And yet I still tell people, "She's really very sweet."

Of course, I have to because she's snarling at them like a 20 lb maniac.

When all the while, what would secretly make her happiest would be to have people, anybody, rub her belly.

There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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I'm lucky when it's just with the nose with a quick, "Hey!" When it's the two front paws in a kind of double Judo Chop that means "NOW MFer!", that hurts much more.

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