yes, I agree, and training them is so much fun - work, but fun. After a couple of years, you have this wonderful companion, whom you have trained and they are like your left arm.......a part of you. They know when you get dressed, and what you are wearing as to if you are going out, or staying home. They know when you wake up in a bad mood as to when to , and how far they can tease you. They also know and sense a welcome stranger, and a not so welcome one.........we are animals, so are they...............only we lost our senses, they didn't.