Thought you PPD folks would enjoy this. After receiving estimated electric bills for 5 years, Con Edison gave me an ultimatum. Restrain the two rotties for readings or you go to candle power. Meter guy came, wife and I complied with the dogs. Meter guy (300 lb. man) goes in basement. Meter guy exits basement with Gizmo the cat (I forgot the cat) stretched across his back (Garfield style). We are expecting the lights to go off any day now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

That's a great one !!! I have the same problem with my oil delivery co. They have threatened not to deliver to me unless I comply. They have to call me the day ahead to ask me to unlock one of my gates & secure 'the dog'( I have a 6 ft stockade fence surrounding the sides & back yard)so that they cane make a delivery. They are terrified of my dog. She would like nothing more than to race one of them to the gate.!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I wonder who might win !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Too bad my cat is only an inside kitty....she is a bit crazy & would love to play also. !!!

Sorry, I should have added that my dog chased the delivery man out of the yard, he only got one foot inside the gate, when she was only 10 months old & he made the mistake of walking thru the gate unanounced. The gate was unlocked at that time 'cause I was working in the yard & had just brought some tools thru the gate. She heard him open the gate( she was at least 75 feet away from the gate when he opened it, I know that 'cause I heard it open too)& greeted him the second he tried to walk thru. She is a very, very fast dog !! She jumped up on him & knocked him over. She didn't bite him, but just stood over him barking. He told me that he was never coming back to my house again.

Anne
I shortened that story somewhat for time. What I did not say was, my two rotties Jake and Hutch (250lbs. total) were in a perfect "down-stay" watching the 19 year old untrained and untitled cat evict the "intruder" from the premises. She may have even ascended to pack leader. I better finish before the screen goes dark. Anyone have a generator for sale?

I guess I have a different take on this as my father has worked as a repairman for the local telephone company for 35 years.

Once he was on call, and two he-haws were sitting on their front porch just grinning and laughing about their Saint Bernard that took off from the yard to eat the phone man. That was until my dad reached in the back of his van and pulled out a shovel. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

The phone company has a policy that their employees do not have to work on any customer lines where people refuse to restrain their animals. So in another incident, my dad rolled up to fix some lady's phone and she had 3 big dogs. Hubby wasn't home and doesn't allow them in the house, and she refused to tie them up because she didn't believe in it. So I guess if she wants to communicate by land line, she will need a couple of dixie cups and a very long string. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Service people deserve to be able to perform their jobs in a safe environment without being harassed by people that won't take responsibility for their animals. Not to mention that most of the time, service people are there at OUR request. JMO

Mr.Hohman,
I in no way support disrespecting service people doing their job. I stated in the post that "I forgot about the cat". I am a licensed plumber and deal with client's pets constantly. I was just looking to add a little "levity" to the board. It won't happen again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

No problem Jerry, guess I read a little too much into your post and the subsequent posts. There are those "wackos" out there that take pleasure in seeing their animals fire up on people. I just wanted to make sure that we were not endorsing that kind of behavior. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I bring my 13 yr old lab with me to work. She sits in my office but as soon she hears the UPS truck pull up she walks up to the front door. He peeks his head in and asks where she is and right about that time she does a great bark and hold. There are people in and out of here all day long, it is just his posture when he comes in. I have to tell her to stay in my office for now on. The funny part is now my admin barks when he opens the door, just for giggles. :rolleyes:

I have a good one about the cable guy. He shows up to install the high speed internet. Since the last cable guy took about $200 from stealing my coin jar because my wife left him alone to do his job, and keep the dogs in the front with her, I thought I would give him a hand (different guy). Also, since the addition to my house, it is kind of hard to get to my crawl space. Any way, the cable guy, my cur dog and I go under the house to feed the line into to the den. We are working on the line when the dog, who is about 4 feet from us stabs her head into the insulation and pulls out and guts a big ol' possem. At first, we thought it was a big rat or something. We both about brained ourselfs on the floor joists in the crawl space. Then we laughed. The cable guy said he needed a dog like that because you never know what you are going to run into under the houses he goes to.

Jeff

We have locks on our gates as well and the electrical company is killing us on this due to the guy not being able to get back there. My wife called them and they said they can give approxamite dates to when they might be out but nothing definite. I'm going to have to call them to see if we can get a schedule going or something. When they finally had the guy out to read the meter, they gave us a 260.00 credit because they had overcharged us by that much. Ung.

On a side note, our gas guy must have no fear or something. All my neighbors and I have 4' tall chain link fences. The gas meter reader just hops the fence from one yard to the next. At this point in time we had 3 dogs, a Husky(Mustang), a Corgi(Kasey), and my gsd/husky/something mix(Buddy). Now Mustang and Kasey could care less if someone comes in the yard. Cruise on through, do your thing, maybe pet us, we don't care. Buddy on the other hand cares, he cares very much what is going on in his yard and doesn't take kindly to intruders. Luckily I was running late for work and I had let the dogs out and was inside giving them fresh water. While filling up their water bowl I hear Buddy start going nuts barking and whatnot. I come outside set down the bowl and go investigate and I am greeted with "Hi, urm, I didn't see the third dog." the gas guy says.

What had happened was that Buddy was up on the deck, the gas guy saw Mustang and Kasey and obviously they don't even care he's there. He hops the fence and Buddy hears him, comes flying off the deck and now has him pinned up against the fence. If Buddy would have seen him coming he would have let him know not to come over. Buddy didn't bite him or anything, just barked a lot. I got Buddy by the collar and let the guy check the meter. The guy then hops into my neighbors yard and she has 3 pomeranians, one who is amazingly obnoxious and barks at everything and anything, even air. So her dogs start going nuts, and the one I figured would ankle bite him didn't, but the sweet one got ahold of him though, I doubt she broke the skin or anything, but she got his ankle from what my neighbor tells me.

Our gas guy is either dumb or has no fear. I wish the electric guy was as bold or would just give us a day to keep the dogs inside and the gates unlocked. Ung.