Jackie-I dont mean to but in but...what you said to kay ann in your last paragraph..My dog Lady was killed when I was very young the neighbors dog killed her...that dog was Dutchess. Lady was a pom and a snippy one at that...I know she would have took on dutch anyday. She didnt care that she was smaller than the rotty. The owners tried to hide it from us for years. I SEARCHED FOR YEARS, hoping that one day I would find that she had found a new home somethin....she was my life. Im crying again now and its been 8 Years. I miss that little dog...but I have found another to fill the whole in my heart, well six and one of them is Dutchess, she chased me when she was two, killed my dog, but yet...I love her....