LOL. My wife initially wanted me to have a dog for the sole purpose of protecting me from Tony's bear's mouth. We want to have her trained for several reasons - one of which is to make her a therapy dog for my work I do in the health field.

Having said that, the running joke is that any danger that may occur can be avoided by going exactly in the opposite direction that Mahkayla is going in. She will gladly run and lick any dangerous critters...even as they were taking me to my ineluctable end. LOL. Very sweet. "Ready. Aim. Lick."