Before that put me back in a bad mood, I looked out the window to see if I could spot a trespasser, something I wasn’t a fan that my neighbors (allegedly) had given me the uncontrollable urge to do.(I probably looked like a lunatic, gazing this way and that every time I went back and forth to get the groceries, even if I was in my own truck port.)
And, of course, remembering this put me in a bad mood.
Why couldn’t people just let people be people?
I was absolutely certain they wouldn’t want anyone to judge them for the way they decided to live their lives.
How on earth did they feel they had the right to do that to me?
Topping that, obviously, they were watching me, which wasn’t only creepy, and criminal, it was rude.
I looked down beside my laptop and saw the paper Harry Moran gave me lying on my desk.
I picked it up, then picked up my phone.
I dialed the number and put it to my ear.
It rang so long, I thought it’d go to voicemail, before I heard a deep voice grunt, “Hutchison.”
“Hutch Hutchison?”I asked.
“Did you not hear me?”he shot back.
His response made me shoot straight in my chair.
“Hello?”he prompted when I said nothing.
“Are you the guard dog breeder?”
“Yup.”
“Harry Moran gave me your number,” I told him.
“Got no dogs available now.”
Yeesh, this guy was unfriendly.
But there was something I couldn’t put my finger on about his voice, outside of it communicating I was bothering him, which wasn’t very nice.
“Right, but you train dogs,” I said.
“Yup.”
“I’m considering rescuing a dog?—”
“Go to the shelter.”
“I know, but?—”
“Pick one.Spend time with it while you’re there.Make sure you bond.With a dog, you’ll know.They don’t hold secrets.Get the breed or mix of breeds the shelter thinks they are, go home and look them up.Dive deep.Each dog is its own dog, but each breed will have its own characteristics.Know what you’re getting before you get it so you don’t turn around and surrender it in a week.”
“I would never surrender a dog,” I snapped.
This time, he was silent.
“And thank you for that advice,” I kept snapping, making it clear I didn’t need it because I would have done that anyway.“Why I’m calling is, first, to see if you had any dogs ready for homing.But since you answered that already, then I’d like to understand if you can fit me in your schedule for training.I need a dog that has some capacity to provide protection.”
“All dogs have a capacity to provide protection.I’ve seen chihuahuas fuck a man up.”
