Posted on 12/29/2017 11:10:27 AM PST by Morgana
I recently made friends with a wandering cat that was passing by my door a couple of times a day on its patrols. After about 6 months of me leaving food out, it finally decided to be friends. I thought it was feral, but apparently it really likes hanging out with people and is litter box trained. Even goes on my ‘daily constitutional’ walk with me.
But it still prefers to go outside even in single digit temperatures, once I decide to go to bed, even though I try to get him to stay in and warm.
Is a very long haired cat though. I suppose that makes a big difference in staying warm.
Outside? Our female Beagle has the nicest dog house available, four bedrooms, three baths, carpet, over stuffed chairs and soft beds. Outside is a five minute nature call and back in the her house.
Oh, I might add that I live way out in the middle of nowhere, and a mile or so away from any neighbors, so it isn’t just going a few yards down the street and into someone else’s house.
We’ve got three dogs and all deal differently with the cold.
The Border Terrier hates the cold. She spends just enough time outside to take of business and not a second more.
The (sort of) Shi Tzu, which is bigger than a beagle, will spend longer outside if there is something worth barking at, but won’t hurry to come in.
The Tibetan Terrier is the cold lover. Anytime there is snow on the ground, she rolls in it.
The wife closely watches how long any of them are outside and quickly gets them back indoors.
My peke-pom-sheltie has little issue with the cold until it gets 10 or so degrees below freezing, but he is 17 years old, so I bring him right in as soon as he asks to come in.
The teacup chihuahua though...
Then there’s the stupid cat that goes out ONLY in foul weather. Go figure.
OUCH! Can't believe I actually did it.......
I have read several stories lately where these kind of pathetic “owners” have been cited or the dogs removed. For the sake of the poor dog, please report her.
I can't wait 'til she uses that line on me...
Fortunately, the dog won't come onto our property since we moved in. It's afraid of me. I chased it off a couple of times and thankfully it's intelligent enough to stay away now. The problem remains, however, with the barking.
The local police here issued a statement about a year ago stating that they will no longer take nuisance dog calls. We are in the mountains, and unfortunately, there are too many jerks like this woman up in the hills, and not enough police to take care of the calls.
I have confronted the woman several times about the animal, and went over (armed concealed) at 3:00 am to tell her nitwit ex-husband to bring the dog inside. None of those visits have helped.
And yes, Moonman62, the thought of taking the dog out has crossed my mind, but as a dog owner myself, I couldn't do it.
The woman is a college English professor at the local university. The comical thing is when you view her profile on RateMyProfessor, she gets terrible reviews, and the comments are spot on for what we have experienced with this piece of crap.
My son is a bonafide rocket scientist. Currently he works for a firm in Huntsville, Alabama on the new generation Mars rocket. He has an idea we hope will help. He's designing and building a "Sound Cannon" which will direct a 200 Watt 120 dB 30,000-40,000 hz warbling signal toward the woman's house and yard that we would activate when the dog barks. We had to purchase the speakers from Germany as they are apparently not available in the U.S. I'm really hoping when we test this thing that it works. And if the woman suffers some ill-health from it, so be it (some people can be susceptible to high-frequency sound even if they don't hear it).
Yes, it's come to this. We've got our fingers crossed that this contraption will do the trick.
I had a barking dog problem a couple of years back. The idiot owner was leaving the dog on the back patio for several hours every day and it barked the whole time. It was obviously scared or lonely (it looks like a pit bull, they are chickens when left alone). One day I decided to go out and whistle like I was calling a dog. It took a couple of tries but the dog stopped barking. I had to do it a few more times, then a miracle happened. The idiot owners stopped leaving him outside. Perhaps they heard me whistling and figured it out. This was a problem that had gone on for months.
So it worked out for everybody — me, the dog, and about a 100 people who live near me.
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