Steve Wertz wrote:
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> > morning when we got back from our bicycle ride and stashed the bikes in the
> > barn I found our BBQ spit back there. I don't know how he managed to carry
> > that heavy duty metal spit that far, but I have to say that he did a good
> > job of gnawing off all the chicken bits. It looks pretty clean. Needless to
> > say it will be well washed to get rid of the dog slobber, but he probably
> > saved us a lot of work by removing all that baked on stuff.
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> And next time he sees you and you don't have any chicken, he'll
> eat you instead.

I just found the other set of prongs. I thought it had been taken in and
washed last night but when I didn't find it in the kitchen I went
searching. I didn't want it sitting on the lawn and having someone step on
it or run over it with a lawn mower, and the neighbours have a two year
old. That thing could be deadly. I went over to ask the neighbour but there
was no one home. It was sitting on their patio. I should be grateful. He
had licked it as clean as he had the other part.

The neighbours just got home so I had to go over an apologize for snooping
around their yard, but explained that it was too dangerous a thing to have
laying around. They apologized for the dog's thievery, but I said it was
partly my fault for forgetting it. Some wild animal could just as easily
got it. However I asked if I could send it over for cleaning the next time
I use it.

> Pit bulls should be extinct. My 12-year old neighbor was mauled
> by one.

They would be here if the provincial government had its way. A year or two
ago they a law banning pit bulls, but there was a court challenge and part
of the law was struck down. According to that law you cannot buy or sell,
adopt, import or breed them. Anyone who owned pit bulls when the law came
into effect had to keep them fenced in their yard and in public they must
be muzzled and on a leash and they have to be sterilized before they reach
the age of 36 weeks.

The neighbour's pit bulls run loose all the time. It doesn't bother me so
long as they don't go after anyone going by from my property. As far as I
am concerned the little one is welcome any time so long as he doesn't go
near the road and he plays nicely with my dogs. He always comes along for
walks in the woods with us. The funny thing is that last year when the
canine control officer came around to collect money for dog tags for my
dogs, the two pit bulls were running loose. He didn't say a word about
them, probably because the neighbour's father is a friend of his.

While I like the little guy, I have mixed feelings about pit bulls. I know
they can be sweet tempered and fun loving. The problem is that they are
unpredictable, and they are tenacious on the attack. There have been too
many cases of them mauling people, usually unprovoked.