When Your Neighbor’s Cat Lies in Wait for Your Golden Retriever

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A golden retriever’s mantra is “do no harm.” Alas, they do focus on things to the exclusion of common sense. My Maximilian would have been far better off ignoring the calico cat from next door. He certainly had no enmity toward it.

The motivations of the calico cat were quite different, however. Her goal was to bait my precious Max by appearing on top of…