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14886. Macnas - 5/9/2005 3:10:38 PM Well, most dogs can be trained not to chase stock. The same situation applies here by the way, farming landowners have the right to shoot any dog they see on their land, whether it is bothering stock or not.
And as for coming in at dark? well, that is easily enough done too. A small meal or snack will of course, concentrate the animals mind as to it being a good idea to be around when it gets dark out. My dogs are always put to kennel at night. I don't care how good you think your dog is, or how clever or well trained it is.
At night, dogs change and if they can, forget about us for a while and will leave and go awandering. I remember one night, I was out fishing with my brother, and coming home through the fields we saw a black and white shape moving along the ditch across the way from us, moving parallel.
When we almost converged, we saw that it was one of our dogs, who had seemed to have managed to escape being put in for the night.
She saw us, recognised us, turned around and ran for home.
When we got there, she was stuck half-in and half-out of her kennel, trying desperatly to get inside before we had got back. 14887. arkymalarky - 5/9/2005 3:19:01 PM Hahaha! Sounds like a kid who climbed out the window trying to climb back in before his parents catch him!
That's excellent advice. Bob likes to hang around the yard at night, and I'll try getting him to keep a treat in his pocket to get the dog to stay with him and just come in when he comes in. Diva was not so adventurous until the last year or so, and coming in at dark wasn't an issue (it was with Chili) until fairly recently, and she'd always come in eventually because she doesn't like the cold. 14888. wonkers2 - 5/9/2005 4:05:32 PM I've always admired Brittany Spaniels. Had a Springer Spaniel when I was a kid. My wife prefers cats of which we've had several and currently have one that's 17-18 years old and still spry. 14889. Magoseph - 5/9/2005 4:06:50 PM I am reading this talk about dogs with much interest. In the past, I always left the care of family dogs to the man in the house and his sons. I have decided to get a dog for Flexy’s birthday in July. It just happens that he has a daughter-in-law who for the last fifteen years runs an animal shelter near Chicago that is a well-financed foundation—so I'd say that I’m lucky that I don’t have to get involved around here looking for a dog and that most likely we'll get the right guard dog. 14890. Macnas - 5/9/2005 4:11:34 PM Better a barker than a biter for a guard dog Mago. 14891. Macnas - 5/9/2005 4:17:07 PM Wonk
My brother in CA has a britt, and I've always ran springers.
But, I have a real hankering to try out one of these:
 14892. Magoseph - 5/9/2005 4:17:10 PM Oh, yes, Mac--around here, no dog is free to roam around-our association fines are pretty steep if the police nab a dog, I tell you. 14893. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 4:21:13 PM Arky,
I'm so sorry to hear the news about your Diva, but I'll forever now have an image of a dachschund herding cows. 14894. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 4:23:04 PM Mac,
That dog is a Rock Star. He needs an electric guitar. 14895. Macnas - 5/9/2005 4:24:19 PM Groovy looking, isn't he? 14896. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 4:36:14 PM Very. What kind of spaniel is that? My first thought was that it was a standard poodle but the coat isn't right and the face is spaniel-y. 14897. alistairconnor - 5/9/2005 4:37:27 PM ... it's a birrd dawwwg. 14898. Macnas - 5/9/2005 4:40:31 PM Its an Irish water spaniel. Big curly haired chocolate brown dogs.
Supposedly a cross between French poodles, back when they were actual hunting dogs, and the Irish setter. 14899. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 5:05:38 PM Looks like.
I nearly got into a bar fight two weeks ago when a couple of drunks started telling horror stories about Pitt Bulls and PB-mixes. This one idiot -- barely able to stand up straight when he started -- was trying to impress this other idiot -- tottering in her high heels --- with his knowledge of dogs and his special witness status having seen multiple children on several occasions mauled by Pit Bulls. (At least we were led to believe it was multiple since the first time he told the story the child was 3 and the second time the child was 7 and then 2 and then...well, you get the picture.)
Of course he starts this whole thing after we've all piped up about what kind of precious furry lumpkin we all have at home and it's my mention of Billietta that starts him off on the whole Pitt Bull Horror Story Hour.
All of the hysterical fabrications about locking jaws and 5000 lbs of pressure in the jaw muscle and turning on their owners and never being safe around children and my mother's neighbor's son's kid was at a birthday party and the family pit maimed one of the two-year old guests and they had to shoot the dog and then use a crow-bar to break its jaw in order to release the child's throat and everyone almost died.
And the woman is responding with counter-tales about her little Boston Terrier and how he thinks he's a big dog so he's always picking fights with bigger dogs but that he never approaches Pits or Rottweilers and all I can think is "I don't care how little your dog is, he's an aggressive and unpredictable animal and you should keep him out of the dog park." and yet they're both looking at me like I'm a criminal because I take my very well-behaved, never been in a fight, never bitten anyone Pit Mix to the park all the time.
My dog doesn't bite but I sure as hell thought about it.
14900. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 5:06:24 PM And my friends wonder why I lie and claim Billie's a Lab mix. 14901. judithathome - 5/9/2005 5:47:14 PM Can you give us some figures on that, Judith?
Yes, I certainly will! The incumbant mayor, my guy, got 68% of the vote in a 3 way race and the candidate for council, my guy, beat the incumbant by a 72.5% margin. We had the largest voter turnout ever in this village of 2,100...446 voted.
14902. arkymalarky - 5/9/2005 5:52:37 PM Thanks MsNo. It is a very odd sight.
That dog looks like he should belong to a member of Twisted Sister, Mac. 14903. judithathome - 5/9/2005 5:57:49 PM ...or named Rick James. 14904. Ms. No - 5/9/2005 6:00:51 PM Yes!! He does look like Rick James.
If you get one you'll have to name it "Superfreak" 14905. arkymalarky - 5/9/2005 6:01:16 PM I KNEW he looked familiar!
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