Locked out again

[Iain]

My parents used to have a small farm in Tassie where they grew vegetables, during the day heaps were stolen.
Father put up a sign at the front 'Tiger Snake Sanctuary'
Problem solved almost overnight.

[oges]

have heard the "one of these vege's is poisoned, you guess which one" sign also works well.

[Eastie]

Originally posted by oges
have heard the "one of these vege's is poisoned, you guess which one" sign also works well.

Ah, but a hoodlum could, in the middle of the night, cross out the ”one” and write “two” - leaving the farmer with a bit of a conundrum :eek:

[oges]

and with the way the world is these days, one could steal the vege's and if they got poisoned could sue the farmer...

anyway im steering away from the original posted

[journeyman Mick]

I used to have a cattledog for security (see my avatar), bit 11 people the first year I had him! I'd warn people not to go near my ute, but they wouldn't listen. One builder I was working for came up to talk to me as I was about to drive off, I warned him but he replied that he was good with dogs, proceeded to yell "shutup!" at the dog who was straining at the end of his chain, growling, barking and foaming at the mouth (I'm not exaggerating) The dog finally tired and stopped, builder stuck his fist out and promptly got two puncture marks in it. Builder sarts yelling at dog again "No! bad dog!" etc etc (dog started barking again). When he stopped the guy once again stuck his fist out and got a second set of puncture marks! When I started working as the foreman in a big cabinet shop dog had to stay home which he didn't like so he started digging his way out to go wandering. He got out one day and killed another dog so after paying compensation to the owner and legal fees to the council he got a one way ticket out to a cattle station. I still miss him. No one was game to enter our yard either, they'd always stand at the gate and yell out until I tied him up. A savage dog can be a good detterrent but unless you can train it not to take food from others is easily put out of action with a bait. They can also be a worry in this litigious day and age.

Mick

[silentC]

I had a red heeler/staffordshire terrier cross called Bear. She was was a very good natured dog, except every now and then she'd take a disliking to someone - usually someone who was a bit dodgey. Dogs know. She'd be sitting there quiet as a mouse and someone like this would walk in to the factory and she'd leap up and bail them up against the wall. Never bit anyone though.

She used to go walkabout a lot while I was at work. Always came wandering back in the door right on knock off time. One day, I took her up the street to do the smoko rounds and every shop I went into, the shopkeeper would say "oh, that's your dog. She comes in here every day and we give her some scraps". She was going to the milkbar, the butcher, the baker. I wondered why she was getting so fat. Half the people in the street knew her too. Talk about a double life.

I took her up to Sydney when I moved there. She was there for three days and got run over. No road sense, not the city kind anyway. Only broke her leg but that was enough. Took her back home and she ended up on a horse riding farm. She'd be dead now, that was 16 years ago.