I should add, we have been having a lot of unexpected visitors lately, b/c we just had our 1 month inspection on our house (new house), and people have been coming to fix minor things. Anyway, they hear Dale and immediatly ask, where is the dog? What kind of dog? And i have to assure them that he is outside. His bark is pretty intimidating!! So one guy comes over to the back door (Dale was outside), and makes sure that i had locked it (like Dale really would have knocked open a glass sliding door)...it was pretty funny!!