We visited England this past summer and went for a walk one morning on an old estate (now a National Trust site) outside a small town called Petworth, located about 60 miles southwest of London. The estate grounds had a herd of maybe 100 fallow deer (I think that's what they're called--small fellers, compared to our upstate NY deer, with large elk-like antlers) that roamed perhaps three or four hundred acres of fenced-in grasslands (pretty burned out with the heat wave they had last summer) with a pond and several groves of oak trees, some of which were about six to eight feet in diameter at their base. The land ran down to the outskirts of the village of Petworth and at one point in the walk we could hear the baying of hounds (seeming to come from a house about a 1/4 mile away), a sound I associated with rural Appalachia. I suppose it could've been what the Hounds of the Baskervilles sound like. I imagine it was a little un-nerving for the deer but they let us get within a hundred feet or so of them while they grazed or layed low.
I get annoyed by barking dogs wherever I live (it doesn't seem to matter if it is the city or the country). I currently live in a residential part of Syracuse, NY and it hasn't been a real big problem (considering the number of pit bulls around). Dogs that are the family pet seem to be as much of an annoyance as the dogs people keep "for protection." Baying hounds would probably be something the police would act on pretty quick.
The Syracuse mayor is working on "quality of life" issues and that includes barking dogs. After the New Years Eve/Day activities that made the Police Blotter he has a long ways to go before he gets to the barking dogs. These included one fatal shooting in a downtown parking lot (the police were on the scene and a crowd of two or three hundred pelted them with rocks while they tried to break up the 3 AM melee), a house party altercation that featured a stabbing (the stabber wouldn't get off the stabbee's coat and attacked him when he took the coat) and the application of a baseball bat to the stabbers head, and a guy posing as a furnace repairman who beat up an 82 year old lady then tied her up so he could rob her of cash and jewelry.
On that note, have a Happy New Year...
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> meanwhile, the dogs are baying off over the hill in the dark
> it is a sweet sound, when they aren't too close,
When I was living in Lockington, Ohio (betwixt Sidney and Piqua), they
were too close. Next door. They expressed their desire to be out of
their pen running the woods by baying relentlessly.
To the other side of me was Lock number 1 of an impressive series of 5
locks that stepped the Miami Erie Canal down 67 feet in a half mile from
the 24-mile long Loramie Summit (fed by Grand Lake St. Mary's, the
largest man-made lake in the world when built) into the Great Miami
River basin. Across the street was the Sidney Feeder Canal, bringing
additional flow of the Great Miami down from its head at Port Jefferson.
There were nights when I wished the canals were not dry beds so I could
go run into them and drown myself.
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