evil bear-nievel

He looks sweet and innocent and sane, doesn’t he?

Yeah, not so much.  Not today.  

This evening I was busily answering a few emails, ignoring the barking dogs.  About ten minutes earlier, they had started barking up a storm and I went to see what it was they were barking at — it was a piece of paper on my neighbor’s lawn.   This was not unusual – I usually ignore them unless they really sound worked up.  Well, there I was, happily at the computer, when all of a sudden, the barking got frantic and was followed by a loud crash — which was then followed by a woman screaming.  I run up to the front of the house and discover: (1) there’s only one dog there, and (2) the big front window is broken.  I look outside, and there is Bear, dancing around a woman and her weim.   The woman, having just had an 85-pound dog jump through a large glass window to get to her and her dog, was understandably freaking out.  I frantically dig for the keys to unlock the front door and yell to Bear.  He trots over, with a big, proud smile on his face, sits down in front of me and looks up, as if he’s expecting a treat.

I apologized about a zillion times for my full-on CRAZY dog.  She was doubly freaked out because her weim apparently has some aggression issues — which just might be triggered by a large dog flying through glass at her.  There hadn’t been anything more than a little posturing between the dogs, but I can only imagine the panic she must have felt.    

And Bear?  Not a scratch on him. 

The window’s about 2 feet up off the ground.  I had had an ottoman in front of the window that the dogs would take turns sitting on to get a better view.  Since I rearranged and moved the ottoman, I have heard and seen them with their paws on the window at times — and there are more than a few indications of dog art to show their noses had been pressed up against the glass — but I never thought one of them would jump through (and certainly not Bear).  Tomorrow morning, I’ll be looking into alternatives to glass.

What are those hockey rink guards made out of?