Last week, the HVAC technician arrived with parts for my furnace and he was going to finally repair it.
When he got to the basement, he started yelling at the dog while trying to work on the furnace. I ran to the door and yelled for Bowser to come upstairs, but he wasn’t listening. When I got downstairs, Bowser had the HVAC technician cornered and I could hear him snarling. As I yanked on Bowser to get him away, the HVAC technician was asking if I had forgotten to put the dog away before he arrived. I hadn’t forgotten. I thought Bowser would be okay now that he knew the HVAC technician. When I had Bowser under control, the HVAC technician started packing up his tools. I wanted to know where he was going. He showed me the bite on his leg, and said that once he got it checked out, someone else would be back to make the repairs. I was dumbfounded, not so much that he was leaving, but that he wouldn’t come back. I was sure Bowser didn’t mean to bite him, and he was probably just playing. Later that day, the HVAC company called and told me the HVAC technician was fine, but he needed to have a tetanus shot. They would be sending me the bill for his hospital visit, and animal control would be coming to the house. I was sorry the HVAC technician got bit, but he was just playing. The HVAC company owner told me that playing could get rough, but the technician had videoed the snarling and how the dog had attacked him, was not playing.