My neighbour whipped his dog (a Belgian Sheperd, one of the sweetest doggos I had the pleasure to interact with) with a leather leash, for the horrible crime of tumbling over the metal net that separates our properties and accidentally entering my garden while her owner was speaking to me.
I told him that if he gave me her leash, I would walk her to him, but he insisted that it wasn't necessary. He literally took her by the neck, hauled her over the fence, then proceeded to whip her with the leash, five or six times, screaming that she should never do something like that again.
Then he asked me my permission to change the current net with a new one (on his own dime of course), higher, so this kind of incidents won't happen anymore. And I'm furious.
He's almost 80, he wanted a dog, did he adopt a small, manageable companion? No, he went for a Belgian Sheperd, a breed that needs stimulation, interaction and a lot of physical activity. He seldom walks her, preferring to just free her from her kennel twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. She oftern traverses his garden in monotonous, repetitive patterns, like animals do when they are bored. I never see him playing with her, and that poor dog follows him everywhere hoping for interaction. I... I just don't know.
