Well, darn. Today my "invisible fence" failed completely. I had the dogs out front, and Poppy started making her high-pitched ruckus when you man-handle her if she thinks she might get hurt (she never does). This attracted, out of the blue, two MORE strays (previously not seen by me) who trotted into the yard to see what the noise was. My two dogs were like bats out of hell, flying through the hot zone and dashing up the street after the two. Good thing mine are a pair--my quick thinking neighbor Gayle called Poppy over to her truck and grabbed her collar. Cinnamon saw that Poppy stopped and came back to me, and I hauled both of their doggie asses back into the yard and through the zone. Zap! I think their batteries were weak--I was trying to see how long they last before putting the next batch in. Bad me. Obviously the weak batteries didn't do the job. So I changed them when I came back and let the dogs know they were back in the hot seat.

This makes six stray dogs I've seen in the neibhborhood in less than a week. I think someone must be dumping them here.