wrote in message
oups.com...
My husband and I just bought property that is very rural...the
neighbors are good folks...but unfortunately they have the huuuugest
yellow male intact Lab that I've ever seen and they let him roam
free. Our acreage is next to them and it's been vacant, abandoned for
years so the animals have had free reign...Since we've been going up
there, we've brought things like a picnic table, bbq grill, Rubbermaid
storage containers...
Well, this big ole dawg is delighted, because with all this new stuff,
he thinks he's won the lottery with having to mark everything...and
because he's so big, his squirts are unusually high up on things and
substantial volume too.

The other day, I was up there working and he was hanging around,
peeing, resting, and peeing some more. I had enough of him, so I got
in the Mule and escorted him home. His owner came out of her house
and I simply said, "I brought Josie home"...she intuited that he was
being a bother without me having to say it. That was nice. And
coincidentally, at that minute, the husband called and the wife
relayed the scenario and the husband remarked that the dog was
"nuttin' but a road whore"....(like he was proud of it) I really like
these people for neighbors..but....
Two days after that I had concrete poured and I told the wife that I'd
appreciate them keeping the dog contained, so that I wouldn't wind up
with errant dog prints in wet concrete...and her reply was " ok, I'll
let him out early, so he can use the bathroom and then pick him up"...
I'm wondering how to convey to these people that it is not acceptable
for the dog to be on my property at all...whether or not I've got
something going on...without damaging what looks to be a good neighbor
relationship...
Perry
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Somehow I don't think your message is going to have much affect on them. I
would build a fence around your own property.