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From: marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Discouraging Dogs
Message-ID: <2798@vax4.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 10:36:29 EDT
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In article <161@ccnysci.UUCP> Jeff Cushner@Citicorp-TTI writes:
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>>   Anyone have any recommendations for keeping the neighborhood
>>dogs out of the garden? They are eating the tulip bulbs! -GDS
>
><<<< Following forwarded to the net per Jeff's request >>>>
>
>  Answer:  Try a shotgun!  {^:
>
>I know....not my usual flair and elequence but what the hell.
>
>An electric fence would not really work either, since dogs are dry and
>would not conduct electricity well.  
>
>			  Jeff Cushner

Oh Huh!!!  The difference in potential between the dogs body and the hot
fence dry or wet will zap any animal which comes in contact with the
hot wire.  I know!  I bump into the wire all of the time and even with 
rubber shoes on I get zapped.  But stray dogs (and my own) will not go
within 10 feet of a bare wire, hot or not, wet or dry.
Sears sells hot wire fence units for about $29 up.  The $29 special is for
mini-zaps I guess.

Bill Landsborough