I don't know where it was found, but the Editor of the Washington Dictator,
Nancy Wittenberg, put this in the last newsletter and it's too good not to
share:

An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions when
it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic
dog or senile elderly lady.
He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set and dialed the
subscriber's house.
The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned loudly and the
telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:

1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire
   via a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when
   the phone number was called.
4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning
   and then urinate on himself and the ground.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing
   the phone to ring.

Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning!