Such was the case with Cheryl Sanders. One of the neighborhood "strays" considered Cheryl’s yard his own private bathroom, and no matter what Cheryl did, she could not convince the dog to move his "business" elsewhere. "Every morning between 5:00 am and 7:00 am the dog would make his rounds," Cheryl told us. "If I happened to catch him, I could yell at him or throw something at him to scare him off. But if I happened to sleep in, or miss his visit for some reason or another, I would find a (not so) little surprise reminding me of his visit." Needless to say, this got old real fast, and the dog would not be dissuaded when it came to using its own yard. Cheryl was getting tired of getting up early every morning to scare the dog, and she was getting tired of the dog ruining her yard.

So Cheryl took the doggie by the tail, so to speak, and ordered herself the RoboDog, and set it up in her house. She hooked up the RoboDog to a motion sensor, so that every time anyone or anything entered the yard, this would trip the motion sensor, and the RoboDog would immediately start to bark. "It worked for a while," Cheryl told us, "until the dog figured out that I was just bluffing."

So again, Cheryl took hold of inspiration, and took a more drastic action. She hooked up her motion sensors to her sprinkler system. That way every time the dog wandered into the yard, it would trip the motion sensor, and the sprinklers would go off. It took only a few seconds of that cold water spraying it for the dog to change its mind and find another "drop zone." In mid-drop, the dog ran off the lawn and headed for someplace dryer. And when the dog came to test the yard out the next day, it was met with the same interference. By the third day, the dog decided it wasn’t worth the soaking, and it found another yard to christen. Unfortunately, the yard it found probably wasn’t its own yard.

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