[nagdu] Not vocalizing in the Halti? WAS Re: a goat

[Debby Phillips]

When I got my first dog, there was a shop that had a huge stuffed 
bear-I don't think it was real.  Maxy barked at it.  A friend was 
with me who probably at that moment, knew more about dogs than 
me.  He said to let her sniff it.  She did, and never barked at 
that big bear.  When I had my third dog, I was living in 
Portland, Oregon.  They have horse-mounted police.  One day, Nat 
just froze.  I reached out to see what was going on, and she was 
deeply sniffing this horse's leg.  The horse was standing 
perfectly still.  I corrected her, greeted the officer and we 
went on our way.  But she's lucky that horse didn't startle with 
that cold nose on its knee.  I used to startle when she put her 
cold nose on me.  Lol.

When I lived in the country and had Cleo, she'd sit on the front 
porch and growl at the coyotes off in the distance.  I'd stand 
there holding her leash, and she'd growl at them, this really 
low, terrible growl.  Then I'd lead her back inside and she'd be 
all tail wagging and happy again.  But boy, that low growl was 
made to be scary.  Of course, I never wanted her to run out and 
try to attack those coyotes.  I doubt she'd have stood a chance.    
Debby and Nova