Screamers

The neighbors are screamers. The parents scream at each other. They scream at the kids. The kids scream back and then at each other. Everyone screams at the dogs. Sometimes the dogs bark back.

Lovely.

They live right behind us, and we can hear every word. Even if their not screaming, which is rare. They have a new puppy who they are attempting to house train by (can you guess?) screaming at it.

"Go potty! Go potty! GO POTTY!" Surely that will work. Needles to say, the dog has no idea what "go potty" means and only knows that every time it goes outside it will be yelled at. I wouldn't want to go outside either.

Joco is very confused by the whole thing. He knows what "go potty" means and it seems to distress him that someone is screaming it. I spend my time trying to relax him by telling me what a good dog he is. He hates this place and will only go outside to go potty. Then it's right back in. Poor dog.

Only a month or two to go until we move again. I'm looking forward to it.