Love the boxer. We have 2 that are the biggest babies. Although everyone is scared to death of them. The pizza gu wont get out of his car if he sees them with me on the front porch. I have told him they are just big lap dogs. We live out in the country and nothing and no one comes in our yard. We had a problem with this old guy teasing them one time. He would yell at them and throw rocks at them. We have an underground fence and they would bark at him when he did this but never go over the fence. One day he was yelling at them with my wife and son outside. She told him to stop and yelled for the dogs to come back. They didnt(one of the only times they didnt listen). She walked up the drive to get them and the old man pulled out a gun.He shot at them and missed. Bad move. 2 85lb+ male boxers didnt care about getting shocked by a fence. They were on him like flies on s#!*. Good thing our nieghbor was out there. Our boxers love him and listen to him also and so they ran to the house while my wie called the cops. We have not seen the old man since that day.
Thank god he missed. I would have killled him myself if I would have gotten my hands on him.
I had this older man who would walk by my fence and abuse my 2 pit bull mixes (2 very sweet and gentle dogs). He would reach over my fence and hit them with a hammer. The cops would not do anything because they said they had to see him do it. I borrowed my friends video camera and on one of the coldest mornings in Jacksonville (17 degrees) I got up early so I could see him come by. He sprayed my dog's eyes with shaving lotion (he was a barber). At that point I didn't give a crap about filming this idiot. I knew his path and knew he would be back by my house in about 10 minutes so I turned the hose on outside, made sure the water was flowing and hid behind the huge magnolia tree that was by the side walk in my front yard (the back was fenced). As soon as I heard him coming I peeked out to see how close he was and when he got right up to the tree, I stepped out and shot him right in the face with the water hose with the spray nossle turned on the hardest stream. I chased that bastard as far as the hose would reach spraying him. He threatened to have me arrested and sue me because he had some heart issue but I didn't care. After that morning, that old man would cross the street when he got to my house and never messed with my dogs again.
Candy
...btw, these are both true stories :-) ...I am serious, just wanted to say that because of the current mood on the board !!!
Sarah (froglady) has a really good, devilish sense of humor. So keep that in mind if you don't know her. In addition, our dogs were a Beagle mix named Mouse, and a German Shorthaired Pointer named Mocha. Not the most intimidating, although Mocha got more respect than Mouse did just because of her size & bark. Looks can be deciving, because it was Mouse who was the one we had to watch out for.
Pizza delivery person shows up & knocks on the door. Dogs are going nuts and Sarah, is going to the door. I am downstairs in the frog room while this happens and can hear every word. Her brother is sitting in the living room. So, while she is walking to the door she says in a loud voice, "Back Lucifer, back Satan ..." & proceeds to answer the door with a big smile on her face :-). Needless to say, the guy was still backing up by the time the door was open.
Our neighborhood is visited often by JW (Jehovah's Witnesses) knocking on the doors. Sarah answers the door and is greated by a nicely dressed older woman. Her friends are out on the side walk. Well, Mouse (all 25lbs of her) slips out and the woman begins to flee, well - now we have a game & Mouse is in tow :-). We are trying to reassure the woman & keep on saying, "she isn't going to hurt you, she just wants to say hi...", finally the woman stops when we say, "please stop running, you are getting her excited & we don't want her to bite you". Finally the woman stops, as Mouse begins to circle her ... lol. We didn't get visitors for a few months.
Got to love dogs. Very honest and loyal :-) Unless there is food around.
(EDIT) - Disclaimer, no pizza delivery guys or JW's were hurt during these events. Thank goodness the JW lady didn't have a heart condition - she was old enough.
My dog/intruder story (also quite true - I'm sure the County has old records of the incident)
I live in the country and at the time had a fenced two acre parcel. My land was surrounded by several hundred acres of undeveloped property, but there was a large lake directly behind me and visible from the road. I did have a locked gate at the bottom of my driveway, but people would constantly climb over and walk up to the house to seek permission to fish. They never really believed me when I told them it wasn't my lake and I'd redirect them to my neighbor's house (he patrolled with a gun and was the county hermit/grouch). I had a German Shepherd, which was basically a house dog, but could run around outside when I was home.
This guy came to my gate and Wolf (short for Wolfred) ran down to the gate barking. I went outside to find the guy hanging over my gate. I advised him not to do that, because the dog would bite (that was no lie either). I sent him away like all the others, but he was pissed.
A couple of days later, Animal Control showed up at my gate. I walked down to talk to them and they said my dog had been reported for biting. I told my side of the story, they glanced at the dog, declared it a provoked bite (if it was true) and told me to keep the dog quarantined on my property for a month and they would come back to check. They didn't pursue it further, because the guy never even sought medical care. Before the AC officer left, he said "next time, tell the F**king guy you're going to turn the dog loose on him".
A month later, they just called, said they were too busy to come by, asked if the dog was still okay and said he was out of quarantine. They never asked for proof of rabies shots, licensing, anything...
If I had thought faster, when AC first came to the gate and asked if I had the dog in question, I should have said "yes, but he died yesterday and I took his body to the dump".
No worries on the hijack thing...I love hearing animal stories. Especially when the person who is doing something mean or stupid to the animal gets it in the end.
Candy
A friend sent some quotes the other day about people underestimating dogs.
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
- Phil Pastoret
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No worries on the hijack thing...I love hearing animal stories. Especially when the person who is doing something mean or stupid to the animal gets it in the end.
Candy
Ok we have a miniature dachshund. Her name is dDuchess (she's not spoiled I swear...)
She thinks she is a bull mastiff.
The neighbors behind us have dobermans. Well one got out of the fence. Big, muscular, scary dog.
Well, Duchess saw this. She wasn't happy about it. And little did we know, she knew how to get out of our fence. ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF (under the fence) ARF ARF ARF... I thought she was dead.
Next thing I know here she is CHASING the doberman. Well, my aunt lives a few houses down and she was behind her house and happen to see this.
So now you have my over weight aunt chasing Duchess chasing a doberman.
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