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Originally Posted by Zeke
Get an invisible fence.
Although the long reply was nice enough, it boiled down to you should not have a dog.
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I knew I was exposing myself to this, I used way too much sarcasm, and don doesn't believe me and thinks I'm a dog kicker. Sheesh... That's how I write, can't help it... Now since I don't like green font and people take things at the first degree (not you Zeke, everyone), I should restate...
1) You are correct. I should not have a dog. I did not want a dog. It's my wife's dog and we are friendly to each other (me and the dog), no more. Still are.
2) I never mistreated her nor will I ever, but I am out of patience as far as the damage goes. And my wife should not have a dog either because she's not walking her often enough.
3)As the generic "you're evil" posts, it's amazing how dog lovers will jump on you without bothering to *read* your post... I said specifically that I did not want to chain her. I give lots of abuse to a coworker who crates his dogs all day long - hey, his patio is fine ! Nor do I wanna do anything mean to her... I'm just tired of the damage and when I came home and saw my w/e's work reduced to a pile of broken mesh/plastic/metal, I did wanna kick her - for a second, in my head anyway - but it's not like I'm chasing her down and actually doing it. I was frustrated. Sue me...oops, there I go with the sarcasm again.
>Catch her in the act and discipline her.
That's impossible, we're at work. And on week ends, she is either inside with us, or knows better than to do this in front of us, she's smart enough ;-) She'll do it when we're gone and she's bored I guess...
I guess I need sturdier material... It was a plastic lattice (wood rots in a week here) bolted onto the aluminum cage, and extra corner tabs where she likes to punch thru. I could not have broken the plastic if I tried, bend it maybe... Yet she managed to, no sweat...
I've taken the abuse, which you should save for real dog kickers thank you very much (I will concede sarcasm is bad idea when it comes to dogs and religion - note to self), now how about some solutions please ;-)