The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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OMG!! Gromit, are you ok? You had to do the whole kaboodle? That just is not right to make a person do the whole kaboodle. Now I don't think a little kaboodle ever hurt any one. I might be wrong. We may need to do a poll in here.


Anyone have a pair of vice grips? No I don't need to remove any vice's. See I was playing with my kaboodle and a snark bit me in the ass and won't let go. It kind of smarts. No the snark isn't very smart, nor does it seem I am. I may have to rethink professions. I wonder if there is any money in kaboodle training.


A the whole kaboodle is wrong
B the whole kaboodle is right
C a little kaboodle never hurt anyone
D a lttle kaboodle bit the postman
E WTF is a kaboodle
F go away, ya bother me kid
G shut up voices in my head or I'll poke you with another Q-tip(TM)

This is the eight thousand and sixth post in this thread. Does anyone know if that constitutes a whole kaboodle yet?

Need some advice. Next door, is a dog that has been driving me crazy with his barking. It's of no use speaking to his owners. I was thinking of buying one of those silent whistles that only dogs can hear, and blowing it every time he barks, in an effort to train him to stop it. He is constantly waking me up, and I'm getting sick of it. Any ideas, suggestions?

Oh, that is a hard one to deal with. I have no ideas and I don't know if the whistle will work. Maybe call a pet store and see what they might suggest. Postie has a huge dog. Maybe he hires out as hit dog like Nan's cats! I've lived here 2 years and haven't gotten my neighbors dog to shut up. Wish I could help.

As a vet, I've not seen 'ultrasonic' dog whistles ever do much of anything. For one thing, I think most of the ultrasonic dog whistles probably don't make any ultrasound anyway. If they did, it would probably just get the dog barking more.

Do you have a noise ordinance? Can you contact the city with a complaint? That might be the most civilized way to approach the problem.

A thousand other ideas come to mind, none of which would be civilized....

A Hit dog! That's funny. I just got this great visual image. Postie's dog could eat this one as a snack! I find people who own dogs like that very irritating. No doubt they have a false sense of security because their dog is so noisy. They fancy that they are safe, somehow. Unfortunately, the drop box for the rent is on their property, and I swear, the last time I went to pay my rent, that damned dog nearly split my eardrums! I'm mailing my rent next time. I think it's extremely rude to have the tenants get barked at when they are coming to pay the rent. I really thought that dog would come through the window screen - he was lunging and barking so hard!

And if I had a dog, I would train it not to bark for frivolous reasons. That way, you could tell if there was really a problem. He barks at people in a small park nearby, he barks at kids on their way to school, he barks at me when I open my front door. One night, his owners went out, and he barked for six hours straight. Ugh!

And if anyone says they can't be trained to be quiet, they didn't try hard enough. Border collies are yappy and Shih tzus are yappy but I just have to give a sharp "Hey" and they usually quit. If they don't, I say "who wants to go to bed" and they both drop down and be quiet. They have never been allowed to bark for ANY reason so I know if they do bark, something unusual is going on, or the meter reader with the sunglasses was dumb enough to walk in my yard again without telling me first. He's gonna' get bit in the arse one of these days.

You are obviously a responsible dog owner, Blessedmom. I think it's a mark of irresponsibility to allow a dog the freedom to bark himself hoarse. His owners never play with him, and he's probably bored. And a little psychotic. Most dogs, I have seen, will usually get used to seeing the same people and routines every day, and not get so worked up. But this dog gets extremely excited if he spots someone putting out their garbage. He almost sounds hysterical. As if he's saying, "Oh my God! I caught you! Red handed!" Even if you try to whistle and call out to him in a friendly way, he sounds like he wants to bite your head off. Well, I'm going to try and get some sleep, with ear plugs on. G'night, all.

Yeah I could too, Chapter13. I'm not as shy as you are. Shoot em hartz. I doubt if I could get Ike there to take care of em. Truth be known, Ike is a big baby, err maybe, he sure didn't like that insurance inspector. But he will sit there for hours just watching cows. He might think it's mom, he's about as big as one.

You might be surprised. See there is this guy in town, has no respect for time. He was out doing backhoe work in the freakin middle of sleep time. I got disgusted and went over and told him to shut it down. He did, it helps that people in town know I'm not exactly right in the head. The following morning I had two different people from two different family's thank me. Call animal control, they don't give out the name of who called, or shouldn't. You can ask if they do first. If you don't have animal control do the same with the police. No one has to put up with that stuff. That an animal needs to do that, maybe a sign something isn't being taken care of, you might be helping the animal.

Holy smokes, I haven't heard Chapter 13 in so long it just went completely over my head. I was thinking vet as in veterinarian, which also might mean you didn't do very well at that kind of vet thing. Yikes!!

Howdy, what port you hail from Sailor? A couple of us in here with the vet tag.

Nobody offered you a muffin yet? How rude, you like blueberry?