Please let me know if they listened. Then I'll put you on the phone with my
pooch who not only chases the squirrels (he has actually managed to catch
one), but he also harrasses the chipmunks living in the scrap downspouts
under my deck. Particularly annoying since my home office window is right
under the deck and I can hear him running back and forth and the poor chippy
chirping and crying about it.

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...

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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