DOGS  BEWARE! 

Historically,  dog  is man's  best friend, 
but  the  relations  are  apt  to  be  strained 
when  even  a  best  friend  scratches  up 
his  master's  turf  and  Victory  Garden. 
Still  greater  repercussions  result  if  the 
damage  is  done  to  a  neighbor's  prized 
possessions. 

Among  the  readers  of  L A WN  CARE 
are  several  types  of  people.  For  exam-
ple,  there  are  those  who  like  dogs  and 
tolerate  anything  they  do;  second,  those 
who  like  dogs  but  realize  it  is hard  for 
a  nice  lawn  and  dogs  to  get  along 
amicably  and,  third,  those  who  don't 
like  dogs  and  the  damage  they  do  to 
turf  still  less.  In  recent  years  letters 
asking about dog  control  have  increased 
in  number  by  leaps  and  bounds. 

"My  grass  looked  beautiful,"  writes 
a  distressed  customer,  "until  several 
dogs  began  using  it  for  a  playground. 
Now  it's  a  mess.  What  can  I  do?" 

Even  those  who  own  prize  dogs, 
especially 
females,  ask  what  can  be 
done  to  offset  the  "burn"  resulting 
from  dogs  selecting  the  most  conspicu-
ous  part  of  a  lawn  to  pass  their  urine. 
The  question  is  asked  as  to  what  can 
be  used  to  neutralize  the  acid. 
It 
doesn't 
that  anything 
would  be  effective,  unless  possibly 
someone  was on  the "alert"  all the  time 
to  apply  the  antidote. 

likely 

seem 

Letters  on  the  subject  range  from 
bitter  outbursts  against  dogs  and  their 
owners  to  practical  methods  of  teach-
ing  the  dogs  better  habits. 

First  are  a  few  repellent  suggestions 

of  the  non-militaristic  type: 

MansfieldOhio—"We 

had  a  pair  of 
matched  evergreens  which  were  con-
stantly  being  damaged  by  dogs  who 
followed  the  mail  man.  I  went  to  the 
dime  store  and  bought  a  half-dozen 
mouse  traps,  set  them  without  baiting 

and  put  on  the  ground  a couple  of  feet 
from  the  evergreens.  The  dogs  smelled 
around  the  traps  and  sprang  them.  To 
say  the  dogs  were  scared  half  to  death 
is  putting  it  mildly.  They  now  make 
a  big  semi-circle  around  our  place 
when  they  go  past." 

Brooklyn,  New  York—"The  only way 
to  keep  dogs  from damaging  other  peo-
ple's  property  is  to  have  drastic  laws, 
rigidly  enforced,  which  compel  people 
to  keep  their  dogs  at home  where  they 
belong." 

St.  Louis,  Missouri—"I  have  found 
that a few  camphor  balls placed  around 
the  bush,  but  not  too  near  it,  discour-
age  dogs  quite  effectively." 

Manlius,  New  York—"You  probably 
know  of  a  device  to  shoo  dogs  away 
from  shrubbery  which  I  saw  down  in 
Virginia where  a lot of evergreen  shrub-
bery  bordered  the  walks.  My 
first 
impression  was  that  the  roots  had  been 
bound  with  wire  for  shipment  and 
some  had  been  left  attached.  Closer 
inspection  showed 
that  small  black 
tempered  wire  stuck  up  at  just  the 
right  angle  to  tickle  dogs  where  they 
could  not  tolerate  it." 

Glassboro, New  Jersey—"By  planting 
Barberry  hedge  around  shrubbery  and 
lawns  I  have  been  able  to  prevent  most 
of  the damage  heretofore  done  by  dogs. 
When  I  find  dogs  using  a  new  area,  a 
few  chopped  twigs  of  Barberry  dis-

courage  the  use  of  their  paths  and 
lawns.  We  have  two  dogs  of  our  own 
and  this  method  has  been  used  effec-
tively  for  the  last  ten  years." 

Flushing,  New  York—"I  have  best 
results  with  Liquid  Chaperone  as a dog 
repellent." 

Duquesne,  Pennsylvania—"I 

always 
use  moth  balls  around  new  plantings 
in  new  sections  and  avoid  the 
and 
from  dogs.  These 
usual  destruction 
moth  balls  are  not  harmful  and 
if 
renewed  two  or  three  times  a  season  at 
a  cost  of  a few  cents,  you  will  find  that 
dogs  will  detour  and  not  stop  to  visit 
your  lawn  and  shrubbery." 

Another  reader  suggests  using  strong 
pepper  in  the  same  way. After  a case  of 
violent  sneezes  the  dog  is  apt  to  con-
clude  that  he  is  allergic  to  that  spot. 

We  now  pass  to  those  methods  of 
dispersing  dogs  which  might  come 
under  the  heading  of  Light  Artillery: 

Syracuse,  New  York—"I  managed  to 
tolerate  the  neighbor's  dog  scratching 
up  my  lawn  and  disfiguring  the  shrub-
bery  but  when  he  got  to  taking  my 
morning  paper  that  was  the  last  straw. 
I  had  no  desire  to  injure  the  dog  but 
at  40  or  50  feet  the  little  pellet  from 
an  air  rifle  does  no  permanent  harm. 

SCOTTS  LAWN  CARE 
From  my  upstairs  window  I  got  to  be 
a  good  shot.  The  dog  which  once  had 
ambitions  for  a paper  route  now  crosses 
the  street  when  necessary  to  pass  my 
house  and  his  family  and  I  are  still  on 
good  terms." 

Baraboo,  Wisconsin—"Being  accurate 
with  a  sling  shot,  I  have  used  one  of 
these  effectively  with  roofing  tacks  for 
ammunition.  Both  dogs  and  cats  were 
a  great  nuisance  in  our  neighborhood. 
With  this  sling  shot  I  have  made  our 
premises  'out  of  bounds'." 

Chicago,  Illinois—"An  electrified  wire 
in  one  or  two  places  on  your  premises 
will  give  dogs  a  shock  but  the  charge 
is  not  powerful  enough  to  injure  any-
one  else." 

New  York,  New  York—"Having  had 
years  of  experience  with  a  large  elec-
trical  concern,  I  would  caution  any  of 
your  readers  against  the  use  of  electric 
fences  as  a  protection  against  dogs  and 
cats.  With  a  heavy  rain,  wet  ground 
and  an  electrically  charged  wire  or 
fence,  the  first  dog  who  stuck  his  snoot 
against  the  wire  while  his  feet  were 
planted  on  the  valuable  lawn  would 
receive  a full  jolt  of  electric  current  and 
the  chances  are  he  would  not  live  to 
tell  the  tale." 

O.  M.  SCOTT  &  SONS  CO. 

MARYSVILLE  •  •  OHIO 

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