Chad
At 06:39 PM 05/16/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I hauled my buns out of bet this morning-in-05:00 to go and try to collect a
>few redfin pickerel. I arrived-in-about 05:45-in-my favorite pickerel place
>only to find the owner had the gate locked. I hadn't called him ahead of
>time to
>leave it open and I thought it was too early to knock on his door so I did my
>collecting in a short stretch of stream not fenced in. I caught several
>gambusias even the melanistic type and one pirate perch. I also caught
>three redfin
>pickerel much to my surprise. It just goes to show you the early bird gets
>the fish!
> I have a big problem guys, I bought a new dog for my wife. She always
>wanted either a Tennessee walker hound or a blood hound so when she
>pointed out a
>dog in the pound that was a mix of these two dogs I bit the bullet and went
>down to the pound and bought it. Much to my surprise the dog turned out to
>love
>water and to chew and other wise destroy every plant and tree in my ponds. he
>even destroyed the ponds. He is a very smart and lovable dog but he also
>loves to eat my bonsai cypress and water tupelo. he has destroyed a stand
>of thin
>cattails and dwarf cattails and part of my water irises. The fish all jumped
>put or were killed when the ponds drained dry. He destroyed my water
>maple, my
>Carolina bay and several mangrove trees I had going. In other words year of
>love, effort, and growth are now gone. Of course my first thought was to find
>the dog as nice home somewhere on a farm out in the swamp but I have been
>vetoed
>completely. How do you keep a dog out of ponds ( a hound dog ) He has
>destroyed so much stuff I have lost count, my blue spotted sunfish pond,
>my redfin
>pickerel pond that I was stocking and the pond I was fixing up for black
>banded
>sunfish. MY wife put her foot down and said I wasn't going to get rid of her
>dog, I would just have to figure out some way of protecting the ponds. I do
>have one old swimming pool that is too tall (3' by 12' ) he probably couldn't
>jump into. I might have room for three of these ponds (assuming they)
>work. What
>combination of fish could be raised in each of 3' by 12' ponds? I don't have
>room for much more than this so says the boss. I am-in-a loss as to what
>to do.
>I have been trying to raise redfin pickerel, black banded sunfish, blue
>spotted sunfish, banded sunfish, lined killifish, along with least killifish,
>gambusia, speckled madtoms, and I was thinking of trying to get a few
>specimens of
>orange spotted sunnies. The redfins, the black bandeds, and the blue spots
>are
>a must. How do you train a dog not to get into ponds and destroy everything
>in them? help me out here guys!
>
>moon
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