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Speaking of cats and dogs crapping on your property. Up until two weeks ago, the neighbours cat was continually crapping in our garden and flower beds. My son has wanted a dog for about four years now. We solved the problem. He is the proud owner of a 1 year old golden retriever. The dog ran the cat out of the yard the first day at home. Haven't seen the cat since.

I'd ask nicely a maximum of two times, then I'd be having MY morning constitutional squatting outside near their deck.

Bren R.

This dude sounds really funny. I say we go crash his place with beer and brats.

As good as the light story was, the trash/bear one is better: linky.

I can see where the humor would wear off quickly from that guy though.

My favorite one of his was always Missing Missy

Nick, this is a horrible idea. it's an animal, it doesn't know what it is doing...



Personally, i would buy a pooper scooper, and return her property to her every day on her front porch...

The word "kill" does not mean that I would actually kill it or the owner. There are times when I want to "kill" our pets, and yet they are still here annoying me...

I would be more ok with the owner, than the pet... it's hard to completely understand the meaning of some statements on the interweb. Kind of like Texting... oh wait, that never happens................

Agreed. A pet's behavior is derived from a combination of training and instinct. Many times, the training will override instinct, and the animal will be well behaved. Unfortunately, instinct wins out form time to time.

For example, take a pitbull. So many people have this dog as a pet. The dog was bred to create a ferocious fighting dog that gets tossed into a pit with another pitbull and they fight until one is killed. They were "engineered" to fight, and yet people try, and many succeed, to have them as pets. And then you hear about it. The beloved family pet decides that for a few seconds, instinct wins out over anything else, and some child gets maimed or killed.

Maybe the dog I saw was a mixed breed. Like a cross between a shih tzu and a poodle. They call them Shiht-Poos. (think about it a second...)

So maybe it was instinct, maybe the neighbor was watching the door for the others and it was just going back to where it normally went, maybe they need a fence...

My neighbours and I have noticed a strange side effect of the infestation of thyme on local lawns. Dogs will walk great lengths to not do their business in areas where there is more thyme than grass. We assume it is the odour that dissuades them.

My lawn, sadly, is almost all grass and weeds. Very little thyme. That is because it was pretty much entirely plowed in and reseeded when we built the new house 6-7 years ago.

I'm actually looking forward to having my lawn inevitably re-infested with thyme. It only grows a couple of inches high, is soft on bare feet, has a nice purple colour, smells nice if you scuff your feet and of course, if I get a new dog, he or she will go across to my nearest neighbours lawn to do their thing because his is even a newer lawn than mine.