A woofy start to 2007

Maybe you're getting all the crappy stuff out of the way early in '07? LOL
I just got home from work so there was no celebrating but on the other hand Murphy has left me alone in 2007 for the first 2 hrs 12 mins :-)))

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Footie ,
Maybe you should have a chat to him about the danger to his dog from yours , if he continues to let it roam about and get into your place. Then at least your conscience is clear if his dog gets a bit shredded by yours - not that that would be nice - I hate dog fights - that's why I have never owned a male .
Cheers ,
Willie .

Forgot to mention that all dogs involved are staffies. The visitor is the ugliest dog I've ever seen, huge head and small body but oh so house trained. He happily does exactly what strangers tell him to do (unlike mine), and is only unhappy without a human.
But boy can he jump ! I rekkon he's been taking lessons from Hudini. His home enclosure is 2m tall and he gets out. He's jumped a 2m pool fence.
I was just happy seeing him jump out of the 4wd...from the passengers seat across me and onto his driveway.
Damm things only a poodle sized thing for heavens sake.

Woke up this morning and had to make sure he wasn't here....

Footloose,
It knows when it's on a good thing.
Cheers,
Bros.

Needs some electric farm fence around their fence. That stops them jumping over. Had the same priblem with a border collie, tho fence not so high. One strand near top to stop jumping and one near bottom to stop digging out. Worked fine, but didn't allow for someone leaving the gate open. Dog got out and hit on the road.

IT IS THE ABSOLUTELY WRONG THING TO DO.... feed a stray dog!

Sorry for shouting, but this upsets me no end.

My best working dog nicked off one day... bitch on heat up the road.

The people fed him! DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN.... AND DAMN!!!!!

So of course.... what would any dog do? Every time he was off the chain.... straight up the road [2k] to the neighbour. Of course they fed him nice, mushy, canned town dog food. Yummy yummy. But DAMN!!!! I wish they hadn't.

For the next year and half it was an ongoing battle to keep the dog at home. If I went inside for a cuppa. No work... off he would go. A half hour later I'd have to get in the cruiser and drive up the road and get him back.

DAMN!!!! I wish people were more thoughtful about feeding stray dogs....

So the day came when I went to fetch him.... and there he was. Dead on the road. Hit by a passing car.

VERY SAD.. specially cos he was the last of a long line of 'Lister' dogs. Mainly white, soft but firm workers. Mate... I wish people would not feed stray dogs.

Speaking to one of the kids of the stray-feeding-household a couple of months later. They told me that their bitch had just had pups. So not so sad. Two of my dogs pups are working on the farm now.... but as I say.... PLEASE DON'T FEED STRAYS... just send them back home with a flea in their ear.. or at least, tie em up and find the owner or phone the pound. Why teach them to visit you???

And then there was the dalmation that kept harrying our sheep. Hadn't killed one yet .. but kept coming....

I did feed him in the end. Called the pound each time. If I didn't feed him... I couldn't catch him. .... In the end, I stopped feeding him. He killed a couple of sheep. He died.

Happy new year.

Yes... what sort of owners don't have the dog chained, penned or at least inside a fence? They don't like their dog very much or are ignorant. Probably the latter.

.22 subsonic = all problems solved

I love the way an anecdotal post turns into a 'for or against' issue with the extremists having the most to say.

We can now add 'dogs' to the list of subjects which inspire people to claim that their opinion is truth LOL