"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:01 +0100, Rod Speed
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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:29:00 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Bod" wrote in message
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On 18/04/2017 11:00, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 02:45:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, 18 April 2017 03:14:53 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:

Or for pursuing criminals who are running away from
the cops either. Corse a ****ing great alsatian is likely
to be a seen as a tad more threatening by the average
running crim too.

I'm pretty certain a similarly sized lion/tiger would be considered
more
threatening.


;-)

That could work as long as the handler wore armour, had the beast on
a
(long / strong) lead and the laws on keeping dangerous animals was
changed to allow the Police animals to actually kill crims (as I'm
not
sure the recall command would work as well on a lion as it would on a
dog). ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/10...rning-hug.html

My ****ing great alsatian left that for dead.

He'd jump up and nip you on the cheek as a greeting.

Trouble is that he'd do that with visitors who showed up enough too and
it was very difficult to predict when he was going to decide that they
were welcome visitors and do it for the first time with a particular
visitor. With a huge great dog like that, it could give them a bit of a
fright.

If he never harms anyone, what's the problem?

No problem, its just better if the more timid
of the visitors don't get an unpleasant surprise.

Nah, it teaches them not to be afraid of dogs.

It doesn't teach them anything, those who are afraid of dogs
are even more afraid of dogs after that, because they decide
that they are even less predictable than they thought.

I used to have one Italian neighbour who used to borrow garden
tools. As with most dogs, mine went ****ing bananas when he
showed up, because he was obviously terrified of dogs. Wasn't
long before he wasn't even game to knock on the door and ask
to borrow anything.