Anne Lurie wrote:

Don,

I realize that some dogs will go after anything, but if you make sure your
compost has only vegetative matter (no meat scraps, no dairy), they should
not be rooting through it. Now, rolling in compost is another matter!

You've never had a beagle, have you? My male beag -prefers- fruits to meat!
He can't be bothered to get his lazy old butt off the couch for a biscuit
(he'll consent to eat it if you deliver it) and just looks mildly
interested if you are eating something meaty, but bite into an apple and he
is there jumping all over you and *trembling* with desire. He can't hear me
calling him at the top of my voice from 3 feet away, but crack a banana off
the bunch in the kitchen and he's there from the living room like a shot!
If I want an apple for breakfast I have to sneak it out of the house to eat
in peace.

In the summer the beags will get into the neighbor's tomatoes and eat them
off the vine. (oops) In the spring we can't walk on campus without a
careful leash because Ed gorges himself on mulberries and tries to eat
underripe peaches.

I have seen my *collie-thing* pick blackberries off the bush! He also picks
pears off the tree, but less to eat than to be helpful, we think, since he
just drops them. I guess the beags have him brainwashed ;-) The male beagle
has to be dragged away from under the apple and pear trees when they are
dropping fruit - he will eat as much as we allow him to.

--
Susan Hogarth |
What's so special about Annabelle?
http://annabelle.big-head-ed.com/