Love thy Neighbor

This had to happen, I know, but still it gave me a jolt.
The mutts had been even more restless than usual and got me up earlier than usual and I was in the kitchen getting ready for the first pot of coffee of the day when I first heard the mutts bark and then a lot of angry sounding human noises followed by the sound of BB gun shots.
next things were the mutts running home, well, at least some of them, and then more shot and shouts and the last mutts running for dear life with a big, black, macho truck in hot pursuit
The truck stopped in front of my house and out of the truck stepped a man who started to yell at me and the dogs and were using more F. words than a two bit hooker. And loudly. Complaining about being awakened so early Sunday morn and, news to me, about garbage being spread on the street and, even more news to me, about the other neighbors ( who incidentally do not live in their house but ocasionally ) complaining about the barking too.
Oh so loudly and obscenely this neighbor yelled, and I had not a chance to compete with that so this person kept quiet and listened, which made the irate neighbor throw his hands in the air and scream

He fucking well doesn't speak English. What is he ? French or Dutch or something ?

And this gave me my first chance to say something. And I said that I spoke and understood English quite well, thanks all the same.
Eventually he wound down and reached a normal level of voice and even allowed me to get a word in edgewise. And I apologized for the barking, and I told him I was sorry that the mutts had such bad habits, but what can one do ?
In the end he promised to lend me a book on doggie training, because he has, he told me, five small dogs in the house who are never allowed to leave the house and who are the best behaved dogs in the world, ( more likely scared to death of him )
It was, at any rate, quite a beginning of the day.
May there not be to many like this.