some guard dog!

sometimes I'm surprised our neighbors haven't ever talked to us about how annoying our dog Rocky can be... everytime he sees another dog he starts barking (no matter how many times we try to "socialize" him by letting him play with dogs on walks and taking him to the dog park) and even though he never crosses the line on the invisible fence, we have a corner lot and he will walk/run/chase/bark/follow every single person/car/biker from one end of our yard all the way around the coner to the other end. he insists on escorting everyone, and he's kind of a celebrity in the neighborhood - I can guarantee that 95% of the people in our big neighborhood couldn't give you our names, but seriously everyone seems to know our dog. One time I heard this young boy on a walk with his mom get excited when he saw our dog and exclaim "see mom, this is Rocky, the dog I was telling you about!" I have no idea at all how people know his name, other than remembering it from when Justin or I yell at him to come in or stop barking. -or on our walks we certainly over use his name trying to remind him how to simply walk beside us.

I was up in Bella's room today finally trying to clean it (so much harder to maintain the house now that I'm working full time again) when I saw a mom and her little boy walking and she had to pick him up because even though Rocky was actually behaving *shock* and not barking or running, the little boy was afraid. I brought pup in the house to give them a chance to get out of sight so he wouldn't be tempted to follow along the property. I let him back out as soon as I didn't see anyone along the sidewalk. I guess they decided to cut through our backyard back to their house - which wasn't a big deal, I didn't care - but I think the fact that they were on our property made me laugh instead of get mad when I saw Rocky get excited and run toward them. This kid just screamed, threw his head back (not even kidding his chin was pointed straight to the sky) and ran across our yard and the next. It happened so quick his mom couldn't even react, she just stood there and I was laughing from the kitchen. Not sure if this is a sign I'm going to be a bad mom - but it was frickin hilarious!