I'm Not Sure We're Zoned For Them Though

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One of our neighbors got a basset hound a few years ago, and ever since the neighborhood has been filled with a chorus of off-key baying, six times daily or more. The local dogs had been fairly quiet previously. So it would seem that basset hounds are instigators. Quite frankly it's driving us mad. The more acute the sense of pitch, the more mad.

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[spiralsheep]

Bassets are bred/designed to be pack dogs (even more so than most dogs) so if one's being housed alone then I'm not surprised it's howling for company. Bad dogs almost always = bad owners.

You mother is clearly evil.

A peacock flew into our garden once, roosted on top of the garage, and stayed for several days before flying off. Before that incident I'd had no idea the males could actually fly properly with full tails (although, alas, no matching top hat).

Non sequitur: today my box of preciousss thingsesss yielded up a tiny grey knitted stocking and some emergency confetti, YAY!

[chronographia]

Our local zoo, from when I was growing up, always had peacocks that would get loose and wander the streets at night. I am sort of accustomed to the shrill cries of vain males at unexpected hours of the night (it is preferable to the noises of vain males I had to listen to in college, anyway).

Preciousssnessess! I hope your box of preciousnessesssss has not sprung an air leak.

[hannah_nutwood]

brilliant form of revenge! i would like to see this happen.

[chronographia]

It will be like unto a Cold War, an arms race of severely obnoxious animals. Henry Kissinger may have to be called in at some point.

[chronographia]

It is revenge with style, which is the only way to do it really.

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Parasols rather than cloaks, surely.

Heh, peacocks would be larger than almost every single dog except for the (ill mannered and neglected) doberman across the way.

[earlofgrey]

I was just fantasising about having guard peacocks the other day. It won't be much stranger than the hens for which I'm planning.

[chronographia]

They do need larger roosts. And pheasant feed instead of chicken feed.

(They've been showing Conan The Destroyer on tv lately and I have been shamelessly coveting the Evil Queen Lady's black peacocks.)

[earlofgrey]

Yes. The peacocks will have to wait until I have a bit of real land. The hens should do just fine in a coop and run I'll build on the abandoned ghetto lot next to my house.

Gasp. I've only just seen Conan the Barbarian for the first time recently, and found that it was far better than I'd expected. I may have to join you in this. In the name of peafowl research, of course.

[chronographia]

Also Conan the Destroyer has Grace Jones who is MADE OF AWESOME. Clearly a winning move on the casting director's part.