Reverse discrimination?

[JackpineWillie]

We used to gather taconite pellets from the rail road tracks (MN). Basically iron ore rolled into marbles. Shot good, hit hard!

 

[CHEVYINLINE6]

Jill Biden was seen in Wal-Mart the other day buying a bag of marbles. Seems hubby Joe lost his.

CHEVYINLINE6.

 

[wproct]

When I was newly married to my first wife we lived in the city. There was a dog that used to get in the garbage on garbage day and make a mess. It was an unneutered Airedale and he was headfirst in a garbage can across the street from our house. I sailed a marble at him with my wrist rocket and scored a perfect hit on his "Sacajewea"!!! He got stuck in the can trying to run through it while making the loudest howls I have ever heard. I ran across the street and started kicking the can and rolling the dog down the street. When he untangled himself from the garbage can he took off at top speed still making those howls. After that whenever I saw that dog all I had to do was holler and he would run howling his head off.

Now that was funny!! I could just picture it in my mind and started laughing out loud and my wife asked "what's wrong with you?"

 

[Watertender]

"When marbles are outlawed only outlaws will have marbles."

The right to keep and bear marbles shall not be infringed!

 

[Zonker5]

In the fall I collect a bucket of acorns from the yard. They work quite well in my slingshot to keep squirrels out of the bird feeder.

 

[pyth0n]

The Daisy is cheaper. 100 for $4.18 vs 50 for $2.97

That's because of where the lgbtqrstuvwxyz marbles are harvested from.

 

[hike]

My town has a leash law. Nevertheless, the guy down the street about 12 houses away would let his dog loose every night and he would come and take a dump in my backyard. It was ruining the grass. So, I resurrected my old sling shot and got some steel balls.

One evening there he was, tail up and his behind pointing at me, and I let him have it. I guess practice paid off. Yup, also his sackagewea. I never saw a dog jump that high, nor howl that loud and long. He never came back.

No, I don't feel ashamed. The dog owner should, though. A roaming dog is illegal. Also, in my state, if a dog is on the prowl during hunting season chasing deer, it is legal to shoot them.

Living inside a city with a lease law, a neighbor would their dog out daily. It was a bigger dog but trusting of people. I called it over while I wondered how to convince the owner (whom I did not know) to stop this country behavior. I removed the dog's collar (collar, dog license) and sat it on the front porch where it could be seen from the street -- that is, the owner could see & retrieve the missing collar and the license easily. The dog was never let loose again. Solved the problem without inflicting pain on the innocence creature.

 

[GypsmJim]

Living inside a city with a lease law, a neighbor would their dog out daily. It was a bigger dog but trusting of people. I called it over while I wondered how to convince the owner (whom I did not know) to stop this country behavior. I removed the dog's collar (collar, dog license) and sat it on the front porch where it could be seen from the street -- that is, the owner could see & retrieve the missing collar and the license easily. The dog was never let loose again. Solved the problem without inflicting pain on the innocence creature.

Dogs are smarter than you think. A good zapping and he won't come back. They remember.

Humans, on the other hand, are too unpredictable. There is a 50:50 chance that the guy might not take heed of the simple warning. And since most dog owners revere their dogs more than their spouses, retaliation is always a possibility.

 

[Watertender]

Dogs are smarter than you think. A good zapping and he won't come back. They remember.

Humans, on the other hand, are too unpredictable. There is a 50:50 chance that the guy might not take heed of the simple warning. And since most dog owners revere their dogs more than their spouses, retaliation is always a possibility.

Usually people who let their dogs run free are not the kind that take very well to instruction from others. As you said, they might be the retaliatory type and try to give you grief in one way or another.
So you have to convince the dog that they don't want to be anywhere near you or your house. Dogs learn rapidly where they should not be, that's how the invisible fence systems work. When I scored a direct hit on that Airedale's Sacagawea with a marble it was instant behavior modification. Rolling him in the garbage can was just a little added lesson in territorial boundaries. I had a friend that convinced a dog with an M80, the dog was digging in his yard and he tossed the M80 out the window behind it. The reaction was instant and it took. That dog would cross the street and run when it came to his house.

 

[Cofaler]

We have a couple neighbors who let their dogs run free in the canyon. They kill chickens, (even their own chickens), and have killed/attacked other neighbors' dogs, yet I had one of them tell me that it was his right to let his dogs run wild and if we didn't like it we had to build fences to keep them out. I told him if that was his position on it then he needed to go to every neighbor up here and tell them that in person, and if he didn't I would. He backpedaled pretty quick, saying that that was what his (idiot) son in law told him. I said that I wouldn't take legal advice from him and didn't think he should either, and asked him how he thought his reasoning would play out if someone called the sheriff on him. This guy has pugs too that are harmless and come over here once in awhile, we just chase them back over and let them know.

There's a bunch of dogs further down who 'pack up', and chase deer, etc. Some of the guys down there have been thinning them out.

I grew up in the sticks of Maine and back then people controlled their dogs and there were no problems, but nobody had chickens, at least where I was. We had lived in the suburbs out of necessity for the military and work for most of our work lives, and only recently were able to move out here full time, so dog squabbles of this magnitude are new to us. We love dogs, (In general way more than people). A year ago it would have been tough for us to think it would be justified for a neighbor to shoot another neighbor's dog, but when I went to my buddy's house and saw the mess of 5-6 dead chickens, with the ones that lived all torn up and missing feathers, wings, etc, it became more clear to us. He lives off grid on a VERY tight budget, and losing 6 laying hens was a blow to him. We have small dogs, chickens that my wife has become attached to, outdoor cats for the gophers in the garden, etc.

