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Melissa

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I woke up this morning to the baby dog(Koa) barking and growling at the window. He's barked maybe 4 times before since April when I found him. So naturally I freak out when I hear him bark. Lola isnt a barker so much either. So when I heard them both I freaked out.

I hushed them and I heard a crying outside my bedroom window. I thought it could've been a cat howling but it sounded more like a child crying and saying "dad" every few moments. Then I thought of an email I got a while back about a man who was going around to peoples houses playing a recording of a baby crying and when the woman goes out all maternal and curious he jumps out of the dark of the night and takes the woman away doing God knows what. I was NOT going to become an email. I reached for the phone and saw I had a missed call from and unknown number.. at 3:56am CREEPIER! So I called the non-emergency line and the woman on the other end asked if I could see anything. I told her I was refusing to go to the window and look because all I can imagine was a big man in a snow coat with the fur in the hood standing and then lightning striking and then seeing a silhouette of his face just before he jumps through the window to kill me and the dogs and hedgehogs and using our bodies for some ritualistic crap. She was dying laughing on the other line. Im glad SHE thought it was funny. I was scared out of my mind!

So the whole time I hear this WAAAAAH WAHHHH and Im thinking ok i can send the dogs out to investigate but I have see that movie "Fear" with Mark Walburg about a home invasion and the dog is let out and then they whistle for the dog to come in and the dog head comes back in through the dog door.. just the head.. So NO not happening. While we are waiting we still hear the WAHHHHHHHH WAHHHHH noise and Koa pees right in front of the window! Now he hasnt peed in the house in quite sometime so it freaked me out more.

So the officers finally get there and search the house. And the dogs didnt bark at all! So I guess they knew we were safe. Which made me more scared that there was someone really outside before. So I let the officer in and BOTH Lola and Koa ran up to the officer.. the WERE in the bedroom and I have round door knobs so I dont know how they got out. But I told them they were good dogs and if they jump dont be scared.. because they normally jump.. But they didnt! They BOTH peed on the officers shoes! So at 5:30am I was shining the officers shoes. How embarrassing!

And this had happened one time before last year. I dont remember who was in chat with me at the time but it was like 3am last year and I was chatting on CnQ and I heard BANGING on the front door. I only had Lola at the time and she was at the door breathing under and barking. The operator on the phone heard the banging AND Lola's reaction and sent officers.. Long story short when they got there they assumed it was some kids playing knock and run. Well while I was apologizing to them, Lola got out and peed on that officer too! That one wasn't as nice as the one this morning about the whole situation.
 
Oh, my god, Melissa. I understand your fear and I would have been terrified, too. But I must admit, I was laughing hysterically at your post. Not at you or your situation, but just the way your wrote it. Particularly the lightening, the man's face lit by the lightning..........:rofl:

I wonder what was going on? Actually, I do believe I was in chat with you that night people were knocking on your door. You live in an apartment, right? I wonder if someone was either coming home with a child late at night or leaving with a child that early and the child was cold and tired and crying as the parent buckled them into a car seat or took them into the apartment. My daughter lives in an apartment and we often hear screams and shrieks but it's only the 12 year old girl downstairs and her friends being kids. Of course, it's not the middle of the night when we hear it, though. I would be freaked if my dog rarely barked and she was barking at the noise, too.

And that officer shouldn't be mad that your dog peed on his shoes. Sometimes it's godawful, unruly drunks that are peeing on the officer's shoes. But really (giggle) you should try to prevent the dogs from doing that (giggle) because I could see in the future two officers arguing with each other about who has to respond to your call while time's a-wasting. :laughitup:

In all seriousness, though, I'm glad everything was okay but I, too, wonder what it was all about.
 
That's right Carol I think you were in chat with me last year! I need to start working at night again. I avoid the night drama that way.

I was in an apartment last year but I bought a house so Im living in my house now. And all that was going on over an hours time. From me waking up hearing it to the time it stopped and an hour and a half total when the officer left.

And I told the operator about what happened last year, with Lola peeing and I told her I was leaving the dogs in the bedroom. I dont know HOW they got out because I closed them in! But they did. I forgot I had cookies until just now. I should've offered him a cookie. DANG! Last year I gave them some coffee to go.
 
Oh, I remember now you have a house. Really, then, I don't know. Did the officer, after his shoes dried, of course, look for tire marks or footprints around your house. Really, you should install some flood lights around your house. Either ones you can turn on from the inside or those motion sensor lights. Except my Dad has motion sensor lights and sometimes a rabbit hopping through the yard will turn them on.
 
There were 3 officers who looked around my house before talking to me.

