For dog owners

[cassidy]

Just saw this worrying post about dogs on facebook and wanted to share

[Penguin68]

This has all the aspects of an urban myth - logic suggests that not all dogs bark, many of those that do wouldn't be suitable for use as 'bait' for fighting dogs - so people marking homes with dogs (which presumably are known to be there because they have barked) so they can be stolen doesn't make sense.

There was a case 15-20 (or so) years ago of an empty hourse in Underhill (between Belvoir and Langton Rise - 2 doors up from me) being used to stage dog fights - so the 'sport is locally known, or was, as is the stealing of dogs locally, but not, I think, as described here.

Traditionally travellers (and tramps) used to mark houses where they might expect a good or bad reception - this sounds like an extension of this idea.

[Huggers]

yup, according to Snopes it's a hoax that originated in Australia. Link-

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/dogstickers.asp