Paint ball plan

[tt3]

Hey, one of you guys has this for a hobby right? Here's my diabolical plan, I just want to know if its feasable, ie won't do any um... damage, well, permanent damage. Read on.
This past Friday I was out with my daughter playing in the back yard when I notice right in the middle of her toys, laying with unabandoned glory in the sunshine that we haven't seen for a week, a big, stinking pile of dog crap. Not a normal sized pile of dog crap, no, this pile had to have come out of a HORSE! Right in the middle of her toys. Couldn't go from the sandbox to the slide without walking around it. Arrgh. I have a dog, but that thing didn't come out of my dog, we keep her tied up near the house when she's out.
So, I know which dog did it, its a roamer that comes around usually mid to late morning every day marking its territory. I have no idea who the owner is, but it does have tags. I've just not gotten close enough to it, because, well, it doesn't look all that nice, ya know? Something with a rotti coloration and longer shepard hair.
My wife saw it the next day starting to squat in that same place and ran out the house yelling at it to go away. It took its dear sweet time but did eventually leave. So she says "Maybe I should have thrown a rock at it?"
Then "you think your dad would lend you his bbgun?" Then I think, I pop the dog in the ass with a bb, sure it'll yelp and run, but the owner won't know diddly boo that their neighbors are getting pissed (presuming they even care). Soooooo here's the paintball question, how bad do they sting (Never went paintballing), and will they mark fur pretty good? Second, is there a cheap enough version to do what I want?
What do you think, am I just a cruel bastard that should go back to his cave?

[SAHF]

:twisted:

Cruel no! Fun yes! F that dog up!

Before my children I use to have a border collie that seem to be in heat EVERY day month (whore). Every damn dog in the neighborhood would show up seconds after I would go into the house. I got tired of it and decided to make sure the dogs understood that the shop is not open for business.

At night I would stake my little lady in the middle of the yard with the porch light on. Go into the house and load my pellet gun and sit and watch TV.

Right on que, here comes the neighborhood stud! After circling my little lady, he took one pellet in the ass (mind you..through the screen - not to scare him off before I could hit him). Needless to say, one shot is all it took, never saw that dog again! Now that is cruel! :twisted:

But you may want to try a little bit of raw meat with some exlax or a little bit of mothballs. Exlax will make him crap somewhere else...REALLY bad and he will avoid your house. The mothballs will make him upchuck and he will associate that with your house. I use the latter for the damn armored rats here in Florida!

Ah...the good old days!

[tt3]

The exlax in the meat sounds fun too! Dunno if I want to mess with the electricity, though, I could get carried away!
SAHDist, nice! :lol:
I've never priced them out, but I'm afraid a nice little pellet gun is going to be cheaper, I just think having your dog come home limping with a big orange circle on its rump would be a good message.

Ya know, its not the crap so bad, as the fact that my kid uses the yard, and so does my dog. Who knows when that beast comes around if we're out there, what it'll do... As she gets older, it'll be ok for her to go outside and play, but if that dog is still out, man. .22 time.
anyway

[Remington]

I think the paintball idea is best. It will give the dog a nice bruise but won't do much more damage. The owners will not see a bb wound but paint. Heck people shoot each other with paintballs and it is completely legal.

Go for it! Dog probably won't come round anymore.

[tt3]

Yeah, I'm not going to mention any legality as I'm in a city that would frown upon my releasing any type of projectile. Even wrist rockets, for pete's sake!
So, turned out WalMart has an $19 paintball gun and another at $30 with the CO2 cartridges... Boy, we're horrible impulse buyers. Though not really, since we went with an idea to look and see whats there. Anyway, got the $30 one, and came promptly home to research what we just bought! :lol:
aaaah well.

[kidswriter71]

Hehehe. Love it...

Let me tell you what I did with our former neighbor's dog when we lived in the city....

Our next door neighbor had this little black dog, Jake, who did all his business in our backyard. He also frequently got into our garbage cans, knocking them over and digging through it, spreading trash all over our back porch.

Even when we started throwing his shit onto our neighors back porch, she didn't get the hint. Hence... the DogBlaster.

The DogBlaster was simple. It consisted of an audio signal generator, a small audio amp, and a pair of high-power tweeter horns.

I set the two tweeter horns up on either side of the back porch, ran some 20 gauge audio cable into the house to the amp, set the signal generator to 22 kHz, and waited...

I was about to test the DogBlaster on our cat Buster when he was suddenly spared - Jake wandered onto our porch and began sniffing the garbage cans. I flipped the switch on the generator and watched his reaction. It was hilarious. That dog was falling all over himself trying to get off our porch. Damn thing never ran so fast in his life.

I was going to use a motion sensor to detect the beast and turn the generator on automatically when he came around, but it was more fun to lie in wait for him. Several times my wife turned it on during the day, and finally he got the hint.

That setup produced enough sound power that I could audibly hear the 22 kHz signal and it would make my wife throw up if she stood near it longer than a minute or so. I don't recommend leaving such a setup turned on when your own kids or pets are around.

