I was sent to work on a furnace for a new customer of our HVAC company.
I had to talk to him and explain who I was and how our HVAC company worked. He looked over the contract and agreed to be our customer. As I was walking down the basement steps, he told me to not trip over the dog. I expected to see a small puppy if he was worried I was going to step on him or trip over him, but that isn’t what it was. He had an overly large wolfhouse attached to a tether at the bottom of the steps. I was afraid the dog was going to eat me in one bite if I got too close to him, but he was less than five feet from the furnace. I assured the dog I was going to work on the furnace and then get out of the way. He snarled at me for a second, but then he laid back down on the floor. Every time I moved, he would get up and watch me. By the time I was done working on the furnace, the dog had warmed up to me. He had warmed up to me so much that when I tried to leave the basement, he stood on the bottom step and growled at me. I tried yelling for the owner, but he couldn’t hear me. If it wasn’t for my cell phone, I wasn’t sure how long I would have been sitting on the floor by the furnace. The HVAC company had to call the owner and have him take care of the dog so I could leave.