Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 Church Directory
Staff Writer

Keep The Dogs At Bay

Let’s say you live in a home that your ancestors before you lived in and took good care of it —just as you have tried to do over the last several years. And let’s say all of a sudden, one of your neighbors to the east let their dog out and that dog came and pooped in your yard. As disgusting as that might be, you clean it up and vow never to allow that kind of thing to happen to your property again.
 
The next day, the same dog does his duty on your lawn and is imitated by another dog from the same area to the east.
 
Fed up, you clean the mess up and decide to put up a huge fence on the eastern part of your property to keep the dogs from messing up your lawn.
 
The dogs are smart and figure out that if they head to the south of your property, they can gain access to your yard and even decide to spend time there, lounging around your well-maintained yard — all the while pooping and peeing all over everything you cherish.
 
Despite your putting up another fence to your south, the dogs are finding ways to get in without your permission. Pretty soon, more and more dogs burrow under your fence to find their oasis and callously pee and poop wherever they want with no intent to work to keep the beautiful yard healthy.
 
What can one do? What solution can one think of to keep our lands from being pooped and peed on?
 
You could arm yourself and  (lawfully in some cases) shoot the intruders (if the intruders kill, wound or worry and people or domestic animal). 
 
Or, you could place armed guards at all the entrances (that would do the trick). Or, you could build stronger, deeper, thicker walls (that would work).
 
There’s lots of smart things we can do instead of sitting around letting the dogs take over.
 
In other words, to keep the nuisance from invading ones’ precious property, one needs to take steps to secure said land from the dogs. It doesn’t mean one is a hater of dogs. Oh no, no, no. It just means you love your land and want to preserve it for your pleasure and the pleasure of future generations.
 
Our communities are already infiltrated with dogs that trespass and look to ruin what’s good in this world and there’s only so much that can be done about that today.
 
But we can certainly do something about the situation of allowing more dogs to jump the fences, burrow into our land and poop and pee on our lawns starting now.
 
By the way, dogs do more than just poop and pee — they also bite. Let’s keep those poopers, pee-ers and biters out of our backyards.
 
Build bigger fences and protect what we already have, I say, before it all goes to s**t!