PainlessWolf wrote:Good Morning, Roy,
You are on the threshold of Victory with the mantlet issue. Hard work(fun) delivers the desired result. ( A Bonzer! Tank ) Three doggos at your cottage? I hear you. We have had three dogs here for almost a year now. Sadly, 'Had' is now the operative word. Our 11 month old Pitbull\German Shepherd mix had to be taken to be adopted out this past weekend on the 1st. His name is Max and he had reached the age where he had gotten incredibly possessive and domineering ( something our Vet warned us about but which we had tut-tutted off as loving parents are wont to do ). Our two older Greyhounds ( Jack and Waylon ) were going through Hel, unable to play with their toys and being mauled up when outside with Max. After several vet visits for the Greys and special medicine to try to take the edge off of Max's issues, plus a couple of lunge attacks on me which had me sleeping in my Office chair, enough was enough. Max is on his way to a one doggo household where he is the only doggo. A situation for which he is perfectly suited. Doesn't make me miss him any less. They are always your kids.
regards,
Painless
Many thanks for the supporting words, Painless, and good to hear from you. Yes, the three dog house is a demanding one. My old Westie is in her 14th year, and slowly leaving this life (cancer). By contrast, and to maintain the continuity of living with dogs, my young 'un (18wks) is learning how to be a professional, full-time dog, from the middle Westie. She belongs to a friend, and is on loan until Christmas. Hopefully, by then he should have found his..er..paws.
The Whelp is begin to love his induction to life in the West Highlands (and what better place for a Westie, eh?); but he's sometimes like firecracker on a string.
Westies have a great temperament, but I don't think I could ever fully trust a dog that had been bred specifically for fighting, like the Pitbull. I think it would be like living with a wolverine, potentially.
It's sad, nonetheless. Yes, all dogs can bite; but the Pitbull can bite and never let go. Most of the cases of children and adults being mauled, or even killed, in the UK involve so-called 'status' dogs, and they're usually derived from the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Sadly, some dogs are more likely to turn (revert to the purpose they were bred for) than others.
My brother, who lives on Cape Cod, has some very nervous Italian Greyhounds. I think that their essential nervous energy might irritate a fighting dog, and they'd end up as his/her snack.
As you say, wisely,
enough is enough.
The same could be said for the Mantlet!.
Now, at least I think I have a workable solution; just as it was beginning to eat up what little free time I have, at present.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
) I would have thought that Chris would have made that a highpoint of the build of his interpretation of the Comet. 
I've spent many hours trying to do something that, on the face of it, would seem simple: to make a pivoting visor. I'll explain why it has been a regular pain in the rectum.
The MG and Optical sights are in the wrong place. 
Still, it's already there in movie form on Youtube. 
