La Morte

My week started out with so much promise. It is coming to a close with very sad notes. My relationship is suffering and I'm getting worn out trying to find a place to live. I'm not feeling fulfilled in my job and I'm starting to think that I am something of a hack photographicly.
Then I get a text last night. Our roommate's brother is visiting and apparently when he sat in our porch swing it ripped out of the ceiling. It apparently took out 10ft of the tongue and groove ceiling and part of the trim around the outside of the porch. Who the hell knows what really happened, but the damage is done. Yet another thing for my currently land-lady to go ape-shit about.
On top of that my roommate's kitten has died and it seems my dog is to blame. The kitten was found in the backyard with my dog gaurding the body.
I don't know how to feel about this. I'm sad for Rosie, I know she loved the kitten. I'm sad for the kitten because I liked her too. I'm most worried about my dog though. I'm not sure how upset my roommate is becuase I'm not there and I don't know how, if at all, she will retaliat against my dog(s). I have two but the finger is only being pointed at Durga.
In my opinion Durga was only being a dog. Not all dogs have issues with cats, Galileo doesn't, but Durga does. It's not a dislike of animals with her, it's a hunter's instinct. Durga was never socialized as a puppy around small mammals so she doesn't see them as something she's not supposed chase and stalk. All she's every been around really are large dogs (play mates) and squirels (rodents that pelt her acorns from above). Occasionaly a neighbor's cat would stroll through the side yard on the other side of the fence from her, but she's never really been near them.
At times my roommate and I would supervise some cross species sniffing, but Durga never made a grab for her cats (she had two). We actually thought we were making progress and then this happens. The only other time we thought Durga killed something was when we found an oppossum in the yard, but those things play dead and she wasn't gaurding it. We assumed she did it becuase she's chased squirels before and likes to shake her toys really hard, a move that could snap the neck of a small animal. She can get kind of scary when playing with small dogs, and I always thought she was being agressive so we've always supervised her very closely.
Last week we were keeping a puppy for my roommate's friend and Durga started acting like she does with small dogs, ony this time the puppy wasn't yelping or anything and it turns out Durga just looks scary and sounds scary becuase she's so freakin' excited! Durga and that puppy played non-stop the whole time she was over. Nothing ever happened and they both had a great time.
Something else I can't figure out is how the kitten got in the back yard. We have a shock wire all along the bottom of the fence to keep the dogs from digging out since we live near a very busy street. The kitten could have climbed the fence, but I still find this unlikely. Did someone toss her over? I only wonder this because of something that happened last year.
My roommate had had a squirel for a pet. One day it ran off. She told our neighbors that if a squirel started to climb thier leg, or jumped on thier back, not to freak out, it was her's. She put the squirel's cage out on our porch, for reasons I'm not sure about. Anyhow, one day Nick and I come home and there's a squirel in the cage. Someone had a put a squirel in the cage, locked the door and left it outside on a very cold night. The squirel was dead. We never found out who did it, but her brother was also visiting when that happened too. I'm not saying he did it, it just seems suspicious. I guess it doesn't really matter now. I'm just upset that this has happened, worried about my roommate and worried about my dogs. I guess if Nick likes the house we're going to see tomorrow we'll be moving in a hurry.