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Interesting.

My lawn is almost all weeds because I have very little time also.

You know, I saw that coming, I just wondered who would hit it first. Winner!!

I started to chuckle at the LOST one....

Monkeys have been solving difficult social situations for thousands of years by flinging poop, maybe it's time we learned something from them...

- door opens
- owner and dog come out
- dog runs across to neighbors yard, makes deposit
- owner and dog go in
- owner hears odd noise as poop sticks to their door

Seems to me the learning curve would be pretty short.

Isn't it the norm to shoot your neighbour if you're in a dispute? That's what Rick does .

As the owner of a (partial) pit bull, I have to take this opportunity to educate people. Although pit bulls do have a recent history of often being selected by idiots who force them to participate in dog fights, dog fighting is not in the breed's historical roots.

The pit part of their name dates back to when the dogs were used in a sport called ratting. The dogs would be placed in an actual pit with a number of rats. The more rats the dog killed in a certain amount of time, the better it scored. This was at the same time when the bubonic plague was a great concern, so having a pit bull (or any other small prey-seeking dog) around was a serious survival aid.

They are eager to please their masters, can be very strong-willed, and are muscular. Pit bulls were not engineered to fight, but these qualities mean they can be and have been trained to be tenacious fighters.

Any dog can injure a child under the right circumstances. It's up to the owners to make sure those circumstances are avoided. You have to know your animal.

Ok, so here's the requisite pic of my dog, Sunny.

Another point: Sunny is perhaps the sweetest, best dog I have ever known, and I am NOT a dog person.

Thank you for the education. In the new articles you never read "the dog was know to be mean..." it is always "the dog was always very well behaved and loved everyone."

I just wouldn't want to roll that dice. You pooch on the other hand has maybe the ears of a pit, but other than that doesn't even remind me of one. It looks like a nice dog.

My wife's dog is a ball of poof pomeranian. I told her that the thing will bark all of the time, and she didn't believe me. She said "we can train it not to bark at everything." Guess what? I can get the dog to bark any time I want to by simulating a door closing, a person outside, any strange sound. bark-bark-bark...

"Train the dog not to do some characteristic is is known for, ha! Dumb ball of poof." is what I said to her once. I was in the proverbial dog house for a couple of days on that one.

I've personally seen some of the meanest appearing pitbulls be very gentle and sweet, our neighbor across the street has one, he and our weimaranar have a blast playing together. It's all about how they are trained and raised.

It's those ankle biting, yippity yappity rat sized lil mutts that get on my nerves, the neighbor a couple of houses down have two and they can heard yapping up and down the street. I certainly wouldn't kill 'em, but it sure wouldn't bother me to drop kick them into next week though.

We have a neighbor behind us and one house over that has an old beagle. And they leave it outside a lot more than it wants to be outside. So you get that deep, long, "hound-dog" howl/bark thing... For hours!

I remember this tiger once that was concerned super nice (for a tiger I guess) to its owners until one day is snapped and almost killed the guy. OK, over exaggerated comparison... In reading about animal psychology (fun class in college), I remember that it kept saying that instinct is VERY strong in all animals, and even if an animal is trained properly, if some unusual variable enters the mix, the animal can, and often does, resort back to instinct over training. So wanting to go outside and mark a larger territory is a natural instinct in the dog I saw. It could be trained not to do so, but may still decide to ignore the training should another dog come into the picture or something. It just wants to prove that it was there first and that it "owns" the place.