Duck Pond Redneckery

[Electric Chicken]

You mean to say you don't have any recent photos of your vise?

I bet it feels neglected.

You've probably got at least a hundred more recent pictures of your other tools.

I seldom use it. But when I need it it's good to have.

I think the last time I used it was to weld up a semi tire pry bar out of some old pipe and a lawn mower steering shaft.

 

[Electric Chicken]

 

[Duck]

I refilled my shop sink water bag tonight and made a discovery.



Mice.

Because I keep it 80° with a thermostatically controlled heating pad, and covered with an old 70's sleeping bag, it's the perfect place for mice to keep warm when I shut the shop heat off at night.

It's ten feet off the ground. I don't even know how they get up there.

 

[Rigjockey]

I refilled my shop sink water bag tonight and made a discovery.

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Mice.

Because I keep it 80° with a thermostatically controlled heating pad, and covered with an old 70's sleeping bag, it's the perfect place for mice to keep warm when I shut the shop heat off at night.

It's ten feet off the ground. I don't even know how they get up there.

People that live in condo buildings have mice. Even here it is three stories up and I had mice (they are gone now). I figure my floor is a good 20ft from the ground and they were here. The little bastards can climb.

 

[GAnthony]

People that live in condo buildings have mice. Even here it is three stories up and I had mice (they are gone now). I figure my floor is a good 20ft from the ground and they were here. The little bastards can climb.

yes, they get into the basements, start scurrying around, and climb the water pipes up thru the walls..

if not water pipes, then the drain pipes..

of course holes in the walls, they get in and get into the house thru any small cracks, or even from the light switch or wall socket.....

mice can indeed climb, if the surface has any sort of texture, for them to grip.

 

[389 Hood]

And they can flatten themselves out to slip right under an exterior door that doesn't have a sweep on it. They industrious little bastards.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I rooted against Remi in Ratatouille.

 

[Duck]

My dog instantly turns from vicious growling and biting feral beast into a passive puppy when I show him the remote for the shock collar that hangs around my neck with a lanyard.

Sometimes I tuck it under my shirt so it doesn't get caught on stuff.

He knows that.

If I grab my shirt and say "you know what this is" it has the same effect.

Even when I don't have the remote.



I need to take advantage of this by training him to fear other objects hanging around my neck.

I'll hold a different object up and if he doesn't react to it, Sarah can shock him with the remote while he's looking at the thing in my hand.

Eventually I'll have him trained to react that way when I hold up ANY similar sized objects that are tethered to my neck.


Like a wooden cross. Or a little vial of holy water.

We already tell people he's demon possessed.

I think I might just be able to "prove" it.

 

[Rigjockey]

My dog instantly turns from vicious growling and biting feral beast into a passive puppy when I show him the remote for the shock collar that hangs around my neck with a lanyard.

Sometimes I tuck it under my shirt so it doesn't get caught on stuff.

He knows that.

If I grab my shirt and say "you know what this is" it has the same effect.

Even when I don't have the remote.



I need to take advantage of this by training him to fear other objects hanging around my neck.

I'll hold a different object up and if he doesn't react to it, Sarah can shock him with the remote while he's looking at the thing in my hand.

Eventually I'll have him trained to react that way when I hold up ANY similar sized objects that are tethered to my neck.


Like a wooden cross. Or a little vial of holy water.

We already tell people he's demon possessed.

I think I might just be able to "prove" it.

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My mother's dog would just react to holding up the flyswatter. He has never been hit with the flyswatter in his life. He just knew to stop what he was doing. He's an old dog now and mostly just lays around and wanders the house, doesn't get up to much mischief anymore.

 

[389 Hood]

I just hope you're not zapping him hard unless he really gets out of line. We used a similar item to our stubborn dog that would give a shock or vibrate his collar. We kept the shock part down at a 2 setting, which was like a static electricity shock to get his attention. Most of the time we would buzz him and if that didn't work, the tingle would do it.

Using the collar with associated voice commands cured the problem. The trick is for both you and Sarah to use the same words in your commands and the dog will associate those words with his behavior. It took us about 2 months of use before it was no longer needed.

We got him at 1 1/2 years old and he was pretty much set in his ways and thought he could get over on us. He was brought back to the pound twice and was on the extermination list. We know that once an animal enters our house, it will integrate into the family as a functioning part. We still have to work with him because of the Great Dane stubbornness. It's the want to please of the black Lab that keeps him on an even keel. He has full run of the house and the yard and is a great dog. We've had him 6 years now and he's great until "Squirrel". Then a sharp voice command and he backs down. The trick is consistency and using the exact same words in the command and praise for doing it right.

 

[Duck]

I just hope you're not zapping him hard unless he really gets out of line. We used a similar item to our stubborn dog that would give a shock or vibrate his collar. We kept the shock part down at a 2 setting, which was like a static electricity shock to get his attention. Most of the time we would buzz him and if that didn't work, the tingle would do it.

Using the collar with associated voice commands cured the problem. The trick is for both you and Sarah to use the same words in your commands and the dog will associate those words with his behavior. It took us about 2 months of use before it was no longer needed.

