If these yards could talk

I pretty much never go anywhere without my point-and-shoot camera. Because you just never know what you’re going to run across that no one will believe without photographic documentation.

In particular, I get a bit of a kick out of how people express themselves via their front yards. Around here, it’s not like anyone’s using their front yard to, you know, play in. They’re driving their young-uns to soccer practice and tae-kwon-do classes, not letting them chase each other around the lawn.

No, yards are just another medium for folks to project an image to the neighborhood. Like this handmade statement on a garage in Cupertino:

This sign, however, tells an entirely different story:

Evidently this is enough of an issue everywhere that the sign is available (for $16.95) on eBay. It’s advertised as a “dog lovers [sic] gift”, but I’m thinking that the people who buy it and display it aren’t at all wild about dogs, and even less happy with their owners.