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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Since this didn’t make it
in the drool yesterday when I originally sent it, here it is again.</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal>Val,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>You should first go to your city or township hall, and get a
copy of all their dog regulations. Including leash law, registration,
vaccination, and anything else on the subject. Then, when you are sure
that you are in complete compliance with the rules, you can make copies of them
and hand them out to those who abuse you. You also need to have the
police on your side. Sometimes they will tell you not to make waves,
because it makes THEIR lives easier, but if you know the laws, and you can show
that you are in compliance with them, they will have to protect you. Cops
are more likely to respect you if you have done your homework.<br>
Next, not only continue to walk your dog, get your close friendly neighbors to
walk with you. Get the neighbor who quit walking to join you. Particularly in
the evenings when the abusive ones are likely to be home. Even if they
don’t have dogs, maybe there is someone who wants a little
exercise. Make friends with those closest to you. Take their kids
walking with you. Pay their kid to walk with you if you have to.
That way, you will have a witness (people are sometimes more cautious of what
they say if you aren’t alone). Take a voice activated tape recorder
with you. Keep it in your breast pocket, where it will work
discretely. If people abuse you over your race and gender, that might be
considered a “hate crime”. You don’t sound like someone
who wants to make waves, but you at least need to have proof if someone really
gets abusive.<br>
Don’t give up or surrender! People died for your right to be a free
person, and if you haven’t broken any laws, they haven’t got a leg
to stand on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Too bad you don’t have some basset friends who can
come with you and circle the block a few times a week until the neighbors
understand that you not only refuse to be bullied, but that you will step it up
if they don’t back down! I think it would be funny as heck to have
some thirty bassets strung out for a half mile or so in a mini waddle going
through your neighborhood. That would be hilarious!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Gaylene
Opal-Deitering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>My
passions do not replace my relationship with God, but are instead a reflection
of it!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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