We have two shotguns at the back door, one loaded with rubber buckshot that is conspicuously marked so, and one with buck 'n slugs.

 

[CHEVYINLINE6]

We have a couple neighbors who let their dogs run free in the canyon. They kill chickens, (even their own chickens), and have killed/attacked other neighbors' dogs, yet I had one of them tell me that it was his right to let his dogs run wild and if we didn't like it we had to build fences to keep them out. I told him if that was his position on it then he needed to go to every neighbor up here and tell them that in person, and if he didn't I would. He backpedaled pretty quick, saying that that was what his (idiot) son in law told him. I said that I wouldn't take legal advice from him and didn't think he should either, and asked him how he thought his reasoning would play out if someone called the sheriff on him. This guy has pugs too that are harmless and come over here once in awhile, we just chase them back over and let them know.

There's a bunch of dogs further down who 'pack up', and chase deer, etc. Some of the guys down there have been thinning them out.

I grew up in the sticks of Maine and back then people controlled their dogs and there were no problems, but nobody had chickens, at least where I was. We had lived in the suburbs out of necessity for the military and work for most of our work lives, and only recently were able to move out here full time, so dog squabbles of this magnitude are new to us. We love dogs, (In general way more than people). A year ago it would have been tough for us to think it would be justified for a neighbor to shoot another neighbor's dog, but when I went to my buddy's house and saw the mess of 5-6 dead chickens, with the ones that lived all torn up and missing feathers, wings, etc, it became more clear to us. He lives off grid on a VERY tight budget, and losing 6 laying hens was a blow to him. We have small dogs, chickens that my wife has become attached to, outdoor cats for the gophers in the garden, etc.

We have two shotguns at the back door, one loaded with rubber buckshot that is conspicuously marked so, and one with buck 'n slugs.

Years ago my good of 55 years owns a wrecking where him and his wife lives. They have always had German shepherd dogs and all kinds of misc. farm animals. One day a found one of his chickens had been killed by his wife's German Shepherd. A took some string and tied the dead chicken around the dogs neck and locked him in a pen by himself. When the chicken rotted away after about a month, he let the dog out of the pen and it never bothered any of the chickens again.

CHEVYINLINE6.

 

[mr.deerstalker]

there liberals are gunna try and ban pool games next, there claiming racism. sick of the white ball always knocking around all the colored balls...yes its getting tgat crazy...

 

[Paul B]

I have some new neighbors that moved in across the street. While not on the rez, the house is owned by the rez and they only rent to Native Americans from their tribe. It's three or four guys and they're not very sociable. They have this black dog that's always getting out and for a while the electric gate for my yard was broken. Jammed in the open position. That damn mutt decided my yard was going to be his personal privy. One day the dog was in my yard and I had to leave for a doctor's appointment and that damn dog decided I wasn't leaving by going through his personal toilet. I popped him one with my pellet gun very close to his privates and he took off howling. I haven't seen him in my yard since.
I have since then had that gate fixed.
Paul B.

 

[Jeepnik]

Had a similar problem with a neighbor's red setter. Paint ball was new. I'd just. Bought my first pistol. Wife yelled the dog was back. Just as it squatted I hit it in the haunch. It left a trail of poop down the sidewalk as it tried to run in a squat.
Never came back. I always wondered what the owner thought when his dog came home "bleeding" red paint.

 

[Cofaler]

Years ago my good of 55 years owns a wrecking where him and his wife lives. They have always had German shepherd dogs and all kinds of misc. farm animals. One day a found one of his chickens had been killed by his wife's German Shepherd. A took some string and tied the dead chicken around the dogs neck and locked him in a pen by himself. When the chicken rotted away after about a month, he let the dog out of the pen and it never bothered any of the chickens again.

CHEVYINLINE6.

I've heard that works, but we can't get the neighbor to even admit that its his dog doing it, even while the dog has fresh blood and feathers on it. I doubt he would submit to tying a dead chicken around the dog's neck...

 

[Armybrat]

"When marbles are outlawed only outlaws will have marbles."

I lost all my marbles in an unfortunate boating accident.

 

[KWend54]

dead dogs

 

[Watertender]

Had a similar problem with a neighbor's red setter. Paint ball was new. I'd just. Bought my first pistol. Wife yelled the dog was back. Just as it squatted I hit it in the haunch. It left a trail of poop down the sidewalk as it tried to run in a squat.
Never came back. I always wondered what the owner thought when his dog came home "bleeding" red paint.

A friend of mine had problems with a dog crapping on his sidewalk. He was in his basement and saw the dog squatting to leave him a gift. He had an old "Ralphie you'll shoot your eye out" BB gun and fired it from the basement window.

In my friend's words... "I hit him right in the winkie just as the turd started coming out"!!! He said the dog started yelping and dragged his backside down the sidewalk leaving a brown stripe for several feet. After that the dog would cross the street and run when it went past his house. Sometimes it only takes one lesson to teach a dog that it isn't welcome by your house.

This being said, people who control their dogs never have a dog that will be given a lesson like this. I never saw that Airedale in the garbage again and if he came past my house he was running as fast as he could while looking for me.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Years ago my good of 55 years owns a wrecking where him and his wife lives. They have always had German shepherd dogs and all kinds of misc. farm animals. One day a found one of his chickens had been killed by his wife's German Shepherd. A took some string and tied the dead chicken around the dogs neck and locked him in a pen by himself. When the chicken rotted away after about a month, he let the dog out of the pen and it never bothered any of the chickens again.

CHEVYINLINE6.

I've heard this a few times.

I've always wondered why the dog didn't eat the chicken around his neck?

 

[larry8]

Well I think a 22 short in the dogs but will teach him and his owner a lesson.