"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. :-)

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:53:50 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"DSK" wrote in message
. ..
Doug Kanter wrote:
Hey! Cut it out. In my book, "domestication" means applying the proper
herbs
and spices, and having the patience to cook things on the slow side of
the
grill.

That's about how I feel about cats.

Now for a subject closer to on-topic, some people think fish make good
pets....

Let's not discuss fish. The weather here has sucked for two weeks, except
for a 39 minute period this past weekend. No fishing. I'm going crazier than
usual.

Tell me about it. I was really envious of the fishing report posted
yesterday.

WWWWAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:31:16 -0400, DSK wrote:

Doug Kanter wrote:
Hey! Cut it out. In my book, "domestication" means applying the proper herbs
and spices, and having the patience to cook things on the slow side of the
grill.

That's about how I feel about cats.

Now for a subject closer to on-topic, some people think fish make good
pets....

You won't believe this, but I have had a small mouth bass in a 50
gallon tank once.

I have a ten gallon tank with some genetically modified Neons - very
pretty.

Later,

Tom

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

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:14:08 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:32:51 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Snipped

Well, that's an ownership problem. It's my opinion that people who
contemplate owning a dog, must prove they are worthy of owning a dog.
I also feel the same way about kids - you have to prove you are worthy
to have a child. I mean I had to do it and did four times in fact.
Why shouldn't others?


Having adopted both dogs and cats from the local animal shelter, I can
state that the proof of worthiness to own a dog is much more
demanding than the proof of worthiness to have a child.

In every adoption instance we received a 'home visit' from the animal
shelter folks. Nothing remotely similar occurs prior to the conception
or birth of a child.

Try adopting four kids sometime.

That will give you the willies.

Later,

Tom

"Beware the one legged man in a butt
kicking contest - he is there for a
reason."

Wun Hung Lo - date unknown

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


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.

Without knowing the specifics, I'm sure many of those ponds serve as
retention basins. Better to blame Mother Nature's downpours, than the
architect.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:56:55 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


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.

Without knowing the specifics, I'm sure many of those ponds serve as
retention basins. Better to blame Mother Nature's downpours, than the
architect.

Get a radio controlled boat. They make great geese chasers.

I have been trying to find the story, but apparently this is goose
abuse or to put it another way animal cruelty.

I'm not joking. Some kids were fined $1,000 or so dollars for
harassing geese with RC controlled airplanes and boats.

Later,

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

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I have been trying to find the story, but apparently this is goose
abuse or to put it another way animal cruelty.

I'm not joking. Some kids were fined $1,000 or so dollars for
harassing geese with RC controlled airplanes and boats.

I dunno about fines, but I do know that two people had RC boats
confiscated by the state wildlife officers at NC lakes when they were
harassing animals.

Regards
Doug King

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


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.

Without knowing the specifics, I'm sure many of those ponds serve as
retention basins. Better to blame Mother Nature's downpours, than the
architect.

Get a radio controlled boat. They make great geese chasers.

The architect has nothing to do with the pond......that would be the civil
engineer. You need to get rid of the grass....the geese love that, or make
really steep banks.






John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

There are 10 kinds of people in the world,
those who can do binary and those who can't!

"P. Fritz" wrote in message ...
"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


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.

Without knowing the specifics, I'm sure many of those ponds serve as
retention basins. Better to blame Mother Nature's downpours, than the
architect.

Get a a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=1&k=radio%20controlled%20boat" onmouseover="window.status='radio controlled boat'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;"radio controlled boat/a. They make great geese chasers.

The architect has nothing to do with the pond......that would be the civil
engineer. You need to get rid of the grass....the geese love that, or make
really steep banks.



Not necessarily. It may well be the Landscape Architect that made
ponds for aesthetic reasons. If it is purely for retension, or
detention of runoff, then yes, it would be the Civil Engineer.