[Evans, Marv]

The article said the dog will be put down after the observation period. My first cat was one that lived in a junk yard and I had to tame hom. He had grown up among shepherds and pincers that guarded the junk yard and wasn't afraid of anything. When we moved to another home, he took over and wouldn't allow any dogs in the yard. The neighbor behind us had a K9 pincer inside an 8 ft. fence around the yard. The cat used to crawl under the fence & walk around in the yard. The pincer would just look the other way. I never had to worry about dogs in the yard, because they were quickly dispatched by that cat. His favorite trick was to lie down in the front lawn (no fences) asleep. A dog would come trotting down the street & see the cat laying in the yard and charge full blast directly for the cat. When the dog got maybe 7 or 8 feet away, the cat would be up in the air - lightening fast. The dog would start to try to stop, but the cat had it timed so the dog would be under him when he came down. He would ride the dog, scratching and yowling, through a couple of adjacent front yards and jump off and come back to his resting place in the middle of the yard. Didn't take long before all the wandering dogs kept to the other side of the street. Don't know if he would have protected me in that kind of situation or not.