At 09:40 PM 6/18/2002 -0400, Chris Turkel wrote: >On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 09:38 PM, Steven Brust wrote: > >>At 09:30 PM 6/18/2002 -0400, Chris Turkel wrote: >> >>>You have a dog? >> >>Nope. No dog here. No dogs anywhere nearby. That brown thing looking >>brainless on my couch is, um, a lump of fabric. Yeah, yeah, that's it. >My friend in Las Vegas walks her dog behind her house and carries a pistol >in case of rattlers. I should do the same. That way, if my dog attacks a rattler, I can shoot the dog to protect the snake.