“So far, 99% of the visitors have had the sense to not enter the “dog space”.”
While the other 1% saved you money on dog chow? :-)
Shoot, feed, shovel (the poop)?
LOL...not quite.
The 1% idiot -finally- understood *why* there were numerous signs, both on the gate and the house.
He had a bad habit of coming in and leaving my gate hanging open.
The “object lesson dog encounter of the toothy kind” came after he’d made a joke to my hubby that I’d told him if any of my dogs got so much as a scratch on them because he’d left the gate open again, I’d shoot him dead, right on the spot.
He stopped laughing when hubby said “She’s not kidding.”
He became one of the most conscientious gate-shutters in the world, after that.
[plus, hubby then put a car hood spring on the gate that automatically slams it shut so hard and fast you’d better make sure you’re ~really~ hustling when you go through or it’ll literally swat you into the yard]
:D