Our $500 Peace of Mind Fence

To keep the neighbor's dogs out of
our yard. It was either this or shoot
the dogs. lol

Which by the way, as My Sweetie,
was putting the gates up, a neighbor
and his dog, stops by and ask him what
is he doing.. You know one of those
stupid questions....but it gets better.

As My Sweetie, is telling him as politely
as he can manage, he was putting up a
fence so the neighborhood dogs would stop
using our yard for a litter box.....
of which the man's dog properly went
thru the gates and squatted next to
our tree, as if to demonstrate why we
needed the fence. The red face neighbor
called his dog, as My Sweetie, was telling him
again why we were putting up the fence...
this time not so nicely... The man and dog left.
The man returns with a shovel. But, My
Sweetie, had already threw it in the ditch.
(he really wanted to take it down to the
neighbor's yard and throw it in there).

When we first started this a couple weeks
ago, one of the other neighbors looks over
and says, Oh, you are putting up a fence to
keep out my dogs, huh?( laughingly) Thru
gritted teeth, I said yea, yours and the rest
of the neighborhood. It gets me as he has a
fenced in back yard. But he leaves the gate
open. And then this year he removed part
of the fence so he could put his camper in
the yard.

It really irritates me that we are the ones
who have to spend the money to maintain
their dogs. But after being polite (for 7 years)
about asking the neighbors to keep their dogs
out of our yard, we figure it is easier on our
nerves if we fence our yard in.

And the neighbors are great, except for
this flaw... which they don't apparently see.