vfem
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Worth EVERY Penny! Just don't get the cheapest one they have. Mine was about $90 at walmart. LOVE IT!nachoqtpie said:
Dang blasted DOGS!!!
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digitS'
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I've already vented about the 12 dogs that live on all 4 sides and at kittycorners to my home. Then, I deleted that rant.
I have just now deleted what I said about the 2 Great Danes that came in my yard and how I came so close to being bitten that I had dog slobber on my clothes.
Dogs must be the #1 cause for making enemies in a neighborhood. Don't tell me that they are just dogs being dogs. I could own a 12,000 pound raging, bull elephant and he would just be an elephant being an elephant. If he leveled the house across the road and did great bodily injury to the family living inside, it wouldn't be his fault either.
Steve
I have just now deleted what I said about the 2 Great Danes that came in my yard and how I came so close to being bitten that I had dog slobber on my clothes.
Dogs must be the #1 cause for making enemies in a neighborhood. Don't tell me that they are just dogs being dogs. I could own a 12,000 pound raging, bull elephant and he would just be an elephant being an elephant. If he leveled the house across the road and did great bodily injury to the family living inside, it wouldn't be his fault either.
Steve
Carol Dee
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nachoqtpie, I feel your pain. (Now I am going to vent some, too!)
We live in a small town where several of the neighbors think it is perfectly O.K. to let the dogs run loose. Nothing riles me like getting growled and barked at by a dog in my griveway tearing into my garabage. AND the barking
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Anyway... last week I came home and walked into my fenced ( 8 ft high privacy) backyard. Gate was closed . All of a sudden I hear barking and growling, scared me to death. They (2 labs) where inside the yard
Thank goodness our dog was in the house! I opened the gate and told them to go home. No luck. GROWL & BARK. Finally I took the hose and squirted them out. That is when I saw the damage 
Muddy prints on siding, trampled flowers, rocks knocked into koi pond, water lillies broke off, muddy water, lowered water level, no fish in sight (muddy). Later I found where the dogs dug under back gate then could not get out. Gate flexed enough to get in but pushed tighter when they wanted out. I was shaking. Called the neighbor, lucky guy, his phone number was disconected. I was not going to his door. (Would not have been nice.) Called the city. We do have a leash law. Wanted to be sure to log a complaint.
Later that day he came and appologized and offered to pay for any damage. Lucky the liner had not been torn and no fish missing. Plants will recover. Here are the pics I will show as proof that there is a dog problem at Council Meeting.
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We live in a small town where several of the neighbors think it is perfectly O.K. to let the dogs run loose. Nothing riles me like getting growled and barked at by a dog in my griveway tearing into my garabage. AND the barking
. Anyway... last week I came home and walked into my fenced ( 8 ft high privacy) backyard. Gate was closed . All of a sudden I hear barking and growling, scared me to death. They (2 labs) where inside the yard
Thank goodness our dog was in the house! I opened the gate and told them to go home. No luck. GROWL & BARK. Finally I took the hose and squirted them out. That is when I saw the damage Muddy prints on siding, trampled flowers, rocks knocked into koi pond, water lillies broke off, muddy water, lowered water level, no fish in sight (muddy). Later I found where the dogs dug under back gate then could not get out. Gate flexed enough to get in but pushed tighter when they wanted out. I was shaking. Called the neighbor, lucky guy, his phone number was disconected. I was not going to his door. (Would not have been nice.) Called the city. We do have a leash law. Wanted to be sure to log a complaint. Later that day he came and appologized and offered to pay for any damage. Lucky the liner had not been torn and no fish missing. Plants will recover. Here are the pics I will show as proof that there is a dog problem at Council Meeting.
desertcat
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I'm empathizing with everyone this morning as I watch the neighbors Great Pyrenese waltz around the neighborhood! I was so happy when the old neighbors left and their feral cat buffet closed, now I'm wondering.
The new neighbors are a sweet young couple that collect critters, it seems.. Their current zoo includes 2 ducks and a dozen or so chickens (securely fenced), 2 GP ( from a rescue, male and female...and soon there will be puppies, sigh), a barking rat and 3 children under 4 (also securely fenced ).
Kinda enjoy the ducks!
The new neighbors are a sweet young couple that collect critters, it seems.. Their current zoo includes 2 ducks and a dozen or so chickens (securely fenced), 2 GP ( from a rescue, male and female...and soon there will be puppies, sigh), a barking rat and 3 children under 4 (also securely fenced
). Kinda enjoy the ducks!
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Yeah, my neighbors gave one of those yipping ankle biters too. That thing tries to sneak up on me when I walk past to get the mail. I've suggested a few times to the owner that it would be a good dog to take bear hunting. So far, I haven't been able to convince him but I have not given up.
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Ha! Bear hunting...that's funny Ridgerunner!
Boggy had a pretty good solution to his neighbors wiener dogs going after his chickens. It involves a hot wire... I personally have used a hot wire to train certain of my own dogs now and then, and boy is it effective! It's a lesson they remember for a looong time too.
It's not harmful, just a bit, er, shocking.
I know it's not damaging because we used it around the horses when I was a kid, and there was many a time my sister had supposedly turned it off for me, when halfway through the fence I discovered what a sad sense of humor she had! Dogs apparently learn quicker than kids.
Boggy had a pretty good solution to his neighbors wiener dogs going after his chickens. It involves a hot wire... I personally have used a hot wire to train certain of my own dogs now and then, and boy is it effective! It's a lesson they remember for a looong time too.
It's not harmful, just a bit, er, shocking.
I know it's not damaging because we used it around the horses when I was a kid, and there was many a time my sister had supposedly turned it off for me, when halfway through the fence I discovered what a sad sense of humor she had! Dogs apparently learn quicker than kids.
Carol Dee
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thistlebloom said:
Gotta love those siblings!!! 
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nachoqtpie
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Oh yes... I remember hot wire!! I used to work on a Belgium draft horse farm with my sister and brother one summer. I was in the foaling barn one day feeding and there was one mare in there that would just as well kick your head off when she had a foal than to look at you. I took a risk and went in to her enclosure to get her feed tub. I was coming out when my brother in law decided to flip the switch. Lets just say that I was NONE too happy!!! but I learned my lesson about trying to use my hand to come between 2 of the big white fence wires!!
