SHEPHERD DOG
« The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy »… John 10, 10 A frightening thing tumbles down the mountain and sends flying clouds of dust. It’s like a hairy rocket with a smoldering look which slavers and shows fearsome teeth. It barks like a devil and jumps into the air, trying to eat us alive, my horse and I. That thing is a shepherd dog that watches over the sheep, takes their defense and protects them. It never allows anyone to come near the flock, neither a wolf, nor a weasel; no one except the shepherd. Never in my life had I ever seen an animal neither so furious nor so devoted to other animals. To transform it into a fearsome defender of sheep, the puppy immediately at birth is taken away from its mother and entrusted to an ewe that suckle it like she would her own lambs. In that way, the puppy, while remaining a