the back porch of one of my vacant rental properties at night while rehabbing it and decided to sit down and open up the laptop and was actually on BP when this happened. It was dark with very little moonlight and I was sitting right at the corner of the house so I couldn't see around the corner. So I'm typing away and suddenly sense something is right there, right around the corner...then I hear leaves crunching. I look around the corner and am face to face, less than a foot away with a huge head that later turned out to be a yellow lab but I swore at the time was the face of a dragon, long nose mountain lion or a demon raccoon. Out of complete surprise, I yell. Out of complete surprise, the dog yelps just as loud. We both do a fast 180, I miss the door and run into the wall; the dog misses the gate and runs right into the fence. We both fall down at the same time, scramble up back to our feet and retreat to where we can both figure out wtf just happened. Never saw the dog again but had a good laugh at how that went down.

If someone had gotten a video of that you could have played Yakety Sax to it.

Tim