The theft of Chocolate....

So, yesterday morning I went out to water the grass in the backyard and feed the dog. Well she usually comes right out of wherever she's at but sometimes she doesn't so I didn't think anything of it for the first little bit. But when I called her and she didn't come then I went looking in all the places she likes to hide...under the slide, in the tomato plants...nowhere. So I go around the whole perimeter of our yard like a hundred times to see if she got out somewhere, there was no holes and our gate was still shut tight. So I called Clint, my mom, and Jodi(she got us the puppy in the first place) to get some advice on what to do, which there wasn't really anything I could do. Someone had stole Chocolate.

Now we had some suspicions of the neighbor kids doing it because about a month ago they would climb up on the back fence about 30 minutes after me and Clint had turned out the lights and quietly whistle to the puppy. Then for about 4 nights straight they would throw fire crackers in our back yard. But when I wanted to do something about it Clint assured me they were just bored neighbor kids trying to get a rise out of us and if we did something about it then they knew it worked so they would try something else...ignorance is bliss right?

Back to Chocolate...so I went out to move the water and saw one of them in thier backyard and figured I could just ask them if they happened to see a little brown puppy but when I put the chair up the teenage kid was in his underwear letting his dog out to do it's business and I figured that if they had the puppy it would be out also, not that i sat there and looked real good cuz I didn't want the kid to see me looking in thier backyard with him in his underwear....

So I just left it be and I was going to print out flyers to put on the mailboxes around the neiborhood. 30 minutes later there was a knock at the door and low and behold it was one of the neibor kids...hmmm. He had "accidently" thown his football in our backyard and wanted me to get it so I went back and got it. Then me being the dork that I am(the neibors are black)said that we had lost our BLACK puppy(she's brown)then corrected myself and said well she's almost black she's dark brown....I'm such a dork, I was thinking that this kid was a really dark kid, I mean he was almost black( i'm not racist promise he was really nice) then he told me that they would keep an eye out for the puppy and left.

Then about 3 hours later...2ish there was another knock at our door and the kids had our puppy...hmmm convenient...and said that they had found her down the street...and she didn't have either of her collars, which there was no way she could have got them off because one of them was getting tight and I couldn't loosen the dang thing and was going to have Clint help me when he got a chance. then I told them that I'm surprised they found her because we thought someone had stole her... Then they sat there at my door for like 30 minutes while I talked and they didn't say a whole lot...they were wanting some kind of reward. Then they asked me if she was a lab(their dog is a male lab, convenient) and I told them no she was a german shorthair pointer...then I told them my suspicions of someone stealing her because there was no way she could have got out and that I was going to get her microchipped so that if someone did steal her again then we could find her. Anyways I finally just said that if there was anything i could do for them to let me know so that they would leave my house.

The reason this made me so mad is cuz this puppy is actually a pretty good puppy and not as abnoxious as the normal puppy...anyways...kids are bored and crazy, watch your dogs and for bored kids in the neighborhood.