...and let's remember: one of the strongest deterrents to crime is this:
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It's not a particularly large dog, but it might be just above us in the food chain. Swift, strong, agile, powerful, cunning, with keen senses, sharp claws and teeth, and a fearsome bite. This cousin of tigers can overpower a man twice the dog's mass. It can detect an intruder before the intruder knows that the dog is there -- unless the dog gives off some loud barks that cause people to retreat in instinctive fear. If you don't retreat you will be knocked down and kept down. At the least you will get a barrage of ferocious barking while the predator shows fangs suitable for doing great harm to your neck. It might be a loving, trustworthy pet, but a burglar meets the diametric opposite of a loving companion. A man's home is his castle -- and his dog's jungle.
Got a gun? The dog will bite the hand wielding the gun and cause such sharp pain that you will drop it. The dog has you figured for the clumsy coward that you are.
Good behavior is all that keeps a dog this size from being a man-eater. But human good behavior is necessary for keeping a dog like this from attacking. Respect the dog, the dog's territory, and people to whom the dog shows affection, and you will be fine.
It's not a particularly large dog, but it might be just above us in the food chain. Swift, strong, agile, powerful, cunning, with keen senses, sharp claws and teeth, and a fearsome bite. This cousin of tigers can overpower a man twice the dog's mass. It can detect an intruder before the intruder knows that the dog is there -- unless the dog gives off some loud barks that cause people to retreat in instinctive fear. If you don't retreat you will be knocked down and kept down. At the least you will get a barrage of ferocious barking while the predator shows fangs suitable for doing great harm to your neck. It might be a loving, trustworthy pet, but a burglar meets the diametric opposite of a loving companion. A man's home is his castle -- and his dog's jungle.
Got a gun? The dog will bite the hand wielding the gun and cause such sharp pain that you will drop it. The dog has you figured for the clumsy coward that you are.
Good behavior is all that keeps a dog this size from being a man-eater. But human good behavior is necessary for keeping a dog like this from attacking. Respect the dog, the dog's territory, and people to whom the dog shows affection, and you will be fine.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.