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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Many years ago we had a neighbor with a teenage daughter.  She used to ride 
our horses in shows and used to come by to just chat.  Her parents were 
older and all her siblings were older.  She'd seen a man peering in her 
window at night and had told her parents and they called the cops who more 
or less said she was just trying to get attention.  Her parents and older 
brothers kinda shrugged it off.

We told her to give us a call the next time she saw anyone out there and 
we'd turn Val loose (ex-Army German Shepherd guard dog).  Well, she did and 
we did.  We heard some screaming and Val came home just pleased as punch 
with himself waving a piece of someone's pants around in the air.

Years later we stopped at the bar at the end of the road and heard stories 
about the "werewolf"  that had attacked two guys in the parking lot.  A HUGE 
black wolf with EVIL red eyes.  Val was a solid black GS and in the dark his 
eyes did indeed look red <g>  Explained where the guys had come from.

At anyrate, none of the folks in the neighborhood had anymore problems with 
prowlers after Val took his midnight run.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>


> I welcome friends, but I don't care for strangers meandering about my
> place. Don't at all care for finding a guy peering in my windows, etc.
> Usually a dog is enough to scare off folks that don't belong, but I
> think the appearance of someone packing a .357 is generally enough to
> deter those who don't fear dogs.