[masraum]

Fortunately, we aren't approached by strays often, and where we live, it'd be unlikely that they were strays anyway.

There was this one dog once. Adorable German Shepherd adolescent, smallish and still acted like a puppy. Someone a few houses down had it, and it'd get out pretty regularly. When it did, I always knew, because the idiot down the street would always be yelling stuff like "you stupid dog get back here". Once, we were working in the back yard hauling stuff through the house. I turned around and there it was standing behind me in the back yard looking up at me. It'd come through the house to find us in the back yard. Another time, I was standing in the drive way at my car. This time the young daughter, 11-13 yo, was coming down yelling "stupid dog". The dog ran right up to me and sat down looking at my like "please, please hide me, I'm a great dog, but I'm tethered to those idiots." It broke my heart. On another occasion, our front door was open (which is rare, I can't remember why). I was standing in the kitchen and turned around and the dog was standing there looking up at me.

I never saw them beat it or anything, but when I heard them calling it stupid I always thought that was pretty funny since he/she seemed to always out wit them.