Dog days of autumn? Or: who let the dogs out?

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office went to the dogs Monday, when deputies responded to three similar calls over a span of just 13 minutes.

At 8:57 p.m., deputies had to educate a Witty Lane resident in Columbia Falls about her two pit bulls, which had been running loose for a week and had growled at a runner.

A trio of canines were placed back inside the fence at a Trails End Drive home at 9:03 p.m. after being reported as aggressive, running toward cars and children.

At 9:10 p.m., deputies answered questions regarding a Rottweiler that had been euthanized after biting a person.

Meanwhile, in human mayhem, a woman was arrested for drunk driving after apparently deciding the lines painted on Deer Creek Road in Somers were only suggestions, that her speed was just too difficult to keep steady and that her headlights worked best when they were repeatedly turned off and on.

A drive-by fruiting was reported on Shelter Valley Lane, where someone threw an orange at a vehicle, damaging its grill.

A group of transients was reminded that they were not welcome to set up camp underneath a bridge on the Rails to Trails path.

A pair of escaped cows were captured by a pair of Bald Rock Road neighbors.

An upset person vented his or her frustration on the side of a Grand Drive building in Bigfork, which they kicked, breaking the siding.

Deputies arrested a man on a misdemeanor warrant out of Columbia Falls after approaching him while he was by his vehicle on the side of Montana 35 in Bigfork.

A vehicle was burglarized on U.S. 93 South in Whitefish.

After a girl with an apparently dark sense of humor convinced Kalispell Police officers that her friend was suicidal and gave them his address, she called back and said she was just pulling a prank.

A U.S. 93 North business nearly didn’t receive its prescribed amount of fiber after a crate of wheat cereal fell off the back of a truck into the middle of the highway.

A man was locked up after being reported to be “shooting up” drugs on Merganser Drive. The man had an active warrant out for his arrest and cautions for resisting arrest, obstructing officers and assault.

Security guards at a North Main Street business somehow lost a debit card after it was turned into them by someone who had found it. Then, at some point after that, the new finder, taking advantage of their luck, used it.

A maid at a First Avenue East motel was herself cleaned out while cleaning a room, when someone stole her phone and cigarettes from her supply cart.

A thief with a limp and low expectations was asked to leave a U.S. 93 business after stealing three dollars off a table.

A 13-year-old girl was reported by her concerned parent for smoking while sitting in a car full of people. The girl and her friends denied she had been smoking and the parent admitted to not having seen it happening.

A nervous thief stole two bottles of anti-anxiety medication from a Third Avenue West home.

Columbia Falls Police Department officers responded to Council Bluffs Drive late Monday night after a wild cat, believed to be a lynx or a bobcat, was found atop a power pole.

A potentially drunk and definitely upset woman struck another woman in the face at a school on Wildcat Drive in Columbia Falls.

Someone shot out several windows at a Fifth Street West building.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a person for partner or family member assault while investigating a report of disorderly conduct at a casino.

Polson Police Department officers cited a person for obstructing a peace officer while investigating a report of disorderly conduct on 10th Avenue East.