Another story that is not mine.
Mr Maladicta, unlike me, grew up with dogs, namely his Alsatian, Prince, and as a result he has a lifelong love of German Shepherds (one of my favourite pastimes is finding videos of puppies on YouTube just to watch him go all soppy over them).

Anyway. I should carry on to say that while Prince loved his owners very much and was very docile in their presence, he didn't much care for people unless they'd been 'introduced' to him properly. One of the people who hadn't been introduced to Prince was the postman, who ended up doing several laps of the rosebush one day, being chased by an angry Alsatian, before he realised the best course of action was to throw the mail down and run.
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 14:55, Reply)