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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 414907" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Way to go, Star! You are my hero!</p><p> </p><p>And MM, I know exactly what you mean! It's the most frustrating thing! I live in a very small town too, and my house is on a corner, a short half-block from the main street in town with quite a bit of traffic. I have four indoor dogs and no fence which adds up to many, many potty trips outside with dogs on a leash. We have leash laws here too but you'd never know it! If you ever see one of <u>my</u> dogs running loose, I guarantee you, you will see me right behind them trying to run them down. And chances are, I will be waving a treat in my hand and yelling, "Cookie! Cookie!" - that has been known to stop them in their tracks!</p><p> </p><p>But it's everybody else! There are a lot of houses in the block behind me and it seems half of them are content to let their dogs run loose! And every dog seems to have decided that my front yard is a public doggie restroom. Burns me up because I am very careful with my dogs' health and I don't want other people's wormy dogs pooping in our yard! And of course, if there is another dog in our yard, mine will go ballistic when I take them out! I started out the door with two of them the other day and there were FOUR little dogs peeing and pooping in our yard! Two were some small long haired breed, both completely matted up, the other two looked like pit bull puppies. And here was this goofy woman strolling down the street with these four dogs, completely oblivious to the fact that they were pooping and peeing in my yard and that cars were trying to dodge these dogs when they ran into the street to follow her! I just wanted to smack her! </p><p> </p><p>My oldest Boston, Ragan, is almost nine and was sick for months with a whole series of infections. Her vet wanted her to get more exercise so once a day I would put her leash on her and walk her around the perimeter of our huge yard. We were in the farthest end of the back yard (back door was locked) and this little fuzzy dog came running up to her, wanting to play. Ragan was in no mood to play but as we tried to move on, the little dog followed us. Not too bad, but then I noticed his "friend", a huge, muscular mixed breed dog that was standing on the edge of the yard, giving us the evil eye, and moving slowly toward us - me and a rickety, elderly, sick 20-pound Boston! And of course, Ragan, being a Boston, was ready to take the big guy on! They have no clue how little they really are. But I picked Ragan up and started walking around the house to the front door, resisting the temptation to run, but thinking that any minute, that gigantic dog was going to be on us! I've never seen either one of them again, not even sure if they live around here ... do people go visiting, bring their dogs along with them and let them run the neighborhood while they're chit-chatting? We really don't have "Animal Control", just a severely crowded county shelter, and it's almost a sure death sentence for any dog who ends up there, but I will call if I have to!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 414907, member: 1883"] Way to go, Star! You are my hero! And MM, I know exactly what you mean! It's the most frustrating thing! I live in a very small town too, and my house is on a corner, a short half-block from the main street in town with quite a bit of traffic. I have four indoor dogs and no fence which adds up to many, many potty trips outside with dogs on a leash. We have leash laws here too but you'd never know it! If you ever see one of [U]my[/U] dogs running loose, I guarantee you, you will see me right behind them trying to run them down. And chances are, I will be waving a treat in my hand and yelling, "Cookie! Cookie!" - that has been known to stop them in their tracks! But it's everybody else! There are a lot of houses in the block behind me and it seems half of them are content to let their dogs run loose! And every dog seems to have decided that my front yard is a public doggie restroom. Burns me up because I am very careful with my dogs' health and I don't want other people's wormy dogs pooping in our yard! And of course, if there is another dog in our yard, mine will go ballistic when I take them out! I started out the door with two of them the other day and there were FOUR little dogs peeing and pooping in our yard! Two were some small long haired breed, both completely matted up, the other two looked like pit bull puppies. And here was this goofy woman strolling down the street with these four dogs, completely oblivious to the fact that they were pooping and peeing in my yard and that cars were trying to dodge these dogs when they ran into the street to follow her! I just wanted to smack her! My oldest Boston, Ragan, is almost nine and was sick for months with a whole series of infections. Her vet wanted her to get more exercise so once a day I would put her leash on her and walk her around the perimeter of our huge yard. We were in the farthest end of the back yard (back door was locked) and this little fuzzy dog came running up to her, wanting to play. Ragan was in no mood to play but as we tried to move on, the little dog followed us. Not too bad, but then I noticed his "friend", a huge, muscular mixed breed dog that was standing on the edge of the yard, giving us the evil eye, and moving slowly toward us - me and a rickety, elderly, sick 20-pound Boston! And of course, Ragan, being a Boston, was ready to take the big guy on! They have no clue how little they really are. But I picked Ragan up and started walking around the house to the front door, resisting the temptation to run, but thinking that any minute, that gigantic dog was going to be on us! I've never seen either one of them again, not even sure if they live around here ... do people go visiting, bring their dogs along with them and let them run the neighborhood while they're chit-chatting? We really don't have "Animal Control", just a severely crowded county shelter, and it's almost a sure death sentence for any dog who ends up there, but I will call if I have to! [/QUOTE]
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