From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2018121212545779227-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I agree.  Then again, even my new dog is scary agressive with other dogs.   
   > That's why we have him. He didn't work out with three previous owners   
   > because of " temperment ".  Interesting. Around me, with no other dogs   
   > here, he's as gentle as can be.  Same with wife, he's just a cuddle   
   > bundle.   
      
   Sure it's because of temperament, because all creatures are different and   
   not every creature can get along with every other creature.   
      
   > Bring another dog close and he goes nuts.  It's kind of amazing.   
      
   Many cats are like that too, and I'm sure many other different creatures as   
   well.   
      
   > That these dogs don't do well in cold is something wife found on the net.   
   > My personal experience is that after about 5 minutes outside, he starts to   
   > shiver pretty noticably.   
      
   Unless they have some very special heat retaining system, like the right   
   kind of fur or something, they do indeed get cold and start to freeze.   
      
   > They will. Going into our third week, and the cats just pretty much ignore   
   > the dog at this point.   
      
   I was thinking more in terms of playing together.   
      
   > Absolutely beautiful moon last night.  Clear sky tho, so no clouds to hold   
   > the heat in, it was cold out.   
      
   We've been having relatively clear skies without much of a drop in   
   temperature...for now - but we still have the rest of this month, plus   
   January, Plus February to get through, so at least I was able to take   
   advantage of the relatively mild weather and get my 3' lighted Nativity set   
   put up.   
      
   > Ah, but when I got home from evening gig, around 10:30pm, there was   
   > something cool. After I'd unloaded and was back in the house, I saw a   
   > large brown set of wings swoop down in the back yard, then it landed on   
   > the peak of my brothers house. A nice big owl.   Took a few pics. I'll try   
   > and send you one via email later.  I like the preditor birds, owl, hawks.   
   > They have their place in nature.  I feed the little birds and animals and   
   > these bigger birds come along and eat them.  Cool.   
      
   Owls can actually detect their prey's infrared emissions through a cover of   
   snow which they believe they're safe moving under, until those talons plunge   
   right through and grab them.   
      
   > It's plain when the hawk comes by. About every other day, it shows up in   
   > the morning and grabs a sparrow, or a dove.  Got a dove earlier this week,   
   > left a pile of plucked dove feathers on the ground by a bush.  Big birds   
   > gotta eat too :-)   
      
   At least crows won't put up with them. I've seen a couple of crows escort a   
   hawk out of "crow country", one flying on either side of the hawk.   
      
   > Guy I met at lunch was telling me yesterday that his father had a car stop   
   > by their house recently. Got his shotgun, went out, pointed it at driver   
   > and ask what he was doing there.  Car left.  That's pretty standard for   
   > countryside reaction.  Based on the idea that they have no business there.   
   > And generally, they don't.   
      
   It seems to do that, that they must have a pretty good knowledge of what   
   should  and what should not be going on there.   
      
   > If you broke down, that's   
   one thing. And in that case everyone has cell phones now, call for   
   > help.   
      
   Of course.   
      
   > Otherwise just move along. You don't need to be stopping here.   
      
   That's the best way to prevent crime, by not giving it a chance in the first   
   place!   
      
   > Now, I'm close enough the city to still around other houses, but there are   
   > no businesses here, no reason to stop along the road unless it's an   
   > emergency.   
      
   I feel like that where I am, and the businesses are a half mile away.   
      
   > We have about one ot two big murders around here a year. Usually multiple   
   > victims.  And because it's not the city, less people, I'll know someone   
   > involved, or someone who does.   
      
   Your area sounds worse then where I am, about a few miles from the southwest   
   Chicago border.   
      
   > An elderly couple that use to come to our dances was murdered, then doused   
   > in gas and burnt two years ago. Some people broke into their farmhouse   
   > looking for money to buy drugs.  I knew that couple.  Then there was the   
   > Amish singing / musical family where one young boy snapped and killed the   
   > rest of them. They played some of the places we do.   
      
   That's pretty creepy.   
      
   > No, as Sherlock Holmes once told Dr Watson, far more horrid crime goes on   
   > in the country side than the city.   
      
   Only if that country side is too much like the city ;) And there's  a nearby   
   suburb here called Countryside ;)   
      
   > Not absolutely true in a numbers sense, but Conan Doyle was making that   
   > point that rural people kill and rob too.  And out of the cities, maybe   
   > some of it goes unnoticed, or at least without the criminal being caught.   
   > More space, less law enforcement, less witnesses.   
      
   I'd say that would be more the case if the criminals moved out there from   
   the city.   
      
   > You know the one about " what does an Amish drive by shooting sound like   
   > "?   
      
   > ( horse pulling buggy sound )  clomp, clomp, clomp  ....  bang  ......   
   > clomp, clomp clomp ..........   
      
      
      
   JimD   
      
   That sounds like over exaggeration ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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