Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Hurry catch the dog (Take two)

dogfight

Well, we finally got our male dog vaccinated.
It took three chases. Every time, he knew something was up, so he would jump over the fence where it is low out front (i.e. a hole for a light) and skiddadle into the narby vacant lots...
Finally, we managed to see him in the new storage room, and we placed a large board over the hole in the fence.
So then, we looked all over...but someone in the gazebo saw him hide under the porch.
Now our "porch" out front is merely a slab of concrete, and the hole there is merely 8 inches high.
But he was cowering and snapping at us from in there.
Etoy finally got a wire snare around his neck, and I had him pull the dog to the side of the hole. I stuck my hand in the side (while the dog was busy snapping at Etoy in the front of the hole) and got him. Luckily, the shot was subcutaneous, not IM...

Now every time the dog sees me, he hides.
Oh well, I guess it's better than being bitten.
And the next time he bites a visitor, we won't be stuck with the bill for rabies shots. (If he bites another visitor, I'll shot the dog, but that's another story).
On the other hand, now everyone knows that if they break in here at night, they might be bitten badly. Since we don't have a gun, and since the handicraft business storage is in the garage, we figure that the storage is safe.

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