I think I might have been unclear in my post. I would NEVER hit my dog, and when I said I probably did the worst thing, I meant that I just couldnt control my giggling. Probably not wise, but perhaps because she didnt get a reaction she never bothered to do anything like it again. I had a darling Boxer called Lexi *Rainbow Bridge, R.I.P.* who I got as a rescue when she was a year old. She had obviously been beaten by her previous owners, as I could NEVER pick up a broom, fly swatter, golf stick, ANYTHING resembling a stick, without her cowering and shivering in the corner. She broke my heart and I just never put her in that position once I realised what she had been through. She did that till the day she died when she was 11, so she sadly never forgot that early, horrible part of her life.
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