Honestly, he is. He has a record. A big one let me tell you. A long line of numbers and dots.
We have had to write letters to China, Russia, INS, our homestudy agency, the State of California, our Sheriff's department, and lets see...
Oh yeah, a letter of apology to the Animal Control. Yes people, the POUND!
My darling DH, the most easy going guy in the world. A sweetie among sweeties. I'm telling you EVERYONE loves this guy. The overlords of the Animal Control DO NOT.
Here's the story-
My husband has a habit of collecting stray dogs. They are usually running around on the highway in front of cars etc. We put an ad on the net, and the local paper to find their owners. Yes, he also calls the animal control but WE keep the dogs so they are not euthanized within a few days. If we don't find the owners we find them a home. For some reason the great Officers of dogdom HATE it. They make a daily drive by our block just to make sure we are "walking the line".
Since the so called "dog fiasco" of two years ago, we have stopped taking in the lost and weary.
DH brought home a "cow dog" on that fateful day. It is their job to be hyper and busy, very very busy. They herd cows for cryin out loud! This one had been hit, but all that was wrong was a broken leg. Took "Barkie" to the vet. Had the leg set. Did all necessary calling and ad placing.
But as the canine gods would have it, this dog was NOT going to stay in our fence. THIS dog JUMPED OVER our fence to chase around the neighborhood cats WITH a broken leg. This dog was "Superdog". This dog knew how to get out of a collar. This dog could open frickin' doors! This dog got out and was nabbed by an officer at the bottom of our driveway while we were at work.
SINCE we had placed all the ads, had called the "AC" and he was at the bottom of our driveway, WE were ticketed. Well actually DH was, but I take it oh so personally. So, I come home to a message on the machine and a note on the door. AC has the dog. Cool, OK someone will go get him in the morning as there was also a message from the owner thanking us blah blah blah.
I call the owner. He will go pick up said dog and send us $$ for vet bill. Yay, all is well. I move on, DH moves on.
BAM! One month later I get a letter from the Superior Court. There has been an arrest warrant put out for my husband. On.... a dog license charge. I FREAK!
We are two months from leaving to meet our beautiful boy in Russia. I worked in the "legal area" of the county for seven years, I know all the paperwork that has been generated EVERYWHERE! My friend is a Commissioner, I know all the District Attorney's personally, the court staff, EVERYONE! My HUSBAND has a warrant out! They ALL know we are adopting and I feel totally ashamed and violated and PANICKED! I call my husband and get his ass down to the jail to get booked and get a court date. He sits in a holding cell with a DUI guy, a meth addict, and a guy with vomit all down his shirt, mixing with the smell of stale BO. They all ask him why he's there. Ummmm.........
Evidently, the AC had sent a court date to our PHYSICAL address. We do not have a mail receptacle at our physical address. The mailbox bashers of Redneck Ridge have struck one too many times and we have a Post Office Box, we NEVER got the frickin notice and since the owner of the dog had gone to the pound we figured he had done everything that was needed to be done (he did send us the $$ for the vet along with some homemade ravioli).
When DH emerges from his "prison" with his booking slip and personal effects in a bag he is fuming. The court date is the day we leave for Russia. Can you imagine my state of mind NOW?
Anyway, after a major letter writing campaign and an embarrassing, snot-filled begging session to the judge I get the court date for the next week so we can get this done and do all necessary clean up of this so we can finish our adoption of our son.
We are having to relive this all over again with our China paperwork AND NOW we need yet three more letters of reference (not counting the original five to the homestudy agency and the extra five to the INS, and then another several to our China agency) to the State of California who is holding our application to be a Foster Home because my husband has a RECORD of an unlicensed dog that was never even his and a failure to appear of a court date that we never knew about. Yes, we paid a $700.00 fine for this. This is following us in everything we do!
So beware all you people- the Animal Control is watching!
We have had to write letters to China, Russia, INS, our homestudy agency, the State of California, our Sheriff's department, and lets see...
Oh yeah, a letter of apology to the Animal Control. Yes people, the POUND!
