My new dog Sydney is at my house, and two other dogs nearly identical to her have broken into the back yard. They are aggressive, snarling and poking their snouts through the doggie door. There is one male and one female.

I go out there and chase them away, noticing a cat-sized tiger-like animal with a lion mane in the center of the back yard. She is bright orange, half her body striped and the other half a solid color. She looks a little like a stuffed animal, and I really want to get a picture, but she is slipping shyly away, and I have to run these dogs off first.

I chase the strange dogs away, and I can see that they broke through the fence to the side of the garage. The fence is utterly destroyed, collapsed and flimsy. I think it's time to replace the rotten old fence anyway.