Hell-Hounds.

This may well be a local thing and mean nothing to you, but is it just me or has the dog population exploded lately? I don’t know if it’s living under a Conservative government or the ongoing recession or our recent boiling hot summer… but everybody seems to be investing in dogs lately. And not the good kind either, the evil little ones that’ll be on the news for eating toddlers in a few months. The ones that were clearly breed to rip your balls off and seem a bit too savage to be sold to your average gob-shite looking to look a bit dangerous. The amount of times I’ve had to walk pass someone and their evil looking dog lately this summer.

The other day I was walking into work and as I got to a certain point and a certain area the pavements were just smeared in dog-shite. It was like a bad joke or something. Every few feet there’s another patch of crap spread out so they can get as many walkers as possible.

Something spooked dog owners into cleaning up after their annoying dogs in recent years. I think they could I.D. the poop or something, but maybe they’ve publicly dropped whatever scheme it was, because we’re back to the times of just keeping your eyes fixed to the ground when you’re walking about and shooting dog owners dirty looks.

It just that ’walking a tightrope’ look these people have when they’re walking down the street with these vicious little fucker they know they probably couldn’t control if\when it goes berserk. Or when you see some knucklehead walking down the road with a couple of pitbulls on one arm and some tiny kid on the other. It reminds me of a couple of weekends ago when I was walking to my local artshop (which is in a pretty shitty part of town.) I’m walking pass one house and there’s a pitbull in the tiny bit of space that would be their front garden. It doesn’t seem very interested in me at first but as I walk closer it starts to perk up until someone pulls it back, as I’m walking pass I see this tiny little girl holding the lead. She’s probably waiting for her mum who‘s inside, but if this dog decided it wanted to attack, this little girl (about 6ish if I had to take a guess and not much bigger then the dog) would be just dragged along and useless… if not caught up in the attack. I just put my head down and walked quickly down the road. I didn’t hear any barking or a little girl squealing as she dragged along behind this blood thirsty hell-hound, so I breathed a sigh of relief and went back to doing what I was doing… trying to avoid stepping in dog-shit.