Down the stairs I strode with out-of-mind mastery
past the cash register. Took each dog by its collar,
Shepard and Weimaraner, yanked them high, snarling
devils, as the professors stood back in the bookstore.
RD
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>I got bitten four times in my life, and each time it was through my own
>studidity.
>
>Twice by collies, twice by labs.
>
>(And yes, I *know* Mark, it actually takes quite some doing to manage to get
>bitten by a lab -- you have to go out of your way to manage this ...)
>
>The collie bites were obvious -- I was young and stupid, and you *don't*
>grab a working sheepdog by the scruff of the neck and try to drag it out of
>its doze by saying, "Come on, let's go walkies."
>
>Fair does ...
>
>One of the lab bites was when I was trying to find the the gents toilet in a
>pub.
>
>I really couldn't believe it -- it was this sleepy bitch who looked at me
>and flashed, "I really hate to do this , but ... "
>
>Snap.
>
>What annoyed me was it was so *predictable*.
>
>She didn't particularly want to bite me, I didn't want to be bitten, but it
>was the rules of the game.
>
>(Then, with my hand dripping blood, she nosed where the entrance to the
>gents was.)
>
>I have *some* sense, I never messed with Alsatians. Like, I've still two
>hands on the ends of my arms.
>
>The thing was, I've been frightened out of my wits by German Shepherds more
>than often, so I know the rules. But with labs and collies ...
>
>The one permanent scar I still carry was really *atrociously* stupid.
>
>I knew the rules, and one obvious one is you don't try to separate two dogs
>in a fight by reaching between them with your hand.
>
>(If you have a bucket of water nearby, you chuck it over them. Otherwise
>you kick the one attacking your mutt in the googlies. Then deck [if this is
>Glasgow] the owner before he decks you.)
>
>But me ...
>
>Tan (well, I suppose if you call a labrador "Tan" ...)
>
>Whatever, I've still got a rather neat cicatrice scar on the middle finger
>of my right hand.
>
>My problem with labs was i grew up with them from age three, so i found it a
>bit difficult to take them seriously.
>
>Goes to show.
>
>Something ...
>
>Robin
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