Ha! I've always been a dog lover and never thought I'd consider using a gun on one. But, if I could here, I think I might... I live on small island off the coast of China and am one of the only foreigners here. Not only are guns illegal, but I don't want to push my crazy looking foreigner card too far. I've already been spotted wandering the streets at night, throwing rocks at feral dogs with a wild look in my eye.
As to electric fencing, I think that would be an ideal solution, but I've built the garden on a piece of "borrowed" land in a fairly well traveled spot. Since it was just a heap of trash before I started, all of the locals who have noticed are pleased with my project, but I don't want to go putting up electric fences on someone's land. I think I can get my hands on one of these "air-soft" guns that shoot the little yellow pellets. Unfortunately they only hurt at fairly close range and the dogs are already scared enough that they run when they see me coming. I've got my eye out for a slingshot too.
Has anybody heard anything bad about putting cayenne pepper around a garden? The dogs are also ravaging our compost pile, so I'm thinking to inoculate it with cayenne and light um up...
Ultimately the dogs were here first and have probably been hanging out here for years. I'm trying to figure out why they like this place in particular. For some reason the area accumulates a large amount of loose rubbish/litter. I'd really like to figure out how to stop this because I think one major thing that brings so many dogs around is the source of food.
