A friend just shared the following passage from a book she's reading about two British sisters emailing to one another across the Atlantic. An ongoing joke is the terrible behavior of a third sisters (ridgeless) ridgeback:

Had a long chat with Anna this evening. Don't know if she's told you but she has started Toulouse-Lautrec in obedience classes because he was so appalling in the summer. Her friend Zoe (a great dog lover—until now at least) looked after him while she was in France and he traumatized her children really badly by constantly stealing their food. He was so dreadful they got to the stage of just flinging their food at him if he came in the room, to stop him jumping on them. So poor Zoe in addition to having a great stinking Rhodesian ridgeback roaming round had three terrified children throwing sausages across the room in self-defence. She's only been to two classes so far but he's apparently already showing signs of being unteachable and is very disruptive to the other dogs. Anna says she bloody hates him and they should have got a proper Rhodesian ridgeback with a ridge not a cheap one without a ridge as she's sure that's why he's so stupid.

Lucky for Zella, her father is very strict.