The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office has been kept busy recently by, among other items, several animal calls.

One pair of the calls came from two sides of one incident, in which a pair of pit bulls attacked a Fifth Street West resident’s dog, which then required emergency treatment. The dogs’ owner called later, saying she had put her two dogs in their kennel and locked it before leaving earlier, but that they were missing now. It was determined her dogs were the two that attacked the first dog, and that they were now impounded in the county animal shelter.

A Larch Lane woman grabbed a gun and threatened to start shooting after her dogs attacked a neighbor’s dog, while a slightly more calm Eckelberry Drive man in Columbia Falls suggested getting his dog and his neighbor’s dog together to socialize so they would get along better after his dog tried to attack the other dog.

A man with a box at the Bigfork post office on Holt Drive received a surprise package. It was addressed to a different name at the same box, but the man opened it anyway, and found it contained several 4-inch-square plastic bags with a white substance inside. The substance, although unidentified, was determined not to be any kind of drug.

A distraught Hart Hill Drive resident reported a valuable, more than 100-year-old Seth Thomas wall clock stolen from their home.

A South View Lane resident’s trampoline decided to take a little adventure, but lost some of itself along the way Monday, when it blew down a walking path in front of the home. When the owner tracked it down, several pieces were missing or had been stolen.

A ranting woman called about crimes she claimed to have reported in the past, claiming she was told the government is backing her and complaining about the defense department. The dispatcher told the woman there was nothing they could do about such an issue, and the woman said never to call her again and hung up.

An employee of a U.S. 93 South business drew a law enforcement response when he set off the alarm. He was cooperative, saying he was locking up and couldn’t get the alarm to set. He soon discovered he had been fired but not yet told, and was advised he would be arrested for trespassing if he ever returned to the property.

A furious Barron Way man contacted the Kalispell Police Department twice about a group of youths playing loudly and possibly partying nearby. When officers first responded shortly after 1:30 p.m., they found four youths playing with a light-up Nerf ball and under adult supervision.

Less than a half hour later, he called back to say the youths were being too noisy again, and that they started yelling and cursing the officer and the person who called police after the officer left. Officers eventually arrested two girls and a man at a Getty Drive property connected to the call.

A startled sleeper saw a man staring in her First Street West window after hearing someone walking around outside. She only saw the peeping Tom’s silhouette, and he fled the area before police arrived.

A driver who was either drunk or one of the worst drivers in Montana was reported after driving onto the lawn of a West Idaho Street business before parking in the middle of the road. The woman eventually drove away to the west, and an officer was unable to find her.

A vindictive man called for the information of a police sergeant who he said ran his information, and that he wanted the information to file a lawsuit against the sergeant.

A Second Avenue West woman fed up with being the butt of a neighborhood joke requested to speak with an officer about youths leaving dog feces on her porch.

The manager of an East Idaho Street business reported several people partying in the parking lot after a customer saw bottles and pipes amid the people. The mother of one of the subjects came and picked up several children. An officer smelled marijuana coming from one vehicle, but the occupant would not allow it to be searched.

A vandal who decided to do some de-landscaping at a Spokane Avenue hotel was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after damaging the landscaping, pulling up some plants and leaving them on top of motorcycles in the parking lot.

An apologetic accidental 911 caller told a dispatcher “I’m sorry, this must be a mistake,” before hanging up. It was determined that there was no emergency.

A mischievous man left a naughty note for an employee at a Nucleus Avenue business. The employee took the note home, but agreed to bring it back for examination by a Columbia Falls Police Department officer.

A woman reported her unexpected surprise when her hood flew up as she drove away from a Nucleus Avenue grocery after an older man had unlatched the hood in the parking lot.

A speed demon stopped on 12th Avenue West was found to be rushing his wife to the hospital.