true story
Years ago a neighbors dog used to use my yard as his territory....he marked and marked and dug up and killed small patches of grass. Our indoor dog urinated out front on the posts but not in the yard....but the neighbors dog was obsessed with territory.
So I bought and RWS pellet gun and thought, maybe I better shoot at something inanimate before shooting the dog. Hence I shot a block of wood and at 5 or 10 yards, the pellet went way in. So, I wasted my money. No way I was going to kill the neighbors dog.
Well, in the Dakotas (Bismarck) old man winter comes early....and it was a particularly cold December (1983) and I was amazed my wife was cleaning up so well after my dog, who did not have constipation. So one day over coffee, I said, "how do you keep the front yard so clean?" And she said, "I don't."
The next day I let my dog out for his morning do-do and he did a giant steaming dump. He came running into the house and the next door neighbors dog, Max, came running over and chowed down, engulfing in bolts, my steaming dogs dump.
After that Max and I not only became friends, I rewarded him for coming into my dogs territory.
Silver lining to a cloud...
true story.....I still laugh at how happy I was not to be too aggressive or intolerant.
