Posted: 5/2/2007 11:19:07 AM EDT
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I live on a corner lot. Asplundh is trimming the trees back away from the power lines on the side of my house. I just got home. I go and look out the kitchen window to see what's going on. There is a Asplundh guy in my yard. Where are my two dogs??? I saw one UNDER the deck.  The dogs DID NOT attack the guy. I did not hear any barking when I got home. The dogs (German Shepherd and Yellow Lab) are fired. No more pig ears for them. |
| That's kinda cute in it's own way. My dog is almost 6 months old and he barks as soon as he hears someone step up on the first porch before they even open the enclosed part of the porch door. Before we ever even hear anything. Sometimes he thinks he hears something and barks at nothing so just be glad your dogs aren't doing that at least. |
Don't feed it chicken after midnight. |
AWESOME! A German Shepherd owner who did not say "German Shepherd Dog". I can't believe it. You said German Shepherd and I was not somehow confused that you owned a man in leather shorts who likes beer and sheep.  Somehow I just knew you were talking about a dog. Most GS owners do not figure that people can make this judgment. |
The meter reader "trespasses" all the time, if my dog attacked her I would be in trouble. |
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Youd be surprised how dogs react when you are not around. Alot of dogs go into 'passive' mode when they arent around their people. Have you ever seen the show 'It takes a thief' on discovery channel? I cant tell you how many times that guy has just walked into houses with dogs (all kinds of dogs, big ones, little ones, multiples), and the dogs either are friendly, indifferent, or they go and hide. Dont think I ever saw a dog react aggressively to him breaking into the houses. |
Just don't feed that thing after midnight.
Research the term "continuum of force". |
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Owner Describes Dog's Death STEWARTVILLE, MN -- We first told you last night about a Stewartville man who is facing charges for shooting his neighbors dog tonight those neighbors speak out. Peanut, a chihuahua was shot while playing in her yard on Friday and died the next morning. Neighbor Don Dereng admitted shooting the dog with a pellet gun after growing upset by the dog's barking. Carol Skyhawk says, "The vet couldn't beleive it either, so I went over and asked him if he accidentally had shot our dog and he said he didn't accidentally do it. He intentionally shot him but he waited until the dog turned sideways so he wouldn't shoot him in the eye or anything." Skyhawk says she no idea Peanut had been shot but took it to the vet the next morning after watching it suffer all night. |
You come on my property, start fucking around, and then want to play Billy Bad-Ass, talking about how you're going to kill my dogs, and you're the one who's gonna wind up six feet under, sporto. I'll turn the other cheek to an awful lot of things, but that ain't one of them. Grow a brain before you start accumulating copper and lead deposits. |
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im talking about a dog that ATTACKS ME. if he runs up jumps on me and licks me, im gonna pet him if he runs up to me barks at me, i'll get a good idea im not wanted there. im NOT gonna harm him if he runs up on me, barking grabs a hold of me with his jaw. im gonna get pissed and kick him off. if he continues im gonna defend myself. you guys act like im a bad guy. i don't have a problem with a dog unless he attacks me. then ....................
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When it comes to utilities, if you read the papers on the closing of a house you generally give them access to certain areas for the purposes of repairs and such. So I hope people wouldn't seriously shoot these people for 'trespassing'. 
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settle down i posted above  im not an innocent dog killer geez |
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That's odd. As a kid we had 5 German Shepherds (3 white and 2 black & tans) and no one would go into our yard, Later in life I had a Black Lab, cute dummy but lovable dog. OK, I'm going to tell the truth here: Went to our daughter's High School fund raising dinner a couple of months ago. They had the silent auctions, food, open bar (did I mention OPEN BAR?) and at the end a live auction (did I mention an OPEN BAR where you don't pay any more money for adult beverages?). Well at the end of the night I'm teaching everyone at our table how to look like a Big Shot without spending any money at the live auction and screwed up.....and bought a Toy Poodle for $550!!!!!! I gotta say, the little dog has stolen everybody' s heart in the house. It will bark and go after anything without regard to the size differential. It is incredibly smart and a hoot. I know it says "French" but it is a kick and a great watch dog (not much bite). The name "Poodle" comes from the German word pudle for "lover of water" as they were raised as a retriever of water birds like ducks etc. What a little knucklehead, but we are not going to give him a faggot haircut. I named him Bourbon', after the liquid that brought him home, it is also a region in France. Good Luck Bill |
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From someone who works for a Utility company, Unless your dog is fenced in or otherwise secured you will lose EVERYTIME if your dog bites someone with the legal right to be in your yard. If you have utilties, you have, whether or not you know it, given permission to work, read, or do other work to any and all utilities on your property. There is also a right of way many times that allows utilties to work on their property legally and to cut back, cut down, or trim any offending brush, bushes or trees that encroach on the utilities property. You will NOT win, either in court, to the PD who responds, the pound that will impound your pooches for a while til the tags are cleared or to the judgement that will be handed down against you. Oh, and your dogs were probably scared shitless by the trucks, buckets, chainsaws and other loud tools, the majority of which are complely new to them. [I even hosed a police dog down once, nothing either the PD or officer could do, he was entirely in the wrong and OC works just fine against even a police rover.] |
6 feet v.s. 8 feet. cruze5 wins by 2 feet.
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When I hear the term "backyard" used, I apply it (albeit sometimes mistakenly) to mean what I know as a backyard in suburbia where it is fenced and you have a gate at the side of the house to get to it. So by your statement, the dog was properly fenced. Thankfully all of my utilities are in front of my gate. When I had the electric company come out to install a power shutoff on my a/c unit, they made sure to call in advance and schedule a time it was ok for them to be in the backyard. Also thankfully, we don't have overhead lines in my city, everything is buried, so there is no chance of this happening. If there is some stranger, whether he has a power company uniform on or not, he is going to be met with suspicion and possibly the muzzle of a firearm depending on his actions until the police arrive. |
Well, you do that to me and I guarantee that 100 company lawyers will be breathing down your ass in 5 minutes because I've seen it done personally and all the person did was THREATEN to get a gun verbally. You really REALLY don't want to do that, you'll end up in jail without a leg to stand on. We try to let customers know if we are working on OUR property but if, say your neighbor smells gas by your house we will check if we have to, we have every legal right to be there. Of course, if you don't wish to ever own a firearm again legally, then go ahead.  Contractually you have given permission to the utility to enter your property in the due course of business the second you signed, called in to switch service, or otherwise contacted the utility in question wanting service in your name. Personally, I get threatened, I just walk away, call in and let the lawyers handle it. Crow is served nicely cold when you have no hot water, natural gas or electricity to cook it with. And I have NO problem with showing a customer my company ID, hopefully the marked truck out front provides at least a small clue to them. |
Please do many of us a favor and make this picture larger so that it can be used for a desktop image... Absolutely adorable! I just love dogs... |
To be fair, a Chihuahua doesn't really count as a dog.
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