Evening, biddies. This is the What kind of dog should
Shaney get column. Shaney, are you familiar with the dogue de Bordeaux? My sister met one who was adamant to show her his teddy bear - aww! If you saw Turner and Hooch with Tom Hanks you'll know. Gonna show you a clip but first a word of warning to the Snoutman (he he), there's a sequence where the "actor dog" goes into incipient attack mode, which may or may not freak you out, what do I know.
go hooch!
I grew up with animals (in city flats.) We even had some kind of monkey for a short while there and a dog that saved the family from being burnt to death. That was before I was born but I've heard the story of how the dog woke them up just in time and how a journalist called my grandmother at four in the morning to ask her for her photos of the believed to be dead family members. My parents hadn't called grandma yet and hadn't realized that the press might...
All the times I've heard that story and you know what - it hasn't dawned on me until now, when I'm telling it to you biddies, that in a way I too owe my life to that dog. But there have been crazy ones too; when my nephew was just a kid my eldest sister and her family had a rottweiler that went for him
twice (!) before they had it put down. The attacks weren't nearly as savage as yours was,
Vinny, but he's still got some tiny scars to prov'em, one of them right next to his eye. (
And he's got a Staffordshire terrier!)
I love
cats and dogs both.
So, will your son�s girlfriend go up up and away in that hot air balloon this side of winter,
Jude, and will your son be going with her? Everyone�s ballooning � didn�t you say your son was planning it too,
Robinia?