For Lisa and the dog comment in the gun thread

[watermoccasin]

You referenced your barking dog. Here's one of my favorites poems by Billy Collins


Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.

[sharkxwife]

LMAO! --I can truly picture this:

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

Thanks!!

Blessings,

Lisa

[BigLeo69]

the neighbors dog always barked at me
after hunting one day, cutting the deer, i got the deers parts, male sack, for a bullet bag "big buck bag" and threw the nuts over the fence, he was bud for life never barked again, damn noisy boxer liked male deer genetalia
sorry i hate barkin dogs but i love dogs that listen

oh the bullet bag had it turned inside out on a tennis ball and some damn mice or shrew chewed a hole in it, WTH it became Boxer food