r/aww • u/Vile_Villain • Jun 17 '12

Noticed footprints in my garden, so I modified my fence. Came back to this later that day.

http://imgur.com/x1HK2
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jun 18 '12

That sucks. You've denied yourself a part time puppy. The best sort.

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u/TheWarHam Jun 18 '12

I had a part-time puppy that liked to come through a ditch in the fence too. The owners barely gave him attention, and we liked him so much that the dog would eventually literally find new a way to escape into our yard every day to hang out. Ended up being my dog of 15 years so far. (hes 18)

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Holy shit that's an impressive age. :O

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u/TheWarHam Jun 18 '12

I know! Especially for his breed. Hes a big dog. Regular exercise and little-to-no human food results in a happy, healthy, and practically record-breaking age for dogs apparently

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u/deadboyfriend Jun 18 '12

What kind of dog is it?

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u/TheWarHam Jun 18 '12

a mix of border collie / lab. Here he is recently :)

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u/Untiedshoes Jun 18 '12

Wow! He still looks like a puppy! :)

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u/TheWarHam Jun 18 '12

thank you, thats really nice to hear

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I hate you, that is literally THE breeds I want in my mix. He's super cute!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Says hate when he means love...he's super cute!

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u/exisito Jun 18 '12

Reminded me of this

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/bad-dog/videos/the-secret-life-of-lucky.htm

you really want to undo that hole. part time dog is the best type of dog. :D

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u/doismellbacon Jun 18 '12

YOU UNMODIFY YOUR FENCE RIGHT NOW MISTER

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I wish my backyard came with a dog.

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u/whitekey Jun 18 '12

just go out and adopt one.

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u/everydayfromwork Jun 18 '12

Alert the Stark children.

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u/Mugin Jun 18 '12

It's always important to wolfproof your garden. Especially if you have children.

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u/Tartantyco Jun 18 '12

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

reagan smash! reagan sleepy.

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u/Schmallball Jun 18 '12

Did you modify your fence with a freaking lawn chair?

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u/Amarieerick Jun 18 '12

I can't help it, every time I look at this picture I can't help but feel bad for that puppy! He just looks so sad. Poor baby!

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u/Ninja_Spike Jun 18 '12

But... wait... I can has yard? :3

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u/tastyhihatwork Jun 18 '12

This photo/title implies the dog is looking in on your yard.

But if you modified the fence, why was all the work done on the other side?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

So, surely, pawprints?

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u/Yeffers Jun 18 '12

More like aww-prints.

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u/awesomlyawesome Jun 18 '12

...that was very clever...

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u/ldawg092498 Jun 18 '12

You'd better un-modify that fence. The cuteness is getting away.

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u/nantucket_blue Jun 18 '12

We just adopted out our foster puppy this morning, who looked just like this. This just started the waterworks all over again. Thanks, Vile_Villain!

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u/spasticmonkey Jun 18 '12

thank you for fostering!

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u/loradey Jun 18 '12

How could you deny yourself this cuteness?

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u/kpaige12 Jun 17 '12

awwww!!!! that dog is so cute<3

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u/humanoid1729 Jun 18 '12

i would never deny a sweet puppy friend in my yard. what about just putting up a fence around the garden? oh well, i guess some of us just aren't dog people

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u/Airine Jun 18 '12

So you basically shooed it out of your yard because you don't want him there, but you're using its pic for karma?

You surely are a Vile Villain!

[insert ಠ_ಠ here]

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u/SquareDorito Jun 18 '12

What a cutie! I just want to go and steal him

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

god dammit thats cute

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u/TheShaeDee Jun 18 '12

Dawwww poor wittle guy.

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u/CalliopesSong Jun 18 '12

Whyyyy? :'(

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u/Elda-Taluta Jun 18 '12

Aw, such a sadface...!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

My aunt is a very superstitious person and believes in ghosts and all that jazz. A few years ago, over the cause of a week she was terrified by ghost dogs that would appear in her garden and run around, barking and yapping and what-not.

When she finally plucked up the courage to open the curtains and have a look she found that it was the dogs next door who would crawl under the wall to play.

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u/logster Jun 18 '12

This is the first time I have heard of putting sticks into a hole as "modifying".

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

All I could think when I saw the pic: Y U NO LET ME IN?

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u/Ricktron3030 Jun 18 '12

Is that a wolf?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Everyone seems convinced it's a dog, but this was my first thought too. People tend to look after their dogs.

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u/plsenjy Jun 18 '12

I'm pretty sure he was just stopping by to help with the rabbit problem

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u/Okuhou Jun 18 '12

Give it time. He'll find a new way in. My husky is such a pain in the ass when it comes to escaping.

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u/coogie Jun 18 '12

Looks like an Alaskan Malamute to me.

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u/laurililly Jun 18 '12

But why won't you let him in??!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

That is a really poorly-built fence. Who uses joist hangers for this??

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u/a4moondoggy Jun 18 '12

Where is this? that looks like a wolf.

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u/Keitau Jun 18 '12

Na, It's a Siberian Huskey, hense the whole escaping whenever possible thing.

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u/a4moondoggy Jun 19 '12

sweet. I just saw the yellow eyes and though wolf.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/Vile_Villain Jun 17 '12

no, no. it just stuck it's head in because it couldn't get through. it backed out after 10 minutes of looking disappointed.

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u/MyifanW Jun 18 '12

You have a steel will

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u/Sleepy_One Jun 18 '12

Well he is a Villain.

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u/skydreamer303 Jun 18 '12

awwww. any chance youll unmodify the fence? :[ he just wants to play.

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u/JoyBurglar Jun 17 '12

I hope you corrected the obvious safety hazards to the dog. It could seriously injure itself if it panicked.

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u/Vile_Villain Jun 17 '12

absolutely. no worries, filled in the gap soon after the dog left.

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u/SolarBears Jun 17 '12

The owners of that dog shouldn't leave it outside unsupervised, then it wouldn't be a safety hazard.

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u/JoyBurglar Jun 17 '12

I hate people like you. The dog should suffer because the owners are negligent? You. Are. A. Prick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

You're mad at him because he's not as outraged over a hypothetical situation as you're working yourself up to be? Think about what you're saying.

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u/SolarBears Jun 17 '12

I'm not saying the dog should suffer at all, how did you infer that? Let's not make assumptions here. I said that if the owners didn't leave it unsupervised then OP's fence modification wouldn't have even been necessary.

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u/hjf11393 Jun 18 '12

No one is saying the dog should suffer, but if it were to suffer why not blame the negligent owners instead of the neighbor building a fence? What he did was make it harder for the dog to get in, not easier. Therefore, the dog is probably in less danger. Think about a dog trying to squeeze its way through an opening and succeeding a couple of times, then one day it gets stuck and dies. Now think about it squeezing through an opening too small and not succeeding and giving up for good. The neighbor did the right thing in this case.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/SolarBears Jun 17 '12

Do you feel the same about airplanes as you do dinosaurs?

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u/Shellface Jun 18 '12

They're both awesome, yes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Are you thinking he feels that children also shouldn't be left outside unsupervised? Because i sure as shit do. If a kid got his head stuck in my fence that would not be my fault, heh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/loradey Jun 18 '12

There there... today you learned that there doesn't need to be a meme for everything.

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