We got him at 1 1/2 years old and he was pretty much set in his ways and thought he could get over on us. He was brought back to the pound twice and was on the extermination list. We know that once an animal enters our house, it will integrate into the family as a functioning part. We still have to work with him because of the Great Dane stubbornness. It's the want to please of the black Lab that keeps him on an even keel. He has full run of the house and the yard and is a great dog. We've had him 6 years now and he's great until "Squirrel". Then a sharp voice command and he backs down. The trick is consistency and using the exact same words in the command and praise for doing it right.

This dog can be happy and tail wagging and suddenly with no warning he goes into vicious beast mode and starts growling and trying to bite.

When he gets like that, I usually grab his nose and hold his mouth shut and yell NO.

Unless I have the remote. Then he gets the full blast from the collar while I yell "NO".

I don't know what kind of shock it gives him but one time he took off chasing some guy on a bicycle and I gave him the full zap and it was like he tripped and fell.

Then he comes running back towards me all pissed off & growling because he got zapped, so I hold up the remote and he backs down.

There doesn't seem to be any type of discipline that doesn't just piss him off & make him worse. He doesn't seem to understand that he's not the alpha one around here.

 

[gearjammer]

once had a dog chew up a brand new pair of shoes, I tied them around his neck and let him wear them for a few days he was miserable I finally took them off and I accidentally found out that if we did something wrong all I had to do was show his the shoes and he immediately stopped what ever he was doing and went and laid down in his bed

 

[Duck]

When I'm walking anywhere around the property, this damn dog is constantly running circles around me and attacking my ankles.

I've tried yelling at him, I've kicked him pretty hard quite a few times, and it has no effect.

If I have a stick in my hand, or the collar remote, he leaves me alone. Usually still does the aggressive running past and growling stuff, but won't bite my ankles.

If I'm carrying something, I get attacked even more.

If I'm talking to someone, he's his absolute worst.



I decided to keep a muzzle on him 24/7 for a while. They make what's called a basket muzzle. Instead of holding the dog's mouth shut, there's room for him to open his mouth to breathe better, and he can even drink water, bark and probably eat too if he's hand fed.

But the one I ordered for dogs "35-60 lbs" (he's 40 lbs) is too small & he can only breathe through his nose. So I can't use it on him.

 

[389 Hood]

I don't know what kind of shock it gives him but one time he took off chasing some guy on a bicycle and I gave him the full zap and it was like he tripped and fell.

Put it on and give it a try and you'll see what he's feeling. It's like getting hit with a stun gun. I tried it to see what it was doing to the dog. I did it on a #2 setting and it shocked the shit out of me. My balls aren't big enough to try it on the higher settings. I would probably have to change my underwear.

 

[Duck]

Put it on and give it a try and you'll see what he's feeling. It's like getting hit with a stun gun. I tried it to see what it was doing to the dog. I did it on a #2 setting and it shocked the shit out of me. My balls aren't big enough to try it on the higher settings. I would probably have to change my underwear.

The brand I've got is available in two sizes.

Regular size, what I got, and a larger, more powerful version "for large or stubborn dogs".

The regular one, well here's the "scientific analysis"

VT means vibrate/tone. It beeps but not very loud. Does not vibrate.

Shock levels 1-7

1 - no response from the dog
2 - dog acts like he just heard a noise that requires a quick glance around as if he's thinking "what was that?"
3-5 - dog stops what he's doing, and growls a little bit
6 & 7 - dog yelps, then immediately growls at me

7 is the max.


The collar is waterproof for some reason but I really don't know what would happen if I shocked him when he's soaking wet. Logic suggests he'd briefly turn into a skeleton with a blue glowing orb of light around him and then all his fur would be standing straight up.

But I wouldn't shock him when he's wet unless he's charging towards a person who might report a little ankle nip to the county and get him abducted and murdered by animal control (he's already in the system from when he bit Sarah's eye last year and I had to take her to the ER)

Or if he's running towards a road with traffic on it, or running out into the field at night thinking the howling coyotes out there are friends whose butts he can sniff..

 

[389 Hood]

With a variety of brands and strengths out there you would just have to try it. When I got my dog he was 70lbs. He's now closer to 100lbs because he's muscled out from eating good food and getting exercise. There isn't a safe squirrel in the area. He's gotten a half dozen so far. They give him a run for his money!

 

[Duck]

With a variety of brands and strengths out there you would just have to try it. When I got my dog he was 70lbs. He's now closer to 100lbs because he's muscled out from eating good food and getting exercise. There isn't a safe squirrel in the area. He's gotten a half dozen so far. They give him a run for his money!

What kind of dog?

A friend of mine has a pit bull and a Rottweiler.

Both are fed Science Diet, and they're both about 2 or 3 years old.

Rott is about 100 lbs, and the pit is about 60 lbs. Both female.

It's fun playing tug of war with them.

When both of them are tugging on the rope, I have to stand just right or they'll pull me over.

 

[389 Hood]

A Great Dane/Black Lab mix. He eats no commercial dog food in any way. I make everything for him, right down to baking the dog biscuits. The vet praises us for his health and his perfect teeth.

 

[Duck]

A Great Dane/Black Lab mix. He eats no commercial dog food in any way. I make everything for him, right down to baking the dog biscuits. The vet praises us for his health and his perfect teeth.

Mine eats Pedigree + scraps of people food.

I got him a small cat food sized bag of the Dr Pol brand that's supposedly all healthy and nutritious.. But it smells terrible and the dog didn't eat any of it until he realized that's all he's getting.

 

[389 Hood]

All that stuff isn't even food. You try and eat it, then report back.