poor doggie
There's this dog in my 'hood, a block over from my house (on the parallel street), which constantly yelps. Not barks. Yelps. Like, 100 yelps per minute, with occasional pauses of two seconds to several minutes. The past few days, I've waked up and fallen asleep to this poor dog's plea. This has been going on for months now, with the occasional lapse of a few days where maybe I just fail to notice it. I haven't yet peered over the neighbor's fence to see what I suspect is a dog tied to a tree or a stake, but I know in my gut that the dog is not happy and is probably not mentally healthy.

I've considered calling 311 and reporting the situation, but I haven't done so. What if I call in, and the cops show up and nothing seems bad? In fact, as i write this sentence, the dog is silent, whereas when I wrote the first sentence, the dog was "yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep!. yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep! yeep!"