Way to go, Jack!


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Yellow Lab saves jogger from attack

By ANDRIA SIMMONS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 10/23/07

Gwinnett police are investigating an attempted sexual assault on a
female jogger at Tribble Mill Park in Lawrenceville.

A 38-year-old woman said she was jogging during the late afternoon on
Oct. 12 when a young man walking in the opposite direction passed her.
The man then turned around and shoved her against a tree, where he
groped her and tried to put a hand up her shirt, the woman told
police.

Then the woman's 120-pound yellow Labrador retriever, Jack,
intervened. He chomped down on the attacker's thigh, prompting the man
to run away in the direction of the playground, a police report says.

Police say there have been no similar reports in area parks recently.
They have no leads on a suspect, said Cpl. Illana Spellman,
spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.

In the meantime, Spellman advised "if you're going to be jogging at
dusk or later, make sure you're with someone, be aware of your
surroundings and make sure you have a cellphone with you at all
times."

She also warned joggers to avoid isolated areas and change their
patterns regarding jogging routes and the time of day they exercise to
avoid becoming a target.

A police report describes the suspect as a dark-skinned black male in
his late teens wearing a white T-shirt, dark baggy pants and a Dallas
Cowboys baseball cap with white stitched lettering.

"elegy" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:40:31 -0400, "tiny dancer"
wrote:

Then the woman's 120-pound yellow Labrador retriever, Jack,
intervened. He chomped down on the attacker's thigh, prompting the man
to run away in the direction of the playground, a police report says.

120 pounds??!! i truly hope they're exaggerating.



I was thinking the same thing, WOW, really that much?

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"tiny dancer" wrote:


Then the woman's 120-pound yellow Labrador retriever, Jack,

UGH. A smaller dog could have done the job!

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www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Janet Boss wrote in news:janet-
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UGH. A smaller dog could have done the job!

I'm hoping he *was* a smaller dog, and that he's just suffering from
imaginary size inflation. A coworker has a 100+lb Lab that suffers
from that condition. He's chubby, for sure, but he ain't any kind of
100 pounds.

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http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

Shelly said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

A coworker has a 100+lb Lab that suffers
from that condition. He's chubby, for sure, but he ain't
any kind of 100 pounds.

Someone wrote into the one of the epilepsy lists about her 105
pound lab. I agree that often size/weight gets exaggerated, but
a specific number like 105 makes me think that that one was
true.

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"Rocky" wrote in message
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Shelly said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

A coworker has a 100+lb Lab that suffers
from that condition. He's chubby, for sure, but he ain't
any kind of 100 pounds.

Someone wrote into the one of the epilepsy lists about her 105
pound lab. I agree that often size/weight gets exaggerated, but
a specific number like 105 makes me think that that one was
true.


Well damn, I thought I had a photo of my son in law with his HUGE chocolate
lab named Coda. Coda was a big boy, not fat, not over-weight, just a huge
block-headed chocolate lab. I have a photo of them somewhere, son in law in
on a chaise lounge with Coda on top of him, and they are nearly the same
size, except Coda had a bigger head than son in law. ;] He had to be well
over 100 pounds. Especially looking at Merlin at 80 pounds.

td



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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

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Shelly wrote:



I'm hoping he *was* a smaller dog, and that he's just suffering from
imaginary size inflation. A coworker has a 100+lb Lab that suffers
from that condition. He's chubby, for sure, but he ain't any kind of
100 pounds.

Yes - it's the "wow - that's a big dog - he must weigh 120#!" syndrome.

Sadly, we get a lot of Golden rescues in that are nearing that. It's
not pretty. But they sure aren't jogging either.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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"tiny dancer" wrote:


Well damn, I thought I had a photo of my son in law with his HUGE chocolate
lab named Coda.

BYB dogs are often oversized. People who ignore the breed standard
don't do service to the breed or the individual dog's health.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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Janet Boss wrote:
BYB dogs are often oversized.

Yes! And a lot of people see oversized as a good thing.
But still, it's really common for people not to recognize a
fat dog as fat (especially if it's theirs). An extreme case
is that Rottweiler that was on fat dog night on AP; the
owner thought he was beautiful but he was so fat he was
immobilized.

With all these people running around saying that their dog
is at an ideal weight you wouldn't expect to see so many fat
dogs in the world, but there you are.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

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(Melinda Shore) wrote:


Yes! And a lot of people see oversized as a good thing.
But still, it's really common for people not to recognize a
fat dog as fat (especially if it's theirs). An extreme case
is that Rottweiler that was on fat dog night on AP; the
owner thought he was beautiful but he was so fat he was
immobilized.

I didn't see the show, but I see so many of them every day. I'm picky
about weight on dogs. I comment on a dog's condition to my students,
since my hands are on the dog, I feel and see the weight. Some people
take it very personally, even though I'm pretty gentle about the extra
pounds. A lot of them are people with large breed dogs who are of the
"bigger is better" mentality. If a small breed is overweight, the
owners are easier to deal with and quicker to recognize it as a problem.

With all these people running around saying that their dog
is at an ideal weight you wouldn't expect to see so many fat
dogs in the world, but there you are.

You bet. There are people who are horrified that Rudy, at ~25" is only
67#. Goldens should weigh way more than that, right? More weight
would not be appropriate for his build nor activities.

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Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com