<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt;color:#7f007f;"><DIV>Oh Becky, I'm so sorry to read what happened to Morse....</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope he gets better soon.</DIV>
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<DIV>Did the owner of that death machine at least pay his vet bills?</DIV>
<DIV>The least he could do.....</DIV>
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<DIV>I wrote into the DD awhile back about the way my husband </DIV>
<DIV>walks our dogs. </DIV>
<DIV>We live in a place that has rattlesnakes. </DIV>
<DIV>They frequent the yard, and have even managed to infiltrate the house. </DIV>
<DIV>So it is a concern that the dogs could have a close encounter of the</DIV>
<DIV>worst kind with one, thankfully it has never happened to date.</DIV>
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<DIV>When he walks them, he carries a square tip shovel - square tip is a </DIV>
<DIV>must, as it can chop the offending reptile in half with a single chop.</DIV>
<DIV>It looks a bit odd to see him walking around like this, but safety first. </DIV>
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<DIV>In your case it does not need to be a square tip shovel, any shovel </DIV>
<DIV>will work equally well in a dog attack situation.</DIV>
<DIV>Plus there is the added bonus of being thought of as the crazy dangerous</DIV>
<DIV>lady that nobody will want their dogs, or themselves to get near.</DIV>
<DIV>Who says a little fear is a bad thing?</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope he heals fast, Vikki </DIV></div></body></html>