Mom seems to think it was a frog. She said she was walking with dad one night in her neighborhood and heard this terrible screaming like a child getting killed for about 20 minutes.. They were walking around searching and were on the phone with the cops before the cops got there they found a frog being eaten by a snake and it was screaming its death scream she said. So now Im sitting here feeling more embarrassed that it couldve just been a frog being eaten or something.
 
No, I think that it was good that you called the police. I would be terrified as well. I have read those emails too and I wouldn't want to be another one of the victims. I am sorry that you had to deal with that! That even scared me!
 
sorry you had to go thru that.......but the dogs peeing on the cops shoes is kinda funny!
the part about the snake eating the frog & it screaming.......not funny.
 
I was outside letting Oscar potty the other day and I swear I heard "hheeerrrrooooowww" behind me - I turned around fully expecting to see a small child and it was a cat! I swear it said "hello"...would have really freaked me out if it hadn't been daytime...
 
But I definitely would have been weirded out by the whole situation! I always get scared when my husband is away and the dogs start freaking out...

This is why I have large dogs. Nobody is impressed by a dachsund rattling the windows (even though they should be, those little suckers can be nasty), but they start hearing a 145 pound dog get woofing and worked up, it generally makes them pause for reflection.

Mel - I don't even know what to say to you and your trained peeing dogs. Do they have trouble with authority figures? Do they not like men in uniform? Are they marking their territory, claiming the police as theirs? <snicker>
 
Just so you don't have to be afraid of the email any more:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/crybaby.asp

But I definitely would have been weirded out by the whole situation! I always get scared when my husband is away and the dogs start freaking out...

Good to know that it wasnt real. But I didnt want to BECOME another email.. I know this girl that this happened to.. OMG what a way to be remembered.

This is why I have large dogs. Nobody is impressed by a dachsund rattling the windows (even though they should be, those little suckers can be nasty), but they start hearing a 145 pound dog get woofing and worked up, it generally makes them pause for reflection.

Mel - I don't even know what to say to you and your trained peeing dogs. Do they have trouble with authority figures? Do they not like men in uniform? Are they marking their territory, claiming the police as theirs? <snicker>


Lola SOUNDS big. Thats what I like about her. I dont know what the dogs were thinking! I least they didnt jump like they do on everyone else. Which I am glad because I know a cop will be quick to pepper a dog.

Maybe I should take them to the police station and they can mark me a nice, young, good looking one! "OMG OFFICER Im SO sorry! Let me make it up to you by letting you take me out for some coffee!" LOL
 
This is why I have large dogs. Nobody is impressed by a dachsund rattling the windows (even though they should be, those little suckers can be nasty), but they start hearing a 145 pound dog get woofing and worked up, it generally makes them pause for reflection.

Mel - I don't even know what to say to you and your trained peeing dogs. Do they have trouble with authority figures? Do they not like men in uniform? Are they marking their territory, claiming the police as theirs? <snicker>

LOL, I've got a small dog (9 lbs) but then two larger dogs, around 70-80 lbs. While they might SOUND scary when they're barking, the fact that I know that they would lick an intruder to death and want to play fetch with him/her doesn't help me feel any better!!
 
Poor little Melissa. I am just glad that you are safe. Will they be doing drive bys now?
 
Poor little Melissa. I am just glad that you are safe. Will they be doing drive bys now?


Whats funny is I didnt think to call my association.. But we pay for an unmarked officer to drive by every hour as part of our association fees. But I think that is only on weekends or something like that..
 
I was outside letting Oscar potty the other day and I swear I heard "hheeerrrrooooowww" behind me - I turned around fully expecting to see a small child and it was a cat! I swear it said "hello"...would have really freaked me out if it hadn't been daytime...


One of the ones I live with likes to make the same (creepy!) call in a dark/empty hallway. He's also gotten the hang of pulling/popping doors open. I nearly wet the bed the night he pushed open my door to say "hheeerrrrooooowww" at 3AM. :hair:

I'm seconding the floodlights idea too. That, or nice big, heavy aluminum ball bat and lessons at a batting cage. Good job to the dogs for making you aware of it, though. The piddles, I think, can be forgiven. ;)
 
Have your car keys nearby at all times. When something weird happens, press the alarm. If it truly is an intruder, he will not stick around, especially once all your neighbours start turning on their lights to find out whose car alarm is going off. :hilarious:
 
Well let's look at it this way--you're okay and pee never killed anyone! I'm sure it gave the officers a good story to take back to the squad and their families!
 
I still remember when I was a kid, the police were over for some reason and we had little 4 week old kittens. They raced out into the living room and ran right up the inside of the policemans pants.
 
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