Years ago I worked at a Research and Development Engineering facility. We had a bunch of electrical and mechanical engineers in the place. We were working on a project that required fairly high voltage and were using a "new" (at the time) chip by Motorola that worked as a switching power supply with just a couple of outboard components.

One of the guys made a 2,000 volt supply (no current, though, since it ran on a 9-volt battery) and wired the hot lead to a bare metal contact on the front of a dog muzzle - with the inside well insulated. The power supply he put into a small bud box and attached it to a harness with the ground wire trailing on the ground.

He would put the rig on his dog and stake the dog out in his front yard. Then the neighborhood dogs would stroll up and say hello as dog do. When the staked dog went to sniff the visitor's butt, the visitor got 2Kv right in the poop chute. The sound the dog made was nothing you would ever imagine a dog making. This as the stray dog was tearing off down the street at top speed.

After a while, stray dogs learned to avoid this engineer's property all together. Problem solved.

seems a bit much.

conifer

in a lot of places stray dogs are shot on sight

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seems a bit much.

Perhaps, but it was effective. And damned funny to watch, too.

Now the guy is adapting the model to fit his 16 years old daughter...

Molesting animals would send you to court over here, not in the humor forum.

That's not molesting, it's just keeping your lawn clean.

My father, a TN hillbilly, tells the story of how they used to get rid of stray dogs back in the holler using the "roughed up with a corn cob and turpentined" method:

Take a dried up corn cob, grab the dog by his tail and give his butthole a few swipes with the corn cob. Then splash some turpentine on it. Said some of those dogs were probably still running.

I'm laughing with tears in my eyes !

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
conifer

in a lot of places stray dogs are shot on sight

Not usually in cities. Article in the paper, Canmore, near Banff, has more dogs than children, according to the census. No wonder we're going extinct.

Grizz

I think that may be one of the reasons I liked living on the outskirts of Canmore.

W.C. Fields and I had a lot in common when it comes to kids. I think they're great until 6 years or so of television and the internet convinces them that by the time they are 11 they know everything.

Quoth bobby van der Putten

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Molesting animals would send you to court over here, not in the humor forum.

No molestation took place. The dogs were strays. I don't see how it would be "molestation" anyway. I don't know where you live but I don't think a Texas jury would convict for that.

In reply to Mr. van der Putten, ztreh wrote

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That's not molesting, it's just keeping your lawn clean.

Except that when the dogs caught 2KV in the poop chute they instantly dumped their load so the engineer's dog got a face full. Still, I wish we had had cell phones back in the day ('84). The sound those dogs made had to be heard to be believed.

I found a couple of dogs in my back yard this morning. SOBs (hey, they ARE sons of bitches in the most literal sense) had dug under my front gate to get in. Now my whippet can get out - has today twice. Anyhow the only reason I didn't send a couple of .22LR rounds their way was that it's illegal to discharge a firearm in the city limits of San Antonio. I catch 'em in their again and I MIGHT just take a chance on the fine. I hate stray dogs with a passion!

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Originally posted by conifer:
seems a bit much.

You obviously don't understand engineers

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Originally posted by B Mullins:
Quoth bobby van der Putten

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Molesting animals would send you to court over here, not in the humor forum.

No molestation took place. The dogs were strays. I don't see how it would be "molestation" anyway. I don't know where you live but I don't think a Texas jury would convict for that.


In reply to Mr. van der Putten, ztreh wrote

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That's not molesting, it's just keeping your lawn clean.

Except that when the dogs caught 2KV in the poop chute they instantly dumped their load so the engineer's dog got a face full. Still, I wish we had had cell phones back in the day ('84). The sound those dogs made had to be heard to be believed.

I found a couple of dogs in my back yard this morning. SOBs (hey, they ARE sons of bitches in the most literal sense) had dug under my front gate to get in. Now my whippet can get out - has today twice. Anyhow the only reason I didn't send a couple of .22LR rounds their way was that it's illegal to discharge a firearm in the city limits of San Antonio. I catch 'em in their again and I MIGHT just take a chance on the fine. I hate stray dogs with a passion!

It is called a sound modifier or silencer, or choose a time when there a popular program on the telly.

An electrician I worked with in the 70s took a 8ft fluorescent light ballast that put out 700v, and wired it to his garbage can, with the can sitting on a rubber mat, and the other side of the ballast tied to a 6" spike in the ground. This was because dogs were dumping his garbage over. He switched it off on the day the garbage truck was scheduled. He heard this godawful shrieking one morning, and looked out to see a dog racing down the street on 3 legs, the other hind leg temporarily paralyzed. After that the dog would always go to the other side of the street when passing his house. One week of that, and his garbage was never touched abain.

Old man showed me one day. He tied some beer cans together and then tied to the dog's tail. Then give the dog a good kick in the ass. When we couldn't see the dog anymore, he said "He won't stop till the cans stop making noise"

As for cats, well........

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Originally posted by 375hnh:

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Originally posted by conifer:
seems a bit much.

You obviously don't understand engineers

Yea, they are too lazy to put up a fence.

Not funny.Sorry.

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Originally posted by bobby van der Putten:
Molesting animals would send you to court over here, not in the humor forum.

From what I'm told about Paris and dog shit, maybe you need a change of attitude.

Grizz

Threads like this remind why I like my dog more than most humans.

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Originally posted by dempsey:
Threads like this remind why I like my dog more than most humans.

+1.......except with me it isn't just dogs. I like most animals better than I do an awfully lot of humans.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:

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Originally posted by dempsey:
Threads like this remind why I like my dog more than most humans.

+1.......except with me it isn't just dogs. I like most animals better than I do an awfully lot of humans.

BESTIALITY? Hhhhmmmmhhh? Just asking.

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BESTIALITY?

You've never been further than the two first letters of the alphabet in the dictionary, the word you were looking for starts with a Z !

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Originally posted by bobby van der Putten:

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BESTIALITY?

You've never been further than the two first letters of the alphabet in the dictionary, the word you were looking for starts with a Z !

Damn, I looked at Z. There are quite a lot of them. Perhaps you could please fill the rest of the word; Z........?

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Originally posted by Scriptus:

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:

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Originally posted by dempsey:
Threads like this remind why I like my dog more than most humans.

+1.......except with me it isn't just dogs. I like most animals better than I do an awfully lot of humans.

BESTIALITY? Hhhhmmmmhhh? Just asking.

Thanks for so skillfully illustrating my point.

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Originally posted by bobby van der Putten:
Molesting animals would send you to court over here, not in the humor forum.

And all this time I thought molesting animals was France's national sport.

Funniest damn story on the whole page, and I appreciate the creativity. As for the "not funny" comments, if you'd keep your damn livestock off our lawns we wouldn't have to resort to these measures.