But it's a hell of a lot of fun to play with!

[Dadaland]

This reminds me of a time when we were in the midst of a paintball game at the neighbour's house and I received a frantic radio call from my wife. Apparently a rottweiler and a bull mastif were on our property biting and tearing at another buddy's bassett hound while my big 100 lb fluffy shephard watched on :shock: They were both ripping at this dog and shaking it like a rag doll, one at the head and one at the back hip.

As 6 of us were in the midst of reloading our hoppers with 300 rounds of paint, we got the call. I hopped into the pickup truck, while the rest of the guys jumped into the back. We ran into the dogs on our road (we live in the country and there is only our house and our neighbour's house on this one mile stretch of road) and we opened fire and let off all our rounds on these muts. They were completely pink by the time we were done with them.

They apparently mistook the bassett hound for a small racoon, which they like to kill, according to the owner.

The bassett hound survived, just needed some stitches. His loose skin is what saved him. Apparently they couldn't get a good grip.

I thought I'd never see these dogs again. But lo and behold, about a year later they showed up scratching at my door at 6:00 on a Sunday morning. My big 100 lb shephard didn't make a peep :shock:
They had come in my porch thru the doggy door.

Now that I have a child. The next time I see this pair it'll be a 12 guage and a shallow grave, no questions asked...... Oh no, it'll be a 12 guage, and into the ditch, no questions asked :twisted:

[Dadaland]

O ya they hurt , they will leave welts, bruises even break skin if its cold enough. I was once shot in the forehead from about 300 ft (we calibrate regularly to keep it fair at 380ft/sec) it left a goose egg right smack dab in the middle of my forehead that ouzed for about a week. I had to wear a cap pulled down to my brow to hide the paper towel (that had to be changed about three times a day) since that day I have taken to wearing a jock and recomend it to anyone brave enough to play.if you dont wear one well then your nuts (pun intended)

[SAHF]

I have been trying to CON my wife into allowing to buy a setup. The rig I was looking at was priced at $550+. I was not going with the CO2 I was hitting up the commpressed air that can be HIGHLY accurate at 1000 feet!

Wife said get a part time job and then MAYBE! :P I am taking that as a no. :cry:

I will get one come income tax time.... 8)

[tt3]

Well guys, in a fit of sanity, I realized that I have absolutely NO use for a paintball gun, and the $38 was really better spent elsewhere, not worth the one or two shots at a dog, even a dog that crapped in my yard.
So, I returned it.
Gonna get a wrist rocket instead. Cheaper, and I can just use taconite pellets... :twisted:

[tt3]

... wel why doesn't he just go over and ask the neighbour nicely to keep his dog out of the yard... :roll:

Yeah? well where's the fun in that!?? :P

Ahh, well that one I can explain easily enough. If I knew who's dog it was I certainly would go over, probably with a paperbag with the crap, and kindly ask them to please keep their dog and its crap off my yard. BUT as I've seen this dog 5 blocks away walking down the street two days ago, and know all the neighbors close by, and their dogs...
Don't know this one, hence speckling it with paintballs. :twisted:
No morality issues, just financial ;) Those slingshot/wristrockets are a ton cheaper!

[SAHF]

.....stroke of genius to my wife (yeah I know broke that covenant by divulging info to the other side) she looked at me like I'd just grown another Quatto from my forehead and said... wel why doesn't he just go over and ask the neighbour nicely to keep his dog out of the yard... :roll:

Yeah? well where's the fun in that!?? :P

:shock:

:D That is something that my wife would say and your second comment is EXACTLY what I would say!!!!!!! :D

[Jackson's Dad]

Besides, people who let their dogs roam the neighborhood are not always people you can reason with. One of my pet peeves is people who don't take the responsibilty of having a dog seriously -- like letting them roam free.

[benj]

Struth...I don't feed feral animals and I don't feed feral, neighborhood kids...

[tt3]

Actually, I feel the same about people letting their cats out too. Sorry if you do, but you won't get much sympathy if something happens to it. Its my humble opinion that when you take an animal as a domestic companion, you are responsible for all its needs. There is no reason to let an animal out the door un-tethered to run amok with the local song birds.
Now, if you have 80 acres, a barn and a rat problem, thats a different story. But it really pisses me off to walk by my bushes and smell cat piss.
oops, I'll just step off the soapbox now, sorry...

[Remington]

Cats don't bother me as much. They are independent little creatures and they should be allowed to go wherever. Maybe I don't live in such a populated area but cats run wild here. My neighbor has taken my cat in for the night and fed it on numerous ocassions...

Dogs on the other hand are different. I don't like the dogs that are chained up all day in a 12 foot by 12 foot backyard and just bark all day long...

Ruff..... ruff ruff.......... ruff.....ruff ruff ruff...........ruff ruff......ruff....ruff ruff............ ruff

:roll:

[SAHF]

I am a dog person myself. Of course, I can not stand the dogs that yap all the time. Cats on the other hand.... :shock: those things I can not stand.

Expecting me to clean up after them! Hell, hit the backyard and do you business...AND stay in your yard!