My darling DH, the most easy going guy in the world. A sweetie among sweeties. I'm telling you EVERYONE loves this guy. The overlords of the Animal Control DO NOT.
Here's the story-
My husband has a habit of collecting stray dogs. They are usually running around on the highway in front of cars etc. We put an ad on the net, and the local paper to find their owners. Yes, he also calls the animal control but WE keep the dogs so they are not euthanized within a few days. If we don't find the owners we find them a home. For some reason the great Officers of dogdom HATE it. They make a daily drive by our block just to make sure we are "walking the line".
Since the so called "dog fiasco" of two years ago, we have stopped taking in the lost and weary.
DH brought home a "cow dog" on that fateful day. It is their job to be hyper and busy, very very busy. They herd cows for cryin out loud! This one had been hit, but all that was wrong was a broken leg. Took "Barkie" to the vet. Had the leg set. Did all necessary calling and ad placing.
But as the canine gods would have it, this dog was NOT going to stay in our fence. THIS dog JUMPED OVER our fence to chase around the neighborhood cats WITH a broken leg. This dog was "Superdog". This dog knew how to get out of a collar. This dog could open frickin' doors! This dog got out and was nabbed by an officer at the bottom of our driveway while we were at work.
SINCE we had placed all the ads, had called the "AC" and he was at the bottom of our driveway, WE were ticketed. Well actually DH was, but I take it oh so personally. So, I come home to a message on the machine and a note on the door. AC has the dog. Cool, OK someone will go get him in the morning as there was also a message from the owner thanking us blah blah blah.
I call the owner. He will go pick up said dog and send us $$ for vet bill. Yay, all is well. I move on, DH moves on.
BAM! One month later I get a letter from the Superior Court. There has been an arrest warrant put out for my husband. On.... a dog license charge. I FREAK!
We are two months from leaving to meet our beautiful boy in Russia. I worked in the "legal area" of the county for seven years, I know all the paperwork that has been generated EVERYWHERE! My friend is a Commissioner, I know all the District Attorney's personally, the court staff, EVERYONE! My HUSBAND has a warrant out! They ALL know we are adopting and I feel totally ashamed and violated and PANICKED! I call my husband and get his ass down to the jail to get booked and get a court date. He sits in a holding cell with a DUI guy, a meth addict, and a guy with vomit all down his shirt, mixing with the smell of stale BO. They all ask him why he's there. Ummmm.........
Evidently, the AC had sent a court date to our PHYSICAL address. We do not have a mail receptacle at our physical address. The mailbox bashers of Redneck Ridge have struck one too many times and we have a Post Office Box, we NEVER got the frickin notice and since the owner of the dog had gone to the pound we figured he had done everything that was needed to be done (he did send us the $$ for the vet along with some homemade ravioli).
When DH emerges from his "prison" with his booking slip and personal effects in a bag he is fuming. The court date is the day we leave for Russia. Can you imagine my state of mind NOW?
Anyway, after a major letter writing campaign and an embarrassing, snot-filled begging session to the judge I get the court date for the next week so we can get this done and do all necessary clean up of this so we can finish our adoption of our son.
We are having to relive this all over again with our China paperwork AND NOW we need yet three more letters of reference (not counting the original five to the homestudy agency and the extra five to the INS, and then another several to our China agency) to the State of California who is holding our application to be a Foster Home because my husband has a RECORD of an unlicensed dog that was never even his and a failure to appear of a court date that we never knew about. Yes, we paid a $700.00 fine for this. This is following us in everything we do!
So beware all you people- the Animal Control is watching!
5 comments:
That is un-freakin'believable! Sorry this hassle is hanging on for dear life.
Yikes - I hope hubs lied to the other prisoners about why he was there ;0)
Holy cow! That's so nuts that you have had to do all of that!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had to do all that for a speeding arrest-- but he actually was speeding and it was his car.
This is unbelievably stupid!!! I'd give you a badge of honor helping all those pups.
I have a "cow dog." I assume you mean and Australian Cattle Dog, and not say, a cute little Corgie which is also technically a cow dog.
They are smart. Some of them climb trees.
That is completely insane!!!
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