"Ryan Case" > wrote in message
...
> Let me start off by saying that I absolutely love dogs. Have a couple of
> pound muts now, and have had many in my life. When dogs are out with their
> owners I have a hard time not asking to socialize with them.
>
> But, when we lived in town, there was an owner up the street that couldn't
> keep its dog in his yard. The dog would get picked up by the humane
> society four or fives times a year. One of the dogs favorite pass times
> was coming down and antagonizing my dogs behind their properly working
> fence.
>
> My solution to this was to stand at the door with my painball gun on
> Friday afternoons and procede to "mark" the dog with hot pink paint as it
> entered my yard. When questioned about this by the neighbor my reply was,
> "do you really think that I came down to your house, a block away, and
> painted your dog in your backyard over your fence?"
>
> The dog quit coming by too, paintballs hurt a little.
>
> Ryan
>

This was suggested to me as a way of helping the dog catcher spot the
offending vermin.