[PyrNet-L] Sniffing

[GypsyunLTD@aol.com]

  <<...but I have to wonder why does "he"
get this treatment>>

Cindy, I think you should trust the dogs on this one.  I think that Pyrs have 
an exceptional sense of the difference between someone or something that is a 
"friend" and someone or something that may be a potential danger.  Part of 
the guarding instinct, if you know what I mean.  Another part of it may be 
that they sense your reservations about this young man.  You are uneasy, and 
the dogs know it and are reacting to it.  

On a similar note - my elderly mother came for a visit and brought one of her 
sisters, an rude and abrasive woman who makes us all uncomfortable.  Gypsy, 
my pyr, has special feelings for my mother and always shows them by putting 
on her "Grandma" manners whenever she's around.  As usual, while we were 
visiting Gypsy sat with her head in "Grandma"'s lap.  My aunt offended 
"Grandma" several times during the course of our conversation, and when they 
finally got up to leave, Gypsy expressed her feelings by nipping the offender 
in the butt!  Not that I want to encourage that kind of behavior, but it was 
awfully hard to keep a straight face while I corrected her. . .

Jeanne