A native Californian transplanted in southern Illinois.Yesterday as I was getting ready to leave work about 5:15, BF called and said "Where is your vet's office? We need to meet there." Nala (my nephew's beautiful yellow lab) was vomiting and seemed to be dizzy. She was slobbering and wheezing. Her head was soaking wet with some sort of chemical (BF thought it was pesticide, the vet said it was gasoline). Here is the thing: this happened to her in our yard. There are no chemicals, no pesticides, no gasoline in our yard. She went out the pet door the picture of health and was back inside 5 minutes later, vomiting and in obvious distress.
The good news is, she is doing much better now and it seems she will make a full recovery.
The bad news is, the vet bill was $624.53. They washed her eyes with a rinse, put her on an IV, and did some blood work. They kept her about 6 hours, then said she was OK to go home. They gave me some meds to keep her tummy settled so she doesn't vomit.
My conclusion is, the charming gentleman next door has made good on his threat to poison her. This is also eerily similar to the poisoning and death of my daughter's cat, which happened just a few days after said neighbor threatened Nala. I called the police and two officers came to the house. They took our statement, then called in to get a report number. Then they went next door to speak to the neighbor. I don't know how that went, but I suspect he simply didn't answer the door. He wouldn't answer the door to speak to the two officers who came out when he called to report my nephew was playing his music too loud, so I don't think he would answer the door when I called the police on him.
I am so disgusted. What a revolting human being he is.
I am definately suing his mother now, for her half of the cost of the replacement fence on our property line. The dollar amount she owes me is $630.
In other news, I read recently on the Boglehead's Index Forum that if you log in to your Vanguard account from a third party site (such as Mint or Future Advisor) and your account is hacked as a result, it is your problem. This caused me some concern, so I have deleted my Mint account. Wells Fargo has a budgeting tool on their site. It is inferior to Mint, but I am going to figure out how to make it work for me. As far as Future Advisor, I deleted the link to my accounts and then just plugged in my holdings manually. I will have to update it myself, but it will still analyze my holdings for me.
I need to post pics of Nala, Buster, and Bree, our canine tribe. Nala is beautiful, Buster and Bree are mutts, but so loyal and sweet-natured.
Neighbor Poisoned Our Dog
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Oh, that makes my blood boil, to be mean to an animal is so cowardly. Get that fence up soon!
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That is an interesting note on the Vanguard. I just never liked the idea of putting all that information online. Not that someone couldn't hack onto my Quicken, but I take several precautions on my computers with the Quicken. Online Mint was not my cup of tea, considering I couldn't take the same precautions.
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I would absolutely sue for the fence money now. I would also be sure the mother knows what happened to sweet Nala.
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You should try Quicken. I love mine and bought it at Costco on sale for $20.
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Get the fence & watch him carefully. Note that if he hurts animals, that's probably not the only wicked thing he does and can be busted for.
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I strongly encourage you to install security cameras around your property.
Personally, I would kick his a$$ into next week.
August 15th, 2012 at 10:34 pm 1345070077
Awful, just awful.
Be very careful of your dog when you let it out with that kind of neighbor. I personally wouldn't let the dog out of my sight.
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As for the Mint thing I can agree with Quicken being a great piece of financial software but the budgeting tools included I find to be a bit lacking. They are great for downloading transactions and the reporting tools and bill scheduling/paying parts of the software are great. The best budgeting software I've found to use is YNAB. Even if you don't subscribe to their philosophy the software still works great as a pure budgeting tool. They don't auto download transactions but they do a good job of making sense of how your budget is structured. You may want to give that a look.
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