Never mind the old lady, what about you? Doesn’t it scare you to think a dog might get out someday?
It sure does. I don’t have a gun, but I always have a plan for what I would do if one of these things breaks out of its cage and gets over the fence.
The city gets complaints about these dogs all the time (they bark a lot) but the city is scared because it’s an historically black neighborhood, even though probably very few blacks live there now.
But if it’s a complaint about a black person’s property, the city is super-careful. They come, they look over the fence (from a side where you can’t see anything) and they go away. The old lady is obviously tipped off by somebody in the city office, because she’s never there when the city inspectors arrive, and they told me they can’t enter the property if she’s not there.
I bet this is not an infrequent situation. The old lady may be a little scared of her grandson, who is about 40 years old and actually a nice guy, except really clueless because he spent the last 15 years “away,” meaning in prison, and just got out about 2 years ago. I think if the city came and gave him a big warning, he’d move the dogs or get out of the dogfighting business (he’s going to auto mechanics school) but the problem is that the city won’t do anything and apparently if you complain, the city gives your name to the object of the complaint. That’s why the neighbors, either black or white, are afraid to complain.