Don't tie up my barking Chihuahua
12:30 pm on a Saturday morning: It is the middle of winter holiday break and my husband and I have not made it out of bed just yet. Mind you we are not still sleeping, however our children who are downstairs watching cartoons are not privy to this information. Earl, the pitbull who is outside, is barking like the vicious attack dog that he is. He barks for about 5 minutes. Earl does not usually bark. Something must be up... We are "interrupted" by knocking on our front door. My first thought is that the neighbors dog has gotten into the yard and making Earl nuts. My oldest daughter bounds up the stairs to tell us that our neighbor Jared is at the door complaining about the dog barking and that he is keeping the new baby (who will be 2 this year) awake. My daughter has told him that we are still sleeping. We have been friendly with our neighbors Jared and Sara since they moved in a few years ago, however, the tone of our relationship changed noticably since the prima...