Posted on 06/27/2012 7:05:01 AM PDT by el_texicano
Emotion overcomes Joy C. McDonald each time she pauses to think about what her future might hold.
She could lose her job, her small rented home and custody of her three children — all because her two little dogs supposedly scared a neighbor’s elderly chicken to death.
According to McDonald, the penned bird apparently suffered a heart attack when her two Chihuahuas barked at it while running loose in their rural Lafayette County neighborhood.
A chicken heart attack?
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I give that about a 8.4 on the 'Eye-roll inducing hyperbole' Richter Scale.
You posted a link to an old story about the Chicken Man.
You do know that later he blew himself (and the damn chickens) up?
Guy was nuttier than a fruitcake.
Moreover, in traditional Hebrew culture, it might have been the scholarly advice of a Rabbi for the owner of the dead chicken to invite the woman and her two dogs over for chicken dinner.
Give it whatever you want, I’ll never have dealings with a barking dog owner again. I’m not stupid.
I was a naive farm boy who thought people were better than they were way back then. Now I know just what barking dog owners are.
Yep. Not the ones whose dogs let out the occasional yap, but the ones whose dogs bark continuously for anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours.
I'm not sure that dog owners as a class have a higher percentage of inconsiderate a..holes thant the general population or it's just that they have a more obvious venue in which to express their a..holishness.
Just a couple of weeks ago I was working on my lawn when some old jerk came along and crapped his dog on my lawn right in fron of me. As he was walking off I asked him if he liked dog sh!t. He speeded up, but I caught up to him and repeated the question. He basically said no. I asked him why him why then he though his neighbors liked dog sh!t. More mumbling. I told him if he didn't like it on hiz lawn he shouldn't go around depositing it on other peoples' lawns. He mumbled an apology and said he would do it again. Of course there's fresh dog sh!t on my lawn again, but I look at this as someone volunteering his lawn as a place to dump the used motor oil from my diesel.
I did two things in regard to dogs crapping on my lawn.
First we raked up all the crap and spread it along the sidewalk. It was huge windrow on a long sidewalk. That (humiliation) worked for awhile.
after awhile I set my sprinklers to start every day at about 4 am and run for a good while. Evidently the dogs preferred the neighbors dry grass to my wet grass, as it nearly elimated the problem for me.
Not a perfect solution, that would have involved a shotgun.
Back on the barking topic. I have a neighbor who has a continuous yapper. Periodically, someone will put in a complaint (not me - I don't want to be on the record if someone actually does something to the obnoxious thing). She then keeps the vile animal in the house for 30 days and you don't hear a peep out of it, but then she puts it out again and the noise starts all over again. As it turns out, you have to have two complaints within 30 days for the dog to be declared a public nuisance animal (which the county will destroy.) So it's obvious that the aforementioned neighbor is a complete jerk. She KNOWS just what a wretched nuisance her precious wecious puppikins is, and just couldn't care less.
Can you honestly say you wouldn’t think it funny if someone called you up and was screaming that your dog had given his chicken a heart attack?
I don’t know your situation, but if you don’t step up to the plate and file a complaint nothing will happen.
This has to rank in with one of the stupidest statements ever made on FR. We are talking here about two dogs that weight less than a cat and they are guilty of barking. The chicken died on it's own without any physical attack on it at all. We only have the owners word that the chicken died of a heart attack. These little dogs cannot be "out of control", it isn't possible.
BTW, I've seen chickens whip ass on dogs the size of german shepards and this guy wants us to believe a chihuahua scared his to death. Once again calling two tiny dogs "out of control" because they bark is about the dumbest thing I have ever read on FR. Not quite, but very, very close.
Except that is the opposite of Frost's meaning of the poem.
I suggest sending the two Chihuahuas to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC to bark at the resident!
ERIC, dumb-ass, I’m just kidding! :^}
That looks more like “Chocking the chicken” which is a subject which belongs on another thread...one reserved for ...well, if you have to ask and you have not gone blind yet....? lol
Not really. Frost was just questioning the purpose for repairing that particular wall, since it served no useful purpose of keeping something in or out like cows. He had no problem with walls that are there to do a job, saying that before he built a wall he’d like to know just what its purpose was.
He was also questioning the merits of his neighbor rebuilding the wall each spring, simply because his father and possibly grandfather before him had done, not seeing the essential vanity in doing something simply because it had been done for decades.........
Zzzzz
That’s right, go back to sleep ya old goat. You’re too cranky today, got up on the wrong side of the crib, heh.
Being a dog hater like you, it must really irk you that your official college team are the Georgia Bulldogs, LOL
Yes, I know he wrote it. The word “say” when dicussing an author’s intention refers to writing. You seem not to know the poem, or not to have understood it. There are two voices in the poem that represent two opposing views: the voice of the poet, who narrates the events as “I”, and the other person, whom he calls “my neighbor”.
Frost opens the poem by stating his feeling: “Something there is that doesn’t like a wall”. It is the neighbor who says the line about good fences. The poet states (as internal dialogue, to himself):
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’
He was referring to nature not wanting the wall to exist, and it would not exist except for the fact that his neighbor wanted it there, but for no obvious reason, like keeping in/out cows. He and his neighbor repaired the wall dutifully each spring after nature and hunters had thrown down the stones during the winter, but Frost was really thinking, “How can I get him to stop doing this?”
He could see no real reason for the wall to exist other than his neighbor was apparently following the advice of his father and other ancestors. The aphorism dates back to the 17th century and has become such a part of his neighbors character that he essentially was following a program laid down by his forebears out of custom, hence the meaning of last stanza:
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
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