Posted on 06/03/2015 10:10:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It may be that your area was developed longer ago. Up here we had major problems for the first ten years after a big housing development project displaced the herd from its traditional territory. Lately the state park admin has been having planned kills every spring. That is disheartening, hearing the shots and seeing park employees with fluorescent vests riding little motor bikes through the trails with deer draped across the luggage rack. Now there are fewer deer, but they are no strangers to shotguns.
Maybe. Although my neighborhood was originally developed in the 1070s, nearby neighborhoods are of much more recent vintage. And our neighborhood is nestled between woods, farms, and the South River.
Maybe it's because before it was developed, much of the area was farmland. We still have a lot of farmland nearby. In fact, there's been farming on the land on which my neighborhood was built since the 18th century.
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Really? Makes sense.
I read it terms of salmonella and other thing that people cannot eat ... but dogs do.
Exactly.
Yep. We have a pooper scooper law.
Exactly! When I was a little kid in the early 60’s our miniature poodle grabbed a Reeses Peanutbutter cup out of my hand and devoured it.. No ill affects at all.
LOL
They’d think it was something sacred, maybe.
My dogs are so weird they will hold it, no matter what, until they’re in their own yard, each in their preferred spot.
I cannot make them go elsewhere so our trips out have a definite time limit.
Weirdo dogs.
:D
Sounds lovely!
1970s, not 1070s, LOL. Although we do have a building from something like 1730.
Its getting depressing to be on the doggie Ping..so much cruelty to animals.
My dog definitely has preferred poop zones in the back yard, and if I throw her ball up in the air and it happens to land in one of these zones, she will just put her front paw up and stand there and look at me. Then I get to go fetch it. Doesn’t even matter if there is no poop there, she just will not fetch from a known poop zone.
She also seems to have preferred lawns that we pass on our walk route. I pretty much know exactly when we have arrived at a place that she considers ok, and then sure enough, she goes.
But one perk of having a highly excitable German Shepherd is that every now and then when she gets over stimulated, she will just poop on the spot regardless of anything, including being in the car or standing in line at Pet Smart.
But I can’t get mad at her. In the car she was coming home from the vet and doped up on morphine which she seemed not to like, and also she just had her neutering incision restapled while she was awake because it had ripped completely open. So being very upset she pooped in the car when we still had an hour more to get home.
Still love her to death!
And in Pet Smart I suppose I can understand, because I know how she gets when she’s over stimulated, and I forgot to walk her before bringing her inside, and sure enough there was a Husky behind us in line making goo goo eyes at her, so BOOM, big ole deuce on the floor in front of everyone :S
Still love her to death!
I thought maybe you’d come over with the Vikings.
[I was duly impressed]
I once stood beside a river for almost an hour because I knew Seven had to go, desperately.
She kept looking for “her spot”, could not locate it or anything acceptable and would not.
So we cut our outing short and went home.
She zoomed out the back door, straight to Best Spot #1 and barely made it.
My adventures often end prematurely because somebody needs to potty really bad.
Once, at the vet, I took her out back where all the dogs go but that too was wholly unacceptable to her.
Of all of them, only Odin will drizzle a cursory, tiny ‘marking’ when he needs to really go.
They’re all weirdos.
:D
Odin is a great, great dog name. I love it!
LOL!
Somehow, those two replies seem to be a set.
:)
what kind of full moon is this? ping
Strawberry.
Cali.
Figures.
What a moron.
We have rude dog walkers in our neighborhood. Piles everywhere, even on sidewalks.
I’ve NEVER had a dog pile in my yard.
I have CCTV. (not covert)
:)
So I figured. :-)
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