Bad puppy

[Stingray]

Got home yesterday and the new puppy had discovered the cable that runs between the DTV dish and the receiver. I had to spend a whole night with no TV.

No TV and no beer makes Stingray something something.

So I bought a big roll of cable at lunch. Guess what I get to do tonight.

Stupid dogs.

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

So I bought a big roll of cable at lunch. Guess what I get to do tonight.

Hang the puppy?


mrC

[Stingray]

The thought had crossed my mind, but alas, I'm too softhearted for that.

I do need to figure out a way to keep her from pulling it off the side of the house again. I was thinking cayenne pepper.

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I do need to figure out a way to keep her from pulling it off the side of the house again. I was thinking cayenne pepper.

Siding or Brick?

If siding (aluminum), can you hide the cable underneath it?

If brick, might you put it in a thin metal pipe attached and painted to match?

Or better yet...can't you just bury it along side the house?


mrC

[Sephroth57]

no he meant a ghetto/no effort way, that stuff requires actual work. he bought the cable to sit on his ass and watch it not make it pretty =p

[ChadTower]

Wrap it in alunimum foil.

[Stingray]

Siding, and I might be able to squeeze it in under it at that. I'll have to look, than you for the suggestion. To bury it would require me to dig, which is not a fun prospect where I live. The ground is about 90% sandstone, with dense red clay filling in the voids.

-S

[ChadTower]

What a coincedence, so is Mr C.

[Stingray]

Seph's got it dead-on accurate. Little to no effort is the rule of the day down at the Stingray Ranch.

-S

[Crazy Cooter]

Can't you just reroute it in an area where the dog can't get to it?

[ChadTower]

Not if he wants to keep using it as the dog's tether.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

What a coincedence, so is Mr C.

I'm mostly made of Copralites.




mrC

[Stingray]

Can't you just reroute it in an area where the dog can't get to it?

There isn't anywhere where the dogs can't get to it, but thanks for the suggestion. We live way outside the city limits and we do tend to accumulate abandoned animals.

-S

[ChadTower]

Looked for it in the dictionary, only found coprolites.  It's fossilized crap, so I'll take his word for me.

Me, my bullsheet is fresh.

[RayB]

Wait for the dog to do it again and then give it a swift kick in the ass while its still doing it.

[dmsuchy]

Pups need to chew so they can shed thier puppy teeth, actually once you look at it it will be easy to route your RG6 behind your siding, that would look the best with no diging, or wait till the pup gets a little older and starts to dig up your lawn and use him.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Looked for it in the dictionary, only found coprolites.  It's fossilized crap, so I'll take his word for me.

Me, my bullsheet is fresh.

Dammit! I knew you'd look it up too...it's spelled both ways. Joke would have been better had I spelled it like your dictionary, good save though.

[DrewKaree]

This worked for me, and quite unintentionally.  Dogs learn pretty well if left to their own devices.

While at work one day, the dog, much like yours, found the cord to the answering machine.  One problem.  It was still plugged in.  When I got home, and no power to the answering machine, I checked the plug, found he had chewed right through it.  I figured he learned his lesson, and sure enough, he never chewed on another ANYTHING that was "cord-shaped".    

Anything you put on it will have to be reapplied whenever it rains, or over a few weeks as it wears off.  I know it SEEMS like more work, but burying it would probably be easiest.  You don't even have to go that deep with cable.  In my area, every cable installer doesn't even plant the cord more than a few inches beneath the surface.  Besides, how is it considered "work" if Mrs Stingray does all the heavy work for ya?  Haven't you copied out my "Good Wife Rules" for her to memorize?

[Bones]

It sounds like you got problems Stingray.

Do nothing and perhaps one day it will all just be fixed. This worked when I stopped mowing my lawn a couple of years back.

Now it magically gets done when I am at work.

[Stingray]

Hiding it under the siding was very easy (thanks Mr. C.) Makes me wonder why the lazy daisy who intalled in the first place bothered with attaching it to the outside of the house with those staple type things. Took about a minute to conceal it under the siding. Oh well. The TV is back on, Stingray is happy again. Puppy has a big rawhide bone to chew on how.

-S

[ChadTower]

Dammit! I knew you'd look it up too...it's spelled both ways. Joke would have been better had I spelled it like your dictionary, good save though.

I always look up words I don't know.

[Stingray]

My wife is a linguist.

Is she a cunning linguist?

-S

[ChadTower]

I bet she's heard that joke about 69 times.

[Stingray]

If you're going to be a linguist you need to learn to take your licks.

-S

[ChadTower]

One of us is a linguist, the other a master debater.