Set down the watergardening labradors tonight and read them this new story.

A Council Bluffs, Iowa, man learned the hard way — don't mess with the
city's black squirrels. Billy G. Cates, 18, was fined $325 last Tuesday for
letting loose his dog "with the intent to annoy, worry, maim, injure or kill
the squirrel," according to the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil and the Omaha
World-Herald.

The girls and I discussed their habit of finding the squirrel in the trees and
harrassing and annoying and worrying him until he runs away to the big pine
tree.
'This has got to stop', says I. 'At $325 a day, that's a lot of kibble I'm not
going to be able to buy you.'
They tried to convince me that but for their constant vigilance the squirrel
would have moved in, evicted the family from hearth and home, eaten all the dog
cookies and drunk all my coffee. They stood between us and utter ruin.
I told them I wasn't buying it.
And if they really wanted to chase something they could mount a pursuit of the
Lady Bullfrog in the Frog Bog.


kathy :-)
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