Replying to a message of Matt Munson to All:

 MM> dog sitting is not that fun when you get the new dog trying to force
 MM> dominance  on the dogs who regularly live at my place.

I suspect that's normal behavior.  My new arrival, Jake - a 40 ob chow/rottweiler/?
mix, tried to assert some dominance over the group  of (5) dogs that live in the
house.  Buddy, a 110 lb black lab mix, just ignored him and the others pretty much
did the same thing.  Jake has since learned that *I* am the dominant male of the
group.

I should note that Jake is the only one of (12) dogs (6 in the house and 6
in an outside
kennel) that isn't neutered.  That's going to happen when my tax refund
comes in early
next year.

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