The_Dunedan

Some of you know about my neighbors.

Some do not.

Let me give you an idea of what this crowd of inbred, mouth-breathing, welfare-cheating, wife-beating, child-abusing, animal-neglecting White Trash are like.

I just saw two of their kids go tearing down the road on a 4-wheeler...chasing a dog. The dog was not chasing them, -they- were chasing -it- down a one-lane road with barbed-wire cattle fences on both sides. I know this dog: it's one of theirs, so they weren't trying to chase off a stray. A few minutes later they were back, -still- chasing the dog, which by this point was visibly flagging (black longhair in summer, gofigure).

Now, that 4-wheeler (one of 3 just like it) is newer, nicer, more expensive and has better features than my car. It, like everything else they own, was paid for with my money, since only one of these people has a job: driving school-buses part time. And they just used my money to abuse an innocent creature that's done no harm to me or them.

Two summers ago, their kids were racing their new dirt-bikes down the road and ran over one of my female ducks and broke her leg and back. One of the kids came into the shop and said "UUUuuuuh...thinkerz sumpin rawng wiyyer duck." Imagine a 13-year-old kid saying that and sounding both rather jittery and -very- intoxicated. We then had to explain to them that yes, when you run over a fragile living thing with an 800lb motorcycle, it hurts them. In this case, of course, we had to put the duck down, with the result that all 12 of her ducklings were dead within 12hrs since Mama wasn't around to protect/warn them anymore. The kid has never yet apologized for or even acknowledged what he did, despite the feathers in his tyres.

Yet at the same time, this same family has more "pets" than people stuffed into their home: 6-8 dogs, an equal number of birds/lizards/ferrets/exotics, three dozen goats of various breeds, one Alpaca, and at one time a pet alligator. Although they haven't done so with the 'gator that I know of, standard procedure with these people is to simply release any "pet" they don't want anymore into the area. I've found parakeets (in winter), dogs, at least one Ferret (shot trying to get into my chicken-house), a three-legged cat...and this isn't even getting into the way they "take care" of these creatures! None of the goats have been castrated, so the Billys (4) stink to heaven whenever one of the Nannies gets horny. Likewise the male dogs and cats, so they're always overrun (and so are we). -None- of their animals have had Rabies vaccinations: likewise Parvo, FIV, Distemper. That whole end of the road looks, smells, and acts like a North Korean bio-weapons laboratory.

This shit just burns me up. Animal abuse is one of my biiiig sore points: I'm a hunter and a farmer and I shoot critters that get after my stock or my cats. But I do 'em quick and clean or not at all, and I have no use atall for people who abuse lesser creatures. Got no reason t'be breathin' my air.

Just ranting, folks. Anybody else seen or lived near this kind of thing?