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I couldn't stop laughing. (Some profanity)

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That's funny.

We had the same scenerio with a guy down the street and his neighbor that lasted for years until the old fella died, their antics against each other kept the rest of the neighborhood in stitches the entire time.

That was too funny! Thanks for the link, Peter.

I like that guy.

Funny stuff

Ha!

Not to mention he has a VERY active imagination and can write well!... I think he would throw one hell of a BBQ, i would go...

Personally, I would have installed an X-10 or other remote switching mechanism on his light and shut it off every night when they went to sleep. Let them figure that out for a while.

A parabolic mirror, just on the edge of my own property to refocus a beam back into one of their windows would also be fun.

If I was blessed with one skill in life it's that I tend to not lose at such games.

I witnessed something that for me would spark a similar reaction. It wasn't at my house, so we are good, but...

I was driving to work this morning, and stuck in a residential area due to the city thinking that 7:00 am is a good time to do construction right next to a road that is the main "non-highway" path through town.

Anyway, this lady let her dog outside via her front door. The dog made a full sprint bee-line run to the neighbor's back yard (they houses are on a corner of a block and perpendicular to each other). The dog proceeded to "do its duty" about 2 feet from the bottom steps of their deck and run back home. By the way it played out, it seemed like a normal occurrence, and the lady didn't care that the dog wasn't in her yard.

1) I would want to kill that dog and then the neighbor
or
2) I would love to have that dog from time to time if I could get it to go to select neighbors and provide the same "service" for me

I choose option #1.

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.

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.

I would agree with this Nick. I have a German Shepherd and he LOVES to chase the ball.. His "prey drive" is pretty strong. I have had to spend a decent amount of time teaching him how to give a human his ball... Now, if you put your hand out, he will place his ball in your hand gently and release it. Then, as soon as you throw it he is 100% chasing it. I would consider this a combination of the two....

Consequently, he has completely bonded with me and pretty much never leaves my side.. I often leave the gate as well as the garage door open, when i am working on the landscap projects around the house, he is almost always laying somewhere within eye site that is shaded with his ball hoping that i will take a break and throw it, probably also wondering why that dumb human is working in the yard with the sun beating down on him and not under the shade in the cool....

It seems as though beagles bark more than any other breed that I know. My neighbor had one for a while.

Hmmm... Early demise?

j/k

So anyway, I think that I took this thread down a less than friendly path. Sorry about that. So what other funny "revenge" stories are out there?

This guy once threadjacked me and I poked a hole in his theater screen.

BURN HIM!!!

I am not a dog, person.

I still expect payment for that.

The thought crossed my mind, especially after the dog dug under the fence and started fighting with my dog. It bit me when I tried to break it up.

Take a search for the practical joke thread. It is full of fun stories. I tried the search function to dig it up but it continues to just make me angry.

That is by design.