Posted by: marilyn day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I know just what you mean about Southeast I used to live in DC.
I will remember to whisper "not yet". ROFL. I have been replying to the does he
bite question, by saying, not so far.
I did forget to mention that as that man was standing at the back fence gate, Bo
obliged with a very small low growl.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In a message dated 11/15/99 5:17:28 AM Central Standard Time, Marilyn Day
> writes:
>
> << So much for my protective alarm system. >>
>
> Marilyn: Your post gave me great big chuckles! It reminded me of when we
> lived in the not-so-safe Capitol Hill, Washington, DC area called
> "Southeast." I was living up against the edge of the wastelands of numerous
> housing projects and felt threatened on the streets daily, even in broad
> daylight (was mugged on my doorstep, knife to neck in '86 when I was
> dane-less). Rockford (my 1st dane) changed all that in '92. The meanest,
> baddest boys in the 'hood would cross the street to avoid passing within
> yards of us! Little did they know poor Rock is the worst kind of wuss -- it
> was a struggle getting him to pass garbage cans, trees with low branches,
> bicylces (even if parked) and/or [God forbid] empty plastic bags blowing in
> the wind! However, in my research of the breed I had read a most marvelous
> book by a Brit (written in the '40's or '50's I think) and among other pearls
> of wisdom, he advised that Danes by nature cannot be made into attack dogs,
> or you would break their spirit. Instead, he advised anyone facing trouble
> with a dane in tow to bend over and whisper loudly "Not yet," then to make
> the hastiest escape possible! I employed his advice in one fashion or another
> many times, pretending that Rock's skittish about-to-wet-himsef behaviors
> were actually portents of a ferocious attack! Whenever anyone asked me,
> "That dog bite?" I always replied, "Not unless you mess with us."! And this
> produced the BEST dane passerby comment I have ever heard anywhere in our
> travels all over the US: "OOOeee! That's the biggest f***-ing doberman I
> have EVER seen!" Needless to say, I did not bother to educate that man about
> the breed!"
>
> LOL,
> Melissa Greer Solomon
> and Rockford, who now patrols the dangerous (e.g., squirrel-infested) woods
> of Durham, NH!
--
Marilyn Day
Stafford, VA
