Okay, I can understand some elderly or handicapped person needing a dog for protection. When a healthy man who should be capable of defending himself walks around with a big dangerous dog I begin to suspect them of cowardice or else of latent aggression. (These two actually tend to go together.) Some people seem to enjoy seeing that the other people are afraid of their huge ugly dogs. O.K. --- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There you go. I agree. To get a big dog would be > taking unfair advantage > of the predators trying to break into your house to > harm your family. It's > much better to practice light sleeping. > > Lawrence > > -----Original Message----- > From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Omar Kusturica > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:09 AM > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Can't have a gun? Get a dog > > I've got to admit that I have always suspected the > people who take big dogs to protect them of being > cowards. Not sure about guns. > > O.K. > > > --- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > LH on bulldogs: Canadians probably have the > British > > version > > which drools and is much given to flatulence. > > > > > > Maybe it's something in their diet? > > > > > > Refusing the zen of silence, > > Eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings > (subscribe/unsub, > > vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit > > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html