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Wow, even w/ three legs that dog can get around.

Yeah, ol' tripod.... No, I meant it was a different dog, different guy. Wanna bet those cusps are where he left his marks? He does seem to stick to the road.

Before I figured out how to hotwire my yard, mine made a beeline to a neighbor's chicken coop. Second time, a beeline to another neighbor's rabbit hutch. Third time, a different neighbor's rabbit hutch. I'm real lucky they were not shot. I finally learned how to confine these yayhoo huskies without using a stakeout chain.

reminds me of a song "Im a three legged man bein' chased cross country by a one legged fool". (song is about a guy that gets caught with another one legged man's girlfriend...pretty funny)

The way he follows that road, bet there are a lot of other dogs following that same route, he, he, he.

And that would definitely qualify as Olympic Pissing Contest!

This has been long overdue, so here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well damn, seven pages on HOA's and dog poop while I was gone <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I got dogs that run after my bike and, like dogs, will stop and go whenever the urge takes 'em. I will go far out of my way to remove it if it is anywhere, public or private, where someone else (like some kid) is likely to step on it.

There are very good cheap disposable plastic mitts available now with a long, loose "wrist". ya grab the poop and pull the wrist down and around the poop and twist it closed.. voila!... dog crap efficiently removed and trashable.

A disposable drink cup also makes a handy receptacle (such can commonly be had laying around as trash or grabbed out of a trash receptacle). Use the plastic lid to sweep the poop into the styrofoam or plastic cup.

Plastic bottled water or plastic soda bottles. Pull out yer knife and cut it in half, use one half to scoop the poop into the other half. With practice ya get amazingly quick at this.

Them peeing in public doesn't bother me, wont kill the grass unless its regular.

HOA's... heck LOTS of folks in my neighborhood fix cars on their lawns/driveways, and a couple have RV's/boats in their driveways, more power to 'em. One of my two cats was likely killed by the neighbor's pit bull, stuff like that happens to cats. I like my dogs too much to willingly let 'em free range, plus most of my neighbors have little kids.

Loose dogs pretty regular in our neighborhood, often good natured/comical ones. Just when ya get to recognising them they disappear, likely the dogcatcher, and owners around here rarely have the funds and/or the inclination to bail 'em out. Often they just get another dog some time later.

Little kids play in the streets, and folks generally stay out of each other's business. The drug dealer/gang types at the end of my street go out of their way to control their pits when I'm running my dogs past, which is appreciated.

Mostly, my house is just a cheap place we live, I could get back what we paid for it pretty quick, but I wouldn't call it an investment. I do like the genial chaos in our neighborhhod though.

Gated communities? "Exclusive" communities? "Cut your grass or we'll take the house" HOA's? Good Lord, how have humans sunk to such a miserable state of existence?

Birdwatcher

By living in a society where people are no longer required to use personal restraint and maintain moral standards. When I was growing up, no one needed an HOA to tell you to mow your grass, keep your dog's poop put of your neighbor's yard, and not run your open exhaust race car at midnight in front of your house.

Because the libs have done a great job driving out all those "opressive" moral standards that told us how to behave, people don't know what to do anymore. As such, the libs have responded by making sure they are rules for everything nowadays.

Blaine, I don't know how you followed the dots to your conclusion. You think bad neighbors are something new? Every war and skirmish I can think of was started because of some difference of culture, moral standard or any disagreement you can name. In another culture your moral standard might get you into a fight. No one is forcing anyone to buy or rent in a neighborhood with a HOA. Granted HOA's can and do have people on the boards that are power hungry. Personally, I don't live in a place that has a HOA. I would be willing to bet that there were neighbor disagreements even in your idealistic childhood neighborhood.pak

The dots are easy to connect. Liberals did away with the idea that moral standards told us how to behave toward each other. With the banishment of moral standards, folks no longer had guidance on how to behave. Society's behavior became hard to live with and counter-productive, so the libs stepped in and starting making rules to cover each and every situation.

Rules like: don't say mean things to people, don't prejudge someone based on their race, don't get uncontrollably angry when you drive, etc. many of these rules were codified into laws. they went even further and tried to make rules governing how we think, and that is what "Political Correctness" is.

HOAs are just another set of rules in an attempt to tell people without a moral compass how to behave toward each other.

All of this makes me want to vomit.

Just don't vomit on my lawn, okay?





















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My point is that it ain't a conservative/liberal issue. There are plenty of slobs on both sides. It is more an issue of personal responsibility and the standards to which one was raised. The are different levels neat and clean. The HOA just defines the standards. I wonder what an airforce base would look like if the command didn't define the base standard.pak

I completely disagree. This is entirely an issue of libs replacing the moral compass with rules for every situation.

Counties and Cities already define standards, and these governments are accountable to the people, which is just about the opposite of an HOA.

At least with an Air Force base the governing documents are the law and the leaders are accountable. Again, just about the opposite of an HOA.

You know, I am stunned that so many on this forum (though not thinking of any one person in particular), who presumably believe strongly in individual freedom, are so quick to defend HOA's and consider them "not really that bad" or "necessary evils". Sounds a lot like "reasonable gun control" to me...............

Just how does a Lib replace the morals of a conservative? I see too many conservative slobs as well as liberal slobs to place this issue into the nice neat little black and white box of Libs are responsible. The Libs are just not that influential or persuasive and if the Conservatives have given this power to the Libs who really is at fault? When you lose your temper at someone who is trying to piss you off who is the one in control, certainly not you. I think the matter of neighbors is more issue of education and economics rather than morals. The aged saying "fences make good neighbors" may have some merit here.pak

Don't worry Jim, if someone DOES vomit on your lawn, the dog will eat it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

Speaking of lawns, down here in sunny San Antonio fully HALF the water used by the homes in this city each year goes to water our grass.

Hmmm... in a chronic water shortage area, half of our water goes to maintain artificial monocultures of African grasses (mostly Bermuda and St Augustine) so as to provide habitat for pestiferous South American ants (fire ants) and English birds (European starlings). This grass constantly harvested but said clippings generally wasted and sent to the big mountain of compacted trash we are collectively building as a monument to ourselves for our great-grandchildren to have (the sanitary landfill).

To replace the nutrients lost in this nonfunctional harvest, constant supplementation with chemical fertilizers is necessary along with an intensive regime of herbicides and insecticides. Such that, in a city almost totally dependent upon underground water, runoff from our own lawns is one of the major threats to our drinking supply.

If I REALLY wanted to make a case, I could point out that much of this grass culture lunacy is driven by fear of HOA's <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Throw in the fact that the biggest expenditure in most of our lives will be for a fragile concrete slab supporting an equally fragile pine board and drywall box (painted a HOA-approved color of course) surrounded by said mandatory patch of African grass and ya REALLY gotta wonder how we humans sank to this.

Well, at least all them lawn clippings in the landfill generate methane. And there's another bright side; given the way we jam those somehow always uglier types of boxes into smaller and smaller lots as we permanently bulldoze and disfigure our surroundings, the amount of mandatory African grass maintained per homeowner declines accordingly.

Birdwatcher

You've never seen the regulations for tidiness of your lot change based on a new CO or his whim?