It's just the mail lady, DANG!!

[ranchhand]

This whole thread has made me laugh! My boys only bark at the things that attack at 3-4 a.m. Like the commando squirrels, all carrying AK-47s and wearing night goggles.

 

[gritsar]

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I know about the dogs and the person always leaving thing, but can't figure out my roos.
We read our own electric meter and send the reading in with that month's bill (SWEPCO). Thank goodness for that or Jax would need a straight jacket. The SWEPCO guy did come by today for their yearly check on the meters and was smart enough to honk the horn before getting out of his truck.
The water meter is outside the fence. The reader is a local guy. Everyone I've talked to says their animals hate him too; but I'm the only one that has a roo go after the guy.

 

[gritsar]

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Dogs dont bark at invisible things, they bark at grasshopper farts - at least my dogs do.

Our pecan and walnut trees are dropping their nuts. Jax and Kane are having a blast chasing the squirrels. I'm pretty sure the squirrels consider it a game because instead of running away, they run up the tree just out of reach, turn around and chatter at the dogs. If the dogs barked at the squirrels I'd be the one needing the straight jacket.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Tessa barks at things visible and invisible anytime during the day, but come dark? She needs her beauty rest. It takes deliberate provoking (with resultant teethmarks to the bone) to wake her up. She is either ON or OFF, and for the most part, daylight determines which it is.

 

[mom'sfolly]

My german shepard, when she got old, would run and bark at the door when dh laughed, I guess it sounded like someone knocking. Her vision started to go to, so she would stand in the front window and bark at blowing leaves and other random things.

Squirrels, garbage guys, paper carriers, etc were all safe, but a blowing leaf must be barked, and barked!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

My friend had a female husky who was alpha of the family. She had trained the goofy male rottweiler mutt and the female boxer mix how to hunt. They would go out in the backyard and pack hunt the snakes and bunnies and possums. The bane of their existence though was the tree full of squirrels. Apparently war had been declared. One summer she couldn't figure out why she kept finding green cheery tomatoes in her yard, all with a bite out of them. One afternoon she watched the squirrels go pilfer them from the neighbor's garden, run up the tree on his side of the fence, cross over to her yard and then hurl the cherry tomato bombs at the barking dogs below. The squirrels were ARMED!!!

 

[gritsar]

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No wonder I'm finding pecans so far from the tree. Apparently squirrels have good aim too.

On another note, Kane is driving us crazy tonight with whining non-stop and needing to go out every five minutes. Apparently he's learning that pecans, shell intact, aren't easy on a puppy's stomach.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Awwww... poor puppy tummy!

My eldest dog is a bone stealer. When both dogs get bones she will wait until Lucy (my avatar) has gotten hers appropriately gummy and then will pilfer it away. She prefers to have both bones. Greedy little pig puppy. Well, Lucy has learned to start whining and carrying on like she wants to go out so I'll get up and go to the back door. Lily will rush the back door to get to go out first, at which point Lucy gallops back to retrieve the bone. She totally fakes having to go potty so she can steal her bone back.

 

[tammyd57]

LOL! No meter readers or delivery people of any kind get out of their vehicle in this area! The meter readers use binoculars to read the meters and anyone delivering anything honks and waits for me to go out and get the item passed through the window. My little 3 pound Chihuahua thinks it's because she scared em all. But in reality, there are a number of large loose dogs roaming around that are pretty scary. The big loose dog population has started growing lately though, so I guess it's time to thin them out.