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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When we are out walking Rolph generally ignores
anyone who isn't offering him food or a bellyrub. On occasion, he takes against
men he thinks are lurking, or just odd, and tells them to stay away from his mum
and sister.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>But the strangest thing happened on Saturday. We were walking
towards the town centre. Plenty of people around, he'd grumbled at a man on the
opposite pavement with a big bushy beard and a daft hat, but that was all. Then
a woman aged about 50 and with nothing particularly odd or different about her
came round the corner.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Rolph behaved like he had just seen his oldest and best friend
in the world. His tail went up, he did the happy dance and he wriggled towards
this woman. She either ignored or didn't see us and crossed to the other
pavement. Rolph tried to go after her. I then almost had to drag him home, he
kept on trying to go back and see this woman.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>It was the strangest thing. I can't believe she was a
volunteer at his old rescue and most 'dog' people aknowledge any dog in the
street, plus Rolph is very distinctive. Surely if she was a former owner she
would have least have looked at a dog who looked like one she'd
had?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I can't work it out, but Rolph was certain she was a good
friend of his.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sally, with Rolph and Clara (I always look for my old people,
but I never find them)</FONT></DIV>
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