LaTigresse
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse With us, she is a sweetheart. But she has a very strong alpha personality and is becoming more and more territorial. I also have neighbours that have goats, sheep, cattle, dogs, chickens.....etc. I have no idea if she would kill any of them, given the opportunity. I have no idea how she would behave if she where to be loose when the UPS or FedEx people show up. It is MY responsibility to contain her, and my other dogs. Just as it is the owner of the psychotic terrier that LadyC and her puppies had a run in with. Actually I introduced mine to the cats around here, they adore the post man, they will tell me when strangers come in but I got the territorial stuff out of them by telling them off, though the girl is slightly a bit more territorial than the boy, he was gorgeous, approached every stranger with "Hello, you must be a friend and just want to cuddle me or play with me..." I agree with you and Nala has been fine, as far as I've seen. My reality is that I am away from home a large part of the day, at least 5 days a week. Usually from 7am to 6-7pm. I cannot keep her in the house for that length of time. So she must be outdoors. I want to be as certain as possible that she is not running off, or causing trouble. And the reality is, there are farmers that will shoot dogs they don't know, that comes onto their property. Especially if those dogs are chasing their livestock. I don't want it to be Nala.
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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