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Beautiful dog.

German Shepherds have long been a favorite of mine.

It is amazing what they are able to do, with a little training.

I am amazed at the work the Police trained dogs do.

I was listening to the San Diego police scanner last year, when the K-9 dog was chasing a man with a knife.

The man had walked down the street, cutting all the people that he could.............

K-9, was knifed to, several times, but he held onto the man until the Officer could take over.

And in San Diego, when a K-9 is harmed, he is treated as if he was a real person, all stops and he goes to the hospital, now, no waiting, they do not even allow the handler to drive him, but another Officer will do the driving, so the handler can care for his partner.

And yes, I was very pleased, to learn that the K-9 dog had broken the wrist of the man with the knife and that he had to be treated for puncture wounds.

We have had German Shepherds over the years.

When Angela was almost 3 years old, she was staying with me, while she recovered from the mumps.

One morning I woke up to hear Tena, our German Shepherd, barking like never before, it scared me and I went running down the hall, in time to catch Angela putting a bottle of baby asprin back on the bookcase, where I had put it on the top shelf.

Never dreaming that she would pull a chair over and then reach it.

I almost missed that one.

She said “Tena no like, tena no like” and I looked and there was an asprin on the floor.

Angela had already eaten one bottle and was working on the second one, of the Orange flavored baby asprin.

They pumped her stomach and she survived, hard to imagine her being 45 years old today.

Tena came from a pair of guard dogs, that had come over from Germany, a smaller and darker dog than many we see here.

Bill waited for years, on the list of buyers for a pup, when one day the breeder came in and said to him “you say your wife is good with pets and animals, here take this runt and see if she can save it”.............

Life with Tena was interesting, she liked the orphaned kittens and would gather them all up to nurse her.

But she had no milk, and was still under a year old.

Cute, when the family is watching, but embarrassing, when you have the ladies garden club to lunch and want them to think you are a lady.

Tena gathered the half dozen kittens, brought them to the sliding glass door and plopped down to feed them.

LOL, I am sitting here laughing, remembering those ladies attempting to not admit something was going on, and as we all tried to ignore the show, the sounds of the kittens nursing got louder and louder, until someone commented.

I don’t think she was a country girl, as a weak voice asked, are those ‘kittens’ nursing that ‘DOG’.

and that was the end of my trying to be a lady, can’t handle it.