Ava, the might guard dog, always ready to protect us. Except she has never shown any aggression to any person, and has never raised her voice to anyone.
A plumber came today to fix our broken loos (yes, both!). The front door was open and Ava was lying on the cool tiles of the hall, looking out of the front door down to the garden gate. The plumber shouted into the house that he had arrived. I came down the stairs to find him look at Ava. His first comments were 'Fantastic guard dog.' Yup, that's Ava. She'll let anyone into the house, but she will extract a payment of some belly scritches.
A couple of weeks ago, the postie had a difficult job trying to deliver a letter. Ava was sitting right by the gate. He made the mistake of reaching through the gate to give a scritch, and Ava didn't want this state of affairs to stop. She wouldn't move.
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