On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .


So the difference between your neighbors and my dogs is intelligence
and constant training. They stay in the yard, no leash, under
constant command and control.

In your case, blame the owner, not the dog. :)

Oh....I do blame the owners. Not just for their awful practices, but for
letting themselves be trained by their dogs.

Back to the positive: Around here, almost every new townhouse development
has to have a pond, so that the place looks good in brochures. With NO
exceptions, the pond ends up being useless to the residents because the
geese move in. This is an instance where The Person Responsible should be
tied to a chair and be subject to questions from the residents and pelting
with rotten fruit. Probably the architect.

Anyway...some guy hires out his border collie. Apparently, one week of
exposure to the dog sends the geese packing for a couple of months. Probably
to the next townhouse development, but it works. :-)

That is a small industry around here. The guy who breeds my BCs has a
whole little business going with the geese thing.

The the BCs love it!!! That's the best part.

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653