The Neighbor's Dog

I've had this running problem with my neighbor about his dog. The seasonal flowers I repeatedly planted kept dying. There was an odor of urine. I had found his dog in my yard sniffing around the flowers, so naturally I suspected his dog was the culprit. He was adamant that his dog couldn’t be the one urinating on my flowers. I was polite, but of course, skeptical. I mean, what was he saying, that his dog doesn’t pee, or that he’s trained her to use the toilet? He was very upset that I would suspect his dog of urinating in my yard.

He’s a bit of a tech geek and offered to set up a motion detector that would dial his phone and mine when there was movement in my backyard at night. Nothing happened until Saturday night (when I was out of town). My neighbor captured a picture of the culprits. Sunday morning, there it was - an email from him with the picture - no message other than that. I bought him a bottle of Scotch.























The girl on the right is another neighbor’s daughter. The others are presumably her friends. My neighbor (with the dog) thinks that I should use the picture as my Christmas card this year. He wants to be a fly on the wall when the neighbor whose daughter it is opens it. I don't know, maybe I will. It’s not like any of the girls seem upset that he took their picture.