The property manager asked me to call as soon as possible.
The message was one sentence. It was about my dog.
That was enough to make it urgent.
The email came from a RedPeak property in Cherry Creek. Eight days earlier, I had received a Comcast registration confirmation. Housing and household service were both moving through the inbox that week, although I did not have the exact move date written down.
They also do not say what the dog problem was.
The subject line named the property. The sender identified the management company. The body only asked for the call. There was no written notice attached and no explanation hidden farther down the message.
One sentence carried the entire problem into the inbox. The next useful information would have to come from the phone call.
The call happened outside email, so the message carried no explanation or outcome.
What it does show is that housing had to work for both of us.
The previous winter, I had considered finding another home for the young Weimaraner. I wrote the classified post and had a hard time following through. By February, I had decided to keep trying instead of giving her up.
The apartment message put the dog and housing back into the same sentence.
I had already searched for dog-friendly places when making travel plans. The apartment message was more urgent and much less specific.
The Halloween message wanted a call immediately. The reason was not written down.
After that, I had one next move: call and find out what “in regards to your dog” meant.