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I've got a little problem that's starting to have a nasty effect on my trading. Perhaps there's a gemmer out there who can offer a bit of advice (after the market closes of course...I shouldn't want my problem to affect your trading). We've got two black labs; Capt. Tomato and Lettuce (what else), and though there's a nice-sized shed out back with a doggie-door that leads to a small fenced in area...it's simply too small for these guys who love to run and play. So I listened to my wonderful but now no-good son-in-law Danny and bought a "wireless" fence that's placed around the perimeter of our 1-acre "Pepperland". I run the wire, set up the transmitter, place the special collar around the dogs necks that gives off a "beep" when they approach the wire and a little "zap", a mild shock, if they try to cross the wire. I read the training manual, I watch the training video. I ask Danny how he trained his dog. "Pieca cake" says Danny. "I let him out, he got zapped coupla times, took a day. Pieca cake." Now Danny's training method differs a bit from what the video suggests; they tell me to train the dogs for a month. A month is a long time. I'm thinking "A month or a day?" I go for a day. Take Lettuce out, walk him to where he hears the beep, let him get zapped. It takes; I can let him roam, he goes nowhere near the wire. Then it's Capt. Tomato's turn. Now Capt. Tomato is a Very Intelligent dog. I do the same with her as I did with Lettuce. It seems to work. So I let her off the leash. She hears a dog barking over in the next yard and takes off. She flies over the wire and takes a zap of course, but figures "what the hell, a quick zap and I'm free to roam the countryside, heh, heh." She comes back at her leisure with a smarmy grin. I re-train her, get her zapped a couple more times (It's not very painful 'cause I tested it myself, so don't report me to the dog-abuse crowd). Tomato seems properly cowed so I let her off the leash again. She's over the wire five seconds later. So I gotta go get her 'cause some yutz in our little town got a leash-law passed and hired a dog-cop and every time the cop busts the dog it's $50 outta my pocket. So while I'm driving around looking for Tomato I miss a couple of alerts that cost me $2,000 in lost profits. I'm rankled that Tomato is smarter than me. Anyone got any ideas? (Lee) |
