I ran over the neighbor's dog this morning: need advice..

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dog's a fine meal

That was a difficult situation for sure. I'm happy to read it turned out better than you thought it would of. People shouldn't allow their dogs to run in the street like that.

My mother was taking a long walk down a desert road to the mail boxes when a big aggressive dog came towards barking and snarling at her. So she fired a shot to scare the dog away from her and the owner called the sheriff's dept. and had my mother arrested for firing her gun. She didn't even fire at the dog. My mother is a sweet, kind, law abiding citizen and has never been arrested for anything before.

We have fun teasing her about it. I know that if I ever saw a dog like that come at me like it was going to attack me in the middle of no where, I would do the same thing to scare it off.

People shouldn't allow their dogs to run free like that period.

This one wasn't big (about 8 pounds wet), a sock shredder at worst.

This should be turned into a short story,

A short story by Raymond Carver... that would about cover it!

What?

Brilliance, pure brilliance!

Raymond Carver... the most exquisitely precise writer of short stories in the English language... trumps the French and Russians too in my opinion. Very influenced by Chekhov... should be far better known than he is, but American authors don't attain the "literary star" status that their European peers do. If someone asked me who the single best American writer was, he'd be my choice, above Mark Twain, Emerson, Salinger, Hemingway, Steinbeck...

One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and he specialised in just such urban politicism/angst and family drama as material for his stories.

Great to hear it worked out so well and it's a great story.

It might have been best that you got caught returning the dog. Wasn't difference between frozen in a deep freezer and flash frozen in LN2 visually apparent?

There cannot be that many people in the neighborhood who own enough LN2 to do that. Either that or you have found a great neighborhood .

Even though the humidity was low for my area that day, condensation quicky formed a rather thick layer of frost.. making it look like he had been in the deep freezer for a long time.. but obviously I wasn't making very rational decisions that day lol

as sad as a dog dieing is i couldn't help but laugh when i read you froze it in liquid nitrogen.

What breed if dog was it? Anything under 35 pounds doesn't constitute a dog, that is a mutated sewer rat.

i believe demon dog here would disagree with you

Once upon a time my wife and I had a cat.

We crossed the street and got into our car and the cat followed us when a car came along and squished it.

The car immediately stopped and two people jumped out. They saw the cat was badly injured so they bashed it to death with a jack handle as we sat and watched in horror.

They did the right thing and I can't blame them for it.

Oh wow Wombat that is awful. At least take the injured cat to a local vet and have it humanely euthanized. They didn't have to further torture the cat in front of you. I would have been very emotional.

You two have a thing against Koreans? I'm half Korean btw.