The Country Bumpkin Got A Puppy

Our neighbor the Country Bumpkin has been fairly quiet lately. We don't mind it when he is quiet. It makes our life easy. Even through the whole week long process it took for the city to repave our street, he was quiet. It was nice!

On Saturday though, things changed a bit. I was planting the Iris's we bought in Boise, ID and making our yard look nice again after the road construction. Scott & Sam were in the driveway building a new skateboard ramp for Sam (the old one was totally ghetto and falling apart).

Along came Country Bumpkin's original dog "G" and right behind it was this cutest sweetest looking little puppy. This black and white little puppy "M" with one dark colored eye and one blue colored eye. I could take this dog and cuddle with it all night. Looking at it broke my heart.

Well the "G" knows he isn't supposed to be in our yard. So I told them to go home. "G" took off running. The cute little puppy "M" just stood there and whimpered. And some what timidly started to come towards me. I told it to go home again and it came towards me again. I could obviously see where this was going, so I gave up and put my hand down, it immediately came up to me and I started to pet it. He wouldn't let me get too close, I was my arms length away from it. But it got so excited it peed itself. (Poor Puppy)

Right then, Miss. Country Bumpkin came running up looking for her new puppy, she called its name and it went running back to her.

Last night, I got home from work and went almost immediately into the yard and started working on the garden. I finished and went inside and started to cook dinner. I happened to walk into the office to ask Scott a question and happened to notice two dog looking figures in our garden. Standing on one of the berms. I opened the front door and told the dogs to "Go on ... Get out of here ..." "G" ran off back home. "M" kind of stood there but does get out of the garden when I yelled at it. He starts to do the same thing it did earlier. He starts whimpering and slowly walking towards me.

Scott yells out the window to go take the dogs back to the house and tell the Country Bumpkin Family to get their dogs out of our yard. They are not allowed in our yard. We have just planted a bunch of flowers and want it to stay nice. So I did and the whole time I am walking up to their house, I am shaking. I don't want this to be a big deal. I just want the dogs to stay out of the garden. I knock but I think the TV is turned up too loud so no one hears the knock. I finally find the door bell and Mrs. Country Bumpkin & Miss Country Bumpkin come to the door. And I tell them:
Me: "Hey your dogs were in our yard again. Is there any way you can keep them out of it? We just planted a bunch of new flowers and I don't want them disturbing them."
Mrs. Country Bumpkin: "uhhhhh, ya sure" (Yells at the dogs and tells them to come in, then shuts the door)
I'm sure that this conversation is going to make all the difference in the world. I bet that the dogs are going to be in our yard again.

The thing that is bothering me is with the cute sweet little "M" puppy. I am not dumb and I can tell that this dog has been beaten by the way it acts. What should I do? Do I call the animal control and tell them that I "suspect" that this dog has been beaten? I don't have any physical proof of this. I haven't seen any bruises on it. But his mood is just off. And I do not want to cause a Neighborhood War. That would be horrible. The Country Bumpkin already hates life and I couldn't imaging how much he would hate us if we took away Miss. Country Bumpkin's little puppy.