Wording for Gate Sign

[monstersinthedungeon]

Could someone please help me with wording for a gate sign?

Some stupid woman (total stranger) opened the farm gate into our house yard this morning, drove up to the house and left the gate wide open. Our dogs were loose, it was lucky they didn't hurl down the driveway and onto the road. The gate is left closed for a reason - young dogs in training, still not 100% recall, thank goodness they listened to me this morning. To me a closed gate says DON'T ENTER without announcing your arrival.

I gave her a piece of my mind and pointed out that there is a sign on the gate saying Be Aware of Dogs Do Not Enter  "Well I thought it was my friend's house" she snapped at me, jumped back in her car and in a spray of gravel was gone. I am still shaking, it gave me such a fright - everyone else has always driven up to the gate and tooted their horn and waited to be let in.

So I need to make up a ginormous sign for simple-minded people like her, but can't quite get the wording right.

Bascially along the lines of Dogs loose, don't enter, stay here and toot your horn and wait for us to let you in - but more concise.

I have written:

NO ENTRY: DOGS LOOSE!

Please sound horn for attention.

but it sounds pompous, the word attention is wrong but I can't think of a suitable alternative?

[serendipityricho]

Hi Monsters-love your life style and how you handled the owlet.

My young bloke has a farm with a 1.5 klm driveway.

Uses a combination lock--known to a few.

Changes it sometimes and lets folks who use the gate the new no first........Richo.

[azureline**]

Beware of the Dogs

They eat everything the owners shoot.

[the_hawk*]

Thanks Raqshaki, that's actually great wording, not saying dangerous dogs, but that dogs are guarding the property.

Hawk, I think I'm going to put a Private Property Keep Out sign at the road gate (our driveway is about 1km long, and has three gates - first two are permanently open -cattle grates- and the house-yard gate is kept closed). For some reason we get a few rubberneckers driving down our long driveway and then turning around inside the second gate area. Gives me the willies when I'm here alone.

I thought it was so odd that she "thought it was her friend's house" - can't be much of a friend if she doesn't know what her house looks like ?:|

I was going to put up

IF NOT INVITED TO ENTER 

THEN blank OFF

But the more restrained sign has worked well 

[tasfleur]

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

GO
AWAY

[monstersinthedungeon]

Oh, PERFECT Tas! :^O

Hi Richo, only problem with the combination lock is that OH is bound to forget the number and will be locked out :^O Might have to tattoo it on his forehead.

Az, you're probably not far wrong there - and what the dogs won't eat, the piggies will!

Hawk, I'd like to put something humorous up, but I need something stern to ward off twits like today's woman.

[monstersinthedungeon]

:^O Pimpy, that is EXACTLY what I would like to put on the gate!

[tasfleur]

[terracottacar]

How about a spring loaded gate that shuts slowly after you - giving you time to get through with the car?

[viewmont1071]

I would get one of the dogs to bite the rrrs out of an old pair of pants and hang that underyour normal sign as a "visual deterrant" with accompanying "brown stain" of course... and the disclaimer

" This is what is left of the last bastard that thought this sign did not pertain to them"

I do not have that trouble..... My Bull terrier has developed the 'knack" of jumping on the bonnet of the car of any unknown visitor that makes it through the gate and past the

"beware of the dog ..and the cat is not very trustworthy either"

sign and attacks the driver from the bonnet through the windscreen.. would like 5 cents for every car..... I have only ever seen the back of...... high tailing it up the driveway after a hasty uey with  horn, washers and wipers ablaze packing a 30kg dog mascot on the bonnet

... WSo we don't get many uninvited visitors anymore... 😐

on the downside if we are away all day when we come home Digger is sitting on top of the roof of the most expensive vehicle left in the house yard... curled up next to the cat 😐