Let me clarify.  I am a dog person.  Area does mean a lot (thanks Bert-o).  We live in a suburban residential area every it seems everyone has a dog or two.  I get that dogs need to pee and poop.  But why let your dog meander 15-20 feet into someone's yard to do so.  Take control of your dog.  I don't have a huge issue with this just a select few people.  BTW - we have a dog.  And yes she was a puppy once.

Now cats are a different story.  We have a colony of feral cats in our neighborhood (at least 10).  They are super annoying.  The township won't get involved.  We have at least three people that feed them.  I bought a trap and one of these days I will bait it and use it.  (don't worry - it's a catch and release trap).

Just busting your chops on the dog issue. 100% agree it's area dependent. My brother goes ape shit when a dog pees in his yard (and yes they have a dog). He lives in Baltimore Suburbia in a Country Club community.

We have barn cats all over. They have programs to catch and spay / neuter and release around here.  We've done it and population is about 1/2 of what it was.

DW has been sick for a few days and Tiny Elvis hasn’t been out, so took him out for 4-ish miles yesterday evening- doubled as a recovery hike too

might hit the gym this evening, might feel guilty and take Tiny E out, might do nothing 

got the bison meat on racks aging it and will butcher this weekend, lots of really good looking meat!

qotd: we have a few folks walking dogs by our place, as long as they are picking up after their dog, I’m fine. If I happened to see someone not picking up, I’m not overly shy and would tell them it would be in their best interest to pick it up

I'm trying to decide my goals for the rest of the year and I'm tentatively thinking of running Piedmont 8-Hour on 10/27, registering for Crook Road on 11/17 but intending to run only 12 hours, then run another 24-hour race at ATY, probably 12/28, the first day. Any thoughts on that considering the 38.8 miles at NC 24 put me close to my current limits?

Will run later tonight barring t-storms. It got up to a muggy 80 this afternoon, so I deferred until this evening.

qotd: Apartment dweller, so yard is not an issue.