Ai, doggies, them 4-footers can get you going! My corgis are great yard dogs and neither dig nor stray. But they are...I hate to admit it...cat killers. Luckily, when they've treed a cat they always come and tell me about it, with great excitement...come, come quick!!! There's a CAT!!! I've learned the hard way that the best way to deal with this is to immediately lock all 3 dogs up, then go and shoo the cat away before letting the dogs out again. Smart as they are, Emily has ben known to stand barking up into a tree where a cat was, but is no more...for an embarassingly long time. She is far more fierce than the 2 guys.

Those electric fences can pack quite a wallop. When we lived in Arkansas we fenced a portion of the yard and garden with one after the cows demolished our patio furniture. It was not uncommon to find a copperhead dangling dead from the low wire....