On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:44:33 GMT, jOhN
wrote:

The neighborhood dogs have successfully burnt holes in my shrubs in the
front yard with their early morning marking activities.

When I was young, a neighborhood father took offense at all the dogs
urinating on his trash cans (metal back then). He set up an
electrical circuit between the can and some wire mesh around and at a
short distance from the cans. He ran the wires back into the house
and put a 5 watt light bulb in the circuit. When he noticed a dog
sniffing around his trash can he would plug this into a wall
receptacle and wait to see if the light bulb flickered. This was on
the weekend when trash was not scheduled for pick-up.

He trained all the dogs in the neighborhood to leave his trash cans
alone that way.

Rusty Mase