We ended up finding a new home for our cocker because we had a little kid over wo decided do "play" with him and his bone....Dusty was half blind and VERY food posessive...He snapped at her face. Serves the idiot kid right, but my mother didn't seem to understand that.

Then there's Star, who gets very timid in unfamiliar situations, and has started problems when she's not in her home "turf" before. Some little monster girl who looked about three comes BARRELING up to her while we were out walking and throws her arms around her! Normally Star would have whipped around and had the kid on the ground! I don't know what stopped it, but I'm sure grateful! Idiot kids...

(My mom taught me when I was VERY young that you never pet a doggie without asking the owner first. Having a rather scrappy terrier of my own then, I knew what happened if you caught them off guard. It just BAFFLES me that parents don't teach their kids dog manners!)