Saltydog,

Belle sounded like a great dog. My Doberman also lived to be 12 but died of a blood clot casued by a surgery he had to remove a tumor under his tail. I totally agree that alot of people see Dobermsan as killers. Me and my mom went to the dog park with our second Doberman. When we got to the park there were a good amount of people present. You could see everyone giving us bad looks and grabbing their dogs. So we went into the woods to walk to trails. When we came out everyone was gone(I'm not even jidding) I mean what did they think...he was going to kill them all!! I mean come on; it was riddiculus. That was like 10 years ago so maybe people aren't as bad now(I hope)