Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've heard that too. But they were all shepards or shepard enough to look like shepards. I was an unwilling member of the military in the sixties, writing public relations material for the sentry dog school in San Antonio. "Gee, Granddad, what did YOU do in the war?" "I wrote PR copy for a dog training school. Tough job, but somebody had to do it." Original message: >Allegedly, during the Vietnam era, the army was looking for a new crop of >dogs for use in combat. After extensive testing it was determined that the >Standard Poodle was the most easy breed to train to do virtually anything, >as well as to "detrain" afterwards. The problem was, however, that they >brass figured that NO ONE was going to take a Poodle seriously as an attack >dog.;-) (Which, if course means that none of the "brass" had ever been on >the wrong end of a pissed off 80 lb standard Poodle.) Anyway, I believe they >went with the Shepard, which, along with the Dobbie, is right up there in >doggie IQ land. Charley everitt@mscd.